The pro-independence side continuing to pick up pace: just 6% behind "No" in the latest Panelbase poll.

Bearing in mind Panelbase are the only organisation to have published a poll showing independence ahead in the campaign and tend to be fairly out of line with all the other polling organisations, I'm a bit wary on their methodology.

Another boost for the "Yes" side. David Cameron apparently will resign if Scotland votes for independence:

 

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/benedict...land-does-care/

The Islands have the financial resources to go it alone but they physically can't survive without the mainland. They need the mainland for food, water, electricity, building supplies, anything that isn't some sheep, oil and gas.

They can't physically survive without the mainland? Oh come on: you're not exactly going to set up a BLOCKADE whatever they decide to do and isolate from the world because of their decision! :D That's on par with some of the 'Scotland doesn't produce enough coal/fruit/Yorkshire puddings' to fulfil its populace's demand that some unionist figures come out with. Anyway, I doubt the Islands will actually succeed from Scotland whatever happens.

Another boost for the "Yes" side. David Cameron apparently will resign if Scotland votes for independence:

 

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/benedict...land-does-care/

SWell, that's not quite what the article says. Surely even Cameron isn't dim enough to give the Yes campaign as big a boost as that :lol:

He should resign now; then I'd probably vote 'no', because really you can't get any worse than him.

He should resign now; then I'd probably vote 'no', because really you can't get any worse than him.

Oh you can~

He should resign now; then I'd probably vote 'no', because really you can't get any worse than him.

You say that when George Osborne could be next in line.

I'd rather have Cameron than Osbourne but only in the way that I'd rather have a terminal illness than be dead.

They can't physically survive without the mainland? Oh come on: you're not exactly going to set up a BLOCKADE whatever they decide to do and isolate from the world because of their decision! :D That's on par with some of the 'Scotland doesn't produce enough coal/fruit/Yorkshire puddings' to fulfil its populace's demand that some unionist figures come out with. Anyway, I doubt the Islands will actually succeed from Scotland whatever happens.

Their primary supply route is by ferry. A ferry company that is heavily subsidised by the Scottish Government to the point that it is unviable without that support. Hence the dependence as they are not self-sufficient. I would be willing to guess that the Scottish Government would remove that subsidy as it would put more money into the budget as they would no longer have a requirement to keep these islands connected to the mainland.

 

No CalMac ferry = v.struggling Island communities.

 

 

(Air is too expensive to bring in supplies as the runways aren't long enough for proper aircraft)

 

 

 

 

((Plus a healthy dash of hyperbole))

Another boost for the "Yes" side. David Cameron apparently will resign if Scotland votes for independence:

 

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/benedict...land-does-care/

What difference would it make? If someone didn't want Cameron as PM that badly they'd be voting Yes anyway because he wouldn't be their PM by definition!

because really you can't get any worse than Cameron.

LOL

 

I mean, comparing Tory PMs is a little bit like picking your favourite gastrointestinal disorder, but on the scale Cameron's a mere night stuck on the WC.

SWell, that's not quite what the article says. Surely even Cameron isn't dim enough to give the Yes campaign as big a boost as that :lol:

 

It says it in the very first sentence. :P

 

Of course, whether or not it's actually a reliable source is a different story.

He almost certainly WOULD resign if Scotland declared independence, but that has been always obvious. Your position isn't really sustainable in a democracy if a massive chunk of the country votes to secede in large part due to protest against your leadership.

 

That said, if anyone's looking for ways of getting rid of Cameron then voting Labour's a much more convenient way rather than implicitly urging on our Scottish brethren to declare themselves foreigners.

What difference would it make? If someone didn't want Cameron as PM that badly they'd be voting Yes anyway because he wouldn't be their PM by definition!

 

OK then. More reason for those of us in the rest of the UK to hope it's a "Yes" vote.

 

Careful what you wish for...

He should resign now; then I'd probably vote 'no', because really you can't get any worse than him.

Erm, how about someone whose name rhymes with Joris Bohnson? He would be far worse.

Careful what you wish for...

 

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Careful what you wish for...

Have you had a change of heart regarding whether it could actually happen?

OK then. More reason for those of us in the rest of the UK to hope it's a "Yes" vote.

And be stuck with Tory government until there's a massive shift in voting patterns?

And be stuck with Tory government until there's a massive shift in voting patterns?

 

We wouldn't though. It's been well-established at this point that Scotland hasn't affected any recent election results eitherway. In fact, right now, Labour are actually polling slightly worse in Scotland than they are in the UK as a whole (because the SNP are living proof of how dangerous the Progress thinktankbots' mantra of taking leftwing Labour voters for granted and the assumption that they have "nowhere else to go" is), so removing Scotland would actually give them a small boost in the polls.

 

Plus, if Scotland do leave, it might FINALLY send a message to the Establishment of how tired everyone is of them all just pandering to London and southern England, and it might make them start actually taking views from other parts of the country into account out of fear that more people will want to break away.