Let Scotland rule themselves from Holyrood to make for Conservative rule at Westminster - for ever!!

On September 18, David Cameron lost a golden opportunity to lose for ever his opposition Labour MPs from Scotland.  He would have lost only one Conservative MP but all of Scotland's Labour MPs - all 41 of them would have gone for ever to make Conservative governments ruling the rest of the Union much more likely at future General Elections.

How foolish, then for Cameron not to send a signal to Scottish voters that the English establishment would not be obstructive if they voted 'Yes'.  It only needed 5% who voted 'No' to change to 'Yes'.  That might have happened if Cameron had agreed with Paul Johnson, Director of the Institute of Fiscal Studies that Scotland was wealthy enough to be independent, if they so wished.  They would still have been British; still have had the pound in their pocket that was their pound as well as England's; would have kept their banks in Scotland and the other financial institutions would not have fled to London; they would still be part of Britain but not part of the UK's unethical foreign and aggressive 'defence' policy.  That is all.  It would have meant however, that their oil, gas and shale gas would have been sold to the other three countries of the union.  And, that is fair enough.  They would even have had a sovereign wealth fund for those precious natural resources, to help conserve them.

Now life is much more complicated for Cameron working out a way of giving devolution to the English regions when, in recent years, there was no great demand for regional government with, certainly, city mayors.  Perhaps, the government will dole out the cash to the major cities for them to spend as they wished.  That is going some way to giving them independence.  An independence that simply means raising the taxes for what you want to spend that money on.