The independence details are in the White Paper. 602 pages. I`ve read it.  If the vote is yes, the main negotations will be the Currency Union and entry into the EU. The scaremongering of the CU and EU have blown out of the water by experts far and wide. Research it. Both will happen...fact.  Scotland is the 14th richest country in the western world. The UK is the 18th. Westminster and the elite rich boys in power only want to hold on to us for the revenues. They don`t give damn about Scotland (or the rest of the UK apart from London and the SE) or it`s people. Bedroom tax, Welfare cuts, NHS privitisation and more is heading our way if the vote is no. Osborne has promised his austerity plan will continue and Miliband if he gets in, promises to do the same. He`s a Thatcher fan..fact.  We don`t have control over any this but we will if we vote yes. It`s up to you and everyone as to which way you vote but I don`t want to be ruled by London and the ermin clad pigs in the trough elite who don`t care about us. I don`t know what`s been posted while I was typing this..took me ages. I`ll try to have a look back later, my tea`s oot.   

Alex Salmond wants a currency union which is very unlikely, do you honestly think the rest of the UK are going to agree a currency union,do they want to be on the hook for our debt? .Don't you think we should know when we go to the polls what the fiscal policy will be .

Dennis Canavan who is part of the YES campaign wants Scotland to have it's own currency!!

And Salmond has also hinted at a plan B.

Clear as mud then . 

I think a currency union is going to happen if Scotland splits from the UK,  UK is fairly desperate as is the USA,  to keep the nuclear deterrent in Scotland, the price for that would be a currency union.

But if Scotland have a currency union with the UK, then they will have to give up control of large parts of any control over their own fiscal policy, otherwise  we'll end with  a mess like Greece.

So, that would beg the question, isn't that what Scotland has already?

There are two takes on the European situation - one side says if you leave the UK you also automatically leave Europe and will have to apply to join - the other side says Scotland is already in Europe, so there's no need to join again.

I'm not aware of anyone clarifying that situation (again I might just not be paying enough attention) and if it is 'YES' and Scotland is out of Europe - is it a good or bad thing?

Don`t underestimate what the Tories or the now leaning to the right Labour party will do in their need to be in power. If UKIP get the votes, they`ll negotiate.

The white paper has Trident nuclear weapons, currently based on the Clyde, removed within the first parliament.

Well of course it does, it's  the negotiating card that trumps the UK pound.

Well I and other will be campaigning  very hard to make sure that a NO vote is returned .

I have to laugh ,my first post on this thread was keeping out because I don't want my BP going off the scale

I have some BP tablets I can spare you if required.

I have some BP tablets I can spare you if required.

My older brother took a heart attack and the family had to be tested and I was the only other member of the family found to have high BP  I was given medication. (Ramipril).

I have some BP tablets I can spare you if required.

My older brother took a heart attack and the family had to be tested and I was the only other member of the family found to have high BP  I was given medication. (Ramipril).

I'm on that amongst other BP medication   as you were 

Think nothing more of it, you are like family to us now.

I wonder if any of our  new members will become regulars....

I seem to have taken this thread 

Hmmm let me think about that… I've thought about that. No, my considered opinion is no they won't.

Is that because they can't handle a good debate do you think?  

Never thought starting a thread would bring all these new people how did they find us, are we being watched eek

Some one I know googled the thread title and your ( or you're for the less educated that cann't master our own language) thread was 3rd on the list! I  

assume you mean me? unfortunately I was diagnosed with a learning disorder at a young age & couldn't read or write properly until I was around 13 years old, I still struggle to this day but hope you can understand my views & opinions that I try to put across even with the bad

grammar etc. Thank You.

Look on the bright side at least you don't have the  shits.

Starsky, Ignore the people that pull out the old (Your a racist) chesnut, just 

because they are happy being governed by Brussels, they just want to shut

you up & that's the only way they know how to, I get called a racist online

all the time & my mother is jamaican & my Father is Irish, don't let them

bully you, they have all lost the argument the same way Nick clegg did when

he was slaughtered by Nigel Farag. talk about kamikasi mission ha ha.