My point is OC that the Tories under Thatcher and Major were strongly against devolving power to Scotland, it was Labour under Blair and Brown who decided to give Scotland a referendum, and the the Scots said yes please, of course they did. Labour thought that devolution would dampen down, even eliminate, the drive for Scottish independence. As usual they were wrong, it simply fanned the flames and we are where we are now, with the break up of the Union a distinct possibility, totally the opposite of what Labour intended, they thought they were strengthening it.