Whichever way, it goes,...*Scotland will have shown itself to be a "force to be reckoned with" - a proud nation no longer content to be cowed into submission by the old order of things ludicrously dictated by a succession of (predominantly English) Westminster-based parliamentarians domiciled more than 400 miles away from *its southernmost tips - slightly north of Berwick-upon Tweed in the east and just above Carlisle in the west - since 1707.