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the idea that scotland

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has a right to self-determination is of

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course

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absolute and i've always supported that

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as one of the leading campaigners for a

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scottish

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parliament in the early days

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but self-determination allows you to

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choose whether to be part of a state

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with other nations

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or whether every nation has to have its

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own state and i've never believed in

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that

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contrary to some of the guff i read on

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twitter people say you support

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independence

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for every country in the world except

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your own

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except i don't support independence for

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every country

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in the world the catalans and the

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basques

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are both specific nations within spain

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i don't support breaking up spain i

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don't support

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breaking up belgium i don't support

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breaking up

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italy where the northern leagues want to

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be shot

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of the poorer italians in the south i

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don't support

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breaking up any of these countries i

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don't support breaking up

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india i don't support breaking up at

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cyprus i could go on

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but it would bore you

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self-determinations

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allows a nation to choose whether to

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coexist with other nations in a single

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state and when you've done so

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for 300 years and there is no pressing

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need

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to separate then i think it's foolish to

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do so

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and breaking up countries has never

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actually worked out

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all that successfully just ask them in

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the ukraine

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right now asked them in yugoslavia asked

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them in czechoslovakia

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where the czech people wanted the

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slovaks to remain with them

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the slovaks insisted on independence and

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their own currency a point i'll come to

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in a minute

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it lasted 24 days

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the slovak currency was the shortest

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lived

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currency in history and the imf had to

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move in

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and take over their economy and now the

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czech republic is one of the most

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happening places in the world

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and slovakia is a backwater