States like Spain and Belgium, even Italy, will give an independent Scotland a hell if it tries to get into the EU, these states, like all states, consider the people living in given regions to be their property and thus will not allow Flanders, Venice or Katalonia falling away. Cooperating with scotland would mean a precedence and invitation that these governments at all costs will avoid.
And the Scots? On voti8ng day they will vote not by heart but the money they count in their wallets. I would encourage a Yay, but I expect to see a Nay as the final outcome. A close result, nevertheless a Nay.
Cameron has pormised concessions in recent days. These are demands by the Scots that during negotiating the referendum Cameron has strictly opposed and strictly refused to ever accept. If the Scots vote Nay, he will try to weasel out of the concessions he just promised, no doubt. And he will probably be successful.
To no longer being attached to an economy that has the paper money sector as its biggest "economic"
factor, has its charms when considering the very likely scenario of the paper money sooner or later blowing up. They should go without Pound or Euro. But having voted Nay in the referendum, and possibly even getting betrayed for the concessions Cameron promised, possibly Scots will regret that they did not voted Yay while they had a chance. After this close race now, Westminster will dance with all devils in hell to make sure there will never be a referendum allowed again.
Imagine a world with no states and politicians, where neighbouring counties and small local regions directly and freely cooperate on things of shared interest, infrastructure for example, and where trading stuff also gets directly negotiated between neighbouring small communities, without any political gangsters in a distant city interfering.
The profanity of shortsighted monetarian interest will not allow this chance to be tried.
And even if the Scots would vote Yes - they tehn would be confronted with the poltical parasites ruling their new nation with the same to be expected symptoms of degeneration and abuse setting in sooner or later. Probably sooner, since the Scots do not plan to abandon the paper money system alltogether.
In principle, nothing has changed since the medieval. people still get owned and possessed by a caste of dominating "elites". People still beleive that one group of people can give freedom to another group of people, or could withhold that freedom.
And when people allow getting owned and believe the above - do they even deserve freedom?
Simple answer: No.