[Verginius Rufus]

They are paying the price for Edward I’s conquest of Wales and for the Act of Union in 1707. Next stage: the United Kingdom of England and Northern Ireland. I suppose they would keep the Isle of Man too.

[muawiyah]

Getting beyond Edward I it is inescapable that it was George III who really screwed the pooch. Through the simple expedient of incorporating all the American colonies within the United Kingdom political structure (giving everybody a vote in Parliament) Scotland would have been reduced to a minor nuisance.

Instead, the pleadings of the Continental Congress were ignored and the gnomes in the Exchequer continued to drive Britain's American Policy.

Of course, had things gone better before the War England itself, would be a minor nuisance too ~ but emigration to America would be so much easier eh!