My last contribution to this thread opened with the words: "Where do people get the strange notion that the idea of independence will now disappear in Scotland?"
Speaking of 'strange notions', I have no idea where Peter Pedant gets any of his; indeed, I often wonder whether he has. One of his oddest must be his recent idea, more than once expressed, that I live in the American west. It even sounds as if he thinks I might have been a member of the (original) Boston Tea Party!
I'm getting on, I have to admit, but I really wasn't around in 1773 or 1861. In any case, wasn't the American Civil War (1861) one that CREATED rather than DESTROYED the Union we now know? Again, you see, I haven't a clue what he is talking about.
For the record, I am a Scotsman, born and bred, who has lived in England with an English wife for a long time, simply because of how my life has developed over the years. I'm perfectly happy here and the vast majority of my friends are English. None of that bars me from concluding that Scottish independence was something much to be desired.