(April 20, 2016 at 2:29 pm)Napoléon Wrote:(April 20, 2016 at 12:11 pm)Mathilda Wrote: How is it radically different then?
Because one is a country voting to leave a politico-economic project made up of a huge variety of countries with wildly varying economies, cultures and languages, that has been going for less than 50 years. Another is a country leaving a sovereign state that it's been joined to for well over 300 years, that it shares a language, culture and the entirety of its laws with.
Actually Scotland has a different legal system to England and Wales. It also has its own dialects in places, and an entirely different language in the highlands.
I don't see why 300 years is that much different to 50 years. North Italy is still poor because of Hannibal rampaging around it. These effects continue for many generations.
