Quote Originally Posted by swaledale View Post
the point I was making why would an English person give a flying **** about it?
Two reasons -

First, as an Englishman amongst Scots I'm in the middle of a situation where there is always discussion/grievances to be had, the decision last time deepened some divisions amongst acquaintances if not friends, another referendum would do the same

Second, as a taxpayer/financial contributor in the 'mother entity' I would be concerned not to be financially worse off by any deal done - you've expressed ire at the financial (etc) impact of the Brexit deal, I would guess if you personally were being consistent you would be highly critical of too soft a Scottish independance deal, I certainly would. If I were negotiating I'd take the approach The EU did with UK - 'so you want to be an independent nation do you? well cop for these conditions tich'...