An Enlightened Party for Scotland?

I am not Scottish. I don't even (as far as I know, and I have traced most of my great-great grandparents) have any Scottish ancestors. I have only visited Scotland on a handful of occasions, and to be honest found it to be almost like a foreign country.

And yet for some mysterious reason I have found that I have a great deal of affinity for Scottish people - I have a number of Scottish friends, and a number of the writers I most admire are Scottish, such as Iain Martin, Fraser Nelson, and Graeme Archer, to name just a few. Indeed, during the Independence referendum campaign I became passionate in the cause of unionism, actively supporting my Facebook friends with by posting articles supporting a No vote (quite whether that was actually effective or not I have no idea!).

Ever since the Brexit referendum, however, I have become increasingly uneasy about Scottish Independence. As an ardent Brexiteer, how can I not have sympathy for those who seek self-determination? This is pretty much summed up by this article:

http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2017/03/hypocrisy-pro-union-brexiteers/

Unfortunately, however, the sort of independence envisaged by the SNP is likely to be disastrous.

Perhaps what is needed is a new party to champion an enlightened form of Scottish Independence in opposition to the SNP.

My suggestions for policies to set it apart from the SNP would be:

• Free market economics and sound money
• Pro-Brexit
• Pro-CANZUK
• Close cooperation with England, especially on trade 
• Common UK defence, including nuclear deterrent

The free market economic policies would be tempered with Scottish social responsibility, along the lines of the views of the late Michael Novak, which are a natural development of the ideas of the great Scottish father of:economics, Adam Smith:

https://capx.co/the-capitalist-who-knew-capitalism-was-only-a-third-of-what-we-need/

An independent Scotland should seek a leadership position within any future CANZUK union: the Scots were after all at the forefront of the settling of Canada, Australia and New Zealand, and apparently more inhabitants of Canada self-identify as Scottish than do inhabitants of Scotland itself! What would be a more natural capital for a CANZUK union than Edinburgh?

These policies would not only allow independent Scotland to thrive, but also not diminish the rest of the UK.

A party based on this platform would draw inspiration from the great figures of the Scottish Enlightenment itself. Indeed - why not call it the Scottish Enlightenment Party?

The trouble is, though, as I said at the beginning, I am not Scottish: who is going to listen to me?