ok, pofnlice, my comments above weren't all responses to you, so that's fine. still, i would have to question basing the opinion of scotland on the opinion of scots who choose to live in england. Those are two different types of groups. I won't argue on that basis though because it would be splitting hairs and missing the point.
Basically what you have said is perfectly valid, i would say, many scots are apathetic about things like the EU, which are designed to make all our lives better at some point in the future by legislating on the correct shape of bananas and ruling on things in countries that few of the representatives have even visited. But you would be entirely wrong if you honestly thought that the general opinion within scotland was the same as the general opinion within england, about many issues. These issues are diverse. Scotland and england have distinctly separate general opinions on things like how to charge for water services, how to charge income tax, what the national anthem should be, how to deal with the immigration "problem", when the public holidays should be throughout the year. How to legislate for racism, terrorism, privacy and human rights, how subsidies should be divided between certain industries, whether VAT should be charged on fuels, and so on and so on.
Ironically, scotland may finally have a whisker of a chance of getting its independence after 300 years of subjugation, but only because the english are now finally taking an interest in their own national identity.
i personally believe it would be beneficial for scotland *and* england to separate from each other and properly find their own national identities as independent european states, within the EU if they so choose (which would be my preference).
