If my knowledge of Scottish history serves, they have wanted “secession” from England for quite a long time, particularly the Highlanders.
Our “secession” from England was wrought with concern over how we would survive, if we would become “socialist” (read: Whiskey Rebellion) and such. I think we did pretty well (until 2008) so good on the Scots.
Every freedom-loving peoples should be for independence and
self-determination...we used to be.....
Scotland is not Ireland. Other than the Edwardian wars and Oliver Cromwell, Scotland has never been a colony of England. The current situation is a union of two equal kingdoms.
The Highlanders were not fighting for Scottish independence during the Jacobite rebellions. They were fighting to restore the House of Stuart (which had run out of Protestants) to the British throne after it was given to the Hanoverians. And the Protestant lowland Scots were every bit as anti-Jacobite and anti-Highlander as the English.