I WAS not enamoured by much of the tactics employed in the recent campaign on separation.

There was a level of severity and aggression, particularly on the part of the separatists.

I thought the better together logo, with its ‘No, thanks’ had the edge of polite civility as opposed to simply, ‘Yes’.

‘What do you say at the table?’ ‘Yes!’ ‘Yes what?’ ‘Yes, please’ ‘That’s better!’ There was a feeling at times that if separation ever occurred you’d not only need a passport to visit England, but a visa to cross the street; The Falls Road, Belfast springs to mind.

Then there were the midnight ‘artists’ Banksies, where graffiti daubing of ‘Yes’ on public buildings degenerated into vandalised disfigurement of private property in a Proudhon like declaration that ‘property is theft.’ Police as always - in absentia; the unseemly rallies of dopey people with mickey mouse sociology degrees barking ‘Feminists of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your bras, Mary doll!” And embryonic Tommy Sheridan, seeking in Salmond’s Kerensky like bourgeois revolution a transitional state towards a fully flung North Korean Socialist Republic.

Nevertheless, what the vote admirably demonstrated was that any ‘devo max’, the millionaires, Cameron, Clegg and Miliband, may be envisaging should be directed towards the areas of deprivation in Dundee and Glasgow rather than to the more comfortably off middle classes.

In a sense I’m sorry to see Alex Salmond go. He ran rings round his immobile, skittle like opponents and I sincerely think he should consider the apocryphal take of Bruce and the spider; too young to retire, think of Churchill!

Will ye no come back again! He almost persuaded me to convert to becoming a Menshevik SNP supporter.

As it was, a little seldom seen rhetorician, G Brown, rallied we Scots Greys at the end of the day. Let’s hope that any reforms for Scotland don’t turn out to be a pack of lies and deception.

LEO DAVIDOVICH BRONSHTEIN, Cowdenbeath.