Very often things happening in another country over which we have no control can have a very profound effect on people in the UK. For a start Scotland contributes 8.2% in taxes to the UK so if there is a Yes vote that shortfall has to made up from somewhere, primarily the English taxpayer which includes you. There is also lost revenue from oil and a host of other industries. The Labour Party has I think about forty MPs in Scotland so if they are lost the political landscape in England will change. So if you think the vote is not going to have any effect on you, you need to reconsider.
Indeed, I'm wondering how they'll draw it out on TV, will they open each vote separately and then have a swingometer based on how East Kilmarnock High St voted?
As I have no say in what happens, I'd like there to have been a lot more talk from the government that would be left representing me about what happens next. I game with a friend who works in border control in Essex, they have no idea what the intention is for border control between England and Scotland (Not to stop Scots, to stop anyone who can easily get in to Scotland and then south). And that's just one example of a huge number of things that are going to be effected if there is a split. I'd be much happier if the politicians had accepted that it's up to the Scots to vote, and then spent time making it clear what the situation post split would be.
Salmond won't be pretending he's not to blame, he'll be doing what every politician does, and blaming someone else, still the English like a broken record I imagine. I agree with the post further up though, while I'm not sure it'll work well for either country if it goes 'yes', if it goes 'no' I bloody well hope there's an agreement to not just start the next campaign the day after counting, I think everyone could do with it going on the back burner for a while.
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