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So .. they don't see scotland as part of the UK anyway? Why was it such an issue then that they wanted to leave? (And why were there bloody wars fought about it in the first place?)

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I think most people say "the North East" as a synecdoche for "the North East of England". the commenter being referred to likely just misspoke

Who wanted to leave? What wars?

Someone with a tiny little...um...axe to grind and not enough sense to take it someplace where people care. You can tell when they have to go back to Culloden to try and drag something up to wave around.

Scotland the UK? (They were allowed to vote in the end and voted to remain)

And wars happened when scotland was forced to become part of the UK in medieval times. (Braveheart)

So Scotland didn’t want to leave. And Scotland didn’t unite with England until after the Scottish King took over he English throne hundreds of years after the time of William Wallace

You might be confusing the U.K. with the USA where a pet of the country there wanted to leave and were refused and that did lead to war, and that happened far more recently than 700 years ago.

Are we on the same timeline here?

I spoke about

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_independence

Where most of Scotland did not want to be independent

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