No Patch, you can't have your cake and eat it. Somehow doing this has been the basis of Salmond's campaign throughout and he's either on another planet or he's a downright liar. Whichever way the vote goes there's going to be huge resentment among the half that lose.
I have Scot's blood in my family but down here in England, where we're only able to watch what's happening, I can tell you that there's a significant number of people saying "well, if the buggers hate us so much then they can f... off and not expect any favours if they win and then expect to take their pick of just which cherries they want when it comes to the subsequent carve-up."
So, in at least part of the rest of the UK there is also great resentment that a small part of the whole has been allowed to blow apart a Union which has existed successfully for over 300 years. We get the result in the morning but the subsequent kerfuffle will go on for years ...
Tony.
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