and the public. information here explicitly in terms of plastic waste. is the other leg. after all the fun is interest cyclable. make up your own mind to get. w. made for minds. scotland is wild expansive and beautiful. a land of breathtaking countryside. bustling city. full of life and of course full of scots many of whom are wondering these days what it actually means to be scottish. there's always the

canadian the chicken that's for scottish people and i praise myself i'm not a pickle i'm just telling you how they feel they don't go about setting enough lot of mana so we're silver stapled if you like to try to do england i think has grown in the other way from the plane many scots feel they are fundamentally different from their english neighbors and want to be governed differently as well particularly since broke so. once grounded mainly in the realm of folklore the idea of the scottish character may now have serious political ramifications for the united kingdom.

when. the 24 year old sophie galt doesn't need a home office her workplace is already isolated and very well ventilated. but it's in the middle of scotland in the heart of the highlands at the foot of ben alder. and. sophie spends the whole day outdoors among. mountains last week and more land. day but. it's. the time. to. find. feeding the horses is also one of her tasks and even unskilled workers can help her . fingers and the others are already waiting. in the summer the

working ponies carry the deer carcasses down the mountain. in winter they need more to eat than the barren highlands can offer. the young woman says the becoming a deer hunter was the best decision she's ever made. there is something i'm really proud of. wildlife. wildlife is it can see the stars in the distance. even more there's always that sense of community in the chicken that's. him or. so if he works on a private estate your dog winning in the highlands. on pandemic times it's a popular destination for hunters and holiday makers. but sophie sees

herself as a paid environmentalist. that's thinking whether she's reforesting or restoring peat morns she sees her job as serving nature and the land ready ready. hunting as part of the. 'd 'd 'd 'd winter impacts older animals in particular 'd today sophie spots a herd that needs. there's there's definitely a few older heinz field or leave i would have preferred to take out they lose a lot more condition over the winter than i would. so be proactive in them before they get to that stage before they suffer and as what we pride ourselves on doing as well. it may seem cool to shoot the animals but scotland has the highest density of red deer in europe and they breed like rabbits.

left unchecked so if he explains the population would grow so fast that the animals would over graze the land star or succumb to diseases. but these hinds are in luck today they're too far away for sophie to get a clear shot. of darwin's. they're a little bit of a fright but they know there's no threat so they fall when they werent here in force and if we start walking towards them they would know where they wouldn't be holding holding back until. stalking them would take until evening. since it's not possible to shoot today it stays quiet and then alter. but this refrigerated rooms contents are testimony to sophie's hunting skills.

sophie loves her work caring for the animals all she has to do is rattle the food box and they come running down the mountain. right at the front to sophie's favorite amish. sophie's job may seem cut off from the world at large but she's always thinking about the bigger picture. the things i'm doing in the job will affect everything from the state to the wider scotland and not some object thing and that's i suppose it's about the legacy. as we see again and again on our journey it's hard not to fall in love with scotland. and the desire to express this love is not just felt by scott's.

fishing dirt out of the water raking up leaves maintaining the concrete. he was english and david who is scottish have spent many a weekend doing this for the last 20 years. these mysterious man. which the men treat with such love are part of the world's largest 3 dimensional map of a country. it's in people's in the scottish borders region. when keith 1st discovered the map i want to walk in 1907 it was completely overgrown. looking down into the undergrowth i i noticed the shape and it looked like the shape of the mole of galloway which is a very conspicuous peninsula on the southwest side of the scottish coastline. and

at that point i thought well no i've just got no right to it not your nation. just out of curiosity i thought but it can't be if it was then if i walked northwest i should find an island and to cut a long story short 10 minutes later i had walked north discovered ben logan and walked across around the more climbed over ben nevis and arrived at the north coast of scotland at the white house to ensure. realising that this was a. relief model of the whole of scotland. the relief model features all the mountains and lots of the scottish landscape. keep a nuclear engineer set out to find the creators of this patriotic work to no avail . was lost in local memory. and. being an engineer. this offended me because

a lot of creative design effort went into producing it who had made it and why and it eventually led to me discovering my colleague david cameron. david cameron is a retired architect from edinburgh is this be a part of the tree that. he knew that the relief was the brainchild of young. a polish 2nd world war veteran who had married a scottish woman. became a successful local hotel and bought the barony castle hotel in people. he wanted to create a monument to express his love for his adopted country. and calling it the great polish map of scotland he had his compatriot doesn't yet as tough us fly in to build it. david had met cousin yet to try for

us in the early 1990 s. . the polish photographer was quite elderly and hadn't been to scotland for a long time. he asked david to search for his relief map. this was. try. a pool of water on the left here. shells everywhere from clay pigeon shooting. and i reported back to him and they were so sad about it they look so this is brutal this time and do it all these trips over and so i just made this rush promise. david hadn't got very far with his promise until keith stumbled upon the map. the 2 men founded a charity potluck and in 2018 the relief was finally fully restored. at the time britain was still a member of the e.u.

