[Jim Noble]

Oh, also, if the referendum wins 51-49, that means that it's not 9% of the UK population which is being allowed to dissolve the UK, but rather 4.59%.

The whole concept is absurd.

[UKrepublican]

Most of us British citizens have resigned our self to the fact our light on the world stage is all be extinguished.

With that being the case, it is the benefit to people such as myself that Scotland goes, in the same way people on this board often ponder the political benefits, i.e. a shift to the right, should parts of the north east cease to be part of America.

I’m undecided on the issue, I would rather have a United Kingdom, but in actual fact there could be some immense benefits to being rid of the Scots and their socialist, militant union ways.

[Wallace T.]

You could make the same argument about the secession of Ireland from the UK ninety years ago, or the breakup of the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia in the early 1990s. Many Catalonians would like to secede from Spain, even though it has been part of Spain for a longer time than Scotland has been in the UK. National boundaries are not sacred. In our own case, I would welcome the secession of the states north of the Potomac and east of the Alleghenies, and of the three West Coast states and Hawaii.

[sauropod]

My understanding of the SNP is that they are repulsively Leftist (worse than the Labour Party if you can believe that).

I have been following this and the argument that the First Minister has been making is that independence is good for jobs (IOW not a freedom issue).

This is not a valid, rational reason for Independence.

However, I do think Independence might be good for Scotland.

I also live in a State where the urban population centers dictate what the State does and what the level of taxation is. I also am tired of not having a voice in our government. I do understand the desire for Scots to be independent.

[Paine in the Neck]

Oh, also, if the referendum wins 51-49, that means that it's not 9% of the UK population which is being allowed to dissolve the UK, but rather 4.59%.

The whole concept is absurd.

And yet, that a mere parcel o' rogues, for English gold, sold Scotland into union in the first instance is not absurd?

The tragedy, alas, is that independent Scotland is likely to be a socialist basket-case.