Agreed. The Orkneys bit is nonsense.
I'm absolutely not anti-Scottish. I've spent half my career there and intend settling there.
I think it is such a pity that there is an element, not small either, of the Scottish population which appears so anti-UK, anti-English, anti-Union.
We are so much stronger and so much better together in Union. History proves that, even if it is not politically correct to glory in our history in this day and age.
When my son was young, especially as a toddler, he was dressed for the rugby in a Scotland top and I in my England rig. He used to get a free coke and I got the abuse in our local club. It was banter and brilliant. That is the relationship I enjoy as an Englishman with the Scots.
I hate the nasty stuff on both sides but glory in the kind of banter I allude to above.
Glory in our differences, glory in the banter and glory in our shared greatness and history. We have no need to separate. We work well together and nobody, anywhere, can mistake one for the other. And it's really good, isn't it?