i think it's all a wind up. We say the Jocks can have a referendum and watch as they degenerate into a chippy, aggressive rabble in a nasty and divisive campaign. If they say 'no', then we know we can treat them as we like. If they say 'yes', we wait a little while and then say we didn't really mean it.

We can then invade and conquer them properly, and be quite open about the fact they are a subjugated people.

Then we charge them to park in their hospitals too.