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Looking back in time to the early 1990s, John Major made it clear that a majority of SNP MPs after a general election would serve as a mandate to begin negotiations for separation. "There are no plans to hold a referendum”, said former Thatcher minister and party chairman Norman Tebbit a few months before the 1997 election.
It was a position the Tories held right up to 2010 – the last election year in which the SNP didn’t win a majority of Scottish seats, at which point the goalposts magically shifted. Now, of course, the rule is that a majority of MPs doesn’t count, but you also can’t have a referendum. Looking even farther back to the 1980s, the view of Tory backbenchers was that a majority of SNP MPs in two general elections constituted a right to demand separation - IT HAS NOW HAPPENED ON THREE OCCASIONS!!!
Scotland looks like a prisoner without hope of parole. Time for a breakout methinks!!!