If Mr Salmond gets a ‘no’ vote, how much will the rest of the UK have to find in extra finance to placate him?

Could there be a rebellion among parliamentarians on providing such a ransom and will there be a free vote by all parties in both houses of Parliament?

If the vote is ‘yes’, will the remnants of the country have to renegotiate all its treaties with other nations when Britain becomes a new entity?

And, one would guess, there will be huge demands for a reduction in the contribution to EU funding, on the assumption it is able to remain a member. And what happens to the UK’s Nato commitments?

Will Britain return to the European Free Trade Association which was originally established as a buffer to the EEC?

Who has any answers? Not, it appears, the current politicians of any party.

Or just maybe they are ‘keeping their powder dry’?

BARRY BURTON, Fareham.