Scotland: the SNP would grab anything on offer, while demanding more and intensifying their programme of rolling blackmail. Nothing short of full independence will satisfy the Nats. In the meantime, they would use additional powers to highlight their differences from England, whatever the cost in misgovernment. In a federalised Scotland, the SNP would continue to undermine the education system while wrecking the Highlands and the Scottish economy. A broken Labour Party would offer no resistance. Indeed, Labour survivors would join the Nats in plundering the rest of Scotland to subsidise higher welfare payments in a de facto nationalist and socialist coalition. In the short term, all this might boost the English economy as businesses moved south and any Scots with get up and go, got up and went. But that would be a tragic end to the triumphs of Great Britain. All in all, federalism cannot be the answer because it cannot eliminate the Nationalist threat.