"This is widely believed to be a losing proposition." - evidence? I don't know if you're a UK citizen or living in Scotland, but I'd love to explain some of the

"This is widely believed to be a losing proposition." - evidence? I don't know if you're a UK citizen or living in Scotland, but I'd love to explain some of the nuances of Scottish politics. They said, once upon a time, that the SNP would never have a majority leadership (due to the way that the electoral system was designed for the devolved parliament) in the Scottish parliament, but look what happened at the last Scottish general election. Perhaps what the Scottish people don't like the idea of is the SNP becoming the governing party of Scotland. However, and this is frequently ignored by the unionist press in Scotland, the SNP would not necessarily be the ruling party. There would be a new general election to vote for a new Scottish government in an independent Scotland and that could be Labour, SNP, Tory, Democrat, Greens or whatever. There is a huge amount of disinformation banded about by Cameron, Osborne and other unionist politicians about Scotland's capabilities.