The Conservative Party in Great Britain has traditionally offered a more exclusively unionist point of view regarding division of the fused kingdom along classical lines, yet with the upcoming Scottish Independence referendum of 2014, they may stand to gain considerably should an affirmative vote win the day.
Because the unionist viewpoint is unpopular in Scotland, the number of MPs apportioned to the Conservatives by Scottish voters has never been particularly high, and Labour's massive majorities from 1997-2010 included a wellspring of electoral affirmation from Scots. Tony Blair's initial election showed the highest number, with 56 of the 178-seat majority carrying the rose's emblem. Labour currently holds 41 of the 59 seats in Scotland, whilst the Conservatives command no more than one, so independence would shrink the Labour ranks considerably, allowing David Cameron a better shot at a strictly right-wing government.
Should the Liberal Democrats be plagued in 2015 by the massive electoral hit which some sources suggest is inevitable, Cameron could be looking at a far stronger 40-seat majority government without the leftist crutch that he endures with Clegg as deputy prime minister.
With the prime minister's insistence that he does not support division of the kingdom as a valuable ploy, the government could run a campaign on having fought for British togetherness, at the same time painting the unpopular Liberal Democrats and ideologically close Labour as sympathetic towards a broken union model.
If the referendum fails however, Cameron may still come out on top by appealing to Scots by devolving more powers while also projecting himself as the kingdom's watchful savior.
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