People use to get sent to the tower for less Mark.lol

Tsar Alexander II signed an edict in 1861 to free Russia's 23 million serfs. The edict did not take effect until 1866. Russian author Leo Tolstoy (War & Peace) tried to free his serfs unsuccessfully as they thought he was trying to trick them. Instead Tolstoy focused on their education by establishing skools & writing educational texts. Tolstoy described this project as the supreme goal of his life.

Tsar Alexander II is a good example of what can happen to reformers. His reforms were too much for some and not enough for others, so he made many enemies. On the day he signed into law a new raft of reforms he was assassinated by a anarchist unhappy with the slow progress of reform. His successor abandoned the programme, plunging Russia back 20 years.

Once reform is offered it makes people want more, sometimes it's better not to offer it. We saw it over here on a far lesser scale. Tony Blair restored the Scottish Parliament in 1999 hoping it would satisfy Nationalists, but all it did was make them want more, hence the Independence Referendum in 2014. Although the Nationalists lost and there won't be another vote for many years (if at all) the clamour for a second vote won't go away. It can all be tracked back to the well intentioned establishment of the Scottish Parliament 20 years ago.

With Scotland didn't the majourity vote in favour of staying in the EU?

Maybe they just recognized the benifits more than others Major.

I talked to some older ones in Scotland that voted yes and they are sayng it was the younger ones in the country that voted for the no side and they weren't too pleased with them for doing it.

The older Scots told me the same. These were the ones that contacted me from Neilston ref my Great uncle who had been killed in the Great War and asking permission to use the pictures I had in ancestry.