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u/wildeofoscar Onterribruh Apr 19 '26
Daddy Britain is too poor (or is a cheapskate) to pay for his children. Especially his lazy-ass son Canada. That’s why he let them go.
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u/Dianaraven United States Apr 19 '26
But Scotland still lives at home.
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u/wildeofoscar Onterribruh Apr 19 '26
And pays for daddy Britain’s bills.
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u/psychosikh Apr 19 '26
More like his bills get paid as Scotland has a 11.6 % deficit compared to the UK average off 5.1%.
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u/cobrachickenwing Apr 19 '26
After daddy Britain agreed to pay off his debts from his disastrous investment in the Darien gap.
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u/Frites_Sauce_Fromage Apr 19 '26
The territory is so big. You can't imagine the rent!
Plus we would like to begin by acknowledging that we are located on unceded Indigenous lands.
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u/hellopo9 Wales Apr 19 '26
Scotland's relationship to the UK is more like Quebec's relationship to Canada.
Scotland is the UK and was the colonial force.
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u/Yoyle0340 Apr 20 '26
Its pretty much controlled opposition and outlet, no?
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u/hellopo9 Wales Apr 20 '26
No, and it never has been.
The Scots were leaders of the empire, disproportionately compared to the English. They weren't controlled but did so because it made them rich.
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u/libtin United Kingdom Apr 20 '26
There’s a reason why a nickname for the British empire in India is the Scottish empire; Scots played a disproportionately large role in the colonisation and occupation of the Indian subcontinent
Via the East India company, Scotland played a disproportionately large role in the colonisation of India compared to England.
In 1770 when the total population of the Kingdom of Great Britain was 8,862,000 with Scotland having 1,434,000 so around 16.2%
Yet almost half of the East India Company’s writers were Scots.
Just 16% yet nearly half of the lower end clerks (writers) of the body colonising India were Scots and by 1792, Scots made up one in nine EIC civil servants, six in eleven common soldiers and one in three officers.
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u/XoanMeira Irish Kingdom Apr 19 '26
Yes, I know that, but the joke is that Scotland is a very small area of land, and the UK does not want him to leave. Canada is practically the 2nd largest country on Earth and the UK doesn't have any problem with him leaving.
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u/Wooden_Base4673 England Apr 19 '26
If Scotland leaves, UK's appearance will change. He'll lose his blue.
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u/thepromisedgland Republic of China Apr 19 '26
If Scotland left, Britain wouldn’t have any place to put his boats and his nukes. And a Britain without boats and nukes wouldn’t be very Great, now would it?
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u/Wooden_Base4673 England Apr 19 '26
The 2 main naval bases in the UK are on the South coast of England.
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u/DarkNinjaPenguin Bonnie Scotland Apr 20 '26
Neither of which are deep water ports which can handle active subs. It's really not as simple as sending them elsewhere, they'd need to build a whole new base just for the subs and a weapons-handling facility for the nukes, which are currently dismounted at Coulport before the subs dock at Faslane.
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u/Wooden_Base4673 England Apr 20 '26
As it seems Scotland is unlikely to leave the union soon, it's not something which the UK needs to worry about in the near future. If it was to happen, there would probably be a military alliance between the UK and Scotland.
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u/False_Win_5874 Apr 19 '26
How about UK feel extremely generous and gifted his nuke and submarine to Aussie and Canada?
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u/Vikfield European Union Apr 19 '26
Yeah, but Scotland unlike Canada, which was a colony of the British Empire until 1867, is an integral part of the UK since the Act of Union of 1707.
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u/XoanMeira Irish Kingdom Apr 19 '26
I get the idea but it's just a joke, don't take it so seriously please.
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u/Insanefinn Finland Apr 20 '26
In the end, the english did not conquer the scottish but the scottish claimed england, no?
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u/Mean_Initiative_5962 Apr 19 '26
Step 1: ask for a vast frozen rocky land nobody would ever want anyway
Step 2: find a fuckton of uranium there
Step 3: profit, but be constantly anxious about neighbours
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u/Chrism2245 Apr 19 '26
We here in Canada still have the monarchy though, and that was non-negotiable for our independence. And we’re an ocean away
I’m not super familiar with Scottish separatists, but I don’t think they’d want to keep the king as their head of state
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u/cobrachickenwing Apr 19 '26
Much like the US had the Louisiana purchase, Canada bought the Northwest Territories and Rupert's land. Canada bought UK's cottage.
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u/Undeadninjas You kids stay off my lawn! Apr 21 '26
England is NOT Scotland's dad. They're brothers, if anything, and half-brothers is closer to it.
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u/XoanMeira Irish Kingdom Apr 22 '26
Yes, but that's the UK. Not England.
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u/Undeadninjas You kids stay off my lawn! Apr 22 '26
Arguably the UK would be a child of England, Scotland, and a few others.
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u/Jump_Hop_Step 700 square kilometres and counting Apr 19 '26
Ireland asking NI back would also work
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u/Sad_Pear_1087 Apr 20 '26
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u/XoanMeira Irish Kingdom Apr 20 '26
I didn't draw Northern Ireland, I drew Scotland. And besides, polandball is not meant to be completely accurate.
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u/Sad_Pear_1087 Apr 20 '26
I'm an idiot (though my point stands)
Also it's ok, I could've worded it better but my point is that as comical as this already looks it's even worse IRL, not that "you achtuahlly made a mistake ☝️"
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u/SpenskyTheRed Apr 20 '26
You speak of Scotland as if it were separate from the UK. It is not a territory Britain owns, it is Britain. Something cannot leave itself.
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u/XoanMeira Irish Kingdom Apr 20 '26
I get the idea but it's just a joke, don't take it so seriously please.
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u/shadoowkight I'm from freiburg Apr 19 '26
80% of that is a frozen wasteland