aLEX Salmond last night showed his determination to take on the UK Government when he launched a blistering attack on David Cameron and declared that the respect agenda between London and Edinburgh was now "dead".  The SNP leader claimed that the Prime Minister did not understand Scotland and signalled that any Westminster-based attempt to take over the independence referendum would be fiercely resisted.  In his keynote speech to the party faithful at the SNP conference, Salmond said that "no London politician" would "determine the future of the Scottish nation".  "The Prime Minister should hear this loud and clear," Salmond said. "The people of Scotland - the sovereign people of Scotland - are now in the driving seat. The days of Westminster politicians telling Scotland what to do or what to think are over. The Scottish people will set the agenda for the future."  Salmond claimed that the promise made by Cameron when he came to power to set an "agenda of respect" that would see Westminster and the Scottish Parliament work in partnership was now meaningless.  as he did so, he also ridiculed the UK Government's Scotland Bill that was intended to give the Scottish Parliament more teeth.  "The UK Government haven't even gone through the motions of considering the views of the Scottish Government. The respect agenda lies dead in their throats."  George Osborne, Nick Clegg and Danny alexander were also singled out by the First Minister as he attacked the UK Coalition's attempts to wrestle with the independence issue. "They have formed a Cabinet sub-committee to attack Scottish independence," Salmond said.  "Let's get this right. Cameron, Clegg, Osborne and alexander sit in a committee working out how to do down Scotland and they engage in this while the European monetary system teeters on the brink of collapse, while the jobless total in England is at a 20-year high and inflation more than double its target.  "Th