Chris

They always were a lot of amateurs pushing a hare-brained scheme, but now it's coming to the vote and they're under scrutiny, it's amusing how quickly it's all falling around their ears.

Funnier still are the cybernats, still furiously commenting all over the Scotsman website and anywhere else a critical report is found. Some of them have gone into outright denial. Apparently the recent student referendum vote in Glasgow, and last week's opinion survey at Napier in Edinburgh (support for the union at 65% and 70% respectively, which by massive coincidence are in the same ball park as every national opinion poll of the last decade) are all down to foreigners who won't be here to vote in the real thing next year. And the worse the news gets, the louder they insist that it'll all still come good in 2014.