They seem to be a rum lot up there, (are you listening jim?) take Glasgow alone, for nearly 100yrs, the majority of the people of Glasgow have elected socialists - if not Communists - as to represent them at work, and at local and national levels.
In return, the unions destroyed the ship-building industries that employed scores of thousands, and resisted change in the mining and steel-making industries that resulted in closure too.
The dreadful living conditions, standards of education, social and levels of social advancement and even life-expectancy remained low and static until relatively recently.
Yet they still vote Labour, or for the socialists of the Scottish National Party whose representatives have done nothing but line their own pockets, and keep the voters angry, aggrieved and poor; ideology gone mad, is it little wonder some feel the need for something extra to blur the pain of the failure of Socialism?