Will Scotland Benifit?

[TWR]

Should they go it alone?

[jeffa]

"we are four different countries"

Since when?

[wolf63]

I know nothing of history either - or geography.

Scotland + England + Wales + Northern Ireland + Great Britain
+
Eire = UK

Or am I supposed to be more specific ? It is chatterbank.

[steg]

"Yes but will they do anything about the midges around our loch?"
Who my grand kids? ;)

[wolf63]

The midges on the South Inch are dangerous. They used to get stuck in my chewing gum when out walking the hound.

[Ellipsis]

> I wouldn't sell my country or my freedom for all the gold in the world

I'm fed up of hearing the "patriotic" argument from unpatriotic Brits ...

If you start with the biased position that Scotland is your country and the UK isn't then the outcome of your vote is a foregone conclusion.

Objectively speaking, though, both are your country at present. Yet you seem happy for "your country", the UK, to be dismantled.

[jeffa]

Wolf, I assume you are joking. You can't in all seriousness believe that Eire is part of the UK!

[steg]

I cheered the mo guy on when he was at the Olympics I'll let you know lol

[steg]

As happy as most countries in the ussr when it split up, yes

[corylus]

What will happen to Salmond if they vote no?

[steg]

Why would anything happen to him?

[jeffa]

Perhaps he'll explode. Or grow an extra arm.

[steg]

I would think he and the SNP would carry on like before ,if that's what you mean

[mazie]

:o)

I hope it's not when I;m up in Edinburgh... could be a bit messy jeffa

[corylus]

Just wonder if he'll be replaced that's all.

[jeffa]

My money's still on explosion or polymella.

[steg]

Polly mella isn't she a Tory mp

[Ellipsis]

Comparing the UK to the USSR, steg? Wow, keep it up ... you (like many "Yes" supporters) are doing such a good job of managing the goodwill of your ex-compatriots that you're going to need if you are (in the words of the OP) to benefit after going it "alone".

I'm joking, of course. This is why I believe that Scotland can't benefit:

I can't see a Yes vote happening without the UK being denigrated even more than it already has been by Yes supporters. Should a Yes vote happen, I can't see any way that Scotland can benefit, and the rest of the UK not suffer (e.g. the sheer expense of "transition"; not to mention, today, the currency dropping and share prices dropping in Scottish institutions in which UK shareholders and pensioners have a stake). And, if the rest of the UK does suffer, I can't see it providing Scotland the support that Scotland will need in order to continue to benefit - which all makes the idea of Scotland benefiting a contradiction.

[wolf63]

jeffa

you learn something new every so often ............

[janbee]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO !!!!!!!