and by the way, any Scot is perfectly entitled to have an opinion and make comments about SCOTTISH Independence - that is NOT shoving your nose in UK affairs!!! Scotland is a nation in her own right, has been for considerably longer than England!
The Scottish people had little choice when the two kingdoms were united under our James VI on the death of Elizabeth I - he was the heir, so became James VI (Scotland) and I (England. The countries remained separate, had their own laws, parliaments, education and religious systems. The cultures were radically different; in Scotland the Highlands and Islands - and Lowland rural areas - being under the Clan system. The relatively few towns were small, not the conurbations of today. Scots were well educated (some of our universities established in 1413, 1451, 1532) and well travelled -the Auld Alliance between Scotland and France the 30,000 Scottish community in Krakow the 1600s, the shepherds in Paraguy etc.
Around a hundred years after James Vi and Vi united the kingdoms (which remained separate!) came the massive con trick of the union of the parliaments -gggrrrr. The Treaty of Union of the Parliaments was conducted in an underhand way, had to be signed by those lords who were 'bought' in a cellar in Edinburgh. Scotland set aside her parliament - as England ought to have done also - but surprise surprise, Westminster carried on as before,, so the large number of English members would always be able to outvote the small number of Scots MPs. More galling is the fact that Magna Carta, Henry VIII laws and the farcical ' unwritten constitution' - all of which predate the Treaty of Union and so should not be legitimate from 1707
So - the UK has no right to comment of what a Scot has to say about their hopes for their homeland - none of the UK's business!