Very good comments Jim. I previously said the UK needs another big political party to offer something different compared to the usual "tired" left or right options offered by Tory or Labour parties with political ideologies that are "flawed" and proved to be that way in decades gone by. It won't happen of course! Another big factor is the fact that all the political parties are riddled with "lightweight" people/politicians who have no real backbone to their persona at all - no leadership qualities, no durability, no great reputation. Agreed the Union is well n truly "fractured" for many reasons incl the common one you mention. How these shameless people can preach unity on the one hand and then come on all strong with this anti Scotland shit is beyond me and I, like many millions of Scots, have had enough and will become politically active at this rate! They clearly do not like the existence of a huge Scot indy movement that has developed since that sham of a referendum in 2014 and, of course, a Scot govt that these f###### unionists do not like in place at the Holyrood Parliament ever since 2014!!! Listening to this latest Scot Labour leader, Leonard, "banging on" with his usual Unionist anti Scot indy agenda absolutely drives me bananas with his shit rhetoric on the subject. We just had a Scot indy ref????? No we didn't!!! It was staged 4 years ago and the mood has now changed up here for various reasons incl the shameless lies of 2014 - very much like the Brexit scenario!!!! The rest of his pitiful speech in a Yorkshire accent, preaching to the Scottish people, deserves the contempt that most Scots toss in his direction!! The guy is a political nobody who won the Scot Labour leadership nomination under highly questionable circumstances from a previous leader, Dugdale, who again did nowt to improve the position of Scot Labour up here. Both political "lightweights" of the highest order.