Sadly not , this is the common conception south of the border . Any time BBC News opens up comment for a story on Scotland you get a few dozen comments saying this . The tldr for the history is that the UK pushed an image of it ' s wealth in the 1980 s coming largely from yuppies in London whereas in reality it came from the North Seaseaoil 80 sboom . If you consider that as Scottish income then we bankrolled the entire nation for decades . A few of us are a little pissed off at this situation to say the least . <| sep |> Real funny part is that my last DS Lite was indeed black and was acquired on a black friday some eons ago when there was a substantial sale , just took me a few stores to find a decent used one .