Scots and English?

Question

i have a lot of english mates that live up here,they are sound guys to be honest and liked coming up here to Scotland and love the people. i have lived down england too,have meet alot of good guys down there but have had alot that think that we should be on our OWN. i'm not one but do you think it's for the better?

Answer 1

This is tricky, from the English point of view. As a Geordie (native of Newcastle upon Tyne), I feel more affinity for the Scots than I do for the English in the posh Home Counties. After all, Scotland and the English North East mined coal, made steel, and built ships, but all the profits went south. England is not one nation, as the Cornish, Devonians and East Anglians would attest to. As a Geordie, I would ask that Newcastle be considered Scottish. We are, after all, on the better side of Hadrians Wall.

Answer 2

i dont but im half scottish though live I in England. I have alot of family in Scotland and visit regular. i think all the countries in the union wales and northern ireland as well should have referendums to settle the issue.

both countries would be worse off without each other. scotland would lose some investment. but get more control over there natural resources like north sea oil which would be bad for england and of course around 60% of the british army are scottish. so i hope they stay together.

living in newcastle i also agree with foghorn.

Answer 3

I'm Scottish and have lived in England for the past 40 years. My ex wife and my children are English. I hardly know any of my Scottish relatives and accept England as my country and they me. It 'grates' when people start going on about England being run by the Scots or vice versa. There are a lot good English people who live in Scotland.
There are ALWAYS exceptions to the normally friendly Scottish and English people . These people cause wars because they shout louder, use devious tactics to scorn and use violence to uphold their views. These are the s**t who eventually get some sort of power or standing ( think of Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinnes for example).
Also, why can't these 'exceptions' see,...... that its does'nt matter WHO runs the country...........They're ALL lying, cheating,drunken,brawling halfwits.....no matter what accent they use!!.

Answer 4

i have some family that stay in england i have also stayed in engalnd for about three years, work is good there is more there than up in my home town in scotland .
i would like to stay as part of the uk as i think we would find it a lot harder on our own i might be wrong
but what if it did go pete tong

Answer 5

I do not think there is much economic benefit for scotland splitting up from the UK. And the Scots already have much devolved power to take decisions for themselves. So what would be the point?

Answer 6

i was born and brought up in Scotland, my hubby is half Scottish and we are both very proud to be Scottish. we have lived abroad for 10 years and our first visit to the UK is always Scotland its so peaceful and everyone is so friendly, whereas in England (where i lived for 15 years) everything in running at a hundred miles an hour!!
oh and im related to the braveheart himself william wallace!!

Answer 7

Remenber that Scotland was united to England by felony !
So, it's fair for all places of this country to give their feeling likes now Great Britain is part of European Union .

Answer 8

As a Scotsman I ideally think we should be independent of England but our economy,infrastructure and military are so linked with theirs it would be hard to do.

Answer 9

It would be a shame if Scotland was on it's own. We should be proud to be sharing one monach and government. My husband is Scottish and i'm English he is proud to be part of GREAT BRITAIN and not just a proud of being a jock.

Answer 10

Yes, i hope you do it would be better for England. We don't want a bunch of lying Labour party Scots ruining England. They need to be bricked in again. God bless those Romans!!