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Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

So the Scottish people voted in the SNP because they have lost faith in Labour and (never had any faith in) the Tories and do not want to be ruled by them. Who happen to be the only two parties who will EVER realistically hold any power in Westminster. It doesn't make sense.

Nor does the idea that Scotland "has it good" in the UK because the Scottish government has been able to scrape together a few extra socialist policies, when the wider UK still has crippling inequality and cruelty at the core of its social existence. Westminster policies that have utterly DESTROYED small Scottish towns over the last 50 years. Scotland has been used as a guinea pig and dumping ground throughout the entire history of the Union. But we've had a few years of "free prescriptions and tuition fees" so it's all great? Come on.

The EU common fisheries policy DESTROYED fishing communities in Scotland and Cornwall, Wales and other areas, and took away livelihoods. there are communities who have never recovered from the common fisheries policy, even today, and yet Scotland wants in bed with the EU? As others have suggested does it really boil down to historic hatred of England?