Any positives about a YES vote, for the English? (light hearted)

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The Weather on TV will be a LOT shorter.

We will only have to wait 5 minutes for the weather girl to get round to us, instead of the usual 15 minutes, while they go all round the houses Scotland etc.

Oh can we have a national design competition and then end up with a flag that looks like a primary school class tea towel?

Deep fried mars bars may not be completely unobtainable. Sometime last century, when I was un student halls, un Newcastle, there was a chippy round the corner that had it on their menu.

Maybe we will have a new breed of takeaways appearing in the northeast. Alongside the pizza, kebab, Chinese, Indian and parmo, there will also be authentic Scottish cuisine, served by Scottish immigrants.

Nah, duty free shops always take a variety of currencies, you'll be able to use £s

LegionOfBoom

The verse you mean is:

Lord grant that Marshal Wade
May by thy mighty aid
Victory bring.
May he sedition hush,
And like a torrent rush,
Rebellious Scots to crush.
God save the King!

Legion you don't think it might make England's third a bit cluttered?

I say we make the whole thing from loom bands.

A LOOM BAND FLAG? My dd will make it. Then she'll get bored after 5 mins and it'll look crap

Loom bands made by little Timmy, 10, from Accrington

But perhaps what is needed now is the routine inclusion of another rarely used verse:

Not in this land alone,
But be God’s mercies known,
From shore to shore!
Lord make the nations see,
That men should brothers be,
And form one family,
The wide world over!

Whisky, Grouse, Shortbread and, of course, Haggis will become black market goods.

But how would we get through zchristmas without a Grouse advert?

AuntieStella wow I'd never seen that before.

TSSDNCOP A flag made of loom bands is pure genius. Is Blue Peter still on the air? If not can we bring it back to help with the new flag?

Well obviously the new flag should have a dragon on it. The hand idea might not go down well with all the NI folk though. We could have a white flag with the two red crosses (george and patrick) with a dragon rampant on it. But it would have to become a blue dragon so it showed up and we still have the red white and blue.

No, there will be hundred of haggis refugee centres just south of the border where beleaguered haggi will take a rest before venturing south.

At these centres they'll be met by your shifty men in trench coats who will trade an English passport for a leg of venison, a packet of shortbread, a punnet of raspberries, a bottle of Whisky and a fresh caught Salmon.

These goods will then be sold on to posh, but secret, restaurants specialising in Scottish cuisine where the sacred recipe for deep fried mars bars is handed down by word of mouth with only the head chef of each establishment being privy to the information.

Someone's already setting up centres for poor destitute Haggi

Phew i was getting concerned there

OMG just been on Facebook, one of my stupid cousins has put 'vote yes Scotland, then we can kick all the Gingers out back to where they belong'

Back to Scandinavia then?

Obv he is unaware a lot of us red headed demons have Irish Heritage too.

Presumably these shifty men in trench coats will also be able to fix you up with a can or two of Irn Bru.

beccajoh I know right? He's a bloody plonker. I think his only knowledge of Scotland comes from the movie Brave. I know 2 Hungarian kids with bright red hair. He'd probably be baffled into silence.

Wow, many a true word spoken in jest, eh!

Reading these has made me very glad I put my wee cross in the YES box.

This is like finding out your friends at school really didn't like you anyway and talked behind your back.

sezza I don't see how you could be offended by much if this?

Our TV weather forecasts will be a lot shorter and sunnier.

We might be called the Former UK (FUK) which will be great for postcards.

"At these centres they'll be met by your shifty men in trench coats who will trade an English passport for a leg of venison, a packet of shortbread, a punnet of raspberries, a bottle of Whisky and a fresh caught Salmond "

Fixed that for you

'The Country Formerly Know As The UK'

Will sound really fab at the Olympics etc