90 % of North sea oil is in Scotland but London sucks them all and nothing back to the Scotts.
Same in the Catalan region of Barcelona, 40 % of Spain's GDP are to come from Catalunya
but nothing back to them. Time to act, be independent and prosper..Be able to spend what you produce, a sweet tasting democracy...
If all fails after with, there will be IMF/World bank to the rescue! Viva independistas...
I take it you're being ironic, because there is a huge difference between the situation in Catalunya, Bayern/Baden Wurttebberg, Flanders or Veneto, and the situation in Scotland. The former regions are more productive than the rest of their nation-states because the people are more productive in general for one reason or another. They produce that extra wealth that is then confiscated by Madrid, Brussels, Rome or Berlin. In the case of Scotland the British found oil and the British developed the technology to exploit it.
They just see illiterate penniless Norwegians becoming super rich and creating a Socialist Paradise (see Anders Behring) in just a generation or two and they want to be in their shoes.
As for National Identity I truly believe Basques, South Tyroleans, even Catalans and Kurds should be able to decide, and then so should Scotts but I don't believe for a second that this would happen without the oil factor.
Do Scotts realise that their independence would mean the destruction of the United Kingdom?
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but perhaps all was lost more than half a century ago
"I did not become Prime Minister to preside over a dismemberment of the British Empire."
Winston Churchill 1941