So why have I heard the rumblings of independence in the last 15-20 years?
Oh there HAS been a move towards indpendence since the early 90’s,helped by Mel Gibson, ineffectual Labour and a dislike of Thatcher and the Tories.
Bu the best the SNP has ever done is what they did a couple of months ago: win a ‘midterm’ Scots Parliament (not a national UK-wide General election) election by just ONE vote which has meant they are a minority govt until 2010 at the latest,vastly short of a majority govt mandate.The SNP will get NOTHING done bar a few minor acts on the statute books and will,I believe,expose themselves over the next 3 yrs as the narrow focused nationalists they are, more into point scoring and romantic psuedo-Braveheart tosh than Scotland’s genuine 21st century welfare and the Scottish people will see that and in 2010 overwhelmingly vote for the other parties all of whom are pro-Union and pro-British.
And an election won btw as a protest against Labour,its domestic policies, its corruption culture and Iraq.NOT because of the SNP itself.
Basically it was a HUGE Phyrric victory...