Which country is overall more statist and collectivist: Wales or Scotland?

[JamesBond007]

Scotland, i get the impression that Scotland tends to be stricter when it comes to things like alcohol consumption, for example in Wetherspoons in Scotland you cannot drink before 11AM, i don't tend to drink early myself in pubs but i think when one has arrived in Scotland after an early flight/train from England it is often the pub that one will go to. even the way things like public transport are organised in Scotland just seem much much better, i always found it much better than in Wales and the services are more centralised and efficient. I think in Scotland rules are more vigorously enforced than in Wales even to the point of the correct social graces(i always found the Scots to be more professional when dealing with customers than the Welsh generally), some aspects of the country remind me almost of Germanic countries but still at heart i find it more or less very British.

Scots have more Germanic blood than the feckless Irish and relatively more feckless Welsh :

Anyway, from my perspective, although Wales' economy - whether by default or design - is at least equally state-socialist as is Scotland's, in terms of culture and day-to-day living Scots seem to be more disciplined and nationalistic as a whole than the Welsh, who by comparison tend to be a bit more individualistic and carefree.

--Tooting Carmen

[Longbowman]

The Senedd doesn't have the powers Hollyrood has, PC isn't anything like as popular as the SNP. Comparing the two is all very well but the PC aren't even the official opposition in Wales.

[Tooting Carmen]

Based on this survey, the Scots are substantially more genuinely left-wing than the Welsh on issues to do with taxation and welfare. Furthermore, they tend to be more liberal than the Welsh on most social issues. (The one curious exception being pre-marital sex, where the Welsh came out as not only more liberal than the Scots but also all English regions). https://trustforlondon.fra1.cdn.digi...EHw3D6uLfBn8Uc

This most likely shows that Welsh left-wing politics is mostly class-based, whereas Scottish left-wing politics is mostly ideological-based.