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.

Mrs can you say why? (if indeed it was possible for any country not to be interdependent in a global economy?)

If you feel happy and positive, that's good. Probably best to go out and celebrate though. It tends to be worried and pessimistic voters staying online (on MN or elsewhere). Don't waste your good vibes - go out and enjoy it. Or if you have to get back to work, then celebrate with a nice coffee or biscuits .

Hang on I say I'm sad and that's threatening when others are saying they don't give a furry fuck about your future

+Mrs* it's no Yugoslavia either!!

You wouldn't be trying to persuade any undecided voters, would you?

You wanna leave then fine, walk out the door. But don't turn around cause you know what? You won't be welcome anymore. You think you can hurt us with goodbye? We're not going to crumble we won't lay down and die. Go on then go.

Norway?

What I love about the 'yes' campaign is the way it keeps on flogging those very dead horses. Or should that be turkeys?

All thoroughly debunked, not least by the Norwegians themselves.

atticus it was the suggestion that we cannot be friends... why not? (apologies but it sounded like a threat... we won't he friends with you if you vote no...)

The Yes campaign was the reason I voted No. I was undecided, but the torn down No signs, the absolute bullying of people I have seen if they dare say they are not voting Yes, is horrific. I want no association with the Yes campaign. Apparently I can't be Scottish if I am voting no.

I hope sense prevails and that we get over this. The sad part is whatever the outcome, almost half the population will be upset.

I voted today and I have never seen so many people vote. In fact, I rarely see another soul at the polling station. The saddest part of this is that if the amount of people who registered to vote for independence had bothered to vote at every other election, the change could have started years ago. But they didn't and they vote now for "prosperity" and "pride". Neither of those will feed my family or secure our NHS or secure EU subsidies for our farmers.

We need this amount of passion every election and to make the difference as one United country.

Yanbu I suppose, but I for one don't feel jubilant at all.

OP - tell me about the level of personal debt in Norway please?

Because to some of us it sounds very much as if the Yes voters want to have their cake and eat it. Wanting independence but not wanting to have to do without English resources, English funding, English currency, English political friendship...

Bear - that's why the OP has voted for the third option of interdependence

cafevelo that is a brilliant post.

I also felt happy and excited about voting text

I feel more nervous than anything

OP may I be so bold as to assume you're in a fair financial position to be ok with choosing to have higher phone tariffs, food shops, end up paying for prescriptions, university...

Which is fine. But I'd assume many will struggle if majority vote yes.

Voting yes

LeBear - I think you mean British resources, British funding, British Currency, British political friendship. The UK is not just England you know?

cafevelo- It also makes me worry that if the 'no' vote is victorious there will be severe repercussions. Such a mish mash of nationalism hidden behind pride.

How nice for you that you are given a choice in the matter. However the only way I can choose is to abstain from letting any money from my purse be used to benefit the interests of a country that wants to stand alone.

I don't drink Whisky (so no problem there). I always check where products are manufactured, and put back anything Scottish.

I will miss all my lovely holidays in the Outer Hebrides but the world is large and I will look to new horizons.

So a new future for us all then.

I also felt happy and excited about voting yes

Come back and tell us you're happy and excited a couple of years down the line ....

But Fontella, the emphasis op is making is on an interdependence with England

lifelorn- many people feel the same

Fontella - I think LeBear said English because the OP was talking about interdependance with England (could be wrong though)