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SOME months ago The Times newspaper spelled out the Tory plan for how to respond in the event of a pro-independence majority in the Scottish Parliament. It’s to deny, delay, delude and deflect for as long as possible. We are now seeing that game plan being put into action. The Conservatives are venal, duplicitous, and deceitful, but they’re not entirely stupid. Irrespective of the spin they put out for public consumption they know they fought this election campaign on the single basis of opposition to another independence referendum and lost. There is now a substantial pro-independence majority in the Scottish Parliament – 72 seats in the 129-seat chamber are held by pro-independence parties. The anti-independence parties combined have only 57 seats among them. If the new Presiding Officer, who votes in Parliament only in order to break a tie, is chosen from one of the minority parties, the SNP will control 64 seats and votes in the Parliament, the same number as all th