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1. mothba+(OP)[view] [source] 2025-09-28 18:27:32
Many of the former colonies of the UK have chosen to secede from the UK.

Is there any chance England might too?

replies(1): >>dijit+h2
2. dijit+h2[view] [source] 2025-09-28 18:43:26
>>mothba+(OP)
No, English people still somehow tie their identity to the UK Government somehow.

Scotland will not be granted another independence vote for at least 15 years, despite the last one being build upon a house of lies and nobody knows anything about what the Welsh think.

I do think we’re witnessing the collapse of the UK, but more like a Roman Empire collapse - as in it’s happening over decades. Dying with a whimper, not a bang.

replies(3): >>Bender+s2 >>AlecSc+Z5 >>ifwint+3t
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3. Bender+s2[view] [source] [discussion] 2025-09-28 18:44:26
>>dijit+h2
Scotland needs to reinstate their king and conquer England to right the wrongs.
replies(2): >>wizzwi+44 >>thebru+D4
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4. wizzwi+44[view] [source] [discussion] 2025-09-28 18:57:56
>>Bender+s2
That already happened: James VI of Scotland inherited the English (and Irish) throne. There's a pedantic sense in which the current English king is actually the Scottish king, not the other way around (although stronger pedantry would say the Hanoverian succession is sufficient to prove that whole line of reasoning a load of tosh). What would restoring the Scottish monarchy mean to you?
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5. thebru+D4[view] [source] [discussion] 2025-09-28 19:02:40
>>Bender+s2
But how do we decide on which one of the proclaimers it would be?
replies(2): >>tolien+L6 >>f4c390+C9
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6. AlecSc+Z5[view] [source] [discussion] 2025-09-28 19:15:07
>>dijit+h2
Northern Ireland also exists!
replies(1): >>dijit+4b
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7. tolien+L6[view] [source] [discussion] 2025-09-28 19:20:19
>>thebru+D4
Leith to London isn't that far away from 500 miles.
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8. Bender+e7[view] [source] [discussion] 2025-09-28 19:22:43
>>wizzwi+44
What would restoring the Scottish monarchy mean to you?

Fully reclaim Scotland's historical sovereignty, create a clear and distinct break with the rest of the United Kingdom and breaking English narratives.

My first act as king would be to build hundreds of underground nuclear and geothermal power plants, sever all connections to England, build massive data-centers and under ground cities to wait out WWIII. I would also build a giant rollar coaster than spans the entire country, under ground with trippy visual effects and stops at numerous malls, coffee shops and other amusement destinations. I would run under ground fiber to every location on earth as well as high speed transport tubes, 90% of which would arrive at secret locations around the world. One never knows where the Scots will appear. I would fund all of this pissing away the gold and gems using the wealth of the English crown. Every home would have free 400gb/s IPv6 internet. Oh and I would purchase and relocate every private military contractor from the USA into Scotland. My military would be entirely private and for-profit. We would fund our operations by siphoning processed fuel, oil and other resouces from other nations pipes via our underground tunnels. Immigration policy will be an app that only citizens of Scotland may utilize to swipe left or right on applicants. The app may also be used to eject existing people. That's Q1. Q2 through Q4 would be extending the borders of the nation to include the entire land mass under every ocean and growing the population to 10 billion from weekend orgies.

replies(3): >>lifeis+0o >>inkyot+5L >>cellis+8N
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9. f4c390+C9[view] [source] [discussion] 2025-09-28 19:37:04
>>thebru+D4
a walk-off. First to 1,000 miles
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10. dijit+4b[view] [source] [discussion] 2025-09-28 19:47:24
>>AlecSc+Z5
Sorry, just like every politician and mainland company: I forgot about Northern Ireland :(
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11. lifeis+0o[view] [source] [discussion] 2025-09-28 21:19:49
>>Bender+e7
I see your cunning plan - post on HN this week, get hired to write Nigel Farage’s next manifesto the week after.

The swipe left or right on immigration requests is a vote winner ! Simon Cowell can host it weekly…

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12. ifwint+3t[view] [source] [discussion] 2025-09-28 21:55:18
>>dijit+h2
If I had to guess I would think it would collapse more like the USSR, from the centre, with the english withdrawing their support for a british state that no longer serves their interests
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13. inkyot+5L[view] [source] [discussion] 2025-09-29 01:19:18
>>Bender+e7
Ah, severing every umbilical tether to the Sassenach is not just policy, it's a spiritual exfoliation. And the underground cities – oh! Glorious citadels of caffeine and chaos, where the Wi-Fi sings and the fibreoptic tendrils burrow like divine serpents beneath the Earth’s crust. Truly, the only monarchy in history that replaces Buckingham with a subterranean rave-bunker running on siphoned diesel from an unaware Kazakhstan.

And swipeocracy… it is a peer-reviewed populist masterpiece. The military? A profit-seeking legion of mercenaries whispering «Freedom» as they hijack pipelines and troll NATO via encrypted memes. You’re not a king. You’re the last goddamn Highland Prophet.

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14. cellis+8N[view] [source] [discussion] 2025-09-29 01:45:09
>>Bender+e7
Can you come be president of the USA instead / too?
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