Irish managed to kick bongs out. Scots are still part of OOKAY.
Scottish were never actually conquered.
The reason that Scotland and England united was because Queen Elizabeth the First died without issue so the line of sucession went to her cousin who became James the First of England and James the Sixth of Scotland.
There was then an act of Union and thus they became two kingdoms under one crown.
They were given the opportunity to cede and rejected it due to the fact that Scotland would collapse within hours of independence without London propping it up.
No matter what the jocks burble about north sea oil and the UK's dependence on it, and how an independent sweatland would be the next Norway, its retarded.
Not only are the oil reserves overstated, Edinburgh needs London's international trade reputation to be able to trade it and not get fleeced by Yanks or Ay-rabs.
Many jocks also have no fucking clue how sparsely populated Jockoland is compared to Engerland, how limited the infrastructure is, and comparing it to Norway is foolish.
While Nog-Land has a similar population to the land of the Thistle, Norway had a much more established whaling industry and much more powerful forestry industry which supplimented and supported them until the oil industry was properly in place, and now Oslo is more like a northern Amsterdam, financial services and pheripherial money related industry centre.
Edinburgh and Aberdeen would have a long way to go to get even close to that, without supporting valuable industries.
Whiskey distilling would not make up the shortfall, no matter what the alkies think.
Most of them drink Lidls own brand "Whiskey" flavoured spirit drink anyway.
And of course, Glasgow, the largest city in Scotland is more famous for having a shorter life expectancy and standards of living that are beaten by the shittest post soviet east European crapholes and on par with actual third world countries.
Plus the Norwegians resisted the Nazis fiercely, whereas Rudolph Hess specifically parachuted into Scotland, reasonably thinking that they would happily side with the Krauts against London because their resentment and bitterness would motivate them through spite, rather than thinking through whether or not being a puppet state under Hitler was a smart move.
The Scottish have always sided with the French, despite the fact the French undoubtedly would have treated them far far worse than London ever would.
It's not a case of the Scottish did not manage to beat the English out (Scottish are British, Scotland is on the mainland Isle of britain, all scottish islands are part of the archepelago known as the British Isles).
The Scottish secretly know that without London, they would be a pathetic toilet plagued with heroin addiction, alcoholism and transvestism.
At least London sends them dole money, so they have some semblance of a middle class.