http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/09/13/up-to-a-point-a-free-scotland-would-be-a-hilarious-disaster.html

“Ah, there’s nothing like a primitive, quarrel-torn, disastrous Third World country. And Scotland has everything it needs to be what old-school foreign correspondents fondly call a “shit-hole.”

On pretty much every Guardian post about Scotland, “Yes” advocates will insist that Scottish Nationalism has nothing to do with nationalism. It shows how bizarrely Cathedral pieties distort reason. For me, the argument that “we” are Scots and “they” are not is relatively unproblematic, and to be expected. People are like that. But it’s unthinkable for the Cathedral.

Everyone is supposed to know that nationalism means Nazi (because trying to create an imperium running from Brest to the Urals – as a prelude to total planetary dominion – is obviously petty, small-minded and nationalistic, don’t you know). So Scottish nationalism can’t be nationalistic (because that would be discriminatory against non-Scots, or something).

The attempt to express Scottish difference from England within the terms of Cathedral global non-differentiation has to break down eventually. But the downward spiral leads to much mental torture. Sooner or later someone asserts that there’s a Murdoch mind control virus forcing English brains to be right wing, but which mysteriously stops working at northern latitudes. So Scottish independence is simply an attempt to build a protecting force field against it. The problem is, Murdoch supports Scottish independence. He seems to agree with you; that it will be a reality check, forcing a Thatcherite acceptance of TINA on Scotland.

So…reaction is romanticism?