Clever??

I have the sneaking feeling that the SNP have never really wanted independence for Scotland at all.  What they wanted was devo-max - the best of both worlds, with the power to go their own way in matters of spending and revenue-raising, but with the comfort of continuing to belong in the UK and so the knowledge that, if the worst ever came to the worst, they could look to the rest of us to step in and sort it all out.  And if I'm right, then everything is on course, because those in Westminster are falling over themselves to tell the Scots that if they vote "no" in the referendum, they will promise them more devolved powers.  You can almost hear Alex Salmond quoting Hannibal Smith in The "A" Team - "I love it when a plan comes together"!