"the cash cow without having a voice"
Um, well, in Scotland there is a perception that England has a voice in Westminster that over rules Scotland.
Whichever is true (and I honestly don't know): if Scotland cannot gain independence a federal system would be better both so the English can feel
they have equal weighting, and so the Scots, Welsh and Northern Irish won't go in for tooth-sucking.
While I do favour Scots independence (mainly because I cannot see a federal system anywhere at all), I am worried
about an independent Scotland becoming some sort of "Socialist Paradise" because the shining examples of
"Socialist Paradises" I've seen are absolute hell: c.f Venezuela, and in my own experience having a wife who grew up
in Communist Bulgaria and whose father was in a prison camp, as well as seeing what a dump it was in 1990; and the long-term
consequences: awful corruption and so on.
Nicola Sturgeon is a brave woman (whatever you think of her), but she is also a raving pie-in-the-sky lefty promising
jam for everyone; but we've all read Alice Through the Looking-Glass so we all know about jam. Let her fight and win independence
and then let all reasonably-minded Scots form some sort of centre-right political party to cancel out all the loony-lefties
spread between the Scottish Labour party and the SNP.
With Nicola Sturgeon in power, post-independence, what ever she says, there will not be any caviar.