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Alex Salmond can of course put forward a policy for referendum on Independence, he can then hold that referendum if it gets through the Scottish parliament.

However if the result of the referendum was yes, he cannot insist that it is binding on the UK govt. The UK parliament would then independently discuss and decide whether to allow a vote in the UK parliament for Independence to be given.

With all main political parties at Westminster, it is a long shot indeed that the UK parliament would support and vote for to allow independence for Scotland.

He could of course go on and on about it, but his winning a referendum on independence would not in itself mean independence for Scotland,that would have to be decided and allowed by the whole UK parliament.

I doubt and would hope also that the Scots would not vote for full independence anyway.