[Devongone]

Question is would you go for a hard border or a sort of knit-one-purl-one job?

Would the Edinburgh Fringe still be full of English students wanking off about their unfortunate aristo childhoods marooned in third-rate public schools afflicted by Tourettes and Aspergers that forced them to apply to St Andrews?

Would English media still be full of Laura Kuenssberg, or would she be sent back to Partick Thistle for a name re-fit?

I'm only askin'. After all this is a world in which the best actor in England - Ian McDiarmid - is very obviously a Scotsman. It's a world in which we not only can't untangle ourselves from the EU, we aren't even sure who constitutes we, or what we all want. And you want to untangle yourselves from us and then to tangle yourselves into the European Union despite there being at least two countries which absolutely would veto such a move anyway .........

How would it all happen? How could it? Without serious medical acceleration you can't hope to live that long.

I want to see it happen for you. I'm all for self-determination, but FFS Balmoral is the centre of the known universe. Like Harvey Keitel I wish you crazy kicks luck, but eventually you're going to have to stop looking at those comparison websites.