If the countries of Europe are effectively "sovereign states" why did they give Britain such grief for seceding?

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In the United States, the southern states tried to secede. The civil war resulted.

In such unions, there are economic agreements and monetary agreements. The South had to print their own money. Once they divorced themselves from the great manufacturing bases in the north, they began to experience agrarian poverty. Their allies became the enemies of the north.

D3cad3nt · 22-25, F

@4meAndyou Are you in the South or the North? Is secession purely an American thing, is that what you're saying?

4meAndyou · F

@D3cad3nt I live in the North. It's not just an American thing. Any union of states or countries can experience a state or country that would like to secede. Texas used to talk about secession a lot, in recent times, but they haven't tried it yet.

D3cad3nt · 22-25, F

@4meAndyou I see. Like Scotland has been trying to leave the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland?

4meAndyou · F

@D3cad3nt Yes. My father's family actually immigrated to the states in the late 1880's from Gloucestershire, and I can't imagine the troubles, because to me, the UK seems awfully small to contain that level of strife. Re: Brexit, I can imagine that...because the UK is an island.