Just sayin’ maybe to the Tories, letting Scotland go independent might not be such a bad idea.
You might have a different viewpoint if you live, as I do, on the borders. All the evidence from history is that this island is not big enough for two governments.
Agree with you on the issue of Scottish independence. Scotland drags down the rest of the UK both ideologically and financially. The Scottish Nationalist Party is even further left than Labour. Scotland’s impact on UK politics is very similar to the impact that the province of Quebec has on Canadian politics. The fear of independence leads the other parties to policies of appeasement. If Scotland and Quebec were independent, Britain and Canada would both be better off.
“Letting Scotland go independent?”
I don’t think it is the Tories who oppose it,just that Labour depends much like any liberal party on the a large monolithic Anglo socialist bloc.
Not to mention they could lose quite a few seats if Scotland bounced.
But no the UK is as unlikely to crack down on Scottish Independence as it is to really back the Unionist cause in Northern Ireland.
These areas were never really part of England anyway.Unlike Wales or Cornwall.