Look sorry this is getting absurd. People either vote in any election/referendum or they don't vote. The question was a Yes/No question and people made their choice. 55% voted No and 45% voted Yes. It is ludicrous to suggest everyone who didn't vote were No voters! They were non voters! If you are counting the whole electorate then only 46.77% of Scots voted No. I wouldn't even try to claim that it then means that 53.33% wanted independence. It is a very silly argument.

As to the little snippets you've quoted I'm not going to go through every one and try and figure out where it was said etc and what context it was said in. I googled the Sturgeon example and only came up with one hit from a girl called Emma!!! But I did watch Andrew Marr on Sunday morning where Salmond gave a reasonable explanation as to how as leader of a minority gvt he had to work with other parties to get measures through and that Labour would have the same issues and that the SNP were likely to be a party they'd need support from. So as a minority party they could be in positions of strength and they are not hiding that as their aim. Why should they? They have as much right to have an influence on the UK parliament as any member from Surrey or Bedfordshire etc. Not much difference from last time when Nick Clegg was saying the same thing - the only difference being he wasn't viewed by the media as a threat to British democracy!

As to Salmond standing for Westminster come on he has every right to stand for Westminster! It will be up to the electorate as to whether he gets in or not!