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So you are happy with Malta having the same number of MEPs as Scotland with a 10th of the population?

Yes. There is a minimum representation per country of 6, so they shouldn't have any less. Representation then increases proportionally and the UK gets ~70, Scotland gets it's equal share of that.

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Yes, but they also get direct representation on the Council which is considerably more powerful. They even get a veto on particularly important things.

The configuration of the UK isn't particularly unfair when you consider what it actually is: a unitary state with a certain amount of asymmetric regional devolution. It's the disingenuous bull**** from Unionism to try and pretend it's something else that really grates.

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It’s not me that’s saying Scotland should have 10x as much say as we deserve. We are constantly told by unionist politicians that Scotland is an equal member of the UK. We’re not equal we’re as you say proportionally equal, which is utterly meaningless when important decisions need to be taken. We don’t have a veto on anything and we rarely get the government we vote for.
Okay, so the grievance is with interpretations of the term equal. I don't think any unionists argument of us being in an equal union stretches to "Scotlands" voice being equal to "Englands" but rather that the voice of a Scottish person is equal to the voice of an English person.