@Piggywaspushed Scotland is a collectivist country, basically, along with the Scandinavian countries.
Lesley Riddoch has done an excellent series of films about our Nordic neighbours https://www.lesleyriddoch.com/films-mobile
@mibbelucieachwell This (and the anti Brexit threads that superseded the Westminstender thread) is the only place I tend to be open about my pro-independence views. I've stopped even attempting to engage on the Scotsnet threads. I don't like being portrayed as "thick" 
not suggesting that you've implied that but it's the tenor of the Scotsnet threads on the topic 
I can understand the desire to want to stay to "work for a better UK" 
- but for the last 25 years, I've decided that that would be better achieved by demonstrating a different/better way as a good neighbour.
The problem is that the UK gets - and has always got - the government that England wants That's even more the case with the recent boundary changes, with Scotland losing 2, Wales losing 2 and England gaining 10 MPs.
Plus I think it would do Scotland good to not be able to blame others for any difficulties. 
(And to be topical: I don't think the Scottish team will get beyond the group stages until we've achieved independence and have better self belief not that I follow football 
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