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Old 11th March 2014, 21:19   #31
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Seems like I'm in the minority on this thread:-)
One certainty though, if you don't want independence then you need to make sure you vote.
I think the vote could well be won by the yes (please ;-)) vote but largely due to the apathy of those who won't vote on the day in the belief that the status quo will maintain no matter what
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Old 11th March 2014, 21:22   #32
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Seems like I'm in the minority on this thread:-)
One certainty though, if you don't want independence then you need to make sure you vote.
I think the vote could well be won by the yes (please ;-)) vote but largely due to the apathy of those who won't vote on the day in the belief that the status quo will maintain no matter what
Indeed, - I think the nats are counting on that. Its a very valid point
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Old 11th March 2014, 21:23   #33
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Seems like I'm in the minority on this thread:-)
I think your views echo the Highlands and Islands view - we dislike being told what to do by clever lawyers from distant Edinburgh - most of whom have never travelled further north than Perth (in summer)
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Old 11th March 2014, 21:54   #34
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Ours as in something shared by the four nations that Scotland no longer wants to be a part of.
No. Alex Salmond does not want to be part of the United Kingdom, Great Britain, call it what you like. Shows how confident he is, is he not allowing 16 year olds to vote? When i was 16 i would have voted for anything , the only problem being, i would not have had the wisdom to know why.
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Old 11th March 2014, 22:21   #35
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No. Alex Salmond does not want to be part of the United Kingdom, Great Britain, call it what you like. Shows how confident he is, is he not allowing 16 year olds to vote? When i was 16 i would have voted for anything , the only problem being, i would not have had the wisdom to know why.
My daughters school (and those across North Ayrshire I believe) have been inviting speakers from both No & Yes campaigns to address those who will be eligible to vote in the referendum. Interestingly in her school when they held a vote 80% voted no
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Seems like I'm in the minority on this thread:-)
One certainty though, if you don't want independence then you need to make sure you vote.
I think the vote could well be won by the yes (please ;-)) vote but largely due to the apathy of those who won't vote on the day in the belief that the status quo will maintain no matter what
Sadly I have to agree. I really cannot abide apathy on either side. The vote should have been made compulsory for a true reflection on peoples views.

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My daughters school (and those across North Ayrshire I believe) have been inviting speakers from both No & Yes campaigns to address those who will be eligible to vote in the referendum. Interestingly in her school when they held a vote 80% voted no
Yes this has been done in many councils and the results have been quite staggeringly high for a no vote.
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Old 11th March 2014, 22:30   #37
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My apologies Simon but I find you signature interesting:

Wha's Like Us? Damn Few And They're A' Died!?

The average Englishman in the home he calls his castle
slips into his national costume, a shabby raincoat, patented
by Chemist Charles MacIntosh from Glasgow, Scotland.

En-route to his office he strides along the English lane,
surfaced by John Macadam of Ayr, Scotland.

He drives an English car fitted with tyres invented by
John Boyd Dunlop, Veterinary Surgeon of
Dreghorn, Scotland.

At the office he receives the mail bearing adhesive
stamps invented by John Chalmers, Bookseller and
Printer of Dundee, Scotland.

During the day he uses the telephone invented by
Alexander Graham Bell, born in Edinburgh, Scotland.

At home in the evening his daughter pedals her bicycle
invented by Kirkpatrick Macmillan, Blacksmith of
Thornhill, Dumfriesshire, Scotland.

He watches the news on television, an invention of John
Logie Baird of Helensburgh, Scotland, and hears an
item about the U.S. Navy founded by John
Paul Jones of Kirkbean, Scotland.

Nowhere can an Englishman turn to escape the ingenuity of the Scots.

He has by now been reminded too much of Scotland and
in desperation he picks up the Bible, only to find that
the first man mentioned in the good book is a Scot,
King James VI, who authorised its translation.

He could take to drink but the Scots make the best in the world.

He could take a rifle and end it all, but the breech-loading
rifle was invented by Captain Patrick Ferguson of
Pitfours, Scotland.

If he escaped death, he could find himself on an operating
table injected with penicillin, discovered by Sir Alexander
Fleming of Darvel, Scotland, and given chloroform, an
anesthetic discovered by Sir James Young Simpson,
Obstetrician and Gynecologist of Bathgate, Scotland.

Out of the anesthetic he would find no comfort in learning
that he was as safe as the Bank of England founded by
William Paterson of Dumfries, Scotland.

Perhaps his only remaining hope would be to get a transfusion
of guid Scottish blood which would entitle him tae ask
"Wha's like us? damm few an' there a' deed"

When the great comedian Billy Connolly was asked his thought on the subject he very cleverly replied that the result would be what the Scots deserve.

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Sadly I have to agree. I really cannot abide apathy on either side. The vote should have been made compulsory for a true reflection on peoples views.


The more that vote the more reflective the result
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