Yeah, I expect things to get a bit more passionate come the closing days. Indeed, this lot of clowns plan to
march through Edinburgh the weekend before the vote to remind us where our loyalties
ought to lie:
That'll be fun! Anyone who follows politics in Northern Ireland (don't!) will know what a
ruckus to expect when the bowler hats come out. Ain't Britain something?
The cunning thing is that the party currently in power in London is the one which would gain the most if we split. Even with everything I've said about them already, I'm actually less Tory hating than the average Scot! Current predictions for next year's UK General Election don't look good for Cameron, as Labour should get a small majority. But you can see just how much of a boost the Tories would pick up without Scotland:
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http://electoralcalculus.co.uk/zoomablemap.html
Weird looking map: every seat is distorted to be the same area. But you can pretty much see England's borders by watching where the blue seats stop. And just how small and peripheral Scotland and Wales are in British politics. Political geography is the kind that really counts.