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The quirky thing about Scotland's desire to leave the UK is that in many ways the UK is Scotland's creation. It is the Scottish King James 6th/1st and his descendants who rule over England, rather than the other way round, and it was his desire to unite the crowns. The act of union was the culmination of this ambition, and since then Westminster has been filled with Scots politicians, and Scotland has been vastly over-represented per capita than England. Devolution only made that imbalance greater since, of course, there is no English parliament, and Scottish MPs can vote on matters that only pertain to England. Much of the Empire-building muscle and leadership was said to have been Scottish too, so expressing this as a desire to leave the British Empire is jarring, as in many ways the British Empire is Scottish.