Like the majority of Conservative prime ministers before her, Thatcher treated Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland as extensions of England, rather than seperate countries making up one cohesive United Kingdom, therefore not only did all of her more questionable acts in England impact in Scotland, they never took into account the differences in political and religious orientation between Scottish and English people, like the fact that England was predominantly Protestant whereas Scotland was predominantly Catholic, among many other things. This left Scottish people feeling distinctly unfabulous and like they'd been betrayed by the MPs that were supposed to be doing what was best for them.
This was not helped by the fact that when New Labour came in they adopted many of Thatcher's policies and refused to clean up any of her mess. Scottish people felt totally disilusioned in a democratic system where neither choice had their best interests at heart, the SNP grew majorly in popularity, spewing all that Braveheart bullshit to children too young to understand the politics and Scotland eventually vouched for devolution and seperation from England and the United Kingdom.
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“I always believe the movies I've made are smarter than the way they are perceived by sort of mass culture and by the critics,” Snyder said, a statement he immediately followed by saying, “Also, ‘It looks like a video game.’
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