Scotlands choices now fully revised for the critical last few months before the referendum does just that written by one former civil servant one academic and one think tanker one a resident scot one a scot living in england and one an englishman the authors clearly explain the issues you may not have considered and detail how each of . Scotlands choices the referendum and what happens afterwards friday 26th april 2013 if they reject independence the proposed changes from the calman commissions review on scottish devolution will most likely be put in place. What happens after the referendum depends on the vote but either way its the beginning of a process of change negotiations to form an independent state would be immensely challenging scotland would be negotiating with the uk but at the same time with the eu and nato with the uk sitting at both those tables. Scotlands choices the referendum and what happens afterwards perhaps only the foolhardy would try to give the scottish an account of both sides of the independence argument nevertheless that is what we try to do in scotlands choices published by edinburgh university press this week. Scotland faces its biggest choice since the 1707 union that made the united kingdom should scotland be an independent country the yes and no campaigns are well under way but with the vote looming closer the information available to the public is still limited what will happen after the