Hello again.
prettybird Unfortunately I agree with your DF about the very negative campaign leaflets. Very light on policies. I'm still going to vote for JS as I think Lib Dem and probably JS are preferable to snp and JN.
Someone was going round the doors yesterday wearing a purple tabard (?) as I was going out. I don't know which party he was representing.
No sign of cons or labour on this street.
I have become obsessed with this election! I'll probably spend Thursday night on the sofa following the results and dozing intermittently like I did on the night of the indy ref. I know it won't change the result and I'll be knackered and probably depressed and grumpy on Friday, but I don't think I'll be able to resist 
I went to the local hustings on Wednesday. The labour candidate seemed competent, likeable and genuine. JS was her usual self, as was JN. Conservative candidate had a tough gig. I thought the applause was divided mostly between libs and snp. Very few young people attended. A young person I spoke to felt that JN was the most charismatic. DS had seen JN at school previously and described him as a 'loudmouth.' His opinion wasn't changed. As, on the doorstep he mentioned more than once that he had been a journalist. I find that really funny - journalism has a terrible reputation. Twice he referred to his Westminster position in the present tense!
cocoa I've heard mixed opinion about JS. The coalition definitely didn't help. She now apologises for voting to raise tuition fees and describes it as a mistake.
DS is going to study in London. Basically we can't afford it, even with his (modest) scholarship, but we're hoping he can get work and be extremely frugal. I hadn't realised how disadvantaged Scottish students who study in England are as they have to pay tuition fees + the harsher Scottish loans repayment system. Loans are repayable at a lower threshold and for longer than the English loans. It's really scary. I meant to ask JN about this but I forgot. Kicking myself.
On another thread a poster described this as a penalty for talented and/or ambitious Scottish students. Scottish students are subsidised by the Scottish government providing they study in Scotland or UK, but not in rUK.
In DS' case, there's one place available in Scotland for his performing arts course specialism (which he was actually offered) but the course has a very small intake and the graduate opportunities here are much more limited than in London. Students who move to London for a masters often find they don't have long enough to establish themselves and get work before they run completely out of money. Meanwhile Scottish students wanting to study in Scotland at the most highly regarded institutions are competing against the whole of the UK, EU and rest of the world. Numbers for Scottish students are capped while non-EU students in particular, who pay the highest fees seem to be particularly encouraged.
I'm convinced that in the unhappy event of Scottish independence there would be a huge brain drain and the snp 'outward looking, confident nation' spiel would seem even more farfetched. Imagine the waste there would be on setting up new institutions/agencies/buildings etc. Remember the Scottish parliament building? It doesn't bear thinking about.