Marriage is a "union" between two willing and equal partners in which they commit to each other for "better or worse, richer or poorer in sickness and health".
However, in the 21st century the divorce rate and break up of marriages has rocketed to circa 100,000 per annum in England and Wales alone. This due in many cases, to infidelity on one or indeed both partners. Equally the case of a domineering partner to the marriage has contributed to a large percentage of those divorces!
This marriage between England and Scotland was "arranged" with the "Act of Union" between the two Kingdoms on the 1st May 1707. Divorce then would be as rare as hens teeth.
For clarity it should be noted that the Scots signatories to the Act were "bribed"
The role played by bribery has long been debated; £20,000 was distributed by the Earl of Glasgow, of which 60% went to James Douglas the second Duke of Queensberry. Another negotiator, Argyll was given an English peerage.
Robert Burns is commonly quoted in support of the argument of this corruption;
"We're bought and sold for English Gold, Such a Parcel of Rogues in a Nation."
Professor Sir Tom Devine a very highly respect historian, agrees that promises of 'favours, sinecures, pensions, offices and straightforward cash bribes became indispensable to secure government majorities'.
As for representation going forwards from the Act, Scotland was, in the new united parliament only to get 45 MPs, one more than Cornwall, and only 16 (unelected) peers places in the House of Lords.
This last statistic speaks volumes for the attitude of The English Parliament in Westminster to their marriage partner. Scotland as a country, had only one M.P. more than the remotest county in England.
For 300+ years this marriage of unequal's, has bumbled along and in truth, has shared many highs and lows!
That was until the smaller (in population terms) partner decided that in the 21st century she'd had enough of the domination and very often, bullying from her dominating marriage partner. In a form of tokenism towards self governance Scotland was given it's own parliament Holyrood in 2004 by Tony Blair, with a modicum of devolved powers. Powers that this clown of a P.M. Boris Johnson wants to remove!
Enough of this history malarkey though, in present day terms, both parties to the marriage have gone their separate ways with diverging politics and the truth is that Scotland was always left leaning and a bit socialist, whereas the numerically larger party to the marriage, England had at its heart, Toryism!
A woman that was actually despised and I don't use that term flippantly. Her crushing the traditional industries in Scotland has left a nation burning with frankly hatred of her and her ilk !
Just when the Scots thought the Tory party couldn't get more despicable, up comes the least effective leader in the history of democracy. He is the very epitome of narcissism, self absorption, he's morally defunct and an inveterate liar, cheat and a charlatan so Boris charges over the brow of the hill !
Taking us out of the E.U. against the democratic vote of the Scottish electorate.
His antagonism towards the Scottish race is unsurpassed even by Thatcher.
All of this, allied to our having had 17 consecutive polls showing the growth of Scottish Nationalism gathering momentum even in traditional Unionist broadsheets, with sweeping support for the removal of Trident at Faslane and the redundant nuclear submarines at anchor here in Rosyth as opposed to the Thames.
The UK government secretly planned to dump the radioactive hulks of 22 nuclear submarines in the sea off north west Scotland, documents released by the National Archives reveal.
A survey for the Ministry of Defence (MoD) in 1989 identified six sites for “seabed storage” of defunct naval submarines near the islands of Skye, Mull and Barra for up to 60 years – and probably longer.
Ergo, not only is the UK Government using Scotland as a nuclear car park for submarines, but they also had plans to dump the 22 identified above !
Well we have news for the UK's £shop Trump; a.k.a. Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, not anymore Bojo !
Take them and stick them where the sun never shines matey!
We've never had a Tory Government in Scotland since 1955 and there is more chance of me being made Pope Tamas the first than there is of our having another !
SAOR ALBA
Dearest Pope try writing children's books as they contain just about as much fantasy as you long and yawn load of tosh. It's would be good as your surmise is equivalent to a 6 year old... Bet you look forward to santa too. Have a great Xmas young Tom.
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