FE21 - Totally concur - especially since the Union was forged by a Scottish King - Something that the the Hard-line "Patriots" Forget up here.
Someone's been taking their history lessons from the pages of the Daily Record. The only reason James VI got the job
down south was because Queen Bess wouldn't 'put out'; thereby leaving no Tudors in her wake. All James can be credited with is being the first backside to occupy all three thrones of these isles, for having a bible printed in a language the common people (in England) could just about understand, and for instructing his Heralds to create an Anglo-Scots flag; the design of which being so popular in Scotland that his most loyal Subjects came up with their own alternative...
Regal
union wasn't a new concept either. That claim belongs to Edward I; who almost succeeded.
Contrary to what you've apparently read in the Record, political
union wasn't down to James, but to his great-granddaughter Anne, the last Stuart monarch, and she, unlike her continental-based Stuart cousins, didn't even bother to get her fat backside up the Great North Road to set foot in the Kingdom of Scotland; either side of 1707.
All that aside, I'll look forward to the current Queen taking the opportunity, when she addresses the UK Parliament in a few short weeks, to say how those in Scotland would be ill-served by voting for independence. Whilst respecting the individual, if not the institution, I'm afraid M'am that this particular
Subject will likely disagree.