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Between now and late 2014, campaigning to nudge sceptical voters towards a post-British future will dominate the SNP to the exclusion of everything else. No crystal ball is required to imagine the tactics that the SNP will employ. Pro-Unionists will be denounced as plastic Jocks ready to sell the country short. The relationship with England will be described by adventurous nationalists like Joan McAlpine, a parliamentarian close to Alex Salmond, as akin to that of an abused wife and a domineering husband. Scots will be exhorted to grow a spine and recognise that destiny has prepared them to be masters in their own house.