How important is this issue to people in Scotland and England these days? Does anyone care one way or another?
“How important is this issue to people in Scotland and England these days?”
Like you see on this thread, the English are likely to say something like, “There go those silly Scots again. Good riddence. We want out money back.”
Scottish nationalists, on the other hand, are very serious about independence - with less regard for the economics and more regard for self-determination. Scotland is VERY socialist.
Scots have struggled for centuries to maintain their culture in the face of what many Scots see as English “occupation”. I have never observed a more quietly stubborn people (their national flower is the thistle), the American tendency to see anyone from the UK as “English” not withstanding.