"Should Scotland be an independent country?"

[DanaC]

There was never any good reason to assume that an independent Scotland wouldn't be economically viable. That was all pure scaremongering as far as i can see and damn near lost the No campaign for them. Nor would there have been any reason for vindictiveness had they voted for independence.

My reasons for being glad they didn't, are wholly to do with culture and history as well as a general feeling that we are stronger as a union than as entirely separate states.

Then why isn't my name MacGregor?

No idea m'dear - but the reality is that the union was effectively originally a Scottish led project. The history of England and Scotland is full of conflict and war and unfairness, but there is a tendency for people, mainly outside the British Isles, to see the United Kingdom in terms of Robert the Bruce and William Wallace - in reality the UK was led in England, by Scots.