Scottish Independence.

Unfortunately Britain's politicians are today (9/1/12) back at work following the festive break. At a specially convened cabinet meeting at the Olympic park to mark 200 days until the start of the games the Prime Minister David Cameron announced plans to allow for a referendum on Scotland leaving the United Kingdom. He went on to urge the Scottish National Party (SNP) who won a majority in the Scottish Parliament at May 2011's election to hold that referendum within the next year to 18 months. Although holding a referendum on Scottish independence is a core founding principle of the SNP they want to wait until 2014/15 because the feeling is that at the moment a referendum would return a no vote that would cause the issue to be closed for a generation. However there is also a growing feeling within the British government that as soon as the Olympics are out of the way things will start getting much worse for Britain increasing the chances of a getting a yes vote for Scottish independence. If that happens then the Queen stands to lose her Balmoral estate and Britain stands to lose it's access to the North Sea oil reserves and it's nuclear deterrent.