Will you vote for independence?

[weepiper]

Us yes voters don't love our children, you know.

 

[DotCommunist]

eat your cereal

 

[Quartz]

There were actually people in the Better Together shop today. They were tapping away at laptops so I guess there was free wifi available.

I went in to Ladbrokes on Union Street and the staff there are enthusiastically pro Yes.

Still no odds on margin of victory of less than 100 votes, much less a tie.

 

[equationgirl]

Or Scotland weepiper

 

[DotCommunist]

If you vote for indy you will never again be able to enjoy the usage of a public toilet in England. You will be forever damned to line up and use one of them 50p bogs. You know the ones.

You won't be able to drink in an English Wetherspoons. You'll be forced to leave sugar out of your porridge. Salt only.

Do you own a dog or a cat? under independence david cameron will personally cremate all of your pets. He will not even spare your scottish hamsters.

We will hold a big meat raffle, whole sides of pork and beef going for a song. And you won't be allowed to join in. Thats the rules.

 

[geminisnake]

Today I handed in the registration forms for 5 more Yes voters And I got some multi colour changing solar lights too(though this has naff all to do with Indy, unless we won't get the sun anymore? )

 

[Frankie Jack]

4 work mates voting Yes today. They're asking me questions at lunchtimes and in the smoking park.

 

[The Boy]

Today I handed in the registration forms for 5 more Yes voters And I got some multi colour changing solar lights too(though this has naff all to do with Indy, unless we won't get the sun anymore? )

Anymore?

 

[geminisnake]

We got loads this year

 

[Frankie Jack]

Yes campaigner Dad's fury as son narrowly avoids chair thrown from balcony by No supporter

Daily Record.

A YES campaigner dad has called in police after a chair was allegedly thrown from a balcony at his eight-year-old son.

Schoolboy Kieran Loudon was campaigning with dad Gavin alongside independence stalwart Jim Sillars when a chair came crashing down from the balcony.

Gavin said it was thrown by a woman who had been heckling former SNP deputy leader Sillars about the NHS.

Kieran was forced to jump out of the way to avoid it and was left badly upset, he added.

The incident happened in Kirkcaldy, Fife, where Sillars had taken his MargoMobile, his campaign vehicle dedicated to his late wife Margo MacDonald.

 

[andysays]

Yes campaigner Dad's fury as son narrowly avoids chair thrown from balcony by No supporter

Daily Record.

Can we conclude from this that No supporters love their own kids but are less concerned about others'?

 

[weepiper]

There is apparently a YouGov poll coming out tonight

 

[DairyQueen]

 

[weepiper]

Odds are shortening again


http://www.oddschecker.com/politics/british-politics/scottish-independence/referendum-outcome

 

[weepiper]

No lead collapsed from 18 percentage points to just six, apparently. It's a poll for the Sun

 

[weepiper]

look at the yellow line...

 

[JTG]

12 point move in a month? Any change in methodology?

 

[weepiper]

12 point move in a month? Any change in methodology?

Apparently not (I can't read the article without signing up to a Murdoch rag but hopefully someone will host it on a neutral site soon)

 

[weepiper]

According to this YouGov person tweeting in a personal capacity it's the same methodology as the last two polls

 

[weepiper]

Some detail here
http://news.stv.tv/scotland-decides...ds/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

 

[DairyQueen]

look at the yellow line...

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That is some correction.

 

[DexterTCN]

I'd like to thank Better Together for the help they've given the independence cause.

Darling darling has been a wonderful contributor and spokesman, for us.

Bringing in Saatchi and Saatchi was a tactic of Machiavelian awesomeness, for us.

Johann Lamont...well...what can I say. I don't actually have the words. Thanks.

 

[JTG]

Ok, crikey then. What's the margin of error? And can anyone supply data on polls converging near polling day? Vaguely remember it being a phenomenon

 

[DexterTCN]

Ok, crikey then. What's the margin of error? And can anyone supply data on polls converging near polling day? Vaguely remember it being a phenomenon

Oh I'm sure there'll be another one along shortly that says the opposite.

 

[Wilf]

I'd imagine Yes would have to get a couple of % ahead by polling day to get an actual Yes vote out on the day? In other words, I'm assuming that with independence being the radical departure, some who have said yes might get cold feet, not vote etc. That is a pure assumption though. A parallel might be with the Welsh devolution vote, which was on a knife edge. Have a feeling Yes were ahead in the polls, which narrowed on the day itself. Sorry, not trying to piss on anyone's chips!

Edit:... though to immediately contradict myself, have a vague feeling the lack of powers for the assembly - that it wasn't a radical departure - was one of the reasons that pissed people off/limited the Yes vote.

 

[Quartz]

At this point, I'm pretty much a Yes. I really have just the one issue: will Scotland be run by sensible people like danny la rouge and pogofish or bigots like weepiper and DairyQueen ? I really don't want my nephew and niece to grow up in a country run on the lines of their bigotry, even racism. I've noted that the SNP haven't acted on incidents within their ranks.

Nuclear was an issue, but I think Scotland will have to embrace nuclear power at some point. Defence was also an issue, and I think Scotland will have to significantly invest in naval defence to protect its fisheries. If the Shetlands remain with the rUK, then our negotiating position will be much poorer but we'll get over it.

 

[DexterTCN]

At this point, I'm pretty much a Yes. I really have just the one issue: will Scotland be run by sensible people like danny la rouge and pogofish or bigots like weepiper and DairyQueen ? I really don't want my nephew and niece to grow up in a country run on the lines of their bigotry, even racism. I've noted that the SNP haven't acted on incidents within their ranks.

Nuclear was an issue...

It's certainly about to be. As in....going nuclear.

 

[DairyQueen]

Getting worried Quartz ? Racism and bigotry? Your entire contribution to this thread has been to ask pointless questions. Give me one post that was bigoted or racist. Every time you post, I will ask you to do this.

What incidents have happened from the SNP ranks?

You're a disgrace, or Jim Murphy.

 

[Wilf]

At this point, I'm pretty much a Yes. I really have just the one issue: will Scotland be run by sensible people like danny la rouge and pogofish or bigots like weepiper and DairyQueen ? I really don't want my nephew and niece to grow up in a country run on the lines of their bigotry, even racism. I've noted that the SNP haven't acted on incidents within their ranks.

.

 

[redsquirrel]

I'd imagine Yes would have to get a couple of % ahead by polling day to get an actual Yes vote out on the day? In other words, I'm assuming that with independence being the radical departure, some who have said yes might get cold feet, not vote etc. That is a pure assumption though.

Yeah but not a daft one IMO, I think it's fair to say that normally in referenda the status quo does benefit from just being the status quo. That said this time it might be different the Yes vote does seem very solid.

At this point, I'm pretty much a Yes. I really have just the one issue: will Scotland be run by sensible people like danny la rouge and pogofish or bigots like weepiper and DairyQueen ? I really don't want my nephew and niece to grow up in a country run on the lines of their bigotry, even racism. I've noted that the SNP haven't acted on incidents within their ranks.

Oh god, can't you just piss off and leave us without the benefit of your "wisdom".