On the authoritarian right politics is largely built around tribal power, leadership, and war against the other. On the left it's about principles, but on the authoritarian left the principles are treated as sacred and deviation becomes heresy - hence hard leftist intolerance.
When Theresa May mocked 'citizens of nowhere' her purpose wasn't to state an idiotically obvious truth, but to deny the idea of a common humanity, to whom universal principles could apply. She was asserting the tribal view that each tribe has its principles and rights.
In a tribal mentality, which denies universal rights, it's not incoherent to deny Scotland rights which you demand for the UK (Greater England). Scotland is simply viewed as an inferior tribal entity which has fewer rights than England.
The nationalist Englanders can't tell you this, because for them it's just the way the world is. The hard left are the opposite - unthinking belief is not for them. They passionately obsess over the minutiae of political principles, calling out dissenters as enemies.
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