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Originally Posted by EyeballPaul

I honestly could'nt care less if Scotland goes independant or not along with evey other English person i know.It does seem strange that Scots would vote yes when Salmond can't even say what currency he would use if he did get a yes vote.Seems like the blind leading the blind as nobody actually knows what would happen to Scotland practically.

In my opinion though, seeing this as a "worry" stems from the complete misconception that we "know what will happen" to the UK as a whole over the next few years or decades. We don't, and frankly, from what we *do* know it isn't looking particularly good.

There's this idea that a vote for "no" means a vote for "everything staying the same 'cause it's fine"... when the reality is, the country (UK as it is, Scotland, England / rUK, whichever) is headed towards some massive changes no matter what.

My own opinion is that the current apparent improvements / stability of the UK economy hinge almost entirely on an illusion surrounding a London-based economic bubble (things everywhere else are still **** and getting worse, but the figures are skewed by the city) and that bubble will, INEVITABLY, burst within the next decade. When that happens, the economic "immune system" will inevitably react by siphoning any and all available liquid assets south and towards London.

Currently, independence is the only option available to protect Scotland from bearing the absolute worst of that effect.

I'm under no illusions that things won't be tough in an indy Scotland, for a few years or maybe even decades. I just happen to believe that far from being "safer" to stick with the Union to avoid that... it would actually be far worse.