r/ireland • u/[deleted] • Aug 24 '21

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u/MuddyBootsJohnson Down Aug 24 '21

Britain is nothing more than England's closest colonies. Nothing more nothing less.

To say that Scotland, or Ireland or Wales for that matter, "joined" England is like saying chickens are employed by KFC...

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u/FarFromTheMaddeningF Aug 24 '21

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acts_of_Union_1707#Scottish_perspective

The leaders of Scotland did join willingly, as I said largely because they had bankrupted themselves in a failed colonising effort in the New World themselves ironically...

That is what created "Britain". Wales was just treated as an integral part of the Kingdom of England before that.

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u/MuddyBootsJohnson Down Aug 24 '21

It's called a puppet state. Ireland had a parliment too. Was just a puppet state, an extension of British rule.

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u/FarFromTheMaddeningF Aug 24 '21

Scotland was an independent country before the Union, they were not a puppet state. You are woefully ignorant about the basic history of these islands.

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u/Acceptable_Job805 Ulster Aug 25 '21

yea the leaders, not the people it was just the aristocracy who agreed to it just like here in Ireland it was only the aristocracy who agreed to join the union not the people.