McGran on 09 February 2014
| MikeRox said:
Well, Scotland only became part of the UK because they wanted England to bail them out when they bankrupted themselves trying to colonise the Americas. |
If by that you mean that many Scots politicians (some of whom had lost money on the Darien expedition) accepted English bribes to vote for union against the wishes of the Scots people then you are correct.
From Wiki
[Scots poet] Robert Burns referred to this:
We're bought and sold for English Gold,Such a Parcel of Rogues in a Nation.Some of the money was used to hire spies, such as Daniel Defoe; his first reports were of vivid descriptions of violent demonstrations against the Union. "A Scots rabble is the worst of its kind," he reported, "for every Scot in favour there is 99 against".
