“I’ve been pro-independence since I was born, not like this gang of converts governing us, who’ll leave us in the lurch as soon as they can. But I’m a policeman first, and the police have to obey the law, in other words we have to do what the judges say, not what we fucking well feel like. And if the goddamn judges order me to close the polling stations, I stand and salute, I shove my pro-independence up my arse and close the polling stations, and that’s that.