I think it will be a huge mistake for Scotland to vote yes. The electorate are by default feeling that independence would be the right thing. We all want and aspire to stand on our own two feet. It's our natural inclination to want to be "independent" it is our default position.
I hope that the average Scot can see past that and make a decision based on pure economics and not on some romantic ideal.
"the nation state is obsolete" so devolution for Wales ,Scotland and NI but the nation state that is to be split up into regions would be England then ? how that Labour hatred keeps peeping out.
Just been announced that Cameron is skipping PMQs to go campaigning in Scotland. Oh well that's another couple of percent for the yes campaign then.
Cameron, Clegg and Milliband are all going to Scotland tomorrow.
Someone's worked out that every time Ed Miliband crossed the border from South to North, the No vote has suffered in the polls.
Maybe someone needs to take him to one side and politely advise him that he's about as likeable as a brick that's been thrown through your window that has an overdue gas bill attached to it.
Just been announced that Cameron is skipping PMQs to go campaigning in Scotland. Oh well that's another couple of percent for the yes campaign then.
Cameron, Clegg and Milliband are all going to Scotland tomorrow.
Someone's worked out that every time Ed Miliband crossed the border from South to North, the No vote has suffered in the polls.
Maybe someone needs to take him to one side and politely advise him that he's about as likeable as a brick that's been thrown through your window that has an overdue gas bill attached to it.
I don't know. The sight of him trying to eat a square cut sausage sandwich could be just the boon that the No vote are looking for
Just been announced that Cameron is skipping PMQs to go campaigning in Scotland. Oh well that's another couple of percent for the yes campaign then.
Cameron, Clegg and Milliband are all going to Scotland tomorrow.
Someone's worked out that every time Ed Miliband crossed the border from South to North, the No vote has suffered in the polls.
Maybe someone needs to take him to one side and politely advise him that he's about as likeable as a brick that's been thrown through your window that has an overdue gas bill attached to it.
What, and you think the solution is to send David Cameron? A bloke less 'toxic' to the average Scot you'll struggle to find.
Just been announced that Cameron is skipping PMQs to go campaigning in Scotland. Oh well that's another couple of percent for the yes campaign then.
Cameron, Clegg and Milliband are all going to Scotland tomorrow.
Someone's worked out that every time Ed Miliband crossed the border from South to North, the No vote has suffered in the polls.
Maybe someone needs to take him to one side and politely advise him that he's about as likeable as a brick that's been thrown through your window that has an overdue gas bill attached to it.
What, and you think the solution is to send David Cameron? A bloke less 'toxic' to the average Scot you'll struggle to find.
Just been announced that Cameron is skipping PMQs to go campaigning in Scotland. Oh well that's another couple of percent for the yes campaign then.
Cameron, Clegg and Milliband are all going to Scotland tomorrow.
Someone's worked out that every time Ed Miliband crossed the border from South to North, the No vote has suffered in the polls.
Maybe someone needs to take him to one side and politely advise him that he's about as likeable as a brick that's been thrown through your window that has an overdue gas bill attached to it.
What, and you think the solution is to send David Cameron? A bloke less 'toxic' to the average Scot you'll struggle to find.
Evening Standard tonight reporting that Milliband wants us to fly the Scottish flag all over Britain to save the Union.
I saw that on the news earlier, I think it just shows how badly the Unionist campaign has misunderstood what Scottish people actually want.
This! By waving the Scottish flag, they'd see it as being in support of their independence - those cretins masquerading as elected politicians are so far away from the common person in the street, so far away that's real scary that they speak for us...
Evening Standard tonight reporting that Milliband wants us to fly the Scottish flag all over Britain to save the Union.
I saw that on the news earlier, I think it just shows how badly the Unionist campaign has misunderstood what Scottish people actually want.
The UK government has ostensibly had since October 2012 to get its act together on this. I don't think there has been a constitutional crisis that has been met with the ineptitude and indifference that the political leaders of our country have demonstrated. Confident of a No vote, they sat in a golden palace growing fat on their own smugness whilst Salmond and Sturgeon, whilst being thoroughly detestable charlatans, were going around Scotland and telling a gullible electorate lies and myths of a post-No Scotland. Whenever the noise being generated North of the border became loud enough to reach the palace at Westminster, the party leaders looked up from their troughs long enough to chortle and bellow out a threat: 'No more pound!', 'No more EU!', 'armed guards at the border!'. When the noise continued, they tasked Darling to convince an entire country to reconsider, which was much like Captain Hook sending Smee to politely ask the crocodile to cease his quest to devour the Captain.
