All of us leave the family home at one point in our lives.
Scottish independence is like that.
We have taken one step to decide how we run our health service, our legal system, our schools, colleges and universities and how we invest development money to create jobs. However what we have is more like having the key to the door of the family home rather than to our own home. Westminster, like an overweening parent, still makes the big decisions and still holds the purse strings. It knows best and any signs of striking out on our own are quashed with lectures about not being good enough or resourceful enough to strike out on our own. Independence means gaining confidence - whether that is the confidence of independent living or the confidence of a country to take its own decisions and have its own responsibility.