The family interest

Having listened to Alex Salmon of the Scottish Nationalist Party who is speaking to journalists about the separation of Scotland from the rest of the UK, one is left with the impression that the Scots would be better to go it alone.
One of the problems we have with our current set up is that the structure of Westminster was built on the grand old days when we had an Empire and responsibility across the world. Our politics were as much focused overseas as within the country and because the participants, the politicians, were were from the grand old families with business connections affected by overseas trade the need to keep the trade sweet was a priority over the conditions within the country and therefore the needs of "the people" were often overlooked. Much has changed and a wider democratic mandate has meant that a wider audience has demanded a say in the governance and the benefits that that governance bequeaths.
The Scots are by nature and by geography a separate entity and their views on the social aspects of their constituency is very different from the "Nobel Structure" we have in Westminster.
One often witnesses the social divide in the Mother of all Parliaments, the wealth and the educational assumptions that a certain class of people are born to. The Scottish Parliament seems on the other hand to be made up of the rank and file of the people they represent and therefore their policies are more in tune with the majority. The democratic deficit has long been evident where the working class have returned the Socialist year in year out but only to be defeated by the entrenched political class (representing all parties)  in the South of England.
I would go so far to say that Politics is a game in Westminster whilst it represents the "families interest" in Scotland.