I was up in the South West of Scotland last weekend, as I have been on many occasions, and the overriding impression I get from my friends there is that independence will be a bad thing. My impression may be skewed but it is what I have found. I have no axe to grind as it will not affect me but when Salmond says he believes the Westminster government and the EU are 'bluffing', I wonder about the sense of a man who is playing poker with a whole countries future as the stakes.

DtG