Scottish Independence

[nichola]

If you care and have an hour to spare then you may find this worth watching...

http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/aljazeeracorrespondent/2013/11/scotland-brave-201311157143845856.html

[GordonA]

I didn't click the link Nichola, waste of time, as an extremely patriotic and proud Scotsman, it will not happen.

[Jacqui Harvey]

Strange isn't it? As a Scotsman living in England you will not get the vote. However, we two, an Englishwoman and an Irishman living in Scotland, we will get the vote..

[Scunner]

And another English/Irish combination here with two votes  

Has anyone seen any polls on the likely outcome? From the people I know it is a scientific 0% For 100% against. Seems like Salmond is playing some ultimate fairy tale fantasy game, where succeeding is impossible.

[echogirl1]

It seems to me, an ignorant Englishwoman, that the only people to gain from an independent Scotland are the SNP who will have a bigger voice in the politics of the United Kingdom, united we stand, divided we most definitely fall!!

[Highlander]

One of the latest polls say No's have a 9% lead with 15 % undecided

Alex Salmond may already be dead in the water because not enough people trust him and the more he continues to steadfastly refuse to give specific answers to specific questions he worse off he will be.

Unless he can categorically convince enough people that they will be better off then he will be dead in the water.

[Scunner]

As was said today in the Scottish Parliament - he gives off the impression of someone who will offer and promise anything to get independence.

Should he get it, I doubt many trust him to keep those nice things in place for long.

[Jacqui Harvey]

After meetings with him when he was our local M.P.  Meetings on different matters,  I  can confirm, he promised help and did absolutely nothing.  He is a total waste of space who is only interested in Alex Salmond.  I have yet to meet anyone local to me who has a good word for him.  All the years he was local M.P. the only thing he did was buy himself a lovely big old mill in it's own grounds, so he could have a local second home.

[Highlander]

The really dangerous thing is that he is a very skilful politician. if it were not for him I doubt we would be even discussing the matter.

He says that he will save £ 100's of million pounds be getting rid of Trident from Scotland. That's probably true. But what he doesn't tell us is how much our share of relocating it will be or how many jobs, direct and indirect, he will have destroyed.

He says we will keep the pound sterling. But that's not our call. What will he do if George Osborne says No thanks and sends us homeward to think again.

Etc. etc. etc.......................

[Highlander]

Strange isn't it? As a Scotsman living in England you will not get the vote. However, we two, an Englishwoman and an Irishman living in Scotland, we will get the vote..

Yes it is Jacqui. And the absolute last thing I want is for "celebrity Scots" who have set up home in the wonderful USofA and who haven't paid taxes in this country for years, coming back buying a sh*t-hole of a flat in Glasgow and registering so that they can get a vote.