Will Scotland Benifit?

[TWR]

Should they go it alone?

[BRIGHT SPARK]

I spend a week each month in Scotland and find the general opinion of 30-50 year olds very much in favour of a no vote.Most are of the opinion that the grass is not greener.

[mikey4444]

I personally think they are sleepwalking to disaster. Salmond has been given oodles of opportunity to answer really important questions, not least of which are financial, and he has failed to come up with the goods. All of the UK will be affected by this vote and people should be making informed choices, not just using the referendum as a way of giving the English in general, and the Tories in particular a bloody nose. This is not a cross-border footbal match !

Without these important questions being answered fully, how can they make this potentially disastrous decision ?

[Peter Pedant]

well the advantage is that if it all goes t+ts up, the scots can ring up London and say 'Plan A didnt work, can we re-unite' and it is unlikely that London will say no...

[BRIGHT SPARK]

mick....most coherent residents agree..however there is a lot of rubbish used to brainwash younger people.

[mazie]

snap Bright Spark, so do I. I stay in Leith/ Newhaven... Everyone in our local pubs here are all voting Yes, and have no qualms telling you that. I really wouldn't like to call it at this stage

[jno]

the polls generally show the older Scots are, the more they favour staying in.

[steg]

I live in Scotland all the time most 30 to 50 year olds (the group I am in) that I know are voting yes

[mazie]

|I just visit my Kids steg, both in Edinburgh. I'm not sure how I feel about the Yes vote, for me it's rather sentimental... I'll miss you lot x

(how's the grandchildren?)

[steg]

To me any way, benefitting or not is irrelevant Scotland is a country and should govern her own affairs

[BRIGHT SPARK]

Are all you yes camp looking forward to higher taxes?

[steg]

Grand kids are doing brilliant mazie thanks

[steg]

Higher ,lower I don't care whatever it takes , I wouldn't sell my country or my freedom for all the gold in the world

[mazie]

Excellent steg... eldest must be 3 or 4 now? Are you still spoiling them rotten :o)

[granny grump]

Grandad G is getting very hot under the collar because he sees politicians promising the earth to get the Scots to stay - Bribing in fact - should they be doing this?Scotland will probably then end up better off than us if they stay.

I don't know

[BRIGHT SPARK]

granny....they seem better of than most of England now!

[granny grump]

I know bright spark and if they get everything they are promised to stay we will be even worse off

[steg]

Oh aye mazie I do, oldest was 4 couple weeks back. They make me smile

[BRIGHT SPARK]

Yes but will they do anything about the midges around our loch?

[wolf63]

I have to admit that I usually suffer from apathy when it comes to politics. No party is all bad - they all have some good ideas. We, as the voters, just want too much - a zillion pounds worth of services but with us only paying a much lower sum. It will never work.

Immigration is another matter altogether - I would hate to see it get to the stage that we close our borders to people who genuinely need asylum so that we can prevent all the spongers coming in to rob our benefits system.

Maybe when the country is in a better state Scotland may be in a better position to offer its citizens the freedom that they want. I, personally, think that Scots have an identity - we are four different countries with much to offer each other.

I hope that the NO voters win, then the bitching and name calling here and in the media can stop. We can get back to normal and try and do something about all the bad stuff happening all over the planet.

W☺lf