I remember taking with some Scottish feminists and someone else chatting with us was a woman without much knowledge of the UK but in depth knowledge about international politics and NGOs.

She said "every independence movement is targeted by outside influences who don't care at all about that region but only about destabilising the country they are in. Every independence movement falls for it because the money and resources they offer are too valuable to turn down and they always disguise themselves as the intellectual elite so they are seen to be above playing the dirty political game they are actually engaging in. Now I don't know about the specifics but everything you have said about the SNP sound like that has already happened."

The Scottish feminists were completely taken aback by this even though they disagreed SNP policy. They were like "oh no, you just don't know about Scotland. We are the one true honest independence movement. We're different."