Murdo Fraser lays it on a bit thick

Murdo Fraser MSP spins like a top in the Scottish Parliament:

There are critics of the Calman process who think that it is another step on the slippery slope to independence, but I do not think that improving devolution undermines the United Kingdom or that giving Scotland better government makes independence more likely. During the devolution debates in the 1990s, members of my party—including me—often argued that setting up a Scottish Parliament would boost support for independence. In the event, that did not happen and I am happy to admit that we got it wrong. Last week, the most recent opinion poll figures showed support for independence to be at an all-time low of 23 per cent. So much for the argument that a Conservative Government in Westminster would stoke the fires of nationalism.

Just as the argument that more devolution will increase support for independence is wrong, the argument that devolution will kill off nationalism, as George Robertson famously said, is wrong. There is no such thing as inevitability in politics or history. In Scotland we will get the constitutional future that we choose. That will ultimately be for the Scottish people to decide, and I have every confidence in their good sense. Their majority view is clear; we should back the proposals in the Scotland Bill, which will bring better government for Scotland.

If Murdo were being truthful I seriously doubt that he'd say that the Calman proposals represent the constitutional future that the Scottish people would choose, particularly when it comes to the Scottish Government's financial powers. And for the record, Murdo, nationalism in Scotland is at it's highest level for three years, and that's most probably because your colleagues are in power at Westminster.

It's also worth remembering that Scotland does not exist in isolation and that support for Scottish independence tends to be higher in England and Wales.