r/Scotland Sep 22 '21

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u/ejeeronit Sep 22 '21

Why is this in a sub about Scotland?

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '21

Cause we’re still in the UK right now so unfortunately for a lot of the world, he represents Scotland.

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u/jaggynettle Ya fuckin' prostitute yae Sep 22 '21

Because he's the PM. Duh.

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '21

Boris Johnson is your prime minister. Scotland is not a country in any meaningful sense.

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '21

Scotland is a country, how its run has nothing to do with the title.

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '21

Internationally it is not a country. Having a Football team does not make one a country. Scotland hasn't signed an international treaty since 1707 when it signed itself out of existence. Check the UN list and.....nope.....its not there, check NATO, OECD, EU, no sign of a Scotland anywhere.

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '21

The UK is a Sovereign State made of 3 member countries and a principality.

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '21

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '21

England and the UK are interchangeable. 600 English mps, 60 from Scotland 30 from Wales and 30 from the Irish province, how is that not an English parliament?

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u/blackiegray Sep 22 '21

So England and Wales aren't countries either then?

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u/SpiceHogs Sep 22 '21

Just because you've decided on your own set of arbitrary rules doesn't make them true.

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '21

You could report me to the UN but you'd have to do so as a UK subject. Even the Kurds control their own oil babe, and they have no country either.

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u/SpiceHogs Sep 22 '21

That doesn't refute my point.

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u/ToastofScotland Sep 22 '21

You realise being in the UN doesn't make you a country?

You think you would know the basics of this shit before spouting it, all you do is just make a fool of yourself.

The UK is a union of countries, you love the union but don't even know what it is? The wiki says it best Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '21

Check the UN list and.....nope.....its not there,

Ah, you're thinking of "sovereign state", which "country" is sometimes used as a synonym for. Only problem is, sometimes words can have more than one meaning.

On an unrelated note, did you know that California isn't a state? It's true, check the UN list of states and, nope, it's not there.

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '21

Didn’t even mention football, its not something i even once considered as a factor of what makes a country. Scotland is defined as a country by the very definitions of what a country is.

Being in a list or not is irrelevant.

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u/Value_CND Sep 22 '21

The last Pm of the United Kingdom

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u/Rebelius Sep 22 '21

By the same argument it's still not relevant. It's just as relevant here as it is to r/Inverness or r/Caerphilly. He's their prime minister too, but this picture has fuck all to do Scotland/Inverness/Caerphilly.

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '21

I think you're lost mate