Scottish independence - The Official Atlas Forum mock referendum

[pendragon]

Yes.  Besides my decentralist bias, an independent Scotland would make rUK politics considerably more sensible (it might help to desectarianize Northern Ireland politics as well), while Scotland itself would instantly run out of other people's money upon independence, forcing them to move towards a productivity-based economy (or possibly a speculation-based economy, a la pre-financial crisis Ireland or Iceland, but even that would be an improvement over the current subsidization and transfer-payments-based economy, with some resource extraction and speculation).  There would be some growing pains, but it would be, in the end, the best thing to happen to Scotland since the Industrial Revolution.

[pendragon]

I'm actually rather neutral on Scottish Independence, I've never been there, never plan to and I don't think I've ever actually met a Scot. If I had a say in the referendum I would vote no, but I wouldn't weep if Scotland did leave the Union.

You've never met a Scot?  I've met several, and I'm not even British...