Originally Posted by
RobL
also was it not a jock that signed over to the union originally all those years ago? with something like a 2-1 backing of the scottish people?
This isn't politics, it's history so I'm going to reply.
The Scottish people had NO say in the Act of Union. At that time ordinary people didn't have a vote or any say in what happened, but the Lords and landowners sitting in the Scottish parliament sold out and that had the effect of bringing the Scots out on the streets, not that it had any effect.
Robert Burns wrote about the "parcel o rogues" about these aristocrats who sold their country for English gold.