"but I reckon the first thing the Scottish government should be on to is chucking out the English landlords who obtained vast tracts of land in a very questionable style in the clearances."

Well, perhaps the Irish should throw out all the Scot plantation owners? The Scots should throw out the Lairds who happily fucked over their own people? Where does it end? Ethnic cleansing? Nice.

The people of these islands have long been fucked over by the rich, and continue to be so. From the highland clearances to the Acts of Enclosure the ordinary people have been treated like utter shite for millennia. Even our higher caste Celtic ancestors treated ordinary folk (that's us) no better than slaves.

The real issue here is there is no trickle down of wealth in the nationless global economy of today. No country in the world can stop the uber-rich from taking huge amounts of cash offshore and out of any particular nation's economy. Cash does not roll downhill, in this respect Thatcherite capitalism has failed utterly (see here, for example).

There is no way as a people we can stop this if we are divided, and be sure this point is not lost in the boardroom of the anti-national corporations of the world; for them any further division of the workforce is to be welcomed. You have to wonder why the NO campaign has been so utterly ineffective, or even had the opposite effect of its campaign aims.

If I were Scottish I'd vote yes simply to get rid of the corruption and influence of Westminster, but it's naive to believe that somehow Scotland has managed to grow a crop of politicians that are any different to those in the rest of the world and are going to work tirelessly for the people and not the vested interests who stand to earn in any way they can from the labours of ordinary British folk.