Wanting to be part of the UK ≠ being British. People from the UK are still European even when they aren't part of the EU. You are really having a nightmare on this aren't you? Like I bet you think you are really intelligent & now your ignorance keeps being exposed to you, & you just can't handle it

the scottish independence movement has the end goal of leaving the political entity of the united kingdom even if they are successful the independent country of scotland would still be part of the geographical location of great britain

Ok, so the words are meaningless if the british decide they own you At least they're consistent

Let’s look at the evidence shall we? 1. You have repeatedly contradicted yourself in the past 24 hours so yeah your words are meaningless. 2. You have also been thoroughly owned by multiple British people in the last 24 hours. So yeah I’d say that was the first true thing you’ve posted. Congrats!

You know the Act of the Union was mutually agreed between England and Scotland, right?

The geographical location is the "British Isles". "Great Britain" is a political entity. If Scotland left the UK they would not be British because that refers to the political part, the same way that you'd never call someone from Dublin "British".

Great Britain is also the main island

I don't care.

That wasn't a reply to you

True, but if Scotland did get independence I guarantee that they would not want to be called "British". And it would probably increase the chance of the term "British Isles" (which is already a bit controversial) being definitely renamed.

I think it's more likely that the term British will become like the term Irish in the sense they will both arguably identify people from a geographical location, but also a nationality that may not encompass the entirety of that geographical area

I think it'll be loaded enough that people might try and come up with another term. But I imagine we'll see if England carries on with its weird flag humping.

Very possibly. Union jack will have to be redesigned and renamed too

Scots are Brits

News to 50% of scots www.statista.com/statistics/1...

we know that we are both Scottish and British, hope this helps. stop using us as a prop in this.

*and*

so?

Oh nothing

that guy: Scots are Brits you: nuh uh look at this poll me, a Scot: we are Scottish and British you: YES! AND! THANK YOU FOR PROVING MY POINT, IDIOT!

"scots are Brits" 1/2 of scots: no we arent! Brits: not your call

Dear lord man, stop commenting on things you don't know anything about. Independence is separate from this. We live on the British Isles, that's where Scotland is geographically. An independent Scotland isnt going to be lopped off and cast into the Atlantic/North Sea.

*aggressive fart noises*

that is not what the poll is saying. I want an independent Scotland! I am one of that half! and I am telling you that we are, definitionally by citizenship as well as geography, British. you talk a big game about believing people when they say who they are till someone disagrees with you huh?

I'm English and British

Oh a double decker

There's c66m the same

Bill are you making the classic American mistake of thinking English and British are exactly the same and one is not a subset of the other?

I'm one of the 50% of scots who voted for independence. I'm British, and I'm not sure why you think voting for independence means otherwise. The only Scots who would deny being British are a very, very small number in the Glasgow area strongly connected to irish republicanism.

They're British

I was born in England, I have lived in Scotland for the last 20 years, and I voted Yes in the independence referendum. At no point did anyone seriously suggest digging a sea channel along the border between England and Scotland to separate the island of Great Britain into two different islands

It isn't, because that isn't a survey of how they identify. I would also support Scottish independence, but that doesn't make me Scottish, although going by American rules I am

What would Independence mean in that context? " Oh we are an independent country now but we're also still British?"

In a hypothetical future situation where Scoland wasn't part of the UK then no, they would not be British (although geographically they would still be part of the British Isles). But that's a hypothetical. At the moment they are legally British. What point are you even trying to make here?

👆 this dude thinks Britain is a country 🤣🤣🤣

Britain is an island and British is a geographical descriptor. So definitionally, yes, independent Scots would still be British in the same way that people from any country south of the US border are Central or South Americans.

Great Britain is also a country descriptor. The full name of the UK is "The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Nothern Ireland" So Britain = Scotland, England, Wales UK = Scotland, England, Wales, Northern Ireland

"liam"

Yes? Are you feeling okay?

You know Liam is an Irish name, do you? Or are you really that ignorant

"liam"

Are you OK?

The demonym for the citizenship or residency is British, however if you are born or naturalised in certain circumstances in Northern Ireland you can be Irish or British or both, thanks to the Good Friday Agreement

Interesting that there had to be a historically significant agreement to sort all this out... Must be complicated

I mean there's had to have been historically significant agreements to sort out citizenship of most countries, this one is just unique in that it's one of the ones that's happened in our lifetime

I am sure centuries of behavior by the british government played no role on this at all

I'd also like to add that you are very confidently wrong about stuff that you apparently know nothing about.

Yeah but if you ask someone from Peru if they're American they're going to say no

That is due to the fact that there isn't a commonly used term for people from the US aside from "American" which is also the name of the continent. So if you say that you're American people are going to assume you're from the US.

They didn't say American, they said South American

They're British

The question was bsky.app/profile/mick...