indyref 14 - the one with the polling day

[StatisticallyChallenged]

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Oh dear, reports a no supporter was punched in the face yesterday for handing out leaflets This morning a labour councillor was assaulted by a yes supporter at a polling station in Clydebank and in Lennoxtown the wall of a polling station was spray painted vote yes or else.

I truly hope these reports are wrong but I don't think so.

I am horrified.

The mash made me roar with laughter. Thanks very much!

Gruffalo- I've been wondering that too about SAVVY but I couldn't ask the person in question what it meant as I didn't fancy another lecture on why I'm not a "Real Scottish person" Even funnier when the person saying it has only lived here 5 years.

Love the Mash!

Just cast my vote for no. Polling station very quiet but I suspect that's because it's the middle of the day. All very civilised.

Thank gawd for the daily mash .

Gordon Brown is only roused because he is afraid of RUK becoming a Tory wasteland. He is winning labour votes. There just isn't an argument to say that Scotland would be better off in the UK. None. All the arguments are pie in the sky because people don't know what the future. In the end it is about commitment, belief and hope, nothing else. But the labour party would very much like Scotland in because it suits them.

Shamelessly stolen from twitter for some light relief

There are dozens of arguments daughter. And few are anything like as pie in the sky as the white paper

Yup, pretty sick of wealthy expat Scots who don't have to live with the consequences telling us all to vote yes.

Have you voted yet Daughter?

I just wished that the general elections were as electrified as this vote, I am just so despondent of the national parties in the south.

If true there may be isolated incidents fibromum but I doubt whether they could be taken as representative of voting generally. My own experience this morning bore no resemblance to that and I'm in a pretty tough area.

WhatWouldFreddieDo - that's a great phrase, "never underestimate a disgruntled Scotsman", lol.... I think I might borrow it in future, if that's ok . Oh, I don't think they would do it for goodwill. It's purely a pragmatic necessity. You might even find that they offer to help guard the borders more securely - Edinburgh and Glasgow are great loot for an aggressive foreign invader, but they really have their eye on London, so it's in England's best interest to make sure all the coasts are well guarded.
Whatever happens with a yes or no vote, I doubt very much that things will change all that much - people are practical and the wheels of society will continue to run. As they say, governments come and go, but countries are always run by their civil service. The Scottish population is well educated and resourceful - oil and farming are not the only reserves; if one industry dwindles, they will create others that succeed. Remember, Andrew Carnegie, Alexander Graham Bell and John Logie Baird were all Scottish.

I take it Andy Murray, Sean Connery and the like are planning to move back to Scotland in the event of a 'Yes' vote.

It's just the sheer bloody hypocrisy that annoys me.

Watching Brian Cox on the Antiques Road Trip the other day, driving round the South of England doing his lovey act, with the Royal Shakespeare Company modulated tones (funny how his Scottish accent comes back when he's sat on a stage with Salmond), and rattling on about 'the south bank' and 'The Globe Theatre' and his home in New York.

I'm pure jealous of these lassies getting a snog off big Alex!

They all left didn't they?

Gordon Brown is only roused because he is afraid of RUK becoming a Tory wasteland. He is winning labour votes. There just isn't an argument to say that Scotland would be better off in the UK. None. All the arguments are pie in the sky because people don't know what the future. In the end it is about commitment, belief and hope, nothing else.

In your opinion nothing else.

That was to daily growl.

brontolo that is fab

I am happy today.

Just happy to have been asked (and yes rUK I am aware you did not get asked)

And relieved it is finally here.

I will take the result whichever way it goes because change comes whatever. Today we make history.

And I am pleased that when I arrived at the polling station the yes and no campaigners paid me no mind because they were to busy in a cordial neighbourly conversation with each other. Because come way may, yes or no we have far more in common than we are different.

I am delighted that we got over 4million people registered to vote and that turn out will likely be amongst the highest ever.
It is a really positive thing for a country, whichever way it goes, that people care what happens to it that they are engaged.

And I am also amused. My 2 children cannot vote but one was animatedly NO all the way to the polling station. The other asked for a YES badge outside the polling station (after I voted obviously, we know the rules). Cue child 1 saying oh but can I wear the YES badge? Me: but you are a NO.
Dc1: Ah I am a YES now.

And that is why 6 yr olds don't get a vote because a badge is all it takes to change their mind.

I know it is serious. It is momentous. But all we can do is wait to see what happens and deal with it in a positive manner when it does.

I have enjoyed the debate in RL I have friends on both sides, both Scots born and Scots resident and it has been good natured, well informed and interesting with most people able to see both POV hoping their view will prevail but in the and accepting this is democracy at its best. A free vote involving almost the entire electorate.

So, no hard feelings. Let the future commence.

and another beauty from the Mash

Brian Cox is a twit, he looked most discomfited last night when Michelle Mone asked him 'do you have a vote in this referendum?'

'Er, ah, well, ummm, er.......no, but........'

Of course sapphire. There is something quite unedifying about people 'jetting in' to cajole people to vote how they want others to vote, when they don't have a vote themselves. On the flip side, I find it equally ridiculous listening to people barracking those who indulge in that, while stating they'll bugger off themselves after the vote is in, because the vote isn't what they want it to be.

IMO the opinion of those who have a vote and will still be here once the dusts settles, matters more.

Just my view.

Bad analogy daily growl, they all made their money outside Scotland!