with scotland in the same political union as poland of course this is no longer the case heading for troubled waters here because i i have supported breaks it very strongly for a long time and still do so this is where david and i diverged i think it's a romantic idea the experience has shown to be totally impractical and i think the european union is a dysfunctional mess showing no signs of getting its act together i'm not going to accuse piece of having narrowness of mind or anything like that but i think. should we say although we're one island i think somehow my impression is that the english people inshallah. and perhaps. more so you're looking at least that's how i like to think of it more and more scots believe that

their country would be better off if it were as independent as it looks here in this pond. david is no fan of the government of london and believes in the fundamental differences between the scottish and english were ignored. but he sees a total detachment from england as an impossibility if only for geological reasons . i think is wrong or interesting in a way that scotland in fact is you know logically part of the north american plate. and at one stage there would have been a sea between scotland and england when scotland gone to england england went underneath and then volcanoes came off the line and so were silver state for the if you like to. do england i think is rather difficult to get away from the. problem that the shetland islands do not have.

they don't fit on the relief map at all they're so far north of the scottish mainland closer to norway than to edinburgh. yet shetland is still quintessentially scotland with its beautiful landscape and sparse population. the sense of community here is important and people take a great deal of pride in their small islands but there's a lot of curiosity about the wider world too. shetlanders have been buoyed by the oil which was 1st discovered here in the 1970 s. . the revenues from the oil industry have been invested wisely in the local community to build roads and public institutions. now with an eye on the future shetlanders are slowly transitioning to wind power.

yet fishing is still the major source of income and. more fish are caught here than in england northern ireland and wales put together. victor lawrence and isn't catching anything at the moment. he's been stuck in the harbor for over a month. before he can take his ship the radiant star out along the west coast the self employed fisherman means a spare part from sweden the choice of the them. that's . the stupidest thing. to do but. i don't. know what you mean i don't.

keep. the majority of the fishermen all over the united kingdom voted for it. isn't the only one who disapproves of european colleagues encroaching on british waters. with their huge ships they take more than their fair share of the cash. yeah yeah. the church bells in the crowd town hall of blair wake are still like big ben. but now that britain has detached itself from the e.u. and scotland wants to separate from britain the desire for independence has spread to shetland to.

stephen coots and the other local councillors think that shetland should liberate itself from both britain and scotland. the benefit to the local community like it shoot money is flowing in a. way from the westminster. any local political accountability. victor wants no more discussions about independence it costs him 1000 euros for every day he spends at sea in fuel alone he has 2 children and doesn't want any more uncertainty about the future.

if you think. solidarity and sticking together i think scots talk about often. but ideals in reality are not always aligned. glasgow is certainly familiar with this. the old working class city is a tough place. glasgow is struggling to combat drugs violence and unemployment. is scotland's biggest city it's also the center of design culture and literature. on buchanan street in the city center we meet up with jamie god like. the comedians well known all over the country. in 2020 she won the scots speaker of the year

award. the 59 year old has lived by the river clyde all her life i love the 3. this is the this is. this is. where you have got this new. start glasgow was a poor and it brought in so many people from all over the world and that's got a lot. of that is well you know we have problems like have this site. in the world but the one thing about blast was this people just tell you how they feel they don't go up. on the floor. you don't get on trial says he's still in. jail he grew up poor married and ran up public her husband for 15 years. when they had to give it up she became

a comedian. for many here she has become the voice of scotland funny honest and unpretentious. but some people cannot stand her. boyfriend. one reason is that she's anything but ladylike. when we swear especially a female because if you're a portion angle female and yes waiting it sounds like you're just being cheeky but if you're a female and you're. like everyone else in showbusiness janey's life has been hard hit by the coronavirus. this is the biggest audience since march. i guess everyone's about.

