Scottish 'yes' Vote In The Lead!

[Zacs-Master]

Well, according to those most revered pollsters YouGov.
http://yougov.co.uk/news/2014/09/06/latest-scottish-referendum-poll-yes-lead/

[jno]

mikey, why do you assume that people are uninformed? The matter seems to be under debate in every pub in the land, not to mention on TV, in chatrooms like this one and so on.

It isn't necessarily the case that every opinion that disagrees with your own is founded on ignorance.

[mushroom25]

TCL, that publication is little more than party political propaganda. Unless I've completely missed the point, the vote in 2 weeks is a straight yes or no for independence - NOT for alex salmond or his party. there has to be an election for a new government once independence has been decided upon; it is unbelievably arrogant of mr salmond to expect the result to be a done deal. how can that document of his (and it is his, it's his party that dominates the current parliament) bear any resemblance to what independence will actually look like?

[THECORBYLOON]

MUSHROOM, the vote is not for any individual man or party but there has to be a plan as to the future of Scotland in the event of a yes vote and since the three other UK parties are against independence, what else do you want?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2746369/We-ll-guards-Scottish-border-Ed-Miliband-reveals-incendiary-plan-new-poll-reveals-vote-knife-edge.html

[Quizmonster]

Cheers, ZM, we've all done it!

[steg]

It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.’
Alba gu brath

[anneasquith]

the yes vote in the lead at the moment, no thanks to our of our Scottish international footballers from the past ( sorry don't have a link )

[New Judge]

All the issues you mention, Mikey, will be resolved by government of the RUK (the Rump of the UK) capitulating to every demand from the newly "independent" Scots for "transitional funding and other arrangements". Effectively Scotland will remain a drain on the RUK for many, many years to come. But of course they will retain 100% ownership of the only UK asset they seem not prepared to share - North Sea oil and gas.

The analogy with cancelling a gym membership is not, therefore, entirely appropriate. What would be more apt is to compare Scottish independence with ceasing to pay gym membership subscriptions whilst being allowed to continue to use the facilities for some time. Then the remainder of the members might have something to say, but no such privilege will be afforded to the citizens of RUK.

I said last wekk that I would not be drawn into further questions on this farcical proposal, but I just cannot help myself !!

[maggiebee]

Mikey - sorry to single you out, but have to reply to your comment

//I am not really aware of the legal details of this vote. Does it bind everybody ? ....I mean to say that if the vote is 51% YES and 49% NO, its hardly a ringing endorsement to break up the UK is it//

Funnily, there is only 1 Conservative MP in Scotland yet we are ruled by Westminster. You've answered your own question. Yes, the vote binds everybody just as it does at the moment whether we like it or not.

[Zacs-Master]

Exactly maggie. I've no idea why some people find the idea of a democratic bite so hard to understand.

[Zacs-Master]

Vote. Not 'bite'.

[BRIGHT SPARK]

If its a yes vote ...what will the average scot have tomorrow that they dont have today?

[anneasquith]

david Cameron.

[THECORBYLOON]

More control over their own future.

[BRIGHT SPARK]

CORBY.....do you mean like the stroppy teenager leaving home?...ann...have you got that the wrong way round?

[steg]

Or a sensible young adult that just wants to live his life without mummy and daddy

[New Judge]

Yes, who moves out whilst he still knows better than everybody else, who quickly finds that life on his own is not so rosy after all and who returns soon after (in this case, hopefully to find that his parents have moved out and not left a forwarding address).

[steg]

Or makes a complete success of things and has a braw future ahead

[Jomlett]

Scots, What the Heck? http://nyti.ms/1qGafqn

[steg]

The only similarities Scotland has with Spain is they both start with a capital s