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 :::::The point is that this is a misleading and false way of looking at what happened because the English organs of government continued exactly as before, whereas the Scottish ones were abolished (even to the extent that parliament was still subject to the triennial act from its previous election). Even the historian David Starky, in his TV series and books on the monarchy, acknowledges this. The vast majority of secondary sources also list them in this way, and Wikipedia is built on secondary sources. There my me English who want to dissolve the union, but they are a tiny, tiny group, and do not see it in terms of gaining ""independence"", rather they see it as jettisoning unproductive areas. In Scotland, however, independence is a massive movement, and its party is the largest in their parliament.  "