
...
Scotland is
NOT "
in England's hands".

... Scotland was a
proud 
nation in its
own right ... up until the
1707 Act of Union decreed its
Parliament shall be merged with that of the English one
- albeit governed from Westminster, along with
Wales and the
then whole of Ireland - as a
(supposedly equal constituent) part of the
United Kingdom of
Great
!
At least ...

...
that was, I believe, the the intention when the Act
came into force.