Is There a Real Aspiration to Independence in Scotland?

In most cases, what's most striking about them is the unwillingness of the political leaders involved to actually establish themselves as independent, self-governing nations. And then there is the end up kind of inadvertently or in some cases sort of directly kind of undermining their own apparent aspirations to national sovereignty. So for instance, if you take the example of Scotland, the aspiration of the Scottish nationalists is to secede from the Union with England and Wales. The idea that Scotland would not have its own currency indicates that there is no real desire to be independent. This dynamic plays out across political elites within Britain and indeed in Ireland.