In any event, BAE are not expecting rash stupidity. They are giving the people of Scotland credit for a bit of common sense.

In the meantime, BP are, according to The FT, acquiring bits of planning permission for the land they bought on the coast in Northumberland. You see, it isn't which 90 mile or whatever square of the North Sea has the field, it is where it gets landed, as the Norwegian gas industry realised years ago. BP need to land it within The EU in order to sell it in The EU without tariff. The risks surrounding uncertainty in an independent Scotland are not in the interest of multi national companies. Oh, and a lot of executive style houses for sale around Aberdeen, as most top executives at BP are relocating to their Sunbury HQ near London.

The sooner this referendum is out of the way, the sooner the people of Scotland can wake up to the irresponsible reckless harm the nationalists have caused the country they say they try to protect.