Thread 17992397

Why did non-English groups tolerate England’s control over the political, cultural, and military affairs of the British Isles? Why didn’t they resist to assert their sovereignty and claim equal status with the English?

>>17992397 (OP)
There's more people in London than in Scotland and Wales combined. Quite frankly they get enough special treatment as is

>>17992397 (OP)
Scotland played a huge part in the British Empire, they just don't wanna admit it

>>17992397 (OP)
England has always had several times the population than the rest of this mess combined, and their advantage only grew in time

>>17992397 (OP)
>Why doesn't [random trailer park deep in parts of Arkansas nobody else has ever heard of) just assert their sovereignty and claim equal political status with the entire Federal Government?

Do you see how that sounds OP?

I mean, they tried, Scotland most often - usually as a pawn of France in the Millennium long conflict between the Frogeaters and the English - and it never ended well for them. After a while though English rule turned the minor countries into prosperous, developed, and well governed societies that their inhabitants could be proud of. Then, a few decades ago, their descendants decided that that was a form of oppression and started whining about it.

>>17992397 (OP)
What is Scotland going to do outside of the UK? Sell alcohol and tours of Loch Ness? Lol. Lmao.

>>17992397 (OP)
Because Old English (German) is a superior language to Celtic babble. Even the modern Normanized English language is superior. Why should they be ungrateful for being civilized?

>>17992457
They had more than 10x the population of Ireland up to 1600-ish, but then by 1850 it was only 2x. Today it's back up to 10x or 12x.

But yeah it was a population thing.

>>17992839
>They had more than 10x the population of Ireland up to 1600-ish, but then by 1850 it was only 2x. Today it's back up to 10x or 12x.
So English rule is good for the population of Ireland, and without it they're reduced to begging the world for immigrants to maintain their population/economy?

>Why didn’t they resist to assert their sovereignty
I don't think a generation passed between the 1500s and 1900s that didn't have one large rebellion against England in Ireland.

>>17992397 (OP)
scottish monarchs were related to english monarchs retard thats why mary expected elizabeth to protect her and why james was brought in to be king, cause they were all related you idiot

>>17992835
Scots is a Germanic language

>>17993195
Scots monarchs were mostly Lowlanders, and Scots Lowlanders were about as Scottish as the population of Southern England.

>>17992397 (OP)
They like us but pretend not to

>>17993203
Scots is not a language. It's an accent with an attitude problem.

>>17992400
London also gets special treatment tho

>>17992397 (OP)
>Why didn’t they resist to assert their sovereignty and claim equal status with the English?
There's this film called Braveheart you might enjoy viewing.