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The amount of investment in the North Sea oil industry since the Scottish election of 2011 has been widely reported.

Mr A. Darling, the front man for the No campaign in Scotland, changed his address from London to Edinburgh on four occasions when C.O.E., also widely reported. This I understand is called "flipping"

The Muskets nom-de-plume is derived from a hawk, in his case I would say as in one of our old saws "A hawk out of a bad nest".
It would not surprise me if he resembled the Laird of the Ettrick Shaws descendents and they
did not own a furr of ground in the hail of braid Scotland.

Check out the story of the laird of the Ettrick Shaws in the archives of the S.o S.S. in Edinburgh.