Re: I'm fine with Scottish independence if it's what they want.
Quite. The Scots have forgotten, and not really surprising as it's 300 years now, that the Act of Union was a Scottish idea to begin with. The Empire was built mostly by Scottish merchants and bankers (and merchant bankers, but that's another story). One of the proximate drivers of the Union was Scotland's public debt, incurred in trying to build a colony of its own.
The Union has been a great deal for Scotland; what England got out of it was mostly an end to periodic invasions from the north.
Now, somehow that history has morphed into "centuries of oppression" by the English. I blame Mel Gibson.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
