Curiosity of national proportions

[BIG MAC]

And if the impoverished Scots hadn't spent a large part of their time 'going over the top' and being mowed down in order to create your British Empire then there wouldn't have been one...much the same as the tobacco barons were Scots, The Chinese Markets and Hong Kong opened up by the Scots, Australia and New Zealand colonised by Scots (along with English Crims), Television, Steam power, metallised roads, The pneumatic tyre...The ships that allowed the 'British Navy' to rule the seas for years...let's say as a minority partner Scotland has punched way above it's weight for years. Oil revenue invested in Scotland will see England buying water and Hydro power from Scotland long after the oil has gone....because you dont like building nuclear power staions in your own backyard..then again maybe the welsh would like some...I am sure any nation who has been lucky enough to receive nuclear waste from BNFL will be happy to repatriate it to its point of origin.

I am not sure that Scotland has much to thank the UK for...our forebears being chased of their crofts to allow English or Anglicised gentry to run sheep for the Northern English Mills....Once upon a time Glasgow was the workshop of the world...not now...failure to commit to the cause has seen car manufacture, aluminium smelting, paper milling, mining, steel manufacture and heavy industry go down the toilet. As an inconvenient 5.1 million out there in the hinterlands until it suits political ends...maybe the double standard chickens are coming home to roost.