Poll: Scottish attitudes to the British Empire | Scots are more likely to see Scotland as having been a subject, rather than a partner, in the British Empire

https://yougov.co.uk/society/articles/51482-scottish-attitudes-to-the-british-empire

Posted by 1DarkStarryNight

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  1. 40% say ‘Scotland was subject in the British Empire’ | 29% say ‘Scotland was partner with England in the British Empire’

    **By 2014 independence referendum vote**:

    Yes: 55% | 20%

    No: 32% | 38%

    **By 2024 general election vote**:

    Conservative: 27% | 46%

    Labour: 35% | 33%

    SNP: 60% | 19%

    **Which countries benefited from the British Empire?**

    *All Scots:*

    ‘Benefited more than suffered’: England, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Wales, Scotland

    ‘Suffered more than benefited’: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Ireland

    **Amongst Conservative voters**:

    ‘Benefited more than suffered’: England, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Wales, Scotland, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Ireland

    ‘Suffered more than benefited’: None

    **Amongst SNP voters**:

    ‘Benefited more than suffered’: England, Canada, Australia, New Zealand

    ‘Suffered more than benefited’: Wales, Scotland, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Ireland

  2. Well duh.

    Scots, in general, want to blame England for absolutely everything, even things they were complicit it.

    I see it all the time from the Scottish side of my family and, well, pretty much any time I am there.

  3. Nationalists going to nationalist.

    Doesn’t fit the independence or SNP narrative to accept we had anything to do with the Empire even though the act of Union was literally the English parliament buying out the Scottish one with access to English colonies and a helping with vast national debt caused by *checks notes* a failed attempt to create a Scottish colonial empire.

  4. …..Britain’s first imperial moves were all led by Scotsmen. Never ask a Nationalist Scotsman why so many Carribean people have Scottish surnames. Or ask them why so many places in former British Africa have Scottish place names. Or ask why most Anglo-South Asians have Scottish surnames.

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