I WATCHED with interest as a large number of our MPs and senior politicians past and present all headed north of the border last week as it suddenly dawned on them that the unthinkable could happen this Thursday and Scotland could actually vote for independence.

Now I could be called cynical, but were these great and good of our society leaving the safety of the Westminster bubble to persuade the good people of Scotland to reject the overtones of Alex Salmond to break up the 300-year-old union, or to my mind to preserve a system that had served them very well for numerous decades?

Only at the eleventh hour have they resorted to desperation measures.

Only after more than a year of paying the Caledonian question lip service did they realise they have been asleep on their benches whilst the impossible was fast becoming possible, hence the absolute panic now uniting the status quo as they scramble to save themselves, and God forbid if they do break away, give the English ideas to break away from the Westminster public school-educated elitist ruling class and teach them some humility.

It is they over the past few years who have destroyed our trust and are mainly to blame if the United Kingdom is broken up.

Mr H Bradbury,

Clinkham Wood