On Wed, 15 Jan 2014 01:06:14 +0000, Arthur Figgis
wrote:

On 15/01/2014 00:12, Charles Ellson wrote:

The constitution isn't the same; it was also adjusted to cope with
unification.

In a way it had been specifically designed to allow for. Wikipedia
actually explains it all pretty well, though I'm pretty sure there are
better sources in the depths of government websites.

I don't know whether you genuinely don't understand what happened
sausage-side, or you are just trying to confuse things because the
evidence doesn't support the nationalist argument.

If we're going back to basing the re-arrangement of the countries in
the British Isles then ITYF there is no competent basis for use of
German reunification as a single source of reference anyway. The EU
itself has effectively described it as a "one-off" in various places,
it didn't involve AFAIAA any significant matters of disagreement and
was mostly an adjustment exercise because of the change in population,
land mass and "bank balance". If there's going to be bother anywhere
then it might be more likely in other parts of Europe but in turn what
would be appropriate for Scotland would very likely not be applicable
elsewhere. The advantage nowadays is that there are 30-odd other
parties (not just the odd Spaniard) available for thinking about it
rather than fighting about it.