Caledonia/Culloden

Still an agonising twenty days of coverage to go before the Scottish independence referendum, with the promise of further months of post-mortems whatever the result. Not that the result is really in doubt: not enough people, however much they might fancy the purity of full nationhood over continued existence in the shadow of England, really believe an independent Scotland can somehow miraculously attain the prosperity of comparably-sized Scandinavian welfare states. The 'no' vote, while somewhat hampered by having to declare their advocacy of something that sounds palpably negative throughout their campaigning, is the economically safely conservative option with a small c, and will win. The only lasting outcome of the whole affair will be an added feeling of dividedness with 40% or more of the populace having seen their voice defeated, while Scotland continues to be appeased in terms of privileges not enjoyed by the rest of the UK, and that includes taking oil revenues into account, by a Westminster made nervous about losing any last vestiges of the Empire before the voting public.
I therefore propose raising an army of volunteers from England to resolve the matter: issue them with hammers and chisels and send them somewhere north of Hadrian's Wall so that the whole sodden appendage can be cast adrift into the North Atlantic post haste. Problem solved.