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Friday, May 20, 2011
How “United” is the UK?: Is Britain Heading for a Break-Up after Latest Scottish Elections?
by:Ken Ferguson The stunning victory in last week?s elections by the pro-independence Scottish National Party was a result which was supposed to be impossible. Scotland, after all, ceased to be an independent country in 1707, when it was forcibly joined with England to form Great Britain. The union took place against a background of popular riots put down by troops and has been controversial, to a greater or lesser degree, ever since. In 1999, following years of agitation and its endorsement in a Scotland-wide referendum, the Scottish Parliament reconvened with powers over a wide range of domestic matters such a health,...
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