ONE of the least edifying elements of the 2014 Establishment campaign against Scottish independence, uniting big business and the Tory, Labour and Liberal Democrat parties was the deployment of Project Fear.

Scots were told in the early stages of the referendum that they lacked the ability, experience and economic wherewithal to run their own affairs.

Westminster parties sowed the wind of failing to make a positive case for Britain’s constituent nations remaining united and reaped a consequent whirlwind.