to feel happy and excited about voting YES!

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I am just back from the polling booth and can say that I have never felt so positive about voting. The feeling that my vote is actually counting, rather than being swalowed up as is the case with Westminster voting, is also fantastic.

IMO a yes vote will reinvigorate the whole of Britain and, amongst other things, allow Scotland and England build better relations as equal but interdependent neighbours and allies.

sirchenjin I agree. I am a big one for instinct but with a momentous decision such as this is should be backed up with facts, not what I hope will happen.

It felt really good. Like my vote might make a difference and contribute to a better future for myself, my children and their children after that

A yes campaigner has just been arrested for allegedly assaulting a no campaigner in Clydebank. He'd laid hands on him and allegedly told him to "&%$ off back to Westminster". The no campaigner lives in Glasgow.

Look there's a reason why Westminster do not want Scotland to leave and it's not because they love us!

If people think that the many speaking out for the no campaign hasn't got it's own agenda, they are sadly mistaken. It's wrong to suggest that one side is all about hope and flowers and wishful thinking whilst the other is all cold, hard facts.

Regardless, what is wrong with aspiring to something greater than what we have, exactly?

Nothing, KidLorne. Some of us just think you've been lied to and will be sold down the river, and a lot of good people who never wanted any of it will be dragged along with you.

It felt really good. Like my vote might make a difference and contribute to a better future for myself, my children and their children after that

Ooh sort of like that bit in Macbeth where he sees all of Banquo's descendants sitting on thrones?

Anyone know what's happening to the military? Perhaps that would be some forced 'interdependence'? If a country invades from the north, can Scotland go it alone sufficiently?

Quite a flowery heartfelt 'no' here but I love the sentiment ;
I will lay my cards on the table from the start: I will be voting No.
I have no economic argument to make. Frankly, I am sick and tired of hearing people argue the toss about the pound, pensions and the rest. I am voting No because for me, the offering by the Yes camp lacks nobility and humanity. Even more importantly, it lacks class, far less any kind of panache.

Having spent years working on the television series Coast, I think it’s fair to say I’ve seen as much of this United Kingdom of ours as anyone else living here. It’s a project that has changed my life in several ways. It has certainly caused me to fall in love with the place – the whole place. Circumnavigate these islands as I have, as often as I have, and one thing above all becomes clear: the national boundaries within are invisible and therefore meaningless.

People living in a fishing town in Cornwall have more in common with the inhabitants of a fishing town in Fife than either population has with the folk of a town in the Midlands. They have a shared experience and a common history of coping with lives shaped by the sea. The coast is another country – the fifth country – and it unites us and binds us like the hem of a garment.

Swiped from another thread- it's that bloke that presents Coast.

I'm English but I'm happy for everyone that overcame their fears to vote yes and ignored all the scaremongering and blackmailing from the no crowd.

If it is a yes result I hope Scotland go to on to set an example to England on how things should be run and what a fair and just society really looks like. I think they probably will.

I was born in Scotland. I have the words of Robert Burns in my head and the glens and lochs in my heart. I wasn't just born in Scotland I was made there. But my parents moved down south when I was a child so I don't have a vote and all I can do is look on with dismay at the way people are polarised and neighbours are arguing. It doesn't matter what I think as I don't have a vote but I hope that sanity reigns tomorrow and people can mend their differences. I feel upset by the anti rUK sentiment and the suggestion that you can't love Scotland and Britain. I also don't like the scaremongering as it's obvious that both Scotland and rUK would muddle through no matter what. I just want a bit less hating and goadyness.

Your name is so apt happybubblebrain

Why is that SirChen? Because I have a different POV to you?

Ooooh, mrsruffallo, I bloody love Coast! Congratulations on such a brilliant programme!

Because you are wrong hbb

Is this scaremongering?

blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/ambroseevans-pritchard/100028065/credit-suisse-warns-of-grave-deflationary-shock-for-scotland/

No, AA it's a quote from the presenter- not me (unfortunately!!)

I don't think I am, time will tell.

No, because you've fallen for the Indy Central line that it's all scaremongering and blackmailing from the no crowd, and that only a Yes vote means a fair and just society.

happyhappybubblybrain

Ha! (Wouldn't it be great, though, to work on a programme like that.)

I know, I love it too. Breathtaking!!

I'm excited too, I count crossing the 'Yes' box as one of the most significant things I have done. I really think it's going to happen.