In all fairness, Scotland has always been its worst enemy. Whenever anyone shows the industriousness to become a real leader, he was always undermined and betrayed, and frequently murdered, by some ambitious and incompetent underling.
And this is not a biased opinion, as it has been noted by Scots historians themselves, with a shake of their head at the tragedy.
But for once, if they do vote independence, there will at least be a framework for government, even if those currently occupying it are fools. And this means that it is likely that *someone* will ascend, who for better or worse will at least set a bar for his successors.
Whether they succeed in the long run, or fail, as the English suspect, believing that the most of them are of the same stock as Sawney Beane, will for once be up to them.
The Tale of Humanity in a nutshell. The United States was once one of the rare exceptions to this brutal reality - in this Age of EBT Cards and Circuses it has returned, perhaps forever.