For more than three hundred years, Scotland has been an active member of a union with Wales, England and Northern Ireland, but recently this partnership has been threatened due to the nationalist views of a group of deluded selfish failed councilors better known as the SNP. The ideals of these individuals threaten the very fabric of this cultural and business hub we know and love as Scotland. With the tricentenary of the union, the idea of ​​Scottish independence has once again become the subject of heated debate. How, I wonder, did Alex Salmond and his nationalist cronies manage to come up with such a specious solution to Scotland's problems? A question that is easy to answer: based on false, misinterpreted and corrupt data. In 2007, the SNP achieved a narrow election victory in the Scottish Parliament by 1 seat, winning 47 to Labour's 46 out of 129. This forced the SNP to form a minority government, just 18 seats short of a majority, but the result nevertheless caused a sensation in the media. The SNP's decision-making power can be considered weak due to its minority status. However, being in government gave the nationalists center stage in the media to promote their main policy of Scotland's independence from the rest of the United Kingdom. Whether or not this conjecture has any feasibility remains to be seen. Which begs the question: what plans might the SNP have for Scotland that would supposedly improve the wellbeing of every citizen of the nation, be they laird or lavvy clean? For starters, if they achieve their ultimate goal of Scottish independence, the SNP want to withdraw public spending from what they consider to be “non-essential” expenditure, such as military spending, with particular emphasis on the Trident, our nuclear deterrent… half of the document... The Union is three hundred years old for a reason: it simply works. Scotland benefits from the economies of scale and checks and balances of one of the richest countries in the world. The UK benefits from the flow of skilled professionals and entrepreneurs that Scotland has always provided. It is a sad fact that the small and isolated are suffering in the current financial climate – just look at Ireland and Iceland. Although devolution is a contemporary issue and its revival is inevitable as far as the new Scottish Government is concerned, concepts of total home rule are simply a novelty invented amidst the fanfare and publicity of the anniversary of the Act of Union. It is something of a fad that will pass with time, thus leaving us with another prosperous and peaceful period in the social and political history of Scotland and, above all, in the history of the United Kingdom..