Salient points. I have also wondered why they are so willing to keep Scotland in if it is so ‘worthless.’ If it costs the UK money then England, NI and Wales should be more than happy to get rid of the Scots.
“Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much or suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory or defeat” -Teddy Roosevelt