"...thereby giving Sturgeon the opportunity to say "see, we have no autonomy under the present arrangements, we need independence now"?


Na. Sturgeon has no real interest in Independence. She's a Devolutionist posing as a Nationalist. Her whole idea that Scotland needs Section 30 permission from the UK parliament to hold a legitimate Independence Referendum makes it clear that she has no serious interest in Scottish Independence at all simply because that permission will never be given. The can will be kicked down the road...and she will end up earning a fortune pontificating on some nonsense or other as the well remunerated leader of some US(Democrat CIA) funded NGO for some other kind of "rights".

A leader handed everything on a plate it was hard for her to go wrong...but she managed to turn it all into shit. That takes "talent" of a particular kind.