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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kamatha" data-source="post: 26017339" data-attributes="member: 154676"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_that_have_gained_independence_from_the_United_Kingdom" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_that_have_gained_independence_from_the_United_Kingdom</a>Countries of the United Kingdom that have voted against independence[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_countries_that_have_gained_independence_from_the_United_Kingdom&action=edit&section=7" target="_blank">edit</a>]<table style='width: 100%'><tr><th>Country</th><th>Date</th><th>Year</th><th>Notes</th></tr><tr><td><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ae/Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Ireland" target="_blank">Northern Ireland</a></td><td>8 March</td><td>1973</td><td>In the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Northern_Ireland_sovereignty_referendum" target="_blank">1973 Northern Ireland sovereignty referendum</a>, voters in Northern Ireland were asked to decide if they wanted to remain in the United Kingdom or to leave and join with the Republic of Ireland. They voted in favour of the United Kingdom by 98.9% to 1.1%, although Irish Nationalists boycotted the vote.</td></tr><tr><td><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Flag_of_Scotland.svg/23px-Flag_of_Scotland.svg.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotland" target="_blank">Scotland</a></td><td>18 September</td><td>2014</td><td>In the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Scottish_independence_referendum" target="_blank">2014 Scottish independence referendum</a>, 55.3% of voters who qualified as residents of Scotland, chose 'No' to the question: 'Should Scotland be an independent country?' 44.7% of voters chose 'Yes'. In March 2017, preliminary negotiations to begin to prepare an agreement to run a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposed_second_Scottish_independence_referendum" target="_blank">second referendum</a> were proposed by the Scottish Parliament but were rejected out of hand by the Prime Minister. The proposal of preliminary negotiations was triggered by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aftermath_of_the_2016_United_Kingdom_European_Union_membership_referendum" target="_blank">Brexit</a> vote, which saw a majority of voters in England and Wales vote to leave the EU while a majority in Scotland and Northern Ireland voted to remain.</td></tr></table></blockquote>

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