how you did not want to. but her online audience is larger than ever. indeed jamie's popularity has grown along with that of nicholas sturgeon the scottish 1st minister. the coronavirus statistics are not much better in scotland than england but sturgeons empathetic manner and factual information of one people. cheney does a voice over a sturgeon's daily briefings in her own words the 1st minister started to do these daily briefings i decided the most is just became love love love and i thought what way can i get us to be attention you know get attention for it so i started to do us and see the things she's really wanted to say like status but i'm going to die if you go i'm going to stick my top the clock. i became her.

translator basically i don't. i'm going to do what's right for the country a father rush things through and people die i almost don't see that you're going to begin with but as. for months a consistent majority of the scots have said that prime minister boris johnson is going too far. the english politician is extremely unpopular here. jenny also hopes that nicola sturgeon will win the election to the scottish parliament in may and that there will then be a 2nd referendum for scottish independence. that has made a fundamental difference to the situation. we were told by contritely 14 we understand people who support and abandons as we've done the pendants they were attacked and keep it up. and it's basically

a mom and dad same like going back to italy when you wake up you will have a pony and you're going to bed you're sleeping. and there's just a cushion in the shape of a cat instead and that's. just light they lied and they lived in their light and that's what they died. for cheney scottish independence is the only way forward. more and more scots are dreaming of being able to vote directly on the issues that affect them. the coronavirus epidemic has forced the folk singer dave gibbs to stay at home and in this village. he normally tours through the country and sings. during the lockdown he and the other inhabitants of wanlockhead the highest village in scotland altitude was decided to start a revolution. for hundreds of years one market is belong to. aristocratic family.

now the community wants to buy back 15 hectares of land from the current duke of a clue. why is this has. been done to history book why is that why is all this line here as is the law just a private one do not in the u.k. because he's a jerk a very clever tricky but clues we call him and why what did he do to get it done to keep what was a done to improve it done nothing all he does is. to recently like to shoot bugs sky and get tax relief from the one guy who owns you know saying the done nothing was a really silly nothing for the community. lincoln rich bold move from england to wanlockhead scotland. to live in a civilised self-reliant country at last as he puts it. we're looking at this

area head would mean we end up somewhere along that horizon line there the land that we will be had for the boy. one 3rd of scottish land belongs to just a few large landowners. who didn't have a revolution when he did you know that kind of revolution you know these landowners going back to the norman conquest so. it's a it's a long time situation really. you know i'm going to get me to say much about this. instead of chasing the feudal lord off with a pitchfork and the old fashioned way they want to offer him 1600000 euros for the rugged land the barren hills and a few sheep. in the 18th century when it was worth owning the village but then duke of the clue built mines

and smelting plants there. thanks to its lead in gold reserves wanlockhead was dubbed god's treasure trove. the clue also ran a hunting lodge here. these days the tiny village is of little interest to the duke . but the wanlockhead locals love their village on their part which is after all the highest pub in scotland. during the pandemic people are keeping their distance . the only 2 tourists are from england they're impressed by david lincoln's bold plan he is in the ford white house we are going to the decency to the internet. and this works it's interesting that we've got more young people living here so maybe that's why one of the things we want to do is try and create some local jobs. so i think what you're saying is amazing absolutely amazing. the. tools choice you.

can go to the. wages of people working here. you know if you're going to be wise what you're doing the job that you have here to do your job market is not alone in its endeavor all over scotland local councils have now bought up some 3 percent of the land. the scottish government to supporting this late land reform is best as a cane. if an application is convincing the state will finance the acquisition. of there's only about half of one kids $200.00 inhabitants have voted to pay off the duke lincoln is worried he might not get the necessary funding but he's firmly convinced that his project is part of an overall trend. this is a very different country to england with. substantially different values. much more school is much more in tune to europe than england and i'm an englishman

that's why i live in scotland so it's just a natural step. to go from there and here. in many. things there. are so few things that independence is a question of attitude. like most of her fellow scots she wanted to stay in the european union. while a slight majority of scots feel that brooks it is a good enough reason to separate from britain so few would rather wait. and call myself school ish 1st before i do a british style love. i absolutely love it as well but i can see where people are coming from west and if and that's right now i am but if there is to be another referendum i don't think now is the time i think we'll that's cool to hand things and. once we know where we're

a lot where were our feet are. then we can make another decision. independence and self-determination mean different things to different people. geography and history brought the scots to a point where many can picture a future outside the united kingdom. which only recently and only through english voters became a reality was supposed to make britain more independent. but what it has shown most clearly is just how different scotland is something that could spell the end of the united kingdom in its current form.

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