It Is September 19th 2014 and-confound-ing the opinion polls-Scotland has voted "yes" to independence. You, Alex Salm-ond, are elated. You, David Cameron, are distraught; you are already being lambasted as the prime minister who botched Britain's 307-year-old political union. There are noisy calls for your resignation. Prior certainties-such as the contours of Britain's general election in 2015-are melting in the late-summer sun. Emotions in both nationalist and unionist camps are raw. One side feels triumphant, the other utterly humiliated.
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