I agree with Sir Connery.
Scotland should become independent immediately. England will immediately become both a great deal richer and much more Conservative.
Scotland will become richer if they get to keep the oil.
How black gold was hijacked: North sea oil and the betrayal of Scotland
In The Independent, 9 December 2005, Ben Russell and Paul Kelbie wrote about the betrayal of Scotland.
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article331945.ece
It was a document that could have changed the course of Scottish history. Nineteen pages long, Written in an elegant, understated academic hand by the leading Scottish economist Gavin McCrone, presented to the Cabinet office in April 1975 and subsequently buried in a Westminster vault for thirty years. It revealed how North Sea oil could have made an independent Scotland as prosperous as Switzerland.