Scotland is to the UK what Quebec is to Canada, and I don't mean constantly whining about the need for independence. I mean it's a gigantic welfare hole, a drag on the national economy, an area of consistent high unemployment and low productivity run by local politicians which consistently feel the best way to address these problems it to expand the government as high and far and wide as possible, and damn the cost. It is a dreary land of immense bureaucracy and stifling amounts of red tape run by governments which are, even by European standards, far left. So no, we absolutely don't wan anything to do with Scotland or the Scottish. Like the Italians, their strongest days were far in the distant past.