velvet donkey posted:The SNP are racist at their core. They can dress it up however they want.
Do I have a problem with England? That's rhetorical. None.
I put a similar view to a hardcore SNP worker one time but he said the SNP aren't a nationalist party but a communal party. That they don't hate the English but just want to go it alone and that the original union was supposed to be a partnership of equals but it hasn't worked out that way.
Right or wrong, considering the population and GDP of England vastly outweighs Scotland, that is how many Scottish people see it.
It's further exasperated by English people who regard Scotland as having the same status as the regions of England instead of seeing Scotland as it is, a country in own right. I.E. "The North East of England can't have independence so why should Scotland?"