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.

Grovel

You could always try these .....

www.welsh-whisky.co.uk/

We don't have a restricted diet and if British produce is sometimes a few extra pence that is a price many millions are willing to pay to support our economy. Many many people buy British.

I mean, Bosnia share a land mass, language, trade, culture and friends with Serbia!! Great news!!

Interdependence - as my dd would say, THE LOLZ

Also writing a dialect as a language is daft. Where I'm from the dialect is so strong outsiders barely understand some people. I'd never pretend its a special language though, it's English with an accent.

I reckon these could do Tunnocks

tregroeswaffles.co.uk

Yes Rita. Perfectly clear.

My sister was at a conference in Edinburgh recently. She's a scientist and says that the Scottish research scientists are in despair - those blithely voting Yes have no idea how much funding Scottish research gets from Britain, which is likely to be hugely affected by independence.

My DH is very concerned that independence means that the House of Bruar catalogue won't be sent to SE England.

He calls it posh porn.

I buy British where I can and always have done.
Doesn't take long and despite your best efforts to portray it as such, it is not a petulant foot-stamping response to independence.

Not from me at least although no doubt many others will of course wonder why they shouldn't support rUK farmers instead? And why shouldn't they?

gingee- never quite works does it?

No, it isn't about you. It's about one part of a union wanting to make it's own way in the world.

It's not a "we hate the english" vote. It's not a "we hate the tories vote". It's a "actually, we are quite a bit different from you so in actual fact, we'd like to be in control of our own affairs" vote.

Yes, you can choose to not buy Scottish products if we go independent. All that is though, is a bitter, childish reaction to something which us grown ups think is a little bit more important than that. Frankly, I'm sick of all the bile that has been thrown at scotland and scottish people over the last days and weeks. If we leave, and I hope we do, we don't want or need help from people like you.

Nothing is set in stone is it, they will all be locked in a room slapping each other with fish and whatever and ironing it all out.

Especially the pound issue.

So your 2million refers to your estimated number of yes voters? Mot the Scottish population? Because that wasn't clear.

Clear as day.

Silly us, for even thinking as citizens of the UK, that this is anything to do with us. It is of course - all about you. All 2 million or so of you (rough estimate) maybe less, maybe more, and the other 63 million - Scots, Welsh, English, Northern irish who you share these islands with are completely irrelevant.

You are aware that half the Scottish electorate don't want independence don't you, or did that escape your attention? Did you not notice the inclusion of the word 'Scots' alongside Welsh, English and Northern Irish in the 63 million?

I realise that they are probably as invisible to you as the rest of us.

When do we find out?

Thanks lottie

And yikes. All this "we're different" stuff. I am married to a Scot and I never knew that!

It does concern me that the vote will be so influenced by people from many different countries, who happen to be living in Scotland at present, but don't have to worry about the long term success of Scotland as they'll be long gone.

It's not a bitter, childish reaction. It's an honest grown up way of supporting your economy. Do you not buy Scottish when you get the chance? You probably do. You sound very young.

What about the people in England born to Scottish parents? (I'm one, my kids are 3/4 Scottish), are we not 'Scottish enough' or are we not allowed an opinion because due to economic pressures our parents were forced to move in order to make a life?

If someone has always made an effort to buy British, they will continue to do so. And as you wanted, Scotland won't be British.

I agree it is a bit childish as a knee jerk reaction, but not on the above basis.

If we leave, and I hope we do, we don't want or need help from people like you.
I think you might find these words will come back to bite you on the ass if the yes vote wins KidLorneRoll

rita thanks for the 'hauners'...!!

Dido I know, last time I checked ethnically we're pretty much all the same?? A few cultural differences, but lots of England has very Celtic roots too, esp where I live.

How is a "bitter, childish" reaction to want to support your own farmers and food producers? How is that any different to Yes supporters' statements about voting Yes because they want to help the poor and deprived in Scotland?

It is not that I will not buy Scottish, it is that I choose to buy British where I can. The same as I buy from my local farms for vegetable.

' We're quite different to you'-- To who exactly??? England is a diverse nation. Scotland is less so but I think the implication that you all share one personality is a bit far fetched.