Independence, or else .

[Green Bottle]

Nobody thinks it will be easy, we all know there will be problems and difficulties along the way but everybody voting Yes is willing to take the chance of a better Scotland for everybody.
For instance did you know.........

SCOTLAND HAS A £17 BILLION CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY
SCOTLAND HAS A £13 BILLION FOOD AND DRINK INDUSTRY (IRN BRU IS WORTH £7.3 BILLION)
SCOTLAND HAS £10 BILLION BUSINESS SERVICES INDUSTRY
SCOTLAND HAS A £9.3 BILLION CHEMICAL SCIENCES INDUSTRY
SCOTLAND HAS A £9.3 BILLION TOURISM INDUSTRY
SCOTLAND HAS A £7 BILLION FINANCIAL SERVICES INDUSTRY
SCOTLAND HAS A £5 BILLION AEROSPACE INDUSTRY
SCOTLAND HAS A £4.5 BILLION WHISKEY EXPORT INDUSTRY
SCOTLAND HAS A £3.1 BILLION LIFE SCIENCES INDUSTRY
SCOTLAND HAS £350 MILLION TEXTILE EXPORTS

SCOTLAND WOULD BE THE 8th WEALTHIEST NATION IN THE WORLD IN GBP.(exclude oil we would be 14th the UK would be 18th)
"SCOTLAND HAS 25% OF EUROPE'S WAVE AND WIND ENERGY."

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[josephpalazzo]

Nobody thinks it will be easy, we all know there will be problems and difficulties along the way but everybody voting Yes is willing to take the chance of a better Scotland for everybody.
For instance did you know.........

SCOTLAND HAS A £17 BILLION CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY
SCOTLAND HAS A £13 BILLION FOOD AND DRINK INDUSTRY (IRN BRU IS WORTH £7.3 BILLION)
SCOTLAND HAS £10 BILLION BUSINESS SERVICES INDUSTRY
SCOTLAND HAS A £9.3 BILLION CHEMICAL SCIENCES INDUSTRY
SCOTLAND HAS A £9.3 BILLION TOURISM INDUSTRY
SCOTLAND HAS A £7 BILLION FINANCIAL SERVICES INDUSTRY
SCOTLAND HAS A £5 BILLION AEROSPACE INDUSTRY
SCOTLAND HAS A £4.5 BILLION WHISKEY EXPORT INDUSTRY
SCOTLAND HAS A £3.1 BILLION LIFE SCIENCES INDUSTRY
SCOTLAND HAS £350 MILLION TEXTILE EXPORTS

SCOTLAND WOULD BE THE 8th WEALTHIEST NATION IN THE WORLD IN GBP.(exclude oil we would be 14th the UK would be 18th)
"SCOTLAND HAS 25% OF EUROPE'S WAVE AND WIND ENERGY."

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And I thought CALIFORNIA was "THE 8th WEALTHIEST NATION IN THE WORLD". LOL.

Anyway, good luck. 

[Munch]

I don't want to be a massive buzz kill Green Bottle, but your putting a lot of faith in your politicians words. There is a reason why I stopped voting for anyone period, because you end up getting tired of the same old song and dance.

Still, maybe I'm wrong, I just stopped putting my faith in politicians a long time ago. 

[Green Bottle]

And I thought CALIFORNIA was "THE 8th WEALTHIEST NATION IN THE WORLD". LOL.

Anyway, good luck. 

Thx Joseph

I don't want to be a massive buzz kill Green Bottle, but your putting a lot of faith in your politicians words. There is a reason why I stopped voting for anyone period, because you end up getting tired of the same old song and dance.

Still, maybe I'm wrong, I just stopped putting my faith in politicians a long time ago. 

Munch, im the same , i dont give a fuck about politicians and dont really trust any of them but the most important thing for me is gaining independence from England.
Im just hoping that it will be a better country after the vote but whatever happens life will go on
and we'll all just have to live with it...
As long as we are free.........

