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McGran on 16 July 2014
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MikeRox said:

Fair enough though you can get survey that say anything all the time, but my passport says British. Therefore that is what I am :p

The Better Together campaign evidence concludes Scottish will be better off in the Union with figures to support it. The Independence campaign evidence concludes Scottish will be better off independent with figures to support it.

85.75% of statistics are made up. Every poll yeilds a different result.

If that's really true then it should be a piece of cake for you to find a survey that contradicts the one I linked. :)

I'm not saying there is anything wrong with identifying as British, and I was a little suprised at the poll results too.  I fully expected that Scots and Welsh would more closely identify with their country of origin, but I also expected the English to identify as British (the English hegemony has meant that Englishness and Britishness are pretty interchangeable) so it was something of a suprise to me to find them calling themselves English first, British second.

Whether Scotland votes for independance or not I don't believe we'll see a fundamental change in our relationship with the rest of the UK.  While we might all be proud of our roots we also have a long and proud shared history too.