why is scotland & wales divided from england??

Question

and some laws different from wales & england in scotland, also did wales ever fight for independence or were they classed as england??

Answer 1

Scotland was an independent Kingdom, which was finally ended with the Act of Union in 1707. They have their own laws just as States in the US have differing laws. They however are somewhat an independent nation, with a common Queen, and a unified foreign policy.

Wales is much less independent and has been more or less a part of the United Kingdom, but legally is a principality, and ten years ago got what would be the equivalent of a local council.
Scotland and Wales are both Celtic, while until recently it was believed that England was more Anglo-Saxon. Genetics now show they are all pretty much one people and that includes the Republic of Ireland.

Answer 2

The Country of Scotland joined the Union of the United Kingdom in 1707 and like many other areas of this country had it own laws which where kept on the rolls. Same for the Principality of Wales, the Balliwicks of the Channel Isles, Certain towns and cities in the UK (City of London, York, Berwick, to name 3) and also some of the Kingdoms within England itself from Romano Britain, pre Saxon, Saxon and Norman times still apply, mainly because no one has revoked them or used them for centuries, then some bright spark Lawyer comes along and finds one that helps them, the Law Lords finds out and another archane law bites the dust.
for the second question, Wales did fight for Independance in the 11th Century big time and the Plantagenant Kings had to invest a lot of Money into the castles around Wales to surpress the natives.

Answer 3

Scotland has a different legal system from England and Wales. Scotland was a unified nation under one king from the early Middle Ages, Wales was not, is was made up of a number of principalities. It has never been a kingdom, nor did it have a codified system of law. It did fight for its independence in the Middle Ages. However, the English under Edward I were much more successful in subjugating the Welsh - a series of vast castles was built around the country to keep it under control. Neither country is independent at the present time, although they have been granted legislative assemblies, that in Scotland called a Parliament with small tax raising powers. They are both part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Answer 4

Because Scots and Welsh Nationalists want the people of their respective countries to have a separate identity from England.
The problem being of course that most of the wealth generated in the UK is generated in England, and that separate Scotland and Wales would not survive without handouts from either the EU or England.
So the Birtish government tries to satisfy both needs at once, they let the nationalists slag off the English, call them oppressors and denigrate modern day English people for things that were done to them many, many years ago by completely different, English, Scots and Welsh people, and at the same time we subsidise their search for a separate identity.
Unfortunately this complete waste of money means that the real things that actually matter to people (schools, hospitals, the police force etc) are under-funded.
I would say let them go completely independent, and lets see how long these places whose industrial past may have built Briatin, but who now have economies based on public services employment would actually last. But that would be giving in to the misguided and blinkered, middle-class elitists who think they are more-Welsh, or more-Scottish than everyone else because they are nationalists.
Be a citizen of the world not just some little part of it.

Answer 5

England, Scotland and Wales were NEVER separate islands.

They were all separate countries that joined together under the name Great Britain. They share some laws and also have their own.
Later Ireland (and later still only Northern Ireland) was annexed and the two became the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Both Scotland and Wales have had wars with England in the past, over territory, religion and power.

Scotland won the right to have its own parliament a few years ago, this is called "devolution".

Answer 6

England, Scotland, Wales, and Part of Ireland make up Great Britain. Scotland and Wales are NOT part of England. They are part of Great Britain, which was formed out of act of Union in 1707 to join the said kingdoms together in political unity.

Answer 7

Additional reason is the bad politics of King Edward the 1st of England. He was so eager to use force to subdue the British Island under his power. This made the Welsh, Scottish more aware of their identity and difference from the English. Therefore, they resisted the English crown

Answer 8

Most of the Scots Laws were in existance before the Union in 1707..

Answer 9

they are separate country's, scotland england and wales form britain, and scotland wales, northern ireland, and england form the UK

Answer 10

Because they are different nations.
Scotland had its own king and legal system and education systembefore the Union with England.
Wales has been under the English crown since the thirteenth century.