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Originally Posted by Penguin
Well, coming from a nation which has some experience about the necessity to dissolve political bands, you certainly can voice an opinion.  |
I do hear what you're saying but when you look at it our national experiences are quite different in some very fundamental ways. The biggest one being that Scotland isn't located 3000 miles away from England on the other side of an ocean that, at the time, took a month to get across.
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Especially as MGM did a very good job by posting some reading material to get a grasp of the issue and thus trying to enable an informed discussion.
I think this is an issue which has been discussed in America since even before the foundation of US, and still is a relevant topic today: the question of the rights and powers of smaller entities versus central power, aka state rights vs federal rights.
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That's another big difference to consider. We weren't a smaller entity, we were a lot bigger and far more ethnically diverse.
I guess it's that I feel this is a decision that the British will have to work out amongst themselves and all us foreigners can really contribute is noise that will tend to muddy things up more than help.
Besides I don't want them bitching that we gave them bad advice! If they screw this up it should be totally on them.
