It has everything to do with ideology.

If Dave can get the Scots out (by the way, that's how you spell it) England will have a Conservative Government for the next couple of decades, at the very least.

At the time of Salmond's landslide victory the general consensus was that 70% of Scots were opposed to independence - they voted for change, not independence.

That's why Salmond said, and has always maintained, that the referendum would be in the second half of the Parliament; he hoped it would give him more time to persuade people.

Cameron is certainly helping him along that path!

However, I'll repeat what I said here at the time of the election (and remember I'm a Nationalist, but not a Scots one), it won't happen in my lifetime, and maybe not in Alex salmond's.

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Don't worry. They don't want to go.

I hope you are right! If that is the case why is Salmond so keen on a referendum? He must know that if he loses the vote the question will be settled for the foreseeable future?

"If they won a vote for idep scotland would the EU have to step in and fund them if london stopped all finance it gives them"

The EU would do nothing of the kind, because Scotland wouldn't be an EU member state. Scotland would have to apply for membership, and one of the conditions the EU would attach to the application would be an undertaking to adopt the Euro.

I refuse to believe that the majority of Scottish people want that kind of independence.