Independence referendum? Let's all have one (Part One)

I don't know what people living in Scotland will vote for in the forthcoming referendum but I do wonder why we are allowing just a small proportion of citizens in one of the most successful nations on earth the option to destroy our 300 year old Union.  Far more people in the UK live outside Scotland than in it, but they have been completely disenfranchised.

Of course the rest of the citizens of the United Kingdom may all want to rid themselves of troublesome Scots,  but then again they may not.  And what about the Scottish diaspora in the rest of the UK or indeed the rest of the world?  The impact on them may be considerable; will they have to return their kilts to Alex Salmond and forswear consumption of Haggis?  Of course they don't get a vote because they are not part of the Scottish nation, because it is not clear that there is such a thing.  Webster's dictionary defines nation either as "a community of people of one or more nationalities with its own territory and government" (this would include any group of people with devolved government; Hertfordshire for example) or alternatively as "a tribe or federation of tribes" presumably with North American Indians in mind, but that surely includes wearers of the tartan, and  not only those within the confines of that northern part of the British Isles commonly known as Scotland.

Unfortunately none of this is not going to happen;  Parliament has accepted Salmond's proposition that the people living in Scotland are entitled to determine their own future and that those in the rest of the UK don't

So if we are going to have a referendum, why don't we all have one?  If we cannot vote on whether to keep Scotland in the UK, we should all be allowed to vote for our own independence.  Following Scotland could be Cornwall and then Wales, Rutland and a couple of forts in the middle of the North Sea.  Even London and the South East, fed up with being accused of ignoring the rest of the United Kingdom, may choose to go it alone. And Yorkshire would of course vote to go its own way.   What is left of England, and of course Northern Ireland, would inherit the most recognisable flag in the world, a nuclear strike force and a seat on the UN Security Council.  And the pound, because it would not agree to share any of the above with the newly independent nations.