(April 12, 2012 at 5:56 pm)Napoleon Wrote: If all these Scots want to break away from 'Britain', I say let them do it. But they can stop using English taxpayers to fund their university fees, their pharmacies and their fucking car parks! Let them see the benefits of independence then!
That is all.
Well Nap, that pretty much takes the biscuit for the most petulant thing I've seen you post.
England would be a very different place (for the worse) without Scottish contributions in many fields. Scotland owes England exactly nothing.
The union of England and Scotland in 1707 was for England's benefit,not Scotland's, and was opposed by most Scots at the time.
Check out the Wiki article
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acts_of_Union_1707