Now Salmond has grown bold enough to spook the hogs in the palace. Their corkscrew tails have been yanked by the Yes! rabble and, much like how the Ancient Romans doused pigs and boars in resin, set them alight and charged them at the enemy in an attempt to scare and confuse them, so has Westminster sent its three fattest and loudest pigs on a suicide mission. Whilst the Romans demonstrated strategy in this manoeuvre, there is no strategy here and the very act of sending the three leaders north exposes the fact that there is, in fact, no strategy. In the last two years, not a single person in Westminster has even considered what to do in the event the gap between the No and Yes vote evaporated. The three parties have all previously admonished Salmond for having no Plan B; how embarrassing that, as we reach the final and decisive week before the plebiscite, that not only do Better Together lack a Plan B, but that they never even had a Plan A in the first place. Like the Emperor who had convinced himself he was wearing the finest cloth only the wise could see, the people of Scotland point and laugh at Westminster, who stand ideologically naked.
Just been announced that Cameron is skipping PMQs to go campaigning in Scotland. Oh well that's another couple of percent for the yes campaign then.
Cameron, Clegg and Milliband are all going to Scotland tomorrow.
Someone's worked out that every time Ed Miliband crossed the border from South to North, the No vote has suffered in the polls.
Maybe someone needs to take him to one side and politely advise him that he's about as likeable as a brick that's been thrown through your window that has an overdue gas bill attached to it.
What, and you think the solution is to send David Cameron? A bloke less 'toxic' to the average Scot you'll struggle to find.
I raise you George Gideon Oliver Osborne.
Might be on to something there, maybe not the best time to send a Baronet in waiting up there.
Just been announced that Cameron is skipping PMQs to go campaigning in Scotland. Oh well that's another couple of percent for the yes campaign then.
Cameron, Clegg and Milliband are all going to Scotland tomorrow.
Someone's worked out that every time Ed Miliband crossed the border from South to North, the No vote has suffered in the polls.
Maybe someone needs to take him to one side and politely advise him that he's about as likeable as a brick that's been thrown through your window that has an overdue gas bill attached to it.
What, and you think the solution is to send David Cameron? A bloke less 'toxic' to the average Scot you'll struggle to find.
Just been announced that Cameron is skipping PMQs to go campaigning in Scotland. Oh well that's another couple of percent for the yes campaign then.
Cameron, Clegg and Milliband are all going to Scotland tomorrow.
Someone's worked out that every time Ed Miliband crossed the border from South to North, the No vote has suffered in the polls.
Maybe someone needs to take him to one side and politely advise him that he's about as likeable as a brick that's been thrown through your window that has an overdue gas bill attached to it.
What, and you think the solution is to send David Cameron? A bloke less 'toxic' to the average Scot you'll struggle to find.
I raise you George Gideon Oliver Osborne.
Might be on to something there, maybe not the best time to send a Baronet in waiting up there.
Just been announced that Cameron is skipping PMQs to go campaigning in Scotland. Oh well that's another couple of percent for the yes campaign then.
Cameron, Clegg and Milliband are all going to Scotland tomorrow.
Someone's worked out that every time Ed Miliband crossed the border from South to North, the No vote has suffered in the polls.
Maybe someone needs to take him to one side and politely advise him that he's about as likeable as a brick that's been thrown through your window that has an overdue gas bill attached to it.
What, and you think the solution is to send David Cameron? A bloke less 'toxic' to the average Scot you'll struggle to find.
He is at least Scots himself.
Not everyone is as tribally blinkered
Nope, not getting your point.
That you are being influenced by your dislike for an individual / party than the fact that the Prime Minister of the UK, and that of Scottish parentage and ancestry is campaigning to save the UK.
Just been announced that Cameron is skipping PMQs to go campaigning in Scotland. Oh well that's another couple of percent for the yes campaign then.
Cameron, Clegg and Milliband are all going to Scotland tomorrow.
Someone's worked out that every time Ed Miliband crossed the border from South to North, the No vote has suffered in the polls.
Maybe someone needs to take him to one side and politely advise him that he's about as likeable as a brick that's been thrown through your window that has an overdue gas bill attached to it.
What, and you think the solution is to send David Cameron? A bloke less 'toxic' to the average Scot you'll struggle to find.
It was more a comment that there is a direct correlation between Ed Miliband visiting Scotland and the No vote losing support.
Just been announced that Cameron is skipping PMQs to go campaigning in Scotland. Oh well that's another couple of percent for the yes campaign then.
Cameron, Clegg and Milliband are all going to Scotland tomorrow.
Someone's worked out that every time Ed Miliband crossed the border from South to North, the No vote has suffered in the polls.
Maybe someone needs to take him to one side and politely advise him that he's about as likeable as a brick that's been thrown through your window that has an overdue gas bill attached to it.
What, and you think the solution is to send David Cameron? A bloke less 'toxic' to the average Scot you'll struggle to find.
It was more a comment that there is a direct correlation between Ed Miliband visiting Scotland and the No vote losing support.
