Are you in favour of Scotland leaving the UK?

[LadyMaryCreepyCrawley]

Lucky bastards!

Maybe you could learn to spell independence Fidelma. Might be a start.

What policies that the SNP have introduced in Scotland to you disagree with?

Why is Alex Salmond a nutter?

Why do you think he wants Scotland to be independent? I heard someone on the radio today (poss Brian Taylor) saying that the SNP want independence out of a genuine belief that Scotland will be better off as an independent nation, rather than because of 'badness'.

Salmond et al have been supporting the cause for years before it was even the vaguest of possibilities. They are not 'career' politicians. These people had not a sniff of a chance at power when they became involved in politics.

See, this is where we as Scots go wrong .. being far too emotional and end up taking pretty crappy pot shots at each other because we may have different view points.

I'm actually surprised that folk have only managed to come up with one thing the snp have done in govt that they disagree with. Considering the snp have been in since 2007 with a majority since 2011 this is pretty impressive.

(I concede that CfE is quite a big one to disagree with that has caused a lot of consternation, but the ConDem govt have brought in an awful lot more hugely unpopular policies in their 2 years in power)

I'm Scottish.
If the independent vote wins I am moving to England

Why?

because the worst thing about being Scottish is the anti English chip on the shoulderness of so many Scots. If we became independant they would be even more insufferable

CfE had cross-party support.

I don't like the potshots either whether its between Scots or across the border. But my concept of unity doesn't only extend to Lands End - I'm proud to be European and a world citizen. I would just like to be one on an equal footing. Can't believe that Scotland would be the only country in the world who couldn't do this. Very negative.

And I think Alex Salmond is a numpty

Jack, strangely enough I disagree with the free prescriptions for all, and before others flame me, my family has had to deal with major illnesses, cancer etc which as you can imagine makes a daily walk to the pharmacy inevitable. I would like to have seen some of the money put into Dentistry/Orthodontics.

The CfE I disagree with along with the day dream of having smaller class sizes/ hours of PE etc. These would require new builds, to replace the majority of Victorian buildings, certainly the space is not readily available in Edinburgh.

Not a fan of Alex salmond either but that won't prevent me voting yes.

feckbox much of the chip is because Scots have no say in much of the running of their country, and no say in which party governs the uk. Independence would solve that.

As for Salmond being a numpty, this is a vote for an independent Scotland, not a vote for Salmond/SNP in perpetuity.

itsallgoing to be fine, i get that up to a point .But there's a huge section of the Scottish population who have a chip on their shoulder because the are lazy with a massive sense of entitlement without having to work and they are all for independance because they think they will get more while still doing feck all

Really? Where'd you get that from?!

Surely if we're independent then there won't be as much money to put into the coffers for the 'lazily' unemployed?

As we're far smaller than England we could have a truly means tested society which would be fairer.

Might be a pipe dream though....

Racist outbursts in this thread. Try to control yourselves.

50 years of living and working in Scotland

Hear hear jennypiccolo.

I am glad the Scots are getting a vote, I truly hope once and for all that whatever is decided this whole issue is put to bed its just a shame it will take two years to do so

feckbox I sort of see where you are coming from. There is horrendous poverty in many of Scotland's cities, families where no one has worked for three generations. This a a huge and complex problem, and one that can best be solved in the long term by a Scottish government administering its own welfare.

Ya see, you try to have healthy debate and some one just has to come along to antagonise..

who is antagonising?

Feckbox - I may have picked you up wrong, I don't agree with your sentiments re a huge portion of Scots being lazy but I do believe (if this what you meant) that some Scots do believe that things will magically get better once we win our "FREEDOM!!"

Agreed with kaumana.

I don't know where the 'lazy Scots' thing came from? It's not really justified in any way.