There are currently more than 400,000 English people living and working in Scotland and around 800,000 of us operating south of the Border. Neither we nor our ancestors earned our existence on one of the most affluent and climatically beneficent places on God’s earth. Our nation’s achievements are no more or less exceptional than those of many other small nations. Instead, we eventually allowed them a sort of twilight independence after signing the secret Sykes-Picot agreement with France that effectively carved up the region between the two European nations. Of course, if Scotland were to become independent we delude ourselves that we would establish a much more enlightened immigration policy than England’s and that “refugees are welcome here”.

Source: The Herald November 05, 2024 14:06 UTC