I sat up all night on Thursday, running into Friday past dawn, watching my country, Britain, step back from the catalyst of disintegration.

Mr Salmond almost succeeding where the might of the Nazi military machine and the atrocities of the IRA failed.

The shock of perhaps being a foreigner on my island of birth being too much even for my resolute nature.

Now it is all over bar the shouting, one of my late father’s favourite expressions.

We will all get back to the reality of the daily grind.

If this happens again in my lifetime I shall start a financial appeal through the internet to challenge the legality of the fact that all Scots born residents of the United Kingdom living in Scotland, England, Wales and Ulster should have had the democratic right of a vote regarding the future of the country of their birth, Scotland and the United Kingdom.

The polls estimate that seven out of ten of southern British residents residing in England don’t mind their fellow Scots. They also predict that the same ratio of 70 per cent of the many thousands of Scots domiciled in England support the Union.

Bill Williams Merlin Way Swindon