Question [poll] about independence for the Scots

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I look at the big items in the news every day. I seem to have developed an overwhelming interest in The Royal Pregnancy and TV baking programmes.

 

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[QUOTE 3272806, member: 259"]The Mail Online remembers your preferences? [/QUOTE]
shoot!!!!!! I've been rumbled!

 

[Accy cyclist]

Surely "staunch Scottish nationalist" Sir Sean Connery should've been allowed a honourable postal vote,as he couldn't make it to the polling station from his tax exile Bahamas mansion(!)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-170808/Im-true-Scot-says-Connery.html

 

[Platinum]

I'm voting yes. I'd crawl over broken glass to vote yes.





While it's been a mixture of both hilarious and annoying beyond belief watching the last few days of westminster politicians running around like heidless chickens - how nice it would be to have a country where our leaders weren't flown in for emergencies, but were here all the time...

 

[User6179]

View: http://youtu.be/DiMXuEmqAHA

 

[Drago]

You don't get a vote by being on holiday on Skye. "Resident" for election purposes means that you live there, which makes decisions regarding the country more important for you than for an absentee landlord in England with a vague sense of attachment to his second home. I'm afraid people with two homes are wealthy by definition, sun or no sun. Hopefully the new independent Scotland will tax second-home owners out of existence so that there's somewhere left for the locals to live.

If that's the case, why am still charged tax on my house, which is a lot more than many resident Scots actually do. Seems they're quite happy to take my money.

And under Salmonds plans I'll be eligible for citizenship, so the whole matter is utterly inconsistent. It's not a vague attachment to a second home It's my blooming house! The only one I own. Your smug drawbridge up attitude is demeaning to your own countrymen.

And it's Shetland. You don't know where your islands are, but feel qualified to lecture me on who is fit to cast a vote?

 

[John the Canuck]

born in Wales
educated in London
became a Canadian citizen
living in Scotland

so i get to vote .....................weird really......................

 

[User6179]

[QUOTE 3276109, member: 259"]It's not weird, it's quite sensible.[/QUOTE]

Not if he is only here for a year to work and then heading back Canada !

 

[CopperBrompton]

I have to confess to a sneaking desire to see the Yes vote win purely for the entertainment value of watching Salmond try to deliver on his absurd promises.

 

[John the Canuck]

Not if he is only here for a year to work and then heading back Canada !

i see/understand your point

but how about Tam - born in Glasgow, parents still alive in Glasgow
works in London - canna vote

just seems wrong to me - it's HIS country

PS ...20years here BTW,

 

[User6179]

i see/understand your point

but how about Tam - born in Glasgow, parents still alive in Glasgow
works in London - canna vote

just seems wrong to me - it's HIS country

PS ...20years here BTW,

Aye pare Tam should have a vote !

 

[John the Canuck]

I have to confess to a sneaking desire to see the Yes vote win purely for the entertainment value of watching Salmond try to deliver on his absurd promises.

The Telegraph -- 3hours ago
''..............The No campaign is now on 54 per cent, ahead of Alex Salmond’s separatist movement, which is on 46 per cent, according to the poll by Survation.....''
''...............The latest survey predicts that turnout in the referendum will be 93 per cent. It found that 9 per cent of the electorate are still undecided.....''

54/46 is FAR TOO CLOSE
yes Eddy - i have voted already - by post..................

 

[classic33]

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6vDzf-wSbk

 

[MacB]

i thought 300 hundred years ago or so the Scots joined into a union because they needed the support of England to keep them from going broke . it is intresting that they remember all the fights they lost against us but forget all the good they have got from us . i do hope that if they do leave that the rest of the uk will put a ban on them coming back in .

I thought 300 years ago a few people made a decision and now it's everyone with a vote

 

[classic33]

Not quite everyone. Those that have a share in the financial future don't all get a vote.