Quote Originally Posted by HoreTore View Post
Hmmmm..... So, what you're saying, is that the people living in Norway stay together because they feel they are being heard....hmmm, interesting....
No it absolutely has nothing to do with being heard.

For example Ireland is separated by water from UK this means the ability of the UK to submerge Irish culture is vastly reduced unlike say in Wales which has a land border with England.

In the 19th century we were eventually allowed to practice our religon freely we could vote for Irish parties to be Heard the story we told them was for UK to go home. No amount of being listened too was going to stop that revolution it was inevitable when the boot was off our neck.

Britain was not going to do the kind of actual extermination war like summit from Africa they needed to stop us, yes they loosed the Tans on Ireland but in the grand scheme of things it was a dying sting of an empire who could not decide which way they should turn.