Both Wales and Scotland are very different, socially & politically to the UK, says an Englishman (And a PSPS member) married to a Scot whose parents lived in Wales at various stages of their lives
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery. The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the god of day goes down upon the dreary scene, and—and in short you are for ever floored.
Wilkins Micawber, Ch12 David Copperfield
