I've just signed the petition. Thank you PPs for the link.
If one more person claims that "The people of Scotland will make Scotland what we want it to be"........... I am a person of Scotland - I don't want to be torn out of the uk. I didn't vote SNP. I have never had a government I've voted for.
Nicola Sturgeon is incredibly rude and unprofessional in the Scottish parliament. I listened to FM's QT the other week and was appalled at the unprofessional, rude responses she made to Q's from the leaders of the other parties. She is IMO worse than the Westminster politicians in that respect.
Scotland would not benefit from having a much smaller pool of resources, human and otherwise on which to draw.
Why would we needlessly spend time and resources on setting up Scottish bodies when we currently have perfectly good british bodies?
There is no argument on the grounds of Scottish identity. It has the same languages, religions, culture, ethnicities as rUK.
The argument that smaller is better is a case of reduction ad absurdam. Rule from Edinburgh would result in people from the highlands and islands feeling under-represented.
How would we explain why we voted to dismantle the UK? We thought we deserved a bigger share of the playground so we drew a line down the middle of it and set up our own stuff for our side of the playground needlessly resulting in two sets of everything.
It feels like my family's life is being messed about with for no good reason. DS who will leave school this summer wanted to apply to study in a EU country, but we talked him out of it as the fees would probably be prohibitively expensive once we are ex-EU. Instead he accepted a place in London. Btw the Scottish govt has scrapped the extra amount of loan that Scottish students in London used to be allowed to borrow. If she has her way he could find himself studying in a foreign country anyway. Great. And before anyone trumpets the free fees for Scottish students at Scottish unis..... the threshold for paying back student loans for Scottish graduates is quite a bit lower than for English students and they are liable to pay it back over 35 rather than 30 years. DS would be very unlikely to be able to transfer to the same course in Scotland in the event of his fees going up if Scotland became independent as there is only one place for his specialism in the whole of Scotland.
The independence campaingn sounded like Donald flaming Trump with his America first, americans come first rhetoric. We want a fairer, more equitable Scotland etc - doesn't the snp want that for the whole of UK? No. They want power, at any price.
I shudder to think how insular and inward-looking we would be if Scotland became independent. Perhaps the teaching in state schools would be done exclusively in gaelic or doric. I can just imagine the 'North East man dies in ship disaster' type news.
I really really hope that TM doesn't allow another referendum. What a waste of time, energy and money.