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Miss_Mouse
@itsbruce
There's been a lot of sniping about Salmond on this thread since the No result and even more since he announced his departure. But I think the most charismatic and able politician in the United Kingdom has just decided to step down. I believe many Scots who voted No will be saddened. Scottish attitudes to independence are much more complex than outsiders realise.
An old Northern Irish friend of mine is celebrating Salmond's departure. He admits this is because this referendum has threatened his own loyalist community's sense of security. He has been laying into Salmond - to quote him: "If Alex Salmond had won, he had no ideas whatsoever as to what Scotland could have used for money.". My answer: "He believed, with absolute sincerity, that he and his compatriots would have the strength and ingenuity to make it work. He might even have been right. We'll not know now.". I do know that if the vote had been YES, most people on the NO side would have accepted it and worked with him to make YES a success. Because they are patriots. I hope this can also be achieved now, after the NO vote.
And I will miss Salmond, even though I know him of old because he's been an MP where I grew up for yonks.