Today and probably for weeks the news will be full of an endless queue of politicians and press telling the people of Scotland how we should run our affairs. The vast vast majority of these people will be English and will never have lived or worked in Scotland. Can anyone see why the desire for independence doesn't fall? #ScottishIndependence
You can go even further back and find members of parliament in influential positions who were from Scotland. But were they representing Scottish interests?
The answer to that is summed up best by the UK parliament's own website on the topic of the dissolution of the old Scottish parliament:
Since Scotland's small electorate would probably have expressed strong dislike of the Union it was decided to avoid a direct election.
I'll let that sink in for a moment.
The individuals pushing the Union forward in Scotland knew if put to a vote they would lose. They intentionally went against the wishes of the people they represented.
Thus it has ever been and thus we are tired of it.
@IndyRichard Lets say Scotland becomes an independent country
In a few years, the good people of Inverness will demand freedom from the tyranny of Edinburgh, and a few years after that the good people of Wick and Thurso will rebel against the yoke of Inverness
and it ends with Hobbes, every man armed cap and pie against his neighbor
The same could be said of any country. There must've been severe mismanagement if things have arrived at a point where such a radical change is seen as the only option.
And here in lies the crux - the world people in Scotland want to live in and the world Westminster wants us to have, do not align and haven't aligned for at least a century, if for that, alignment ever existed.
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