danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
OK, since nobody wants to tell me the relevance of this quibbling about the Roman invasion, my suggestion is to read Guy de la Bédoyère's books (here's his badly designed site: http://www.romanbritain.freeserve.co.uk/), or Tacitus (Agricola).
The Romans did invade the place we now call Scotland, and even stayed a while. Then they retreated. They set up, at different times, two different demarcating boundaries to the northern extent of their Empire, one was Hadrian's Wall, one was the Antonine Wall. They called their province on these islands Provincia Britannia, and the land north of that they called Caledonia (wherever the boundary was set at the time).
This has absolutely no relevance to whether Angus Robertson is a dick (he is, end of discussion).
Nor has it any relevance to whether Sas's passport would still be valid should Scotland get independence (which is still highly unlikely). The SNP's policy is that any British Passport held by someone resident in Scotland would be valid until it ran out (so, if you're nervous, Sas, make sure you've renewed just before Sept next year). They would like people to be able to have dual nationality should they want it, but cannot guarantee what Westminster will do. And nor they can. Whatever else you might think of the SNP (and I'm not a fan), they are correct in this.
Whether or not you are in favour of Scottish independence (I am), these islands are still called the British Isles. That is just the name of the archipelago, whether you like it or not. It has no relevance to what polities or states exist within its geography.
The Union that the referendum seeks to end is the Union of Parliaments of 1707. The Union of Crowns of 1603 will remain intact. The Kingdom, in a sense, therefore remains. In the unlikely event that Yes wins, the independent country formed will be called Scotland (Ref). Whether the remainder of the UK (rUK) wants to go on calling itself the UK will be up to them.
The Romans did invade the place we now call Scotland, and even stayed a while. Then they retreated. They set up, at different times, two different demarcating boundaries to the northern extent of their Empire, one was Hadrian's Wall, one was the Antonine Wall. They called their province on these islands Provincia Britannia, and the land north of that they called Caledonia (wherever the boundary was set at the time).
This has absolutely no relevance to whether Angus Robertson is a dick (he is, end of discussion).
Nor has it any relevance to whether Sas's passport would still be valid should Scotland get independence (which is still highly unlikely). The SNP's policy is that any British Passport held by someone resident in Scotland would be valid until it ran out (so, if you're nervous, Sas, make sure you've renewed just before Sept next year). They would like people to be able to have dual nationality should they want it, but cannot guarantee what Westminster will do. And nor they can. Whatever else you might think of the SNP (and I'm not a fan), they are correct in this.
Whether or not you are in favour of Scottish independence (I am), these islands are still called the British Isles. That is just the name of the archipelago, whether you like it or not. It has no relevance to what polities or states exist within its geography.
The Union that the referendum seeks to end is the Union of Parliaments of 1707. The Union of Crowns of 1603 will remain intact. The Kingdom, in a sense, therefore remains. In the unlikely event that Yes wins, the independent country formed will be called Scotland (Ref). Whether the remainder of the UK (rUK) wants to go on calling itself the UK will be up to them.
