Scottish Independence referendum, 2014

[Phony Moderate]

Only two weeks until the vote, and this poll will run until then.

I'd have no choice but to vote Yes if I were a Scot.

[politicus]

Yes without hesitation.

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

Nobody's business but the Scot's.

I would like the Union to remain, if only to prevent the race to the bottom that is Salmond's economic plan.

[Wake Me Up When The Hard Border Ends]

While I believe that this is an issue for the Scots to decide, and as a non-Scot, it's hard for me to imagine how I would vote in such a referendum, as I've discussed on this forum before:

• The states rights' and national rights activist in me would want to vote Yes.
• The British unionist in me, however, would want to vote No.

This being said, a hypothetical Scottish Anton Kreitzer would vote No, as he'd want to preserve the Union.

[Antonio the Sixth]

I don't know enough about the possible consequences of independence to have an opinion, and even then it obviously is up to the Scots to make that decision. Secession would be kinda cool though.

[Oakvale]

I would obviously vote Yes if I were Scottish, although the proposed independence plan doesn't go nearly far enough as regards guillotining the royal family, etc.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Yes without hesitation.

[H. Ross Peron]

Absolutely not. Long live Britain!

[Oakvale]

Absolutely not. Long live Britain!

[TNF]

I would obviously vote Yes if I were Scottish, although the proposed independence plan doesn't go nearly far enough as regards guillotining the royal family, etc.

This, so much this.

Absolutely not. Long live Britain!

>2014
>literally a citizen of a country that fought for its freedom from British tyranny
>'Long live Britain!'

[Tender Branson]

I'm really undecided, even after reading all the stuff with pro's and con's about it on the "Economist", which I subscribed recently for a year.

I'm currently leaning probably very slightly in favour of staying in, but the prospect of an independent Scotland would be intriguing.

I'd probably throw a dice in the election booth ...

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

I would obviously vote Yes if I were Scottish, although the proposed independence plan doesn't go nearly far enough as regards guillotining the royal family, etc.

[SWE]

I would obviously vote Yes if I were Scottish, although the proposed independence plan doesn't go nearly far enough as regards guillotining the royal family, etc.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

I would obviously vote Yes if I were Scottish, although the proposed independence plan doesn't go nearly far enough as regards guillotining the royal family, etc.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Nay. F(inks) nationalism.

[Obama-Biden Democrat]

Don't let petty bourgeois nationalism break up Great Britain.

[AkSaber]

What would happen to the Pound Sterling, should this referendum pass? I'd imagine the Scots would have to use that currency until they could get their own going.

And would Scotland be a NATO member, or would they opt to go toward military-neutrality?

[Phony Moderate]

Don't let petty bourgeois nationalism break up Great Britain.

No, let common sense break it up instead.

[traininthedistance]

No, because I don't want to doom England to eternal Tory majorities.

(Yes I know that "eternal" is hyperbole and things may change someday.  The fact remains that Scottish independence would be a right-wing gerrymander more than anything else.)

[Simfan34]

Of course not.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

No, because I don't want to doom England to eternal Tory majorities.

(Yes I know that "eternal" is hyperbole and things may change someday.  The fact remains that Scottish independence would be a right-wing gerrymander more than anything else.)

That is one of the three main reasons I support Scottish independence .

[IceSpear]

No

[nolesfan2011]

Yes I do, Scotland would do better alone, it's a more progressive country than downstate UK as a whole. The yes arguments are much more progressive than the nationalist "god save the queen" types

[dead0man]

Likely would vote yes, though it probably wouldn't be good for either Scotland or (and to a lesser extent) the UK.

[Tetro Kornbluth]

http://kenmacleod.blogspot.nl/2014/06/an-argument-against-scottish.html

I don't totally agree with the argument here, but I have great sympathy towards it. I just don't 'get' Scottish nationalism I'm afraid.