That's the noise that one major party makes, but it's far from the whole story. What you're looking at here is a tribal conflict, with one tribe, having been top dog for a long time, wanting to remain that way, and the other tribe, having got a whiff of power, wanting more. British Royalty is one of the totems of the Loyalist/Unionist tribe, hence the slavish devotion.
Wasn't it Fred and Gladys?
something tells me she’s quite capable of navigating it and she has the mandate of the voters
Rexit means Rexit.
Its likely to be put to a separate referendum after the key one. Again that’ll be decided by Scottish Parliament in which pro-independence parties hold a majority. No doubt there’ll be attempts at external interference, particularly from the Tories (who’ve ironically never won a majority in Scotland in 67 years).
You do find it in Scotland, obviously a less extreme manifestation, but just as virulent, if not more so in many ways. The west of Scotland actually experiences more Orange parades than Ulster. The large delegation of Scottish Loyalists who attend the Battle of the Boyne celebration in Ulster every year are regarded even by their Irish cousins as amongst the most extreme in their devotion to Unionism and bitter and naked hatred of Catholicism. It wouldn’t surprise me in the least if the thugs who attacked the protestor on the Royal Mile yesterday were representatives of that community.In a sense, yes. It remains, after all, technically a part of the increasingly disUnited Kingdom, so he really has to show his face there, as well as in Scotland and Wales. Indeed, what are probably the Crown's most loyal subjects are there. Look at this example on the Shankill Road Loyalist stronghold:
You won't find that anywhere else in the disUK. It borders on a religious devotion.
but...but..if Scotland has independence, then the monarchy ceases to exist for Scots, by definition.
