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Are we British or English?
- Thread starter Thesnipergecko
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I regard myself as both British and English. My official nationality is, of course, British, and that is what I put on forms.
Personally I'd rather we either went one way or the other, i.e. we are Britain/UK for everything, or seperate nations for everything. Seeing as the former is unlikely to happen (due to severe pride from some of the lesser nations
), we might as well fully devolve into independent nations.
It's not suprising foreigners get confused and use English/British fairly interchangeably.
If I was Scottish I'd be annoyed at the Anglophile media, the way things are primarily tailored towards the English, the way the default assumption is that people are English (regarding sporting events in particular).
Personally I'd rather we either went one way or the other, i.e. we are Britain/UK for everything, or seperate nations for everything. Seeing as the former is unlikely to happen (due to severe pride from some of the lesser nations
), we might as well fully devolve into independent nations.It's not suprising foreigners get confused and use English/British fairly interchangeably.
If I was Scottish I'd be annoyed at the Anglophile media, the way things are primarily tailored towards the English, the way the default assumption is that people are English (regarding sporting events in particular).
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This might sound like a stupid question - but I really don't know - how are the other nations in the UK governed, and whom by?
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I am Scottish and describe myself as that to anyone who asks here and abroad.
The law might force you to have British as your nationality on a passport but if we were given the choice I would state Scottish. I assume similar would be the case for some Welsh, English and Irish people as well they would stick down their nationality of birth on the passport.
SCM
The law might force you to have British as your nationality on a passport but if we were given the choice I would state Scottish. I assume similar would be the case for some Welsh, English and Irish people as well they would stick down their nationality of birth on the passport.
SCM
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Scotland and Northern Ireland have their own parliaments but still answer to the UK government in London. England and Wales do not have a parliament of their own but are run by the UK parliament in London. Then there's Guernsey, Jersey and the Isle of Man which are almost completely run by themselves (in fact I don't think they even count as part of the UK). The way I understand it, the UK as a whole is the political entity that is recognised by the rest of the world.Killerkebab said:
I don't know a whole lot about this so I welcome people to correct me.
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This is what we are allowed to do under the terms of the devolved parliment
The Scottish Parliament's areas of responsibility are:
* health
* education and training
* local government
* housing
* economic development
* many aspects of home affairs and civil and criminal law
* transport
* the environment
* agriculture, fisheries and forestry
* sport, culture and the arts
Responsibility for a number of other issues, including overseas affairs, defence and national security, overall economic and monetary policy, energy, employment legislation and social security, anti-discrimination, asylum and immigration, remains with the UK Government and Parliament as 'reserved' matters under Schedule 5 of the Scotland Act 1998.
Taken from Here
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The Scottish Parliament's areas of responsibility are:
* health
* education and training
* local government
* housing
* economic development
* many aspects of home affairs and civil and criminal law
* transport
* the environment
* agriculture, fisheries and forestry
* sport, culture and the arts
Responsibility for a number of other issues, including overseas affairs, defence and national security, overall economic and monetary policy, energy, employment legislation and social security, anti-discrimination, asylum and immigration, remains with the UK Government and Parliament as 'reserved' matters under Schedule 5 of the Scotland Act 1998.
Taken from Here
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