Bardar. And there you have it. The yes campaign is a rainbow coalition consisting of
a) The dyed in the wool anti-english. They always have and always will. Vote or no vote. Hate. It burns bright - look at their eyes - it burns so bright - like the student radical who wants to bring revolution, like the person who is happy to round up his neighbours based on their ethnicity. It is the look of the zealot.
b) the idealistic - seduced by the language of the whitepaper they are voting for what they think Scotland will be like free of the yoke of a larger neighbour. Expect everything from more taxes, to more green, to more heavy industry. Seizing on the simplistic linguistics of the white paper - they project their vision of perfection and are voting for that. A socialist, multicultural utopia, no rich people, everything fair and every is lovely.
c) the political - they hate the tories and this is one in the eye for them and they see potential for their own careers
d) the cynical - fed up with westminster - lets give this lot a try - cant be any worse can it
e) the irreparably dim - they believe what AS and the SNP have told them. You see a) and b) want to take away all the things he has promised you. The pound, the head of sate, the DVLC, the BBC - they want it gone but you believe him anyway.
ladycordelia - has hit the nail on the head - after independence the idealists will be busy politicking but the group a) will have a field day. Already there is talk of land redistribution - or for want of a better word - the state forcibly seizing the assets of citizens for nothing more than they way they voted. A number of countries have gone this way - and there isnt a single case where hatred of your neighbour has proven an effective means of establishing a new state.
A vote for independence is inadvertently giving the power to the racists, to the hate-mongers, to those would would rather see their country burn than do business with their neighbour. for sure you are voting for a lovely fluffy ideologically pure new elysium but the people who will be running the show are those on the streets telling the english cunts to go home. They will have huge amounts of power - the ones with hate burning in their soul and you will have to stand by as they settle scores and get the English cunts out of their country. SNP / BNP -not much in it in my book. smart suits, language of reasonableness. Of course Scottish jobs for Scottish workers makes sense. Brings about the new Utopia - a fairer society, a more just society. but underneath is the very simple seam of hatred - for "them". the english? the eastern europeans? the gypsies? whoever next.