Follow the action here: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/scottish-independence Opinions? Yes? No? Don't care?
Very interested in the outcome, purely from a perspective of staying up to date on politics and economics, and such, but no specific strong feeling either way about "what it should be". It'll be interesting either way.
The damage has already been done regardless of the outcome. Polls show this'll be stupidly close to a 50/50 split, so even if they vote no, the question won't go away until they finally do separate. I've always found the Scottish Independence movement a tad amusing, because of the fact it was actually the Scots who took over England, not the other way around.
I live in Quebec and we're more apesh*t about it than the freaking Scottish, so I can't ignore this. Honestly, I don't know enough about Scotland's economic situation to know how good or bad an idea this is, so I have no real opinion on the matter. But I do know that if Scotland separates the separatists here in Quebec will start getting ideas again, so I hope Scotland doesn't separate for that reason.
My uncle just married a Scottish women (now in america) , her family came over for the wedding. I think they assumed I was republican, and we're telling me how not to let the government boss me around, they really seemed to hate the British parlament! Personally I can sort of relate, banning porn like lul wut?
NOPE. (I did my post vote like a week ago and a bunch of people I know have become total @ssholes over their views. I'm glad the whole sh*t is over tomorrow) THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO WAY THAT IS TRUE.
I'm not exactly the most informed person, so can one of you guys sum up why Scotland even wants to secede? Unless they want some sort of significant political freedoms I don't see the point. Like if they wanted to establish a theocratic state or they were being used as a tax sponge.
What an anti-climactic ending to something that was hyped up over the past 2 years! @kvalheim I find the easiest way to express your opinion on matters like this is a simple: do not. People will judge your worth on your opinion alone.
Actually I think this result will result in perhaps even larger changes to UK as a whole than a Yes. If Westminster sticks to the commitment for further devolution, which they must, it'll have huge knock-on effects for rest of the countries within the UK incl. England. Scotland will be just be too far out of sync, Wales and N. Ireland will want a bigger slice, and England will no longer be able to tolerate Scottish MPs voting on their legislation given the reverse is no longer true. We could eventually see the UK becoming something closer to a Federation.
IMO, with the powers granted to Scotland, Wales and NI, something similar for England has been long overdue.
Welp, it was No. I don't know how anyone was able to stay up all night and watch the counting and post constantly on Facebook, I had massive insomnia and was torturing myself trying to sleep. I get baited easily >.>
Id be much happier with equal standing to my Nothern Irish, Welsh, Scottish and overseas brothers. That, or id love to live in a Indie Scotland. But yeah, im not a fan of getting outvoted in England any more then Scotland is.
