Still nobody has answered my question about what upsets the English so terribly about the thought of Scottish independence, I know why it upsets me personally as a Scot, but I don't understand why so many English people are that alarmed to the point of hurling xenophobic abuse about.
If the oil was all to go to England, then the reaction would be curiosity and dismay, but instead we've got dagger drawn arguments, suggesting that this may not be the case. The biggest problem for the English is not that the Scots get too much in the way of public spending, they don't, but that they spend the money far more wisely. In England you've got no end of wasted budgets and money down the drain. Partly the reason we're where we are now.
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