The Yes Vote for Scotland..

[turk]

australia seems to be doing ok since gaining independence from UK.
most of other countries too. no reasons to suggest scotland would be different.

what's interesting is that whenever someone tries to get independence the whole world around them tries to make it harder for them and scare them with things like "oh but you'll have to reapply to EU" or do this or do that, instead of saying we recognise your decision and will work with you to make transition as painless as possible.

Yey, Georgia and Ukraine spring to mind.

 

[Strannik]

did they gain independence from UK too?
learn something new every day

 

[Chomp]

The fact that England are doing their best to persuade the Scots to vote no speaks volumes to me. If Scotland were such a drain to them then they would let them go, no problem.

But as per usual the public are never shown exactly what is going on behind the scenes and will never vote with the knowledge they should have.

I think Russell Brand says it best.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7VNQih51T0

 

[jim1964]

http://news.sky.com/story/1338424/scotland-votes-no-to-independence

 

[devank]

Can the remaining UK have the Veto power if Scotland goes separately?
I would stay together just for that benefit

 

[MTR]

The fact that England are doing their best to persuade the Scots to vote no speaks volumes to me. If Scotland were such a drain to them then they would let them go, no problem.

But as per usual the public are never shown exactly what is going on behind the scenes and will never vote with the knowledge they should have.

I think Russell Brand says it best.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7VNQih51T0

I really enjoyed that

 

[Blacky]

The No vote looks like it has got the win by about a swing margin of +/-5% (55/45).

Not a bad thing in my opinion. Returns some stability, and happily for me the Aud/GBP bounced by about 3c.

In this case I just don't think that the 'yes' side had all of the answers they needed to have. i.e. - what will our currency be, will we be a member of the EU, etc etc etc. It was this uncertainty that cost them the vote, as the 'undecided' vote would always lean to the known stability, rather than the unknown risk.

In many ways though its still a big win for the Yes vote, as it shows nearly half the population are ready to split. They just need to iron out a few more kinks.

Right, that ones done, time to move on.

Blacky

 

[turk]

did they gain independence from UK too?
learn something new every day

Scotland voted not to leave the U.K.

Good that they could make their choice at the ballot box rather than at the end of a gun.

 

[Strannik]

yup, good that they didn't have to take up arms to be allowed to hold a ballot

 

[devank]

yup, good that they didn't have to take up arms to be allowed to hold a ballot

I wish same applies to all other nations!

 

[Strannik]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUR-HgAtwtg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8Mc01RuuO0

 

[Perp]