Quote Originally Posted by Rjk View Post
I think Scotland will become independent in the next 10 years. Ireland will be reunified in a similar timeframe.

even without the off shore, their economy is a similar size to Greece, Ireland or Portugal and you wouldn't say that any of those were too small to survive.
They are also markedly more left wing than the UK government, but tha majority of the tie have a right wing government foisted upon them.

It'll be interesting to see what happens when it is just us and England.
As with football and cricket , we’ll be hanging on to their coat tails.