Do the Scottish currently have any democratic control over who runs the UK? They clearly didn't have any democratic control as to whether they remained in the EU or not. Hence, there is an appetite for independence, to take that democratic control.

You are utterly incapable of applying the same nationalist motivation in Scotland to the English. It's because you hate the English, you treat us as though we are colonisers, the bad guys of the world, you think we must make up for our colonial history by becoming politically dominated by others. The Scottish, well you accept their desire for independence because it's us, the English influence they want to get rid of. If it were European influence you'd be outraged.