dukes158 t1_j8mqsyh wrote on February 15, 2023 at 1:29 PM

Reply to comment by ttogreh in Nicola Sturgeon to resign as Scottish first minister by icumglass

Well the words state and country are subjective and are used interchangeably in different context so yes basically federalism

nagrom7 t1_j8n19xc wrote on February 15, 2023 at 2:50 PM

Except the UK is weird in that it kinda did it backwards compared to other countries. When other countries like the US or Australia federalised, they did it by unifying a bunch of independent states into one country. The UK did it by splitting their existing unified country into states that hadn't existed with any sort of real autonomy for centuries.