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I've seen a bit of stuff on social media in the past few days along the lines of 'imagine if it was the other way round - if Scotland was already independent, they wouldn't want to join rUK', but it's complete nonsense because that's exactly what they do want, as a staunchly pro-EU nation.

Sorry, I thought that was implicit in my post - having the BoE as lender of last resort is precisely what they'd have to pay for. Looking back it was a poor expression on my part - I said 'prop up the currency' when you explain it much better. I agree with you that, to me at least, the...

We couldn't stop them using it - we could refuse a currency union. What would realistically happen is that we'd refuse a currency union without costs to Scotland - and those costs would be significant (the BoE holding substantial Scottish funds that can be used to prop up the currency if...

Betfair (their own exchange, not the punter-to-punter market) have paid out on a 'No' vote apparently.

'This sense of perverse hatred' is all that there is to the vote. The economic case is at best inconclusive and the social case is nonsense because the government finances don't add up. If the 'Better Together' chumps had anything about them at all the only thing that Salmond would have been...

This is a pretty damning critique of the economic case for independence. The incompetence shown by the 'Better Together' campaign to not manage to pick up on any of this is astounding.