ElephantBanjoGnome wrote:
I think it's time to vote yes and pretend I was secretly in favour of it the whole time, rather than just admitting to being a bandwagonning sheep.
Thing is though, if you were Scottish, or just living in Scotland, why wouldn't you vote yes? What's so great about the 'Union' and England?
I have lots of friends and family in England and they pretty much all say the same thing, that it's going to the fucking dogs. (These are normal working folks, not people with buckets of cash living in the leafy shires. And when they come to visit the island they all the same thing, 'It's so lovely here, not like back home.')
I'm told about increasingly poor health services, schools, and public services, rip-off utility companies, high crime and anti-social behaviour (seriously, it'd be easier to list my relatives who HADN'T been burgled), extortionate train fares, a devastating lack of opportunity for the young, wildly expensive higher education - the list just goes on.
Yeah sure enough independence will be a hell of a punt, but christ, I'd go for it. When people talk about the 'wealth of the nation' and what the Scots would be risking, I can only assume they're talking about London and many of the Southern counties, because it's fucking shit up North.