I haven’t found many of the arguments against Scotland’s independence convincing, but here’s a new pro-independence argument that carries some weight with me.

Piers Morgan, the insufferable left-wing former editor of Britain’s Daily Mirror who replaced CNN’s Larry King for two painful years until poor ratings drove him back across the Atlantic, has promised the Scots that if they vote “no” to independence he will pack his bags and “go straight back to America.”

One Scot I know told me that Morgan is just as unpopular in Edinburgh and Glasgow as he is in America. Rupert Murdoch, the owner of the London Times and the Sun, referred to him this week as “once talented, now safe to ignore.”

I’ll try to ignore Morgan’s offer, but it is tempting to wish for Scottish independence so as to keep him safely on his side of the Atlantic and away from my television screen.