They're not any more over-represented than Scots & if society had a strong prejudice against us they'd be obsessing about that too.
Erm, to which society do you refer? If it's the UK then all you have to do is watch tv (remember that?) to experience a stong and abiding anti-Scottish prejudice. Perhaps you could even read articles by our English Prime Minster who has, amongst other things, promoted the Scottish people as "vermin".
From Wikipedia
"He caused controversy in 2004 when his poem,
Friendly Fire, was published in The Spectator (under then editor Boris Johnson). The poem, purporting to be satirical, was a racist attack on the Scottish people from the perspective of an Englishman advocating the cultural and physical genocide of the people of Scotland. It specifically recommended the 'extermination' of all Scots."
For balance even the English feel the lash from his forked tongue ...
" ... Liverpudlians. They see themselves whenever possible as victims, and resent their victim status; yet at the same time they wallow in it. Part of this flawed psychological state is that they cannot accept that they might have made any contribution to their misfortunes, but seek rather to blame someone else for it, thereby deepening their sense of shared tribal grievance against the rest of society."
Was there an outcry when he allowed the so-called 'satirical' poem to appear in the Spectator? No. Because there is a deep seated prejudice against Scottish people in the UK and this awful poem advocating genocide of a people went unchallenged. Look at the Parliament channel when the SNP speak they are booed - often they are cut out of air-time altogether. No other party is treated in this manner. None.
England wishing to leave the EU is reported consistently as "the will of the people" - with no facts to back that statement up. If you think a vote of 17.4 constitutes a will of the people you have a point. It reflects the number of people who voted - a minority if stacked against those who were eligible to vote. That's why the Brexiteers are shitting themselves about a second referendum. Now people know what lies ahead the Brexiteers and their fans are very much a minority.
Scotland wishing to leave the UK is, for the most part, reported as a rabid attack on sovereignty by nationalist appartachicks. Yet the UK leaving the EU is embracing its sovereignty? The SNP is attacked on a daily basis for its stance on Scottish Independence - the very reason that the party exists. The media attempt all too readily to equate independence with right-wing extremism and terrorsim despite the fact they have a UK Government in place that happily supports both right-wing extremism and terrorism without shame.
Scottish people have long been described as scroungers on the UK state, that they'd be nothing without the assistance of their colonial masters. Scottish people are obssesed about in UK media as "less-than" and I hope, in time, that Scotland removes itself from the canker of England (not English people - most of them are as ill-treated as Scots) so that England may truly see itself in the mirror that is the world stage. It is a small bit player with dwinlding returns. Under the Tory regime those returns grow even smaller.
Scottish, Irish/Northern Irish, Welsh and English people should all be able to determine they're own futures. As it stands now England determines and everyone else pays the price.
