‘Do you agree that Scotland should be an independent country?’
Well, the essential question proposed by Alex Salmond in his consultation paper is surely good enough to satisfy the UK government’s requirement for a clear question on independence. That’s one stumbling block out of the way, I reckon. But Westminster ‘s rival paper is clearly opposed to a second question on anything like devo max. These are two different issues, and should be considered separately. If these two questions were asked together, there would be four possible outcomes, and potentially four …