On the homepage now, we have a picture of David Cameron and the banner headline “A Big Day for Cameron.” Under the headline is a typically excellent piece by our political maestro, John Fund.

As regular readers know, Cameron is a major bogeyman of our site. Nige is our pin-up. David Cameron can do no right, by NRO’s lights. You would never know from reading us that his government has been a solid success.

In the last four and a half years, Britain has made progress. The economy is growing. Welfare dependence is down. Employment is up. Crime is down. The education establishment has been confronted head-on. Etc. There have been reforms that we on the right have been advocating for a long time.

And the Conservatives are in the delicate position of governing in a coalition, with a badly split country. Britain is not bursting with Thatcherites, unfortunately. Neither is America running over with Reaganites (unfortunately).

Anyway, we can save this discussion for another day. Dave is our bête noire, and, by the way, did you hear that he went to Eton and Oxford? I think I may faint, from class resentment.

More seriously, Cameron is not “one of us,” that’s for sure. (“One of us” is a phrase associated with Nixon and Thatcher. I’ve written about it a few times, including here.) But to paint a villain’s mustache on him is weird.

Okay, back to the issue at hand: Our headline is “A Big Day for Cameron.” Fine. To a hammer, everything looks like a nail, and to us, everything looks like Cameron. But do you know who it’s a really big day for? Scotland and Britain. The voters will decide.

This is an issue that is far, far above the British PM of the moment. It is a question of whether voters in Scotland will bring to an end just about the greatest country in the history of the world — a country that has been of inestimable benefit to mankind.

Could the Scottish referendum have been better handled by Cameron? I’m sure that is true. But I have learned, over the years, to give the voters a little credit for volition. They have a say, too. After all, they’re the voters. Scottish people can actually know whether they want in or out.

To listen to some on the right, there are only two people in the whole of the U.K.: Cameron and his chancellor George Osborne. Fancy boys, from whom you could get cooties. But there are other people who determine what Britain is — common people, whose names you don’t know, who have the franchise.

Here in America, voters never vote for Democrats because they want to vote for Democrats. No, they are never wrong. They vote for Democrats — kind of accidentally — because the Republicans are idiots.

Mitt Romney, idiot. John McCain, idiot. Bob Dole, idiot. Bush 41, idiot.

Actually, they are not idiots. I don’t worship the people, and, in a democracy, the people have the right to be wrong.

Yes, it’s a big day in the U.K., and Cameron is almost the least of it. As he said last week, governments come and go. They are ephemera. Britain is a big deal.

There are lots of things that are true, pro-Cameron and anti-, I just thought that we could stand a post with a different emphasis. Back to our regular programming . . .