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BORIS Johnson has a plan to save the Union, and it may come as a huge relief to all the Scots who are sick and tired of having policy dictated to them from London.

Instead, Johnson is planning to dictate policy from Edinburgh. 

In a move that may see the UK Cabinet meet in the recently completed Queen Elizabeth House by Waverley station, Johnson has created a "special meeting room ... due open this autumn", The Times reported.

READ MORE: Some Scottish locations that might suit PM's taste for adventure

However, the unveiling of the "seven-storey, 190,000 square feet, ultra-modern office space" yesterday didn't quite go as planned.

Michael Russell wrote: "I can’t remember where I read that as empires crumble, symbol and show always replace substance.

"Anyway it was proved today by this grandiose posed display in Edinburgh by a somewhat gender unbalanced 'UK’s men in Scotland' team outside their very expensive new premises."

Other Scots took to Twitter to ask some pressing questions, like who on earth are those two guys behind Scottish Secretary Alister Jack?

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That question, fortunately, is easy enough to answer. On the right is David Duguid, the MP for Banff and Buchan, and the other is Iain Stewart, the MP for ... Milton Keynes South.

What an MP for a constituency almost 400 miles from the Scottish capital is doing there won't be a mystery to anyone who remembers Douglas Ross's resignation after the Dominic Cummings scandal, though that does seem a long time ago now.

READ MORE: Boris Johnson appoints Milton Keynes MP as new Scotland Office Minister

But there were other pressing questions which Scots wanted to see answered. A key one was: What's going to happen to the building after independence?

As one Twitter user noted: "The furniture in the board room [below] looks cheap. They don't seem to be investing in a long stay."

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Indylive's Fiona McGregor asked: "Will make a nice embassy, maybe?"

"Let’s just call it the English embassy? That’s what it is after all right," one user wrote.

"I guess they are going to need an Embassy or a Consulate..." another added.

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Thinking more of the here-and-now, some Scots were happy to have a new place for independence marches to congregate.

"England's Colonial HQ in Scotland? Anyway, good meeting point for any future protests," one Ron Dickinson wrote.

"Think that venue may become an interesting focal point for a wee public gathering or two in the very near future," a Graham Laurie added.

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Common Weal's Craig Dalzell was less optimistic, writing: "Worth saying that, as @FerretScot reported last month, UKGov has handed £millions to a tax haven firm as part of the lease on this building."

The Ferret reported that the government had procured a 25-year pre-let agreement of the building with the subsidiary of a company registered offshore.

The comparisons to colonialism were also rife, with one Scot writing: "They’re doing what the British Empire did in the 19th C. Erecting edifices to show colonial power. To show the natives just who held real power. No change there!

"Maybe when Scotland rejects colonial power we can repurpose the building as a cultural centre?"

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Another added: "Indeed. The last days of colonial rule."

With any luck Westminster won't be needing even 10% of that 25-year lease...