ABSTRACT
This chapter explains that the prevalent tendency amongst both the ostensibly informed and the uninformed is very often to subsume Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland into the wider more casually used generic term England. One of Scotland's leading historians argues with an historical perspective that for the better part of 200 years, Westminster treated Scotland with benign neglect allowing Scottish politicians to informally determine matters then formally agreed by the Imperial Parliament. In Scotland, bowel screening is offered biennially at age 5074, and bowel scoping is currently being piloted. The discussions and conclusions of the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities sponsored Commission on Local Democracy Report were informed by evidence from other countries outside the UK. The intentions of the Scottish Government in the event of independence have always appeared to be the development of a sovereign, all encompassing parliament upon the foundations of what is already a unicameral domestic parliament.
