"Mr Salmond and his team will need all their considerable strength to get the facts before the people of Scotland"

Ehmm No Akenaton, what Mr Salmond and his team have to do over the next five years is govern Scotland and find ways of paying for all the things that they have promised the electorate but know they do not have the funds to implement. That will take considerable strength and skill which the SNP was sadly deficient in demonstrating during the term of the last Scottish Parliament. The tactic will be to say to the people of Scotland, "Sorry pal, we can't do these things because Westminster won't allow us to, they won't give us the money". Should Salmond get his tax raising powers watch two things happen stagnation and recession in Scotland and a virtual shut down of the North Sea.

"..an invasion in the "national interest" Ha bloody ha, who would he get to invade Scotland? Left to the "English" Akenaton Scotland would be cast adrift and independent tomorrow - it's the Scots who don't want Independence (now or in two and a half years time)