Will you vote for independence?

[Frankie Jack]

I was going to go to GS tonight after the graft but I had to get back for the lecky running out. Noticed it was on 9am off emergency emergency at 5am.. :-/ Rally of tooting YES cars along the main road across from me earlier though.

Canny wait.. *squeeeeeeeee..!!*

 

[Celyn]

'sake.

They are, as my mate pointed out, going to lose their shit when they discover you can't go in wearing your Yes badge.

Perhaps Lynsey is a first-time voter, if it's news to her that polling stations provide pencils.

It might even be handy if they provided apostrophes too. (Snarky grumpy hat on today)

 

[Celyn]

You're allowed wear badges, rosettes,scarfs anything you want in the polling station as a voter.

Ah. Thanks. Not that it matters, but I had just been reflecting on that. I mean, I know whenever I have done "standing outside polling station feeling a bit daft" duty, I am careful about keeping the right distance from the entrance, removing all badges, rosettes etc if going inside, but I found myself wondering if it applied to voters. Not important - just one of those little wondering that one does in order to avoid doing stuff.)

 

[Celyn]

... Rally of tooting YES cars along the main road across from me earlier though.

Loving the mental image of the tooting Yes cars -'cos the picture that came to mind involved Citizen Smith.

Horror, what if I still lived in Tooting and could not vote? Eeksicles!

 

[Frankie Jack]

 

[geminisnake]

Went down to the Yes Arbroath meet earlier. Anyone any idea wtf was on Channel 4 about 7.30 ish? We got told the cameras were there so we marched down to the harbour There wasn't very many in the No thanks camp getting interviewed. Don't see how they could have edited us all out

 

[pogofish]

Hope something going-on in Aberdeen as well. Passed a yes van and a large crowd of people on my way from work to the Scottish Government event I was working.

Mind you, if they plaster any vehicles with their stickers, I will reserve the right to call them a shower of flaming arseholes whatever!

 

[weepiper]

a couple of thousand gathered in the Meadows in Edinburgh then marched to parliament this evening as well.

 

[Quartz]

On another board a poster is reporting that his wife got racially abused while wearing a Yes button, so I guess that's two votes lost.

ETA racially abused by Scots

 

[butchersapron]

On another board a poster is reporting that his wife got racially abused while wearing a Yes button, so I guess that's two votes lost.

How many for calling someone a racist?

 

[weepiper]

Hills Have Ayes have been busy today

 

[Sue]

On another board a poster is reporting that his wife got racially abused while wearing a Yes button, so I guess that's two votes lost.

Eh? Lost to who? Presumably a yes voter if wearing a yes badge so not a loss to no and makes no sense that this would be a loss to yes.

 

[pogofish]

Perhaps Lynsey is a first-time voter, if it's news to her that polling stations provide pencils.

It might even be handy if they provided apostrophes too. (Snarky grumpy hat on today)

Thatwas being posted on several boards earlier today - Looks like the bams are coming out in force!

 

[Quartz]

Eh? Lost to who? Presumably a yes voter if wearing a yes badge so not a loss to no and makes no sense that this would be a loss to yes.

Sorry, he reported that she was racially abused by Scots because of her English accent.

 

[Wilf]

Here's another wanky 'dark forces of nationalism' piece from Martin Kettle:
http://www.theguardian.com/commenti...x-salmond-blind-you-to-yes-campaign-dark-side
Pathetic piss weak stuff. Never mind not having a fucking clue about real life, it's a fucking joke to ignore all the Yes campaigners who have been booted in face etc. Lazy, fucking Westminster bubble journalism - so much of which is saying that even when politicians play the game of coming down to the people they still do it on their terms. whine, whine fucking whine.

 

[Sue]

Sorry, he reported that she was racially abused by Scots because of her English accent.

By which side? Ime yes voters are delighted to have whoever voting yes.

Btw, interesting you're going on about racial abuse. Did you ever apologise for your remarks earlier on this thread?

 

[Quartz]

Btw, interesting you're going on about racial abuse. Did you ever apologise for your remarks earlier on this thread?

I stand by them.

 

[Sue]

I stand by them.

So you'll be able to back them up then? If not, probably best to admit you were wrong and apologise. If not, you'll understand why people won't believe a word you say.

 

[Dillinger4]

So you'll be able to back them up then? If not, probably best to admit you were wrong and apologise. If not, you'll understand why people won't believe a word you say.

Bearing in mind that he is quoting a second hand anecdote from an unamed source somewhere on the internet, and that he has form for making up baseless accusations of racism, I wouldnt give it much thought.

 

[weepiper]

 

[danny la rouge]

 

[frogwoman]

surely there's just as much nationalism from the no side?

 

[ddraig]

I stand by them.

a liar and a coward

 

[ddraig]

feel excited and sick here, can't imagine how those of you with a vote feel!

 

[iamwithnail]

^^^ that, for sure.

 

[Sue]

Here's another wanky 'dark forces of nationalism' piece from Martin Kettle:
http://www.theguardian.com/commenti...x-salmond-blind-you-to-yes-campaign-dark-side
Pathetic piss weak stuff. Never mind not having a fucking clue about real life, it's a fucking joke to ignore all the Yes campaigners who have been booted in face etc. Lazy, fucking Westminster bubble journalism - so much of which is saying that even when politicians play the game of coming down to the people they still do it on their terms. whine, whine fucking whine.

Politicians are always going on about how important it is for voters to be engaged in the political process and moaning when people don't vote (never seeming to understand that a lot of people are interested in politics but don't vote because what's being offered is so shit).

And then normal people do get engaged in the political process and they don't like that either, because they're not engaged in the way the politicians want them to be.

Then you have politicians moving very briefly outside their protective bubble and getting utterly gubbed because they have no idea how to deal with normal people who don't agree with them, with the media colluding with it all.

(It kept being reported, for example, that Ed Miliband was 'verbally abused' the other day (while entirely surrounded by the press/his own supporters). I thought that was called heckling and was a normal part of political campaigning...)

 

[ddraig]

exactly, what sort of 'leader' can't handle being held to account ffs

e2a - yes i know, most of them!
but at least try/pretend

 

[danny la rouge]

surely there's just as much nationalism from the no side?

Far, far more. Some of my friends are voting No. They get angry and hurt whenever they talk about it, like it's a personal slight that Yes might win. I see that in No representatives, too. It's an emotional identity issue for them.

 

[ddraig]

Rory Bremner (sp?) had his back up from the start in the Ch4 'debate' last night
soo much negativity and spite from the NO side

 

[danny la rouge]

Rory Bremner (sp?) had his back up from the start in the Ch4 'debate' last night
soo much negativity and spite from the NO side

Mind you, that "debate" was a shambles. Rotating the platform so briskly meant nobody could develop their