I'm still pissing myself laughing at the thought of Swatandra standing for parliament. Go on, Swatandra. Is it true? How many people actually voted for you?

A welcome donation from the Weirs for the independence cause.Last week,George Osborne's behaviour was a prime example of Scotland's need to be free of Westminster dominance.His claim that international companies had told him of their concerns about Scotland's constitutional future was not substantiated by the Chancellor being able to mane a single such company.Giving the lie to George Osborne's remarks is the very long list of multinationals that have made or annouced major investments in Scotland this year.Gamesa,Doosan,Global Energy,Michelin,Amazon,Mitsubishi,Respol,Taqa,State Street,FMC Technologies,Ineos,Avaloq,Aker,Hewlett-Packard,PetroChina and others have not shown the slightest qualms about the referendum.Consider what this politician has done.He is the finance minister for the UK and yet he has tried to foment diffidence as regards Scotland as a good place to invest in.Politicians in the democtic world have been impeached for less than that.
The only lack of willingness to invest in Scotland comes from the coalition government itself with Lib Dem minister Chris Huhne refusing to give the go ahead to the carbon capture project at Longannet.Not to be outdone Labour shadow minister Caroline Flint criticised Huhne's decision and promoted the idea of the carbon capture project at Peterhead.Ms. Flint apparently unaware that Labour had knocked back the Peterhead project four years ago when in government and Scotland lost out to Abu Dhabi.With all this treachery against Scotland from the three main unionist parties the Weirs' million is a big step closer to the normality of self government.Where every politician puts the interest of Scotland first.

Oh dear oh dear RedGreenBlue do stay up to date, Scotland and Wales got their Parliament ans Assembly in 1998/99 with devolution. Only Scots make laws in the Scottish Parliament and only Welsh make laws in the Welsh Assembly. Whereas laws for England are made in Westminster by the UK Government with members from N.I. Scotland and Wales voting on English matters only, yet they are not allowed any say on the very same matters in N.I. Scotland and Wales.

It's democrary New Labour/New Tory/New LibDem style.

Could be a waste of money in my opinion, with £161 they could have set up some kind of trust fund, put something like 30mil in and choose charities of their choice to benefit from it which can help with Scotland's poorest families and their poverty stricken children. But who am I to judge, I'm a poor b*stard!

Oh, and for the record, I'm English and pro-Scottish independence. I think Scotland can easily make it as an independent country, and should cut its losses and run now, while it has the chance. My ulterior motive is that I hope this would finally force England to address its own democratic deficit and archaic electoral system (how come Scotland, Wales and NI get PR but it's not good enough for Westminster?), and cause a long-overdue earthquake in Westminster politics.

If I had won that amount of money, I would have donated *at least* a million to SNP, and the same to Plaid Cymru. (Not sure how I'd split NI donations between Sinn Fein and the SDLP.)

I suspect this was the result of a national whipround of English taxpayers desperate to get rid of the place.

The money will help the SNP achieve a level playing field in the face of a relentlessly dishonest and hysterical unionist press. Wake up everyone and realise that the union is broke!

The Weirs have long supported the SNP and the independence cause. I am pleased that they have been so generous.

Looks as if the SNP will be in a good financial position to get the truth out prior to the referendum.

I like that!

Any time there is an article re Scottish independence there seems to always be a line of people ready
to insult Scot's and their nation. It isn't a two way street as independence supporters typically dislike the current political arrangements and not English people as such. For some reason the topic seems to stoke up a sneering arrogance and or an opportunity to recite some right wing lies from the gutter press.

Good on them,hopefully we can now get rid of the English who contribute less tax per head of population and who take most of the proceeds from gas and oil. No more right wing eton educated millionaire greedy bastards in charge in Scotland ever again. Splendid.

swatantra
"But the £161m could have bought all of Scotland lock,stock and barrel..."

There we have it.A sometime Labour Party parliamentary candidate who thinks it's acceptable to try and demean Scotland with a music hall style racist joke whilst maintaining in the same post that Scotland must stay in the union.

Fraziel1: Jesus, can't anyone take a joke anymore? English sense of humour always seems to elude the Scots, same as it eludes the Germans. It was a joke. Personally, I'm a Unionist.

Anyway, which millionaire greedy bastard gave the SNP all this money?

Also, Cameron is obviously a Scot, if you back far enough.