[Osem]

Given all the promises and rhetoric he's issued over the years, Salmond is in between a rock and a hard place now. He can't back down or he'll be seen for what he is so he'll continue his policy of denial and carry on promising what he can't deliver knowing that the naïve will be taken in. I think Salmond is far more fixated on what he feels is his rightful place in history than he is the greater good of his people. If he were to win, he'd go to his grave believing he'd set Scotland free and blaming others for the chaos which ensued. If he loses I don't think he'll accept defeat because doing so will deny him any chance of ever being known as Alex the Great...