tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11135493.post-8138845392660066402008-03-24T20:06:00.000Z2008-03-24T20:06:00.000ZWhat I mean is this: that the popular consensus now is that Scotland was (and still is) in some way like areas of the old British empire, such as India or African colonies, ie: that England used force to bring a defenceless peoples into its dominion.<BR/><BR/>The truth is that Scotland was an enthusiastic co-creator of the British Empire (who now wishes to try to feign victimhood).<BR/><BR/><I>The failure of the Darien scheme has been cited as one of the motivations for the 1707 Acts of Union. The Scottish establishment realized that it could never be a major power on its own and that if it wanted to share the benefits of England's international trade, then its future would have to lie in unity with England.</I>Simonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13905592870063005287noreply@blogger.com