England declares UDI and dissolves the Act of Union

What do you mean by the south east 😈 Assuming London and its surroundings, there are about 3 times as many people living within the London metro area than the whole of Scotland. It has almost 25% of the UK population, so any federal system would have to allow for the UKs massively skewed population distribution.

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You lot who voted Yes, but are keen on a proper Federal system – you do realise that it would still be the Federal Government deciding whether or not to have nukes? …

I think you’d find that the hawks in England would be perfectly happy to have weapons of mass destruction on their doorstep, so no problem moving it.

25% say would be far better than 100%

But it isn’t 100% now, and if it is more than 25% then it would still be more than 25% as part of a Federal Government. I’m not sure how you think a Federal Government would be elected – the only logical way is something very similar to how the current UK government is elected. Are you assuming that Scotland would get an equal say with England despite 10% of the population? That’s certainly not how it works in the US, where California has 53 seats in Congress and Montana has only 1.

Are you assuming that Scotland would get an equal say with England despite 10% of the population? That’s

Eh – no. I’d be assuming that seat were allocated to either similar sized populations, or something similar.

So kind of what we have now, with similar decisions being made on Federal things…

How would this make any difference to Scotland compared to what we have now? Not having a dig at all, it’s a genuine question to anybody who might know more about this than me.

Eh? That makes no sense at all.

The average size of Scottish parliamentary constituencies at the moment is 65,475, whereas the average size in England is 71,858

For anyone who has been complaining that within the current system, England dominates any decision, the suggestion that a federal system with seats allocated on a population basis not only continues the exact thing you’re complaining about, but in fact makes it even worse!

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