Scottish Independence

[Josquius]

Interesting article.
Its funny but just this morning as I walked to work I was musing about the similarities between the yes people and a religion. They just blindly believe in this ideal world that will result if yes wins with no evidence to go on. Everything that contradicts their view can only be utterly wrong.
Reading this article...I may even go further than my earlier thoughts on yessirs being a religion, its more akin to a cult really, all sounds rather scientologyesque.

http://wakeupscotland.wordpress.com/2014/09/15/ewan-morrison-yes-why-i-joined-yes-and-why-i-changed-to-no/comment-page-1/#comment-230

[derspiess]

Le cœur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît pas.

[Barrister]

According to the latest Scottish poll of Poles the race is a dead heat.

http://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/top-stories/scottish-independence-poll-of-poles-a-dead-heat-1-3542705

[Admiral Yi]

That's clever. 

[DGuller]

I bet the Brits regret plowing all their diplomatic points into naval improvements, and not saving some for cultural conversions.

[Martim Silva]

According to the latest Scottish poll of Poles the race is a dead heat.

http://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/top-stories/scottish-independence-poll-of-poles-a-dead-heat-1-3542705

Our press also talked to some Portuguese expats there (Luiz Moutinho, of the Adam Smith Business School of the University of Glasgow; Luís Gomes, professor of Hispanic Studies also at the University of Glasgow, and freelancer Cultural Manager Isabel Moura Mendes  [Current Festival & Events Manager at Afropolitan Arts in Edinburgh]).

The two (white male) professors will vote 'yes'. The (black woman) manager will vote 'no'.



That said, all resent London late meddling in the affair, and think it only made things worse, creating a divide in Scottish society that will take a long time to heal.

[Zoupa]

I'm predicting a No victory 55/45.

The 2nd one in 8-10 years will go through. Vive l'Ecosse Libre! 

[Grallon]

I predict the results will be very similar to ours in '95 - 48-52 or 49-51 for the NO.  And then then the Scots will learn the price they have to pay for being overly cautious.



G.

[OttoVonBismarck]

I've not observed any intelligence on a national level in the UK in about 25 years, and Scotland is worse than the whole, so I predict Yes wins and when the next great economic crisis roils Scotland into near oblivion London bails Scotland out with no strings attached, fully erasing all glory and honor England once held as it becomes the international bitch to a country 1/10th its population.

[Valmy]

That said, all resent London late meddling in the affair, and think it only made things worse, creating a divide in Scottish society that will take a long time to heal.

London's actions in this last couple days created a divided Scotland that will take a long time to heal?  What the hell did they do?

[Gups]

That said, all resent London late meddling in the affair, and think it only made things worse, creating a divide in Scottish society that will take a long time to heal.

London's actions in this last couple days created a divided Scotland that will take a long time to heal?  What the hell did they do?

London (Clegg, Sheffield; Milliband, Doncaster, Cameron, Cotswolds) had the temerity to campaign for the Union. IN fact, the divide in Scottish society is created by vociferous and unplesant campaigning by the Scots. They needed no help from outsiders.

[Warspite]

Once up on a time, nationalist movements demanded sacrifice. It is interesting that Salmondonian nationalism promises a unique blend of the comfort of the status quo and the sunlit uplands of independence.

Having overpromised, the SNP and the Yes crowd are going to be in for a rude shock when they find that they have precisely the leverage their share of the UK's population suggests: less than 1:9. How Salmond thinks he is going to dictate terms to the rUK, NATO and the EU, as he does, is going to spectacularly unravel.

[Grey Fox]

Once up on a time, nationalist movements demanded sacrifice. It is interesting that Salmondonian nationalism promises a unique blend of the comfort of the status quo and the sunlit uplands of independence.

Having overpromised, the SNP and the Yes crowd are going to be in for a rude shock when they find that they have precisely the leverage their share of the UK's population suggests: less than 1:9. How Salmond thinks he is going to dictate terms to the rUK, NATO and the EU, as he does, is going to spectacularly unravel.

Because he has something that they want/need.

[The Brain]

That said, all resent London late meddling in the affair, and think it only made things worse, creating a divide in Scottish society that will take a long time to heal.

London's actions in this last couple days created a divided Scotland that will take a long time to heal?  What the hell did they do?

Limited nuclear strike.

[Legbiter]

Note to the No Campaign, technocratic arguments about the merits of the UK sound irritating, even to sympathizers.