Home truths

I HAVE recently returned from a holiday in Scotland, which was most enjoyable. However, it was marred by the somewhat tiresome "nationalism".

There's a very parochial attitude in some. Little things show it too, such as the car plates with SCO and a St Andrew's cross on them - are they legal? And what is this nonsense about a "Scottish Government"?

One of the main preoccupations seems to be "Scottish oil" and anger at it being "stolen". What would our parochial Scots have us do then, give all the proceeds from the oil only to those living in Scotland - including those English who dare to live there - and all those Scots living in England? This would mean that they would each become unexpectedly richer and so, presumably, have had no need to draw on the UK Treasury for the disproportionate share of UK taxpayers' money they have received for decades.