When Scotland are independent, will effect the universities system?

These "facts" (False statements) are %110 incorrect! Sadly, when the Sottish people are fed a diet of propaganda by the BBC, Daily Mail, Sun and Daily Record they vote according to the wishes of their newspaper owners they buy into all of this rubbish.

Lets not forget that 16 & 17 year olds WILL be given the ability to vote, despite all of Cameron's wishes and why not? They can learn to drive, get married and start a family? Why are they not able to vote for goodness sake?!

"Scottish public spending totalled £63.8 billion last while tax revenue was only £53.1 billion even when a geographic share of North Sea oil is included."

You mean the 10 billions Scotland gets more from London than it pays in taxes?

It's equally disingenuous to talk about the "millions upon millions" that Scots are allegedly pumping into London, mind you.

London subsidises the whole of the UK, not the other way around.

Lets not forget that 16 & 17 year olds WILL be given the ability to vote, despite all of Cameron's wishes and why not? They can learn to drive, get married and start a family? Why are they not able to vote for goodness sake?!

When Scotland are independent, how do you think this will effect the universities system? As it stands, obviously Scotland is widely regarded as the better education provider in general and this is why English students are more likely to enroll at our Unis rather than their own.

Will the English have to pay even more when studying at our Unis or will the fees stay the same?

English (and other British) fees would go down to zero to be in line with the other EU countries (assuming Scotland get into the EU), which is in line with Scottish fees. It's only a loophole that allows Scottish universities to charge more to other Brits than from France, Germany etc.

Not necessarily. You're forgetting that the reason our education system is better accross the board is because we choose to invest in it, similarly to both Wales and Ireland. Something that England hasn't and never intends to to do.

Bear in mind that those statistics conveniently don't include revenues from North Sea oil/gas.

Do you really believe that independence wouldn't be disastrous for both countries?

What would either of us really gain from it? We would have to share armed forces (or else I'm afraid neither of us will be any sort of global power any more) - we need the deep harbours in Scotland for submarine bases and you need our submarines, as a basic example. The navy is already critically low on ships. Implementing any change would be magnified threefold in cost due to bureacracy. The entire idea is based on an anger passed down through so many generations that it has become meaningless, and a slightly dubious belief that you can survive indefinitely on north sea oil and gas.

Also, it might interest you that a 'friend' of mine is influential in the 'yes' campaign, and their method is to target small groups and appeal to their sense of patriotism, or their selfishness by promising things specific to their needs. It isn't based on a genuine argument. This person admits himself that he has a new power-structure envisaged for Scotland. If you vote yes you will not be helping anyone in the UK who isn't close to Alex Salmond.

/rant (sorry, nothing personal!)

From what I can see independence will be disastrous for the UK and prosperous for Scotland.

Britain already has hardly any global power anymore and its time to start realising that. You need our deep harbours but we don't want the nukes. Scotland will not need a large army as we won't be fighting in pointless illegal wars.

Scotland doesn't need the oil to survive but the trillion dollars left of it will certainly help us out. Ahh I have a friend who does this and that arguement.. lol. Don't talk about dirty tactics because the unionists and the bbc are worse.

From what I can see independence will be disastrous for the UK and prosperous for Scotland.

Even if that is true, why would it make you happy that the country next to you comes out badly? Do you not see the implications? We share a tiny island - we are not your enemies. You have no reason to hate the English.

And how can you not see how short sighted it is to willingly give up being a nuclear power? The western world looks stable now, but it's balanced on a knife edge.

Britain is still a global power because we are one of very few countries with a blue-water navy, we speak the same language as two major continents, we are a very developed nation, and we have advanced nuclear weapons. Scotland breaking away to become a utopic hippy nation that wants nothing to do with its only neighbour is, quite frankly, insane and very random.

You can take into account practically anything and still discover London subsidises everywhere. Obviously this is no more a slight on Scotland than it is on the North of England, Wales, the SW of England, etc.

True, but the whole concept of one area 'subsidising' another has been debunked in the past. Something along the lines of if you're gonna say that London subsidises the rest of the UK, you might as well say that my parents house subsidises the house next door because my parents earn slightly more.

Or look at it another way: London just happens to be where the big business is at. This is not the fault of the rest of the UK.

Or another way: maybe London subsidises Wales, the SE subsidises N.I., and Scotland subsidises the North of England...

To some extent, I'd agree with that.

And I'm not saying the rest of the UK is at fault, just that if we're gonna be silly like that, we should at least look at where an astonishing amount of the country's wealth is generated.

My opinion, which I am entitled to btw, is that when Scotland go independent we will prosper and the rest of the UK will suffer.

I only ask all of you one question.. If Scotland sponges off and is subsidized by the rest of the UK (I.E "London"), why are you all so keen to keep us?