McFox Amazing Chelsy, that's some extrapolation. I point out that every post you write simply drips with self interest and you not only confirm that, but add a big dose of paranoia too. Might I suggest that spend more time listening to what people are actually saying? It might go some way to helping you get those brilliant jobs in other countries of which you speak.
Just getting back to this now because I've been at work. I think I'm self defeating if I dare to suggest that not everyone is obsessed with politics, nor do they have the luxury of debating them all day nor want to spend their spare time doing it too. Fair enough if that's for you, but I'm not buying into this really quite strange argument that not to want to do is "selfish".
For me, a lot of it is very political - you want Scotland to be this left wing utopia, where everyone will be the same. And its not, and never likely to be. But you want to impose your strongly political views on everyone else, and call them names, when they don't agree.
A lot of this is too politicised for me. I would say do something more empirical rather than trying to base it all on ideology and political wrangling - draw up a proper written constitution for the UK or at least Scotland (no plans by the SNP for that of course), set up a Constitutional Court for when individual's rights are infringed (again nothing from the SNP). This is what is done in Germany and France and many other countries. That way if something like City of Edinburgh Council infringes your rights, you have some avenue of proper redress, unlike the totally ineffective Ombudsmen.
What I am of course talking about is vertical as opposed to purely horizontal effectiveness - giving individuals rights as opposed to just states. If this is selfish, then I would suggest you want to live in a society where everything is controlled by the State, and that's not for me.
And if you are complaining about the Dutch confusing England with the UK, then I hope you never use the word "Holland".