Scottish Independence Referendum - 18 September 2014

[joevsimp]

Since Salmond is such a an of all things Nordic, I wouldn't be surprised if the SNP morphed into something like the Centre Parties over in Scandinavia, probably mop up some of the independent voters at local level in the Highlands (or at least attempt to) and gain some members from the conservatives and libdems (although there'd probably be a few going the other way as well, as well as to Labour and whatever various Socialist parties is most credible

[joevsimp]

A few on the Yes side are claiming that the "world's largest oil field" has been discovered off of Shetland but that Westminster is covering it up.

Aha.

Salmond would be shouting from the rooftops about this at the tiniest sniff of evidence.

you mean repeatedly typing the word TRILLION in all caps doesn't count as evidence?

[joevsimp]

ComRes have polled the two local authority areas on the English border:

D&G: No 67%, Yes 33%
Borders: No 68%, Yes 32%

That's actually a bit better for Yes than I would have expected.

the yes results for those two in 79 and 97 were:
_________79___97parl__97tax
DG:_____40.3%_60.7%__48.8%
borders__40.3%_62.8%__50.7%
scotland_51.6%_74.3%__63.5%

so those two council areas were 10 to 15% lower than average, looks like a narrow no on those figures