This is the abstract and argument, as it were, of Mr Wemyss’ extended essay, available here.

Within the week, the fate of the United Kingdom, and of Scotland, shall be in the hands of a few: not all of them Scots; not all the Scots. Those who happen to be living in Scotland and are eligible to vote because they are British.

I am Scots – Wemyss, Stuart, Duff, Craufurd, Chattanach, Macintosh, Shaw, Henderson, Gunn, Ay, and descended also of Clan Donald. I am also English and Welsh and Anglo-Irish...