>>>Hasn't the British Empire shrunk enough without losing a home country, whereas the US Empire is still expanding.
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>>>Anyway, we need the Jock soldiers to fight our wars :-)
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>>Ah no you won't. It was always some British negotiator, lord this or that, who came to talk with Sloba and recommend (probably in terms of "offer you can't refuse") this or that, and we've learned to love living in a shrinking country. So, no worry, just unleash those same guys inwards any you'll learn to love it too.
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>Yeah but we don't deserve it by way of the English waging war on the Scots and we wouldn't resort to that to avoid the break-up.
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>BTW Lords can be Scots too. Didn't you see Braveheart? And knights (Isn't it Sir Sean now?)

I don't care if there were twelve or fifty kinds of Brits. What your politicians (whom you deserve) are spreading to other countries must be even better when applied at home - domestic recipe and all that. Welcome to living in a shrinking country!