@Slimboyfat: Your argument is ignoring basic facts. suppose oil rebounds. Scotland will be a small country relying on natural resources for export to survive. it would basically be an arab oil state.
These states are very good for the extremely wealthy who control the oil production, and they are good for the people who import and use the oil cheaply because they can bribe and influence the wealthy. This is what is happening across the arab world.
Scotland would be a small satelite state to the greater EU.. the working class in Scotland would suffer tremendously while France, Germany, and the rest of the globalist elite laughed their asses off. This is pure power play: UK booted out the globalists, now the globalists want REVENGE.
England should never allow this. NEVER. It would be tantamount to treason/surrender and hurt Scotland for generations.
A vote can never be allowed for 20 years and England should consider the Scottish nationalist movements as being possibly influenced by hostile powers.