Are English people treated worse than the rest of the UK?

In that case it should have been dissolved then. I was surprised because l have studied this period and have never heard the Scottish MP voted to dissolve.
The Darien Scheme was more profound in affect than just bankrupting a few Lairds, however.

" always has, ever since 1707, when it was absorbed because it was completely bankcrupt"

At the beginning of the 1700s, England's national debt was about 15 million. after decades and decades of being at war with France. Scotland's national debt was a little over 100 thousand pound. A the time, England was five times the size of Scotland's population. So call that £500,000 Scottish debt, vs £15 million English debt, adjusted for population.

The English parliament realised they couldn't afford to increase the taxes on the English without there being another revolt, rioting and possible insurrection by the English people, who were already being taxed very heavily in order to pay for the wars with France.

An answer to that problem was to absorb Scotland into a 'union' with just one parliament and just one place that taxes were taken in by the crown.
That being England and Westminster. By doing so it'd mean that all the English debts that'd been accrued could be split between both nations and have Scotland and the Scottish take on a share of all those debts meaning they'd not have to significantly raise the taxes levied on the English but instead have access to all of Scotland's taxes generated here and have them paid to the English Treasury instead.

The Darien scheme bankrupted some Scottish lairds, not Scotland itself.
Did you know that just 6 years into it, every Scottish MP in Westminster, voted to abolish the union. But they were significantly outvoted, and the vote was squashed. The union should have been over then and there.

"that is why the Scots did not vote for devolution, they know it is not in their interest." It's comments like this which show just how uninformed you are on the subject. Scotland already has devolution, because WE voted for it. Our income tax is slightly higher than it is in England, and that covers things like college tuition and prescriptions. Not English tax payers. It's ignorant comments like this which only strengthens our desire to leave the union.

Second, I'm curious, would you hand over sovereignty of your country to a much larger political power, for what you "believe" Scots get from you? Would you be happy, if say, Beijing replaced Westminster. And England sent 57 MPs to Beijing, in a parliament that was made up of 650 MPS. Of which over 550 are Chinese. 57 are English, and the rest are made up of other small countries? Beijing makes decisions in parliament that are most often the opposite of what England voted. But China's significantly larger, so China virtually always decides for you, your laws, your trade, etc etc. All for what you believe Scotland gets from being in a union with England.

Would you support this? Would most English people support this?

Hahahaha fuck no. That's like when middle aged white men claim to be the ignored middle or some shite.

Left wing government's provide better public services, for a higher tax.

Not sure this is what we're seeing atm. Well, maybe the higher tax bit.

They’re choosing to spend differently
eg Scotland gets free university tuition fees but FE is underfunded.

www.eis.org.uk/further-education-news/fefundingcuts

Excellent we should do that - I think you will be disappointed in how far your tax revenue goes- England subsidises a lot more than just free prescriptions and free higher education- that is why the Scots did not vote for devolution, they know it is not in their interest.
Far more tax revenue goes North from England than goes South from Scotland, and always has, ever since 1707, when it was absorbed because it was completely bankcrupt, but if I were from Scotland I would probably feel the same way you do- self determination is always more satisfying.

No

This might come as a shock to you. But we don't want your money. Hence our support for independence. Secondly, all our tax revenue goes south. We get a little over half of it back. Politicians in England splash the rest of it on crap that we rarely ever see back. Things like the HS2 and the new Manchester project. Huge projects that never get built in Scotland or Wales. We'd rather keep our own money and make our own laws. Btw, London also subsidizes many regions in England. The problem is the way the union works. It's set up to benefit London and the south West. Which superficially makes England look like it's singlehandedly carrying the UK. But that's once again, because of how the union has deliberately been run. Other areas have been left to rot.

But apparently we're a huge burden and they're fed up of hearing us complain. It is odd that England alone has enough seats in Westminster to unilaterally leave the union, yet there's no single pro-indy party.

It's not odd at all - who would England seek to become independent from? England politically dominates due to number of MPs.

This is upside down.

The small rural populations of Wales and Scotland are more expensive for public services to cover.

We are expected to pay for far better conditions in Scotland and Wales and put up with not having free prescriptions or higher education ourselves.
I would devolve them both and see how they fare without the City of London underwriting all their expensive decisions.

I have been to outer Mongolia. There were lots of sheep and rain so it reminded me of Wales.

That's not true! It's not outer Mongolia ffs.

England, like the rest of the UK, did have free uni and prescriptions. But then they voted for parties that took them away. We didn't.
Don't look at it as something Scotland and Wales get, or a bonus, or a bribe. It's something the politicians in England reprioritised. They'd rather give handouts to large US companies than you. Why do you think so many in Scotland want to get away from this union? Even though we have devolution, Westminster retains a lot of the most important powers normal nations have, from Scotland.

We would love that too. Odd though, England doesn't have an independence party. The rest of the UK have at least one in each country. In England, it's the same across the spectrum, from the Greens to Reform, they're all staunch unionists. Not sure why, since they carry the huge burden of the union entirely on their shoulders.

The Barnett formula needs to be revised, it only takes account of population numbers and not the fact that public services cost more per head to deliver in Wales because of geographic and demographic challenges.

Partly true.

Certain specific matters are devolved to Scotland, NI and Wales. UK Gov policy just doesn't apply and decisions are made by devolved powers.

Other areas are retained by UK government and in these policies UK decides and budgets, devolved powers cannot "over rule".

This is true but sometimes these questions are really quite ingenuous and generally aimed at enraging people.

If the question was more of the "in your opinion do you think..." rather than expecting an abridged history/politics lesson then it might be a bit more honest (which frankly I don't think these posters ever are).

Regarding my comment to @twinklystar23 about the number of Scottish students enrolled at Scottish universities. I have just realised that the total for the 2022/23 period might be under 175,00 rather than my estimate of 700,000 having further sense checked it against % of population attending uni and % of 16-24 year olds in employment (can't track down exact stats since they do not seem to be recorded in an easily accessible fashion).

It makes more sense that the slightly sub-175k number is the TOTAL (not just 1st year enrollment) number of Scottish students at Scottish universities in 2022/23, so less than a tenth of the number originally suggested by @twinklystar23 .

Happy for any corrections from anyone familiar with the stats on this one!

If people stopped posting things on here they could just google it would be a very quiet site.

You’re still reliant on funding. If we all earned lower amounts and demanded more we couldn’t have the free stuff.

Not when it comes to childcare compared to Scotland.

I'm from North east england. Would be more than happy for Trident to be off the coast here, and have all the jobs around it here too.