Well Tammas, I lived in Scotland for 10 years, and in those days found a great deal of anti-English feeling. One Scots boyfriend took me to tea at his parents' house and they were absolutely rigid with disgust because I was 'English'; racist isn't the word. Only after I told them my surname (a town in Caithness) were they slightly mollified. But I sympathised with them, and I too found the Scots a great people. After all, I'm half Scots and half Irish; it's only being born in England that makes me English. My sister has lived among them for 40 years and she too is extremely fond of the place and the people. I used to find a warm affinity between Scotland and France, as of course they had been ancient allies. My sister doesn't agree, but I feel Scotland is so different culturally and historically that it may do well to 'go it alone'. And they really do dislike the English still.