r/PoursTea • u/Timbucktwo1230 🫖 Mod ☕️ • Sep 14 '26

European Renaissance 🍾 🧀 🍻 🇬🇧The Future?

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u/Stinky_Pete699 Sep 15 '26

Why does that matter: millions of English colonists in a small country, versus hundreds of thousands in a country with 60 million.

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u/Madman_Salvo Sep 15 '26

This is demented.

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u/Stinky_Pete699 Sep 15 '26

It is, it is why independence is such an emergency. We then need to start unravelling the exploitation of Wales by England. It will take decades.

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u/Madman_Salvo Sep 15 '26

No, I mean your line of thinking is demented, about Wales - as it exists today - being merely a colony of England, rather than a member of a country that is a union of countries. As well as the notion that all the other nations of the union will be somehow better off if they become independent.

Tax surplus/deficit of each nation:

England: £40-60 billion net surplus Scotland: ~£14 billion net deficit (even accounting for North Sea oil and gas Wales: ~£16 billion net deficit Northern Ireland: ~£11 billion net deficit

Each of these nations would be crippled if they left the UK. Not to mention each of their largest trading partners is the UK. This gets worse when you look at trade.

Scotland: ~60% of their trade is with the UK Wales: ~60% of their trade is with the UK NI: ~50% of their trade is with the UK

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u/Stinky_Pete699 Sep 15 '26

Ah yes, usual English mindset; disagree with me and you’re ’demented’. No wonder you’re hated worldwide.

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u/Madman_Salvo Sep 15 '26

Actually, we aren't surprisingly.

Interesting that the only counterargument you have is name-calling, though.

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u/Stinky_Pete699 Sep 15 '26

Ironic considering you calling others ‘demented’ yet more hypocrisy from the English as usual. Yes you are literally despised not just in the other countries of the UK.

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u/Madman_Salvo Sep 15 '26

I quite specifically said your line of thinking was demented, not you.

You really need something else to drive you in life other than hatred of the English.

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u/_Pencilfish Sep 15 '26

You got an answer to his numbers?