Out of Pod Experience

All honesty i couldn't care less

To be fair, I find it difficult to take large groups of men in skirts seriously. Now just imagine how the UN member nations will react to a Scottish representative in a skirt.

Salmond and his clique may win. Everybody else will lose. There is no benefit from becoming yet another tiny self-important country.

Also, iv no idea who does these polls, as far as i know i only know of a handful of people that will vote no, everybody else is in the yes camp.

The message i keep on seeing from the broadcasters is that its a vote aganst england, when its a vote against westminster. As a person, alex salmond is a word that looks like knut , because of work iv met him a few times, and hes a grade a numpty.

the orange order are have a 15,000 man march in edinburgh on saturday, dont expect to see anything about that in normal media, the no camp want nothing to do with them, normal folk want nowt to do with them either.

We have witnessed one of the biggest propaganda campaines done by the bbc since the cold war, if not ww2

my view is that with what is proposed, all that is on offer is just a removal of an administrative layer between the EU parliament and implementation of EU rules and policies in Scotland. As Europe moves towards increasing integration, with national governments becoming less important and influential, then... Scotland does not and will not have many Euro MPs, the ability to influence things in the future, would be even less than it is currently.

I think that there is a great divide in Scottish society, and with the Pope having made statements, and the Orange order being involved, that these divisions have been re-opened, after a couple decades where they were being closed. I think this referendum debate has set back social progress quite a bit. As a result, whatever the outcome of the referendum is, I think there are going to be large numbers of people who are angry enough at the outcome, that they're going to do something stupid.

I think a yes result would be damaging, because it means giving up any and all influence over what the rUK would do - as an example when the yes campaign say there won't be any customs checks at the border, then that's not in their ability to guarantee - with the unwelcome appearance of handfuls of Scottish born militants in ISIS and the like, then there might be passport and customs checks introduced, and there'd be nothing the Scottish parliament could do about that. Or there'd be UK secret service people (not accountable to the Scottish parliament) watching Scotland's airports. A Scottish parliament doesn't get to complain if the rUK changes how university research is funded, or how the energy market works (subsidies for Scottish wind farms would be a touchy subject), or various other things relating to the huge amount of shared services and resources that the yes campaign promise would be unchanged.

I think a No result could be damaging, if there isn't a sustained campaign for democratic change - such as reforming the House of Lords to a proportionally representative body, that would keep in check the silliness that is the current system.

Also, you don't see many No voters who are open about it, because many yes campaigners are seemingly intent on doing their best to be undemocratic. Petty stuff such as vandalism of signs on private property, up to actual intimidation of people. A person here had a stone thrown through one of their windows, after putting up a no poster. Coincidence seems unlikely. Which goes back to the thing I said in my second point - whatever the result, there's going to be a lot of angry people, and I'm concerned some of them will do something stupid that will get people hurt or killed.


This time next week, we'll have a result, then maybe, we can learn to live with each other, because unlike the politicians, the celebrities, and the wealthy expatriate businessmen, we don't have the option of insulating ourselves.

The only nation supporting a yes vote is north korea...

Kinda says it all. Well that and the fact that a huge number of jobs will go and that you cannot afford to pay for what you have now if a yes vote happens.

More politicians to feed, bad idea.

The only thing that can ruin Scotland is them scots.

I got this from a good source (Groundskeeper Willie).

im from England ......does that make me a toff ? I don't want to see the union break up ...even though it will be better for us "English toffs" as you put it ...im just your average working class joe ..if Scotland goes im financialy better off ..but its their choice ..its up to them if they want to go


but if they go ..then they go