homer on 28 June 2012
| Troll_Whisperer said: The UK is one kingdom (not several) but it's composed of several countries: England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, plus dependencies and overseas territories (islands). There's a British parliament that represents them all, but Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have their own regional bodies. England does not have a parliament, because England represents such a high percentage of the UK's population the British parliament kind of represents England anyway (though polls show that most English people would like to have an English parliament). I don't know much about the Commonwealth, but it's some sort of agreement beween countries that used to belong to the British empire. It has little practical purpose as far as I know. |
Could Scotland theoretically leave the UK if they wanted to? Is it like a Union of countries akin to the European union only of the nations on the island or is it more like the US or perhaps a mixture of both???
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