From the Metro yesterday:

A new ferry service linking Scotland and France for the first time could set sail in just a few a months. The route, from Rosyth to Dunkirk, nicknamed ‘Project Brave’, was first proposed in 2022, but stalled in 2025. Funding issues, as well as the need to build a new border control facility at Rosyth, to allow the processing of food and drink, halted the project.

It’s only when you have a look at the map above of existing UK to Europe ferry services, that you see just how Scotland has been stifled by the Union. We have one service to Belfast. Belfast has three external services. Independent Ireland with the same population as Scotland, has 7, while England has 15! Rosyth to Dunkirk would give us one. What could be more illustrative of our capture?

Has the Union stifled the development of links to Europe and forced traffic through England?

I trust AI ahead of any commentator comfortable in the Union, sensibly I think –

Evidence substantiates that the Union has, in effect, stifled Scotland’s independent European links by centralizing control in London, shifting historical trade westward/imperially, and (via Brexit) erecting barriers. This has forced much traffic – literal and economic – through England, reinforcing dependency.