[AllPurposeAtheist]

Those industries might be there now, but if the pols fuck things up big time and tank your economy those industries may just flee to places with better terms.. I hear China is always looking for a few greedy fuckers to relocate there..

[Shiranu]

I would be surprised if the English are really that big of dickholes still to intentionally try and ruin Scotland's economy.

Then again it would continue a tradition the English have spent a long time working on and would justify my distaste for them that much more, so who knows...

[Hydra009]

I don't like to be the bearer of bad news...

But sorry guys, no independence today.

[PickelledEggs]

I don't like to be the bearer of bad news...

But sorry guys, no independence today.

Holy shit that is a close vote.

I'm really sorry, Bottle.... :(

[Shiranu]

Rationally; I think things are better off this way.

As someone with an emotional agenda to this; god damn it :\.

[Aroura33]

I'm so sorry it didn't pass.  Maybe it will come up again in the future, and the public will be better informed and less likely to fall prey to scare tactics.

[Minimalist]

Now the Scots are going to have to put up with all the b.s. about the royal rug rat.

Maybe they'll ask for a recount?

[stromboli]

Already claims of voter fraud
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/police-probe-glasgow-voter-fraud-allegations-234708786.html#EbG5htH

Police are investigating allegations of voter fraud in the Scottish referendum in Glasgow, election officials have confirmed.
Colin Edgar from Glasgow City Council told Sky's Kay Burley police were called in after evidence emerged of 10 possible incidents of electoral fraud in the city.
The allegations appear to centre on attempts at personation at some polling stations.
Mr Edgar said: "We've had a number of suggestions over the course of the day that people have turned up at the polling station to vote and they appear to have voted already.
"This is called personation if it turns out to be what it actually is.
"So what's happening tonight is we know which boxes those votes went into and we know the numbers on the votes, so the police have asked us to identify those votes, to take them away, keep them for evidence and hand them to them."
Mr Edgar said presiding officers had alerted officials to incidents of possible electoral fraud.
"Somebody turned up to vote, they gave their name, the presiding officer went to cross off their name on their list of voters to give them a ballot paper and found that their name had already been crossed off and a ballot paper already issued to somebody who apparently had the same name."
He said the ballot papers would be traced and kept secure overnight before being passed to Police Scotland.
Staff at the count will search for them using blue gloves to avoid contaminating the evidence with fingerprints.
The votes would remain part of the count until police prove fraud has taken place, a Glasgow City Council spokeswoman said.
The real voter is given a special vote which is not included in the count until the allegations are proven, she said.
Mr Edgar said fraud could have been committed because there is no requirement for voters to prove their ID at polling stations in UK elections.
A Police Scotland spokesman said the force "takes the safety and security of the independence referendum extremely seriously and is working with partner agencies including local authorities and the chief counting officer to ensure the integrity of the ballot".
"Any crime committed will be investigated appropriately," he added.
Stewart Hosie, the SNP's Treasury spokesman at Westminster, said it was "very sad that people feel the need to engage in any kind of impersonation".

[Munch]

I just got up now and heard the news. Green, I'm so sorry :(. Though I'm a brit I backed it for scots independence. I'm a bit a nervous for my friends and family now.
If there's a chance of fraud then maybe..

[SGOS]

I'm sorry to hear this.  When one is emotionally invested in an outcome, it's painful to lose a vote like this.  I still don't understand the pros and cons of independence for Scotland, so I have no opinion to offer, but my heart goes out to those who wanted to be free of England.

[Munch]

My boyfriend was saying, his reason for wanting to go independent was to escape the growing taint of UKIP from the uk. I can understand his fear in this completely, ukip are some of the worst forms of nationalism, almost bordering on Nazism, and a stain on my country I wish would drown. 

That said there is the ongoing threat of muslim growth in the uk, and this sadly gives more power to ukip as a result. Two extremists sides of the same fucked up coin.