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> the United Kingdom (throughout is its various incantations) and Great Britain are/were unitary states, not continuing unions of constituent parts I don't thi
by hnfong 2y ago
> the United Kingdom (throughout is its various incantations) and Great Britain are/were unitary states, not continuing unions of constituent parts
I don't think the situation is as clear-cut as you assert.
Scotland has its own legal system separate from that of England and Wales. It has its own parliament.
- blibble 2y ago> I don't think the situation is as clear-cut as you assert. it really is > It has its own parliament. which isn't sovereign it's a glorified county council, and could be abolished by the Parliament of the United Kingdom at any point this is all clear as crystal in the Scotland Act 1998, which created the (new) Scottish Parliament it's acknowledged on the Scottish Parliament's own website: https://www.parliament.scot/about/how-parliament-works/powers-of-the-scottish-parliament https://www.parliament.scot/about/how-parliament-works/power... and even the Scottish nationalists acknowledge it (because they don't like it and want it to change)