And that's no coincidence: the prospect of Scottish independence was seen as a grave threat to the United Kingdom by HMG; so, yes, they conducted information operations against it.
I am quite sure that seeing the results that the SNP got in the General Election, however, may give them pause for thought about how such things may backfire.
And yet, they still aren't learning their lesson - from either the indyref or GE2015. Early polling suggests that the SNP will probably take all or most the constituency seats in next year's Scottish Parliamentary elections, and probably a good chunk of the list seats, resulting in an even larger majority for the SNP (in a system designed to prevent this happening).
Meanwhile in the face of this the unionist press continue unabated with the same shreaking and yelling about how shit Scotland is and that "you've had your wee moment of fame" and we should "just shut up and dae whit yer telt". The debate over Full Fiscal Autonomy being the current example [0].
I am quite sure that seeing the results that the SNP got in the General Election, however, may give them pause for thought about how such things may backfire.