The Scottish Independence thread - Yay or Nay?

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by antikristuseke

Pfffft - imperial system.

They should better hold a vote on going metric.

[Egan]

BBC. As bad as they've been, I just can't watch STV.

Ach, i'm going to bed.

[Herr-Berbunch]

Sounding like a big fat NO.

Welcome back guys.

[magic452]

Looks like a NO vote.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/09...dum-837898067/

http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/19/world/...html?hpt=hp_t1

Magic

[Catfish]

I take it some just could not imagine an independent Scotland. Why change when it always has been that way.

Congrats to Cameron
Good luck with your economy, and leaving the EU with Ukip

[Oberon]

Well, now they need to keep pushing at Westminster in order to get the promises they made delivered, or take another referendum a year or two down the line which will go a completely different way if the Westminster gang don't live up to their promises.
Cameron has said that the Draft Laws on more powers will be published in January...we'll see...

EDIT: Also, bloody fantastic turnout, well done to all Scots, I doubt very much there would be such a turnout in England for anything other than perhaps the next X-factor winner...

[Catfish]

^ yep, respect to 85 percent voters

Wait and see what London does now. It was not an easy decision, and the Scots did not treat that lightly –


B.t.w. how is the idea of voting for independence 'managed' ? I mean, who or what states that a country is 'allowed' (w/o revolution ahem) to leave a union; is there a law that they can vote freely every xy years ?

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Aktungbby

It will be voted down;.... I suspect very strongly that there be insufficient .... to carry the motion.

[MGR1]

Good result and a brilliant turnout overall - 84.59%.

Now it's up to England to decide on the type of devolution it wants as part of the United Kingdom.

Regional, or all England?

Over to you guys....!

Mike.

[Flamebatter90]

Good to see so many voted.

[Skybird]

Well, there you have it, now they need to live with it - even in the future, whatever the future may bring.

That's the tough part of it.

[Betonov]

Now that London has a brown line in it's underwear, negotiate some nice fat deals about that oil you have up north

Good choice though

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Betonov

Now that London has a brown line in it's underwear, negotiate some nice fat deals about that oil you have up north

Good choice though

Labour socialists will be the first who start trying to soften up their promises, with Tory socialists in a close second. The showdown is over, why now sticking to all your promises? Grass grows slowly, but it grows.

Also, any more rights given to Scotland will be an incentive for England, Wales, to get more special rights as well, even more so since Scotland has more such special privileges already than any other member of the UK.

I forsee that in the coming months and couple of years there will be many weasel races. In the final days of the emergency campaign launched by Cameron, he suddenly made promises that in the past, when negotiating the possibility of a referendum being held, he categorically had ruled out. He turned his neck once already, no reason to assume that he could not turn it once again.

After all they are all just politicians. Don't take them by their words.

But anyhow, that is UKlers issues exclusively, I only follow it with a tourist's curiousity for an exotic event...

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by GalaKev

As soon as Edinburgh declared I went to bed as it was obvious. I agree Westminster must deliver now or else I will vote Yes next time.

Bit of a sore head and a grumpy neighbour who was a Yes activist.

Both your neighbour and quite a few people across Europe I'd wager, lot of places abroad watching with interest, Friesland, Catalonia, probably Bavaria too.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Oberon

Well, now they need to keep pushing at Westminster in order to get the promises they made delivered, or take another referendum a year or two down the line which will go a completely different way if the Westminster gang don't live up to their promises.
Cameron has said that the Draft Laws on more powers will be published in January...we'll see...

EDIT: Also, bloody fantastic turnout, well done to all Scots, I doubt very much there would be such a turnout in England for anything other than perhaps the next X-factor winner...

Or the English referendum on whether Scotland maintains her current priviledges

Seriously though...a great turnout and one I hope doesn't divide Scotland.

Now Cameron must deliver but it won't be easy because I sense early signs of a revolt amongst his backbenchers.