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How is it possible to blame devolution for splitting the Union, when it is the Brexit debacle which has given rise to the most potent questions which harm the Union: Why is English nationalism good, but Scottish nationalism bad? And why should Scotland be content to be a junior partner in the British Union if England is not even content to be a leader of the European Union?
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The oncoming sounds a bit negative, but i actually read some stuff about what England did before and during the colonial times, in Scotland.
And i have nothing against England, it just somehow tends to forget
certain parts of its own history.
Scotland, your bloody foreign neighbours on the continent have never understood it. From England's subduction of scottish 'tribes' (not that England was so much more advanced at that time, or the countries of Europe for that matter), to England actually destroying any effort of Scotland to improve as a nation, the deforestation for building the english fleets, letting hords of sheep grazing the now empty landscape keeping any effort to reforest down, the disappropriation of scottish land owners, the displacement of people from their ancestral ground and heritage by destroying their economical base.. "all in the best interest" of course.
A lot of Scots had to move to England, became traders e.g. with tea or such (certainly depending on the english market now, and supporting it), while the people who stayed tried to make a living in a kept-down economy, some by smuggling, constantly under pressure by english customs and military. True until 1900 anyway.
And now brexit, this is really the topping.. Emphasis on
We 
