As a North-Shields born Irish-Northumbrian-Scottish-Jew, I am, and forever will be, British. You think things are bad in England now - just see how much worse should ever Scotland gain independence! We can kiss goodbye to a future labour government for a start; no bad thing in itself of course, but do we really want a Conservative state without any viable opposition? But maybe this is the sort of projected discord people get off on, by way of dividing, and conquering, and belittling, and diminishing, trading on historic / geographical divisions instead of thinking how ultimately none of that matters in the 21st century multi-cultural UK.

Hopefully, on this as in other things, sense will prevail.