Damned clever, these Scots!

You have to bear in mind that the main objective of the SNP - their raison d'être - is an independent Scotland.  Having failed to achieve that by means of a referendum of the Scottish people, their clear plan it seems to me is now to so irritate and provoke the English (and perhaps to a lesser extent the Welsh) that we decide to cast them adrift - so attaining their goal by the back door as it were. And if that's how it works out, it will at least have been our decision.