Scottish Independence vote - Yes or No?

[McGran]

Adinnieken said:

Scots were free and independent after both wars for Scottish independence.

You really need to learn your history.

That's kind of the thing in Scotland.  Scots have never been conquered.  It was a Scottish King, James I, that joined the two countries into a union.  James I (Scotland)/James V (England) became the first King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain.  The reason he did it was to end the fighting between Scotland and England, which in reality did not end for centuries later.

Your heart's in the right place, unfortunately your facts are not.

Scots King James VI ascended to the English & Irish crowns as James I in 1603.  This was known as the union of the crowns.  James VI was unsuccessful in his attempts to create the Kingdom of Great Britain.

Political union occurred over a century later in 1707 with the acts of union between the Kingdom of Scotland and the Kingdom of England (present day England & Wales).  Thus the Kingdom of Great Britain was formed.

Almost another century later, in 1801, Great Britain united with the Kingdom of Ireland to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Ireland.

When present-day Ireland seceded in 1922 the UK became the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland.

 

What I find interesting is why questions over EU membership have been limited to an independant Scotland.  A Scots yes vote will terminate the union between the Kingdom of Scotland and the Kingdom of England.  When that happens there is no Great Britain anymore, and by extension there is no United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland.

So in fact there are two successor states following the separation of Great Britain - Scotland and "the rest", neither of which hold EU membership.