UK set to break up in the coming years.

chippy

Writing in The Telegraph, Sir Gus O’Donnell asks whether the Union can survive increasing pressure for Scottish independence.
Sir Gus, who is the head of more than 440,000 civil servants in England, Scotland and Wales, says the future of the Union is one of several “enormous challenges” facing the political establishment in the coming years.
The admission from such a senior non-political figure that the break-up of Britain is now a real possibility is likely to push the issue up the political agenda.
“Over the next few years there will be enormous challenges, such as whether to keep our kingdom united,” he warns officials and politicians.
The remarks in today’s Daily Telegraph are Sir Gus’s final public comments before he steps down as Cabinet Secretary and head of the Civil Service on Jan 1.

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Comes to something when the top civil servant in the country makes a statement like this. I can see us needing passports to go to Scotland before long.

GoingNowhere

Ahh, a fellow Telegraph reader If something like that happens, then I'd probably leave the country or something. That would be the nail in the coffin for the UK, a once great nation would be broken up and we would be nothing in the world. Why does Scotland need more independence than it already has, it has its own parliament for pities sake!!!! I mean apart from the Pleid Cymru we in Wales are pretty happy to have our own Welsh Assembley and no-one really wants independence, so why must Scotland? Grrr, its this kind of thing that really annoys me We thought 2 world wars as one nation, and although we have many differences we are all mutually beneficial from each other so sod the people who want independence.

angryonion

The whole world is collapsing under debt. Its all one big bank circle jerk with tax payers as the pivot man.

Dfg

So, I guess you guys are moving in with me then.

dr rocker

Fuck scotland, they get more than their fair share anyway. Salmond thinks he is going to make some socialist utopia up there. If they read 'State of the nation' by Michael Shea, although it is a work of fiction, they would see what would happen. Scotland does not have the political or monetary clout to look after itself - it would soon find that big companies had completly taken it over.

But stuff them, if that is what they want to do, it means England, Wales and Ulster would get more money. Good luck to them when the rest of the UK stop asking for warships built on the Clyde and the like.

RemadE

I'm with dr rocker on this one. Scotland, much like Ireland, has nothing to really sustain themselves with. Sure, some gas and natural minerals, but how long will they last? If anything, Scotland is an accessory to England.

Darth Beaver

Scotland maybe but Ireland has survived for over 2000 years on it's own.

dr rocker

TheDarkRodent wrote: »

Scotland maybe but Ireland has survived for over 2000 years on it's own.

What do you mean? England has always been the overlord of Ireland since the late 12th century. Prior to that it was an island inhabitated by many different tribes with different leaders, although their were supreme kings from 846 up until the late 1100's, from then until the early 20th century, it was an English and then British interest. Ulster remains part of Britain.

Ireland as a whole had 350 or so years of being fully rules by Irish rulers.

Darth Beaver

If you say so.