Stereotypes be damned, when you're in Scotland, you want to know you're in Scotland!

During the Scottish independence referendum, there were greedy self-interests at work, but on the night the vote failed, I saw a Scottish woman sitting on the curb, *weeping*, and I thought, that's not greed, that's concern about loss of *identity*.

The same was true about the Quebec independence movement. But while that failed, it woke up the Canadian national government, and they did what was required for Quebec to maintain their identity, such as learning French FIRST as their native tongue and official language, and since then, I think all prime ministers have been bilingual in English and French. And it worked, Quebec was happy, and maintained the benefits of being part of Canada.

It would be a harder sell for all UK PMs to learn Scottish Gaelic, versus a more world-useful language like French or Spanish as a second language, but if the Scots want all kids to learn it, I wouldn't have an argument. Many native people's languages are in danger of becoming extinct because not given the support to be maintained. Scottish Gaelic is spoken by only 1.1% of the population 3 years and older.