The only reasons are taxes and business ones. Say over how they are governed too especially in the area of taxes and representation in the Brit Parliament.
My Scott ancestors have been fighting for centuries for independence from England’s forced rule. Always out numbered and over armed. You really have to know how oppressive Brit rule was on the Scots and Irish, they were less than human. The Brits raped and pillaged, and burned their way across Wales, Ireland and Scotland. And what the Brits did not destroy the Clearances finished, when the new English lords holding the property and those few Scot lords who curry England’s favor, removed the tenants who produced little, in favor of SHEEP.
From William Wallace to King Robert Bruce. Scotland has fought for its freedom from England’s oppression.
This got all tied up in the succession to the throne since James 1 who was Elizabeth 1 heir.
Time it happened. Would we as Americans except Brit rule again?
Give me strength.
This is the Union that gave the world the Industrial Revolution, spread the enlightenment and representative government throughout the world.
Scotland was never conquered, it voted to join itself to the Union. The clearences were perpetuated by the Clan’s own chieftains using mainly lowlander settlers to replace Highland subsistence farmers, NOT the English.
Thanks to the industrial revolution, Scotland benefited enormously from the industry and commerce of the Empire, till the point that Glasgow grew so rich was known as ‘The Empire’s Second City’. The Scots weren’t ‘oppressed by the Brits’ they WERE the Brits, alongside the English and the Welsh.
Scotland has always, from its inception, been a full partner nation within the United Kingdom participating in, and often leading, whatever the UK has ever done. It was never the oppressed colony you are making it out to be.
This Independence movement is a deluded leftist campaign that has sprung up because they think the rUK isn’t left-wing enough for them, and their typically naive leftist economic plans for independence will leave it not only poorer, but more dependent on England than ever, because they plan to keep the pound and lose all say over monetary policy without having the benefit of representation. If they vote ‘yes’ to independence, they really WILL be an English colony, but many of them are to stupid to realise this.