Is Scottish independence a 'good or bad' thing?

Both sides are guilty and I find it very unsavoury. Then again, for the SNP this has always been about Anglophobia and their rhetoric reflects it.


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What a hateful lot some of you are. I'm sorry but it has to be said. This Better Campaign is suffused with negativity - you'll find that for the most part, SNP's campaign is suffused with positivity.

Garbage-anyone who questions the SNP's promises is called a scaremongerer who is belittling Scotland. They are actually doing the opposite-Alex Salmond is selling the Scots a false vision and somebody has to scrutinise it so they don't make a dreadful mistake.

I'm sick, sick, sick of reading about Scottish "anglophobia". It's simply not true for most of us. Half of my family is English - what I do have a problem with is Westminister making our decisions time and again.

You're sick of reading about it, I'm sick of experiencing it. Westminster don't run NHS Scotland, they don't dictate the Scottish curriculum and Scotland enjoys more money spent per head on it than other constituents courtesy of the Barnett formula. The Scottish Government enjoys a wealth of autonomy it makes little use of because for now, it doesn't strengthen their agenda to do so.

By walking into illegal wars that we don't support. Introducing atrocious policies like the bedroom tax. The list goes on. I want an independent Scotland because I want a better future for our country . Let me tell you now - I have been surrounded by SNP supporters all my life and have found that *most* of them are confident with a real "can do" attitude.

Just because the current government does things you disagree with that is no reason at all just to up and leave-that's outright fickle. It doesn't matter, for example, that the present Westminster set-up allowed Scottish MPs to approve tuition fee hikes in England.

The Better Together campaign (and most of you folk on here) have a real "Scotland can't do" attitude that you keep hammering towards us. The truth is, you can debate all you like but it has nothing to do with you. Clearly Midlander and Lib, the likes of the bedroom tax and have no impact on you whatsoever. Because you are comfortable enough you are quite free to sit behind your computer tapping away while families live off of food banks thanks to the poverty we've been dragged into, while the rich keep getting richer. You don't know, and probably never will know what it is like to be so far oppressed that things need to change and you have to break free. The truth is that all the questions (that Salmond apparently keeps dodging) will never be definitely, conclusively answered because we need to be open to change, and yes, to some extent taking a leap of faith. I am ready for that leap and a lot of other people are too.

What an absurd thing to level at people you don't know. I spent virtually all of my student life overdrawn because I had no other means of meeting my education costs at a Scottish university. Now I'm in postgrad education and earning the money to pay this off-and contributing to the Scottish economy in the process with the work I do. You talk as though everybody in England is laughing it up with champagne glasses at Scotland's expense-it is total garbage. Your talk of oppression resonates with the jingoistic nonsense spouted by the Yes voters on here.

But others aren't quite yet. I hope that the Scottish people take that leap of faith next year - otherwise I would seriously struggle to continue living in this country thereafter.

What a hateful lot some of you are. I'm sorry but it has to be said. Blah blah blah

Absolutely hilarious line I heard from one Yes supporter on the BBC News Channel today, 'What we want is independence, not separation'.

Just about sums the whole thing up for me, really.

What a hateful lot some of you are. I'm sorry but it has to be said. This Better Campaign is suffused with negativity - you'll find that for the most part, SNP's campaign is suffused with positivity.

I'm sick, sick, sick of reading about Scottish "anglophobia". It's simply not true for most of us. Half of my family is English - what I do have a problem with is Westminister making our decisions time and again. By walking into illegal wars that we don't support. Introducing atrocious policies like the bedroom tax. The list goes on. I want an independent Scotland because I want a better future for our country . Let me tell you now - I have been surrounded by SNP supporters all my life and have found that *most* of them are confident with a real "can do" attitude. The Better Together campaign (and most of you folk on here) have a real "Scotland can't do" attitude that you keep hammering towards us. The truth is, you can debate all you like but it has nothing to do with you. Clearly Midlander and Lib, the likes of the bedroom tax and have no impact on you whatsoever. Because you are comfortable enough you are quite free to sit behind your computer tapping away while families live off of food banks thanks to the poverty we've been dragged into, while the rich keep getting richer. You don't know, and probably never will know what it is like to be so far oppressed that things need to change and you have to break free. The truth is that all the questions (that Salmond apparently keeps dodging) will never be definitely, conclusively answered because we need to be open to change, and yes, to some extent taking a leap of faith. I am ready for that leap and a lot of other people are too.

But others aren't quite yet. I hope that the Scottish people take that leap of faith next year - otherwise I would seriously struggle to continue living in this country thereafter.

Absolutely, incredibly and unutterably illegal under any conventional formulation of EU law and completely contrary to the principles of membership. On a more personal level, I think it's discriminatory and offensive.

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Come on lib. We'd need to be in the EU for that to be illegal. Everybody outside of Scotland studying up here would be paying.

On HE funding, they have addressed the issue of non-Scottish UK nationals studying in Scotland, but not that of Scottish nationals studying elsewhere in the UK.

If Scotland were independent, but didn't join the EU, then universities in Wales, England, Northern Ireland could charge international student fees to Scottish applicants.

This in itself isn't the strongest argument for or against independence, but something 16-17 year-old voters in Scotland may wish to consider..

That might play into the hands of the SNP. They'd be able to perpetuate the myth that somehow we're ideologically different by discouraging any firm if interaction.

The paper assumes that EU membership has been given by this point I assume.

That's great for nationalist political parties, but for the real people growing up wanting to study at university, I'm not sure it's something they'd appreciate.

One more thing I'd like to address, as I've seen comments on various sites and news articles claiming that the UK is in an unstable financial situation, and so Scotland should leave the Union.

The brutal reality is that, if the UK were to be in serious trouble financially or economically, Scotland would also be in serious trouble, regardless of the level of political unity. The links between our countries will still be huge, so independence would not address that concern.

That might play into the hands of the SNP. They'd be able to perpetuate the myth that somehow we're ideologically different by discouraging any firm if interaction.