The Labour Party has requested that the Scottish flag is raised over council buildings in England FFS ---really. Yes of course any flag to be raised but the English one----f==K off to Scotland and stay there
Thank God that Muller scored that winning goal for Germany against them at the weekend. Imagine the pissed up fervour of an average teenage Scottish football fan asked to vote on independence had they got a result.much more important and significant a development than any opinion poll ,political or economic reasoned debate and the only time that the English might be truly grateful for what a kraut with his socks round his ankles might have just achieved for the no vote.
Just been announced that Cameron is skipping PMQs to go campaigning in Scotland. Oh well that's another couple of percent for the yes campaign then.
Cameron, Clegg and Milliband are all going to Scotland tomorrow.
Someone's worked out that every time Ed Miliband crossed the border from South to North, the No vote has suffered in the polls.
Maybe someone needs to take him to one side and politely advise him that he's about as likeable as a brick that's been thrown through your window that has an overdue gas bill attached to it.
What, and you think the solution is to send David Cameron? A bloke less 'toxic' to the average Scot you'll struggle to find.
I raise you George Gideon Oliver Osborne.
Might be on to something there, maybe not the best time to send a Baronet in waiting up there.
Just been announced that Cameron is skipping PMQs to go campaigning in Scotland. Oh well that's another couple of percent for the yes campaign then.
Cameron, Clegg and Milliband are all going to Scotland tomorrow.
Someone's worked out that every time Ed Miliband crossed the border from South to North, the No vote has suffered in the polls.
Maybe someone needs to take him to one side and politely advise him that he's about as likeable as a brick that's been thrown through your window that has an overdue gas bill attached to it.
What, and you think the solution is to send David Cameron? A bloke less 'toxic' to the average Scot you'll struggle to find.
He is at least Scots himself.
Not everyone is as tribally blinkered
Nope, not getting your point.
That you are being influenced by your dislike for an individual / party than the fact that the Prime Minister of the UK, and that of Scottish parentage and ancestry is campaigning to save the UK.
Not really. It was a response to Fiiish's ongoing attempt to disproportionately lay the blame for the narrowing of the polls at Labours door rather than the government and particularly David Cameron for offering the thing in the first place.
Just been announced that Cameron is skipping PMQs to go campaigning in Scotland. Oh well that's another couple of percent for the yes campaign then.
Cameron, Clegg and Milliband are all going to Scotland tomorrow.
Someone's worked out that every time Ed Miliband crossed the border from South to North, the No vote has suffered in the polls.
Maybe someone needs to take him to one side and politely advise him that he's about as likeable as a brick that's been thrown through your window that has an overdue gas bill attached to it.
What, and you think the solution is to send David Cameron? A bloke less 'toxic' to the average Scot you'll struggle to find.
I raise you George Gideon Oliver Osborne.
Might be on to something there, maybe not the best time to send a Baronet in waiting up there.
Just been announced that Cameron is skipping PMQs to go campaigning in Scotland. Oh well that's another couple of percent for the yes campaign then.
Cameron, Clegg and Milliband are all going to Scotland tomorrow.
Someone's worked out that every time Ed Miliband crossed the border from South to North, the No vote has suffered in the polls.
Maybe someone needs to take him to one side and politely advise him that he's about as likeable as a brick that's been thrown through your window that has an overdue gas bill attached to it.
What, and you think the solution is to send David Cameron? A bloke less 'toxic' to the average Scot you'll struggle to find.
He is at least Scots himself.
Not everyone is as tribally blinkered
Nope, not getting your point.
That you are being influenced by your dislike for an individual / party than the fact that the Prime Minister of the UK, and that of Scottish parentage and ancestry is campaigning to save the UK.
Not really. It was a response to Fiiish's ongoing attempt to disproportionately lay the blame for the narrowing of the polls at Labours door rather than the government and particularly David Cameron for offering the thing in the first place.
I made a light-hearted reference to the connection between Ed Miliband and the narrowing and eventual wipeout of No's lead (I never seriously suggested that the gap narrowed purely because Ed kept going over Hadrian's Wall) and then followed it up by correcting your inaccurate claim that the PM is more toxic in Scotland than Ed. I've never claimed that Labour are more to blame for the Government for Better Together's incompetence, please don't use me to deflect attention away from people questioning the basis of claims you make in your posts.
Just been announced that Cameron is skipping PMQs to go campaigning in Scotland. Oh well that's another couple of percent for the yes campaign then.
Cameron, Clegg and Milliband are all going to Scotland tomorrow.
Someone's worked out that every time Ed Miliband crossed the border from South to North, the No vote has suffered in the polls.
Maybe someone needs to take him to one side and politely advise him that he's about as likeable as a brick that's been thrown through your window that has an overdue gas bill attached to it.
What, and you think the solution is to send David Cameron? A bloke less 'toxic' to the average Scot you'll struggle to find.
