we have to suck up to Scotland now to keep the yes voters happy.
Not sure who you mean by 'we' but it's the 'No' voters that the government need to 'suck up' to!
Seriously though, we had the chance of a type of devolution in 2000 (not much, but it would have started us in the right direction), but we turned it down. However, I appreciate that you weren't involved in that vote , EK7