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And I believe my point was that even at the point of inception, in a union that was unwanted and forced upon the vast majority of common people and landowners in Scotland by an elite that were acting in their own financial interest or coerced the same way BoJo and his ilk are acting with Brexit now, there were major political, cultural and philosophical differences between the two nations so your 'joint enterprise' (where you actually tried to attribute the development of Empire to James IV even though it began over a century beforehand) was not equal then or after, regardless of whether the British monarch acting as a figurehead of parliament at Westminster was originally the Scottish king. Alles klar?
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Certainly, there were and are significant cultural and religious differences between the two nations, but I 've never brought the "Trainspotting " argument that the Scots were colonised by the English.
Both countries, at all levels, did well out of the Empire and were equally engaged. Where would the Empire have been without the intellectual power of the Edinburgh Enlightenment?
And what about the Darien Scheme...
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sorry posted twice