Fair points Phil,
In the referendum, most voters didn't want an independent Scotland.
55% voted NO. But 'Better Together' were panicking in the last few weeks of the campaign - the gap was closing fast and it looked as if a YES vote would be delivered. So what did they do - they came up with 'The Vow' - a promise of new and real powers for Scotland, it sounded like 'devo max' or federalism was on offer (the option NO originally refused to have on the ballot paper). But of course two other wee things happened - NO effectively tore up and binned the Edinburgh Agreement that set out the rules for the referendum, and subsequently those who voted in the postal ballot actually took part in a different referendum than those who voted at the polling station.
Further, on the morning of the result, Cameron spoke not of new Scottish powers but English votes for English laws.
Many of those who voted NO did so with a heavy heart, many also believed 'The Vow', many felt conned and insulted when Cameron spoke on that Friday morning.
Before the last election, if I remember correctly, a new referendum wasn't in their manifesto.
The last UK election I take you mean. Well no. If it was in there, well it can't be delivered can it, not even if the SNP won every single Scottish seat - which they nearly did.
Yet some people think that 56 SNP seats now means most people want an independent Scotland. It doesn't.
I'm sure some people do, but the Scottish electorate is surprisingly canny, yes many No voters voted for the SNP, and I, a YES voter voted Labour.
I was pleased to see Labour tanked at the election in Scotland, but sorry to loose a first class MP in Katie Clark - I was not impressed with the SNP candidate. Sadly I felt voters were not quite canny enougth in North Ayrshire.
So YES, some people still think the YES campaign was an SNP campaign, and that all YES voters are SNP members.
Clearly things are a wee bit mare complicated than that.