Why did Wales and Scotland never oppose English rule the way Ireland did?

Question:One: could be they are too lazy to make a revolution. Two: there were always independentists without success.
Three, wait!
Remember that England was once a republic when they cut the head of Charles I.
During Queen Victoria`s reign, when her husband died, she became a recluse and England was on the verge of becoming again a Republic.
The Queen Elizabeth, as much as people love her, is just a decorative figure, with only a couple of functions like opening the Parlament every year, or appoint a Primer Minister, who is elected by the people and not by her. So it is an useless sanction.
She is mortal like everybody and the question is if royalty will survive without her, as all that can inherit her place are not liked by the population.
It still exists many royalties in Europe: Spain, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Noruega, Sweden, and all are decorative: they reign but not govern.
maurituchi@yahoo.com

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: One: could be they are too lazy to make a revolution. Two: there were always independentists without success.
Three, wait!
Remember that England was once a republic when they cut the head of Charles I.
During Queen Victoria`s reign, when her husband died, she became a recluse and England was on the verge of becoming again a Republic.
The Queen Elizabeth, as much as people love her, is just a decorative figure, with only a couple of functions like opening the Parlament every year, or appoint a Primer Minister, who is elected by the people and not by her. So it is an useless sanction.
She is mortal like everybody and the question is if royalty will survive without her, as all that can inherit her place are not liked by the population.
It still exists many royalties in Europe: Spain, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Noruega, Sweden, and all are decorative: they reign but not govern.
maurituchi@yahoo.com

Yes.

Look up Cromwell's Wars of Conquest

Great Britain was united through war

They did, it just occurred earlier than in Ireland.

There's the Norman invasions of Wales and the building of castles along the perimeter of Wales and England in the 11th century. Then of course there's a huge battle in the thirteenth and fourteenth century in Wales. Lots of Welsh heroes, from Owain Glyndwr to Llewellyn ap Gruffudd who fought against English control over the region.

Same thing in Scotland. Scotland battled England fairly constantly until the Act of Union in 1707, and even then there were battles (think of Rob Roy MacGregor as an example). But before that, there was a huge conflict between Scotland and England (again in the fourteenth century under the English King Edward I) when the English got involved in the decision of who would be the new Scottish King. This led to William Wallace's campaign against the English (presented in a very historically inaccurate Braveheart).

I could go on, but I just wanted to give you a smattering of information to say that the Welsh and the Scots did in fact oppose English rule. One of the big differences of course is that colonialism didn't occur in the same way in Ireland, and after the sixteenth century there is the Protestant / Catholic issue separating those in power from those who were colonize. At least the Scots were able to be part of the English parliament.

Well, they did.

Wales was conquered brutally by Edward I. Edward I also tried to conquer Scotland. He was called the "Hammer of the Scots". If he had lived longer he might have been successful. His son, Edward II, didn't have the spirit for conquering his father had and lost to the Scots under Robert the Bruce (one of my ancestors). Edward II was horribly killed by his lords in revenge for losing the battle to the Scots by having a red hot poker rammed up his rear end.

It wasn't until 500 years later that Scotland and England were peacefully united under the reign of James VI of Scotland, who became James I of England.

Today Scotland has its own currency and Parliament.

I'm sorry? You never heard of the Scottish Wars of Independence then? Who is ruling "England" now? It's a bunch of Scots. Not that I have anytime for any of them, and I am Scottish myself.

SS...that was actually the 13th Century & the Normans never conquered Scotland as we'd already invited many of them here, hence the beginnings of the Auld Alliance with France.

Alan Turing...you were slightly incorrect. Edward II was indeed killed with a red hot poker applied to his rear end, but I suspect his wife had a bit more to do with that. She wasn't the demure woman portrayed in Braveheart, and if I had a penny for everytime someone said they were related to Robert Bruce...well (LOL)! And if only we had our own currency. It's the same as England (pound sterling), it's just we print our own banknotes here.

What an arrogant question. They did

Wales fought for 400years and held here ground until the 15th century and then was annexed with ENGLAND after man wars for freedom. And recently activation groups tried to bomb an area where Prince Charles was and they burned down hundreds of English owned holiday homes in Wales. that was Mac, Mudiad Amddiffyn Cymru(Welsh defending movement) Since the creation of the Welsh assembly which is soon to become a parliament they have settled down. Wales and Scotland are on the verge of Independence but they've done it through hundreds of years of oppression and now their doing it peacefully. The Welsh language was banned in Wales as was the Scottish Gaelic language in Scotland. Sadly in Scotland the language died a lot quicker than in Wales and isn't as robust as the Welsh language is today. The majority of Independence movements in Wales involve welsh speakers. And welsh speakers are more likely to be against the union than English speaking welsh people.
But with the number of welsh speakers Increasing and the awareness of the English speaking welsh people of the Situation support for Independence is rocketing its a fact that in 1997 at the creation of the assembly 51% were in favor of devolution and 32% for complete Independence. Then a bbc poll carried out in july 2007 showed that the support for more devolution was at an all time high at 77% and the support for complete Independence was at 42% they are great increases in a matter of a Decade. All bodes well for the future i say . Note the SUPPORT for Independence in Scotland is Even Greater.