Least Mrs Merton would have answered straight Rosie 

Why not have both? No kilted giraffes here!

Clarinets!

I don't know, Cinds. 

Some companies have indicated they may move their business down south if there is a YES vote, but as far as individuals, I just don't know.

Don't think anyone else does either - or why people who have become resident in Scotland within the last few months can!

From what I've read, they will not have a vote - even if they are draffted into the campaign.

I've heard that on the news, but I'm really interested in what individuals would do.

Plus what will happen at Carter Bar, probably one of the most delightful scenery spots on the border. Will it get a border control point put there, or a toll booth?

A bit of fiddling around the edges? - really?  How do you think Scotland can afford to free university education? no prescription charges? free elderly social care? it's because the rest of us are paying for it, we are paying for stuff that we  can't afford for ourselves.The 10% more that has been granted  to Scotland, roughly equates to the amount Scotland as an will  receive in oil and gas revenues.Or do you think it's because you have  really good politicians that know how to budget?Bet the Welsh are over the moon, because they get **** all everytime.

Ruled by Westminster? aren't we all , you guys aren't alone in despising  the  smugs in Westminster, you just have the opportunity to wriggle out and leave the rest of us to it, so thanks for that.

A few hicups?  are you serious? - Where is the outcome of the talks with Europe as Scotland wants to join as an independent  country? , no that's right there isn't one, because no one has had that conversation as yet, the same  regarding the currency, what's been resolved there? - oh , nothing again,however if you keep the pound, then your interest rates will be set by those very same smugs in Westminster, it's hardly independence, is it?

Just a few hicups...

I doubt they'll do anything much, either way! When it comes down to it, it will probably be a question of money!Can many of us afford an unscheduled/unplanned move?

Checkpoint (Bonnie Prince) Charlie

With respect, I think it's a bit more than that.  A helluva lot more.

For a start - you have the opportunity to change the government every few years.  

Several major employers will anyway.. but hey ho.. we'll all drill oil, or work in hospitality.     Anyone need a waitress.

Seriously - I'll cry, but moving isn't an option unfortunately.

No, they don't have a vote (well, Alan Cumming might - he at least visits his Ma... that's why I said getting in on the 'act'   I love AC as an actor, but I was gutted to see him posing with Ms No Personality today.

Build two (I'm sure donks snores)

probably bang on kaffs 

*adds soundproof blocks to builders list* 

Is it true that Nicola Sturgeon hates Salmond so much that she will try and topple him if there's a NO vote?

By way of light relief...

"Mock the Week" covered the independence vote tonight, and Dara O'Briain considered what it might mean:

"If it’s a 'Yes' vote, the average rainfall in Britain will go down, the average life expectancy in Britain will go up, and the Wimbledon clock will have to be reset: at 78 years.  And also saying things like 'You’ll have had your tea, then.' will now be racist."

Well, that wasn't really enlightening. Just the usual claptrap. Where are the persuasive arguments for a YES vote?

Yes, he did come xcross like a Thunderbirds puppet

I really feel for you Kaffs, the whole thing has been so divisive whatever the outcome While I really do sympathise with those who don't want to be under the control of the Bullingdon boys and their 'old school tie' toff mates I hate how the whole thing has become a hot bed of anti-English by many Scots and anti-Scot  by many English. I don't think we're likely to recover from that in our lifetime

 Well said JB

What I don't understand is, some who want to have an independent Scotland say that the United Kingdom still continues, but just that Scotland are equal partners?  but I always assumed that if the Scots vote "yes" that it would mean the UK is over...different Olympic teams, army's and so on...a total separation.

The union of Crowns in 1603 made a united kingdom although the parliaments remained separate until 1707. This 'between 1603 and 1707' position is what they are referring to as what is being mooted is only the separation of parliament.

You can't expect to cherry pick the bits you want to keep  

Oil output dropping year on year, 40% over the last four years and this is without the billions it will take to create a separate state..Passports, postal services, NHS, banks moving south...the list is endless and the divide its creating not only between England and Scotland but to the Sottish people themselves. Its all ifs and buts and it scares the heck out of me how this could end. 

That's what I said a few weeks ago Damesy, I honestly want them to stay with us but if it's a yes, then it must be total 

I'm gonna be totally selfish here. If it's a yes (but I sincerely hope it isn't) what are

The consequences for peeps like Damesy and me , North West and North East, just over the border type of thing?

I love most of our friends in the South but I myself feel a bit more 'Northern' 

LOL! 

Billy Idol stays with us BTW.

The thing is though that all these 'negative' things are being trotted out by the NO campaign as cold hard fact, written in stone, with absolutely no chance of not happening.

You've said yourself it's all ifs, ands & but's - yet it seems to me that many want to believe the negative ifs, ands & buts and poo-poo any possibility of any (no matter how few) positive ifs, ands & buts ever having the slightest inkling of happening. (And I'm talking about things in general)

I don't want them to go either Pam, but you can't expect to keep good bits and reject the bits you don't like. Salmond want his cake and to eat it and to me that's unreasonable and unrealistic. 

Scotland as far more say in the running of its country than anywhere else plus benefits, but they want rid of Westminster.

So do we all and I have said for years the capital and wealth should not be concentrated in one part on the south. Who is to say that a new Scottish parliament will be any better or worse than what they have now and how much will it cost and where is the money coming from for all the extra's that Salmond seems to have forgotten to mention in his cry for independence.  

Maybe that's the thing and what scares me Fluffs, a lot of peeps won't vote with their heads here