I don't know whether that's poetic licence or whether he just plain forgot to thank his country for propping up the region's economy, social welfare bill and national infrastructure. Something in there about foreign adventures. I'd have kept quiet about that if I were Scottish...

If he had written it in English, any spurious message would get across eh?

Still, the good people of Scotland can thank their country in their prayers when they go to kirk, church, chapel, mosque, synagogue or temple. Scotland isn't quite the country it's misty eyed tartan clans think it is....