SNP strategists over the last 10 years had pinned their hopes on an emulation of the Irish economic model to bring stable economic growth to Scotland while making up for any economic loss resulting from the costs of separation and the replication of functions that were once pooled at the UK-level.

The collapse of the Celtic Tiger economic model has brought uncertainity about the costs involved in separation and SNP strategists haven't come up with any plan of how Scotland could maintain/raise its standard of living under independent statehood. It is absurd (disingenious?) for SNPers to talk about financial sovereignty returning to Scotland while speculating about a Scottish state joining the Euro.

SNP nationalism is separation for separation's sake.