> 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

> 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)