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Do you know any other examples of this happening?
The Scottish Nationalist Party has a lot of members in the UK parliament, for example.
Yeah, but they’re not in the government
The UK Parliament is literally part of the UK government… They participate, put up candidates for elections, and vote on laws.
To compare: the Sinn Fein party, another “separatist” party, from Ireland, does not send representatives to Westminster. They do not take part directly in the government that they’re aiming to becoming independent from, which is a more serious way of going about things than the SNP.
As someone who lives in Scotland I really should have thought of that.