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Scramble for Scotland offers Britain bitter taste of her own divide-and-rule medicine

By the time you read this, there is the possibility Britain shall have gone into labour to deliver her latest member of the Commonwealth in, to use British Premier David Cameron‘s preferred coinage, 'the family of nations'.

It‘s a development that Mr Cameron can hardly countenance; he‘s been teary since the referendum to decide Scotland‘s future entered the home stretch; although the campaign has been running for the past two years non-stop.

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