Err... You can't change the name without a referendum. The only referendum here is about leaving The UK. The UK still exists afterwards and each and every aspect of The Treaty of Rome commitment and membership still holds. For The UK that is.

Successive UK governments have also made it clear legally that currency union of any kind requires a referendum. The UK is not being given a referendum to my knowledge on currency union. If they did, the option, still open, to join the Euro and ditch the pound would possibly be an option as well as sharing our pound with a Foreign Scotland.

All moot anyway. Between now and then Salmond has to explain plan B if perfidious Albion won't roll over. After all, what's in it for The UK?

Sorry Jim but there are intelligent voters in Scotland. That's why functions are less ideological and more pragmatic than the knee jerk us & them approach sadly buggering up many areas of England.

Still. With the low life expectancy in your more populous areas, at least you won't have our pension crisis eh?

As Frankie Boyle inadvertently said as a joke. Scotland despite poor diet and alcohol doesn't have an obesity problem. Thanks to heroin. Poignant joke aside, who is going to vote to have an unsustainable social infrastructure?

Perhaps you could get Sean Connery to pay tax, seeing as he loves you so much. Billy Connolly seems to prop up Malta thinking on....