It makes me angry to walk down the Royal Mile and see shop after shop chock-full with Pakistani bagpipes and Indian kilts, dirks, and sporrans and tourists buying same while old established local sporran makers are going out of business and wonderful local pipemakers are barely keeping going.

I am of the opinion that Scotland should enact a law proclaiming certain items National Cultural Products, these being illegal to import into Scotland for resale, and it being illegal to sell such items within Scotland unless they are Scottish-made. Items on the list would be things such as Highland Bagpipes, practice chanters, kilts, and sporrans. Some things such as jackets specifically designed to be worn with the kilt might be difficult to define.

Perhaps the law would have to be UK-wide to be effective.