I raise you George Gideon Oliver Osborne.
Might be on to something there, maybe not the best time to send a Baronet in waiting up there.
Just been announced that Cameron is skipping PMQs to go campaigning in Scotland. Oh well that's another couple of percent for the yes campaign then.
Cameron, Clegg and Milliband are all going to Scotland tomorrow.
Someone's worked out that every time Ed Miliband crossed the border from South to North, the No vote has suffered in the polls.
Maybe someone needs to take him to one side and politely advise him that he's about as likeable as a brick that's been thrown through your window that has an overdue gas bill attached to it.
What, and you think the solution is to send David Cameron? A bloke less 'toxic' to the average Scot you'll struggle to find.
He is at least Scots himself.
Not everyone is as tribally blinkered
Nope, not getting your point.
That you are being influenced by your dislike for an individual / party than the fact that the Prime Minister of the UK, and that of Scottish parentage and ancestry is campaigning to save the UK.
Not really. It was a response to Fiiish's ongoing attempt to disproportionately lay the blame for the narrowing of the polls at Labours door rather than the government and particularly David Cameron for offering the thing in the first place.
I made a light-hearted reference to the connection between Ed Miliband and the narrowing and eventual wipeout of No's lead (I never seriously suggested that the gap narrowed purely because Ed kept going over Hadrian's Wall) and then followed it up by correcting your inaccurate claim that the PM is more toxic in Scotland than Ed. I've never claimed that Labour are more to blame for the Government for Better Together's incompetence, please don't use me to deflect attention away from people questioning the basis of claims you make in your posts.
Have you considered that perhaps personal Miliband's ratings in Scotland are more a reflection of his failure to provide effective leadership against such a deeply unpopular Tory led government? There is after all only one Tory MP in Scotland, that's a fair indication to me that the leader of the Conservative Party may not be universally popular up there.
Anyway we're moving off topic, suffice to say it's my opinion that none of the mainstream parties have made a decent fist of getting the No message across but it was always going to be more difficult to 'sell ' a negative.
I did not know that Cameron was Scottish, although to be fair he is really about as Scottish as Tony Blair, he would not have a great deal in common with your average Glaswegian.
Just seen the latest polls, neck and neck with 23% undecided, going to be all about who gets their vote out and who can push their message hardest in the final 48 hours.
I don't think the presence of either Cameron or Milliband is particularly relevant up there at this stage, its a bit like the Old Bill turning up to a domestic and then getting turned on themselves.
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I hope that the average Scot can see past that and make a decision based on pure economics and not on some romantic ideal.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/11080611/Scottish-homeowners-face-mortgage-meltdown-if-Yes-campaign-wins.html
Maybe someone needs to take him to one side and politely advise him that he's about as likeable as a brick that's been thrown through your window that has an overdue gas bill attached to it.
More say on Scottish issues - they have this - yet they want spending and fiscal policies governed by a currency union aligned to the BoEs decisions.
It's not like the ERM and Euro has worked out that well for smaller economies trying to align themselves with larger ones
Not everyone is as tribally blinkered
Now Salmond has grown bold enough to spook the hogs in the palace. Their corkscrew tails have been yanked by the Yes! rabble and, much like how the Ancient Romans doused pigs and boars in resin, set them alight and charged them at the enemy in an attempt to scare and confuse them, so has Westminster sent its three fattest and loudest pigs on a suicide mission. Whilst the Romans demonstrated strategy in this manoeuvre, there is no strategy here and the very act of sending the three leaders north exposes the fact that there is, in fact, no strategy. In the last two years, not a single person in Westminster has even considered what to do in the event the gap between the No and Yes vote evaporated. The three parties have all previously admonished Salmond for having no Plan B; how embarrassing that, as we reach the final and decisive week before the plebiscite, that not only do Better Together lack a Plan B, but that they never even had a Plan A in the first place. Like the Emperor who had convinced himself he was wearing the finest cloth only the wise could see, the people of Scotland point and laugh at Westminster, who stand ideologically naked.
But when you look at the numbers, Ed Miliband has a worse approval rating than David Cameron in Scotland:
David Cameron: Minus 29
Ed Miliband: Minus 42
As of 4th Sept 2014
Interestingly, in March 2014 it looked like Ed was twice as unpopular as Dave north of the border.
Tsk.
Anyway we're moving off topic, suffice to say it's my opinion that none of the mainstream parties have made a decent fist of getting the No message across but it was always going to be more difficult to 'sell ' a negative.
Just seen the latest polls, neck and neck with 23% undecided, going to be all about who gets their vote out and who can push their message hardest in the final 48 hours.
I don't think the presence of either Cameron or Milliband is particularly relevant up there at this stage, its a bit like the Old Bill turning up to a domestic and then getting turned on themselves.