"To most Scots, living under a Tory-led government seems absurd, like being forced to live under a hostile foreign occupying force."

I know the feeling. After all, the governor of Indiana is an unreconstructed Falangist named Mike Pence.

Whatever Scotland decides, the old order is dead and buried; The union will likely be gone within a decade. It’s not just the Tories in our bankrupt establishment that are to blame, by Owen Jones (The Guardian)

If Scotland votes for independence next week, it is the British establishment – and the establishment alone – that is to blame. The yes surge is not being driven by blood-and-soil nationalism, by dewy-eyed Celtic nostalgia or the resurrection of a Braveheart spirit. It is a defiant protest at a bankrupt order built by Margaret Thatcher and then preserved and entrenched by New Labour. David Cameron’s Conservatives will bear most responsibility for the break-up of the country, but the last government and a hollowed-out Scottish Labour party cannot escape the blame.