I'm not anti-Scottish at all. I'm pro English independence and the break up of the union. It's a political philosophy thing not a nation thing Angie. Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales have one quarter of their workforce employed by the public sector (the three highest regions in the UK) so they are being stifled by the current system. The public sector is picking up the slack from the lack of private sector jobs. In other words their economies are not properly developed by the Union. The public sector/private sector divide in those regions is much higher than in England.
Consequently, in the election, in Scotland, 76% of the vote went to anti-austerity left wing parties (SNP 50%, Labour 24% and Greens 2%) and only 16% went to centre right/right wing parties (Conservative and UKIP). In England and Wales the tables were massively turned - 53% voted pro-austerity and EU referendum and only 35% voted left-wing.
The result too often has been a government elected by a country I don't live in. The same is true for you Scots. So a split is the best option. Imagine if we had a fully federal EU and the EU elections determined the make up of our parliament! So if the rest of the EU voted in a far left EU parliament we would have to live with the outcome.
The only alternative to a split is to try and kick start the economies in those regions and create real economic growth. George Osborne is trying to start that in England with Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Sheffield etc.