I would be wary of pushing for a multi-option referendum – the risk is that it would allow those arguing for no change to confuse key issues.
The Quad had decided a single question would be their "red line" issue: on no account would the UK government accept a multi-option referendum.
What Cameron did not know was that Salmond already believed his plan for a multi-option referendum had no chance of succeeding, as Kevin Pringle has now admitted.
Once the referendum talks began, Salmond's lead negotiator, Bruce Crawford, then the SNP's constitutional affairs minister, continued to press the multi-option referendum.
One idea is to push for a multi-option referendum – whether the electoral system should be changed; and whether that should be to AV or to a PR system.
The Lib Dems have in the past supported a multi-option referendum – which would include independence as an option – but have, up until now, been opposed to a vote on independence.
The final decision to kill off the multi-option referendum once and for all was made at a Scottish government cabinet meeting in late spring 2012, when Salmond called for a vote.
Some of us will find the paper's proposal for a multi-option referendum - including status quo, increase powers for the parliament, and nation-state independence - reminiscent of the brief "Scotland United" movement, which sparked into life before and after the 1992 general election in Scotland.
The SNP, he says, is considering a multi-option referendum because it cannot ignore a big section of public opinion, not because it wants a fallback if Scots reject independence.Mr Salmond confirms that Britain's submarine-based nuclear deterrent would have to leave its current home in the deep waters of a Scottish loch.
A joint action value of a main task p, a state s and a multi-option (overrightarrow{o}) is denoted as (Q p,s,overrightarrow{o})).
An option (o= langle I,pi,beta rangle ) is extended to a multi-option (overrightarrow{o}= langle o_1,ldots,o_n rangle ), where (o_i) is the option that is executed by agent i.
