If life under Westminster rule is so fantastic, as the Unionists would have us believe why did these countries decide to ditch it? For to long now we Scots have been playing the Baldrick character, time to join this list. Country Date Year of Independence Notes Afghanistan 19 August 1919 Antigua and Barbuda 1 November 1981 Australia 01 January 1901 Bahamas 10 July 1973 Bahrain 16 December 1971 Barbados 30 November 1966 Belize 21 September 1981 Botswana 30 September 1966 Brunei 1 January 1984 Canada 1 July 1867 Cyprus 1 October 1960 Dominica 3 November 1978 Egypt 13 June 1956 Fiji 10 October 1970 The Gambia 18 February 1965 Ghana 6 March 1957 Grenada 7 February 1974 Guyana 26 May 1966 India 15 August 1947 Iraq 3 October 1932 Ireland 24 April 1922 Jamaica 6 August 1962 Jordan 25 May 1946 Kenya 12 December 1963 Kiribati 12 July 1979 Kuwait 25 February 1961 Lesotho 4 October 1966 Malawi 6 July 1964 Malaysia 31 August 1957 Maldives 26 July 1965 Malta 21 September 1964 Mauritius 12 March 1968 Myanmar 4 January 1948 Nauru 31 January 1968 New Zealand 6 February 1840 Nigeria 1 October 1960 Pakistan 14 August 1947 Qatar 3 September 1971 Saint Lucia 22 February 1979 Saint Kitts and Nevis 19 September 1983 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 27 October 1979 Seychelles 29 June 1976 Sierra Leone 27 April 1961 Solomon Islands 7 July 1978 South Africa 11 December 1931 Sudan 1 January 1956 Swaziland 6 September 1968 Tanzania 9 December 1961 Trinidad and Tobago 31 August 1962 Tuvalu 1 October 1978 Uganda 9 October 1962 United Arab Emirates 2 December 1971 United States 4 July 1776 Vanuatu 30 July 1980 Yemen 30 November 1967 Zambia 24 October 1964 Zimbabwe 18 April 1980
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