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indyref 14 - the one with the polling day

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StatisticallyChallenged · 18/09/2014 09:14

Come on in, sit down, and chew your nails with us.

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Cambiodenombre · 18/09/2014 09:19

Vote cast, genuinely feel sick with nerves and worry.

Had forgotten media blackout today as well.

MajesticWhine · 18/09/2014 09:22

Have a good polling day Scotland, and I hope you make the right decision.

squoosh · 18/09/2014 09:22

So this is the historic day here at last........

Going to dry my hair and then off to vote.

AnnieHoo · 18/09/2014 09:24

Morning! That's my vote in. Feeling better after a good night's sleep. Thick mist covering the islands today.

StatisticallyChallenged · 18/09/2014 09:24

Feeling pretty sick with nerves here too.

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Cambiodenombre · 18/09/2014 09:28

Have no idea if I'll sleep tonight. Tactic will be wine or a sleeping tablet I think. Have lots to do tonight to keep me busy thankfully

rootypig · 18/09/2014 09:28

I studied the reforms to higher education funding at university as an undergraduate, while they were happening. A huge mistake, to design a system around the idea that the decision is akin to an investment - have posted about this elsewhere, will see if I can find it.

you do realise we cannot return to the 1950s?

Er, yes.

squoosh · 18/09/2014 09:29

You do realise your mother's 1950's experience wasn't the norm?

I certainly hope you do, the idea that someone would look back, rose tinted specs style, at women's lives in the 1950's and think that's something we should return to is frightening.

WhatWouldFreddieDo · 18/09/2014 09:30

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Pumpkinpositive · 18/09/2014 09:30

Off to vote in a mo. Good luck everyone! Thanks

StatisticallyChallenged · 18/09/2014 09:30

We're more likely to end up paying for uni in Scotland with a yes vote due to rules about not discriminating against other eu states.

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ifyourehoppyandyouknowit · 18/09/2014 09:30

Media blackout?

Best wishes to everyone voting today.

Igneococcus · 18/09/2014 09:30

Not voting until after work but my colleague has been and she says it was very quiet.

FrankelandFilly · 18/09/2014 09:31

Marking place

member · 18/09/2014 09:31

I was last post on prev thread so just c&P here

On Channel 4 News last night, a Yes - voter made a speech about why she was voting yes. She used "social justice" and "egalitarian society".

The Yes campaign haven't promised egalitarianism have they?! shock

I know they've used terms like fairer and just but that doesn't mean equal(particularly in a monetary sense). I wonder how much conflation of these concepts has occured?

mumsneedwine · 18/09/2014 09:32

So my country is deciding whether to make a momentous decision to split or not. So I will go cast my vote. Oh wait .... I don't get a say. Mustn't affect me then ?????

member · 18/09/2014 09:33

Can someone explain media blackout? No coverage or just not allowed at polling stations? Will there be any exit polls?

WhatWouldFreddieDo · 18/09/2014 09:33

mumsneed yes, there's a lot of anger from Scots living away that they don't get a say. But that unfortunately is what was decided - someone else may be able to give you chapter and verse. I have a lot of very unhappy Scottish friends in the south.

PhaedraIsMyName · 18/09/2014 09:34

Except we won't be in the EU so I suppose we could charge what we like.

Still a thundering silence from Yes on Salmond's attempt to curb academic independence .

Odd given they were so vocal on behalf of a stand up comic who may or may not have had a programme mildly edited.

rootypig · 18/09/2014 09:35

Good lord I hate this moving of the goalposts and false dichotomies.

Me: the UK has been going in the wrong direction for a while now
someone else: we've made huge progress since the 50s, would you want that for your child?
Me: Oh hang on, thinking about it, my mum was born in the 50s, would I take her life for DD? interesting thought! why yes.
someone else: not everyone's life was like your mum's you know.

Ach, I should have just not responded.

My thoughts on tuition fees are here, Morris, if you're interested.

fibromum · 18/09/2014 09:35

Have voted. Wasn't sure if you could wear a No/Yes badge so opted to wear red/white and blue Smile

Will be a long day and night. I truly hope I wake in the morning (thats if I sleep) to find Scotland is still very much a part of the UK.

MorrisZapp · 18/09/2014 09:35

Rooty I've thought about this a lot. I was one of the many students who marched for free education and sang 'education is a right, not a privilege'.

With the benefit of objectivity and a few decades of hindsight, I'm no longer so sure. My uni days were pretty much a haze of booze, sex and long lies. You've guessed it, I have a general arts degree. The lectures I attended mainly sent me to sleep and my essays were done overnight whilst fuelled by pro plus.

Is that education, really? Sure, I grew up. I became a woman. I learned about life in a relatively safe environment. But I'm not sure that now, as a tax payer, I want to pay for other people's kids to have a three year jolly while they delay entering the real adult world.

None of this applies to vocational or proper academic learning, I'm happy to pay for that.

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WhatWouldFreddieDo · 18/09/2014 09:36

member there is no campaigning in newspapers, TV and radio, just reporting of the voting itself. In theory nothing that could influence someone's vote.

But of course there's no control over the internet.

rootypig · 18/09/2014 09:36

We're more likely to end up paying for uni in Scotland with a yes vote due to rules about not discriminating against other eu states.

Well you noes say that independent Scotland won't be part of the EU, so I wouldn't worry about it Grin

chocoluvva · 18/09/2014 09:37

Good morning - thank you for starting number 14.

Haven't voted yet. I'm posting for anyone undecided who's reading this.

The UK has achieved so much. We live in challenging times - global warming, terrorism, overcrowding, ebola..... let's work within the UK to improve on what we already have instead of spending time on breaking it up. I will be deeply upset if I am no longer part of my country.

I want to stand with all the people of the UK looking outward, striving to make positive changes for all the people of UK. For the people of my country, the EU and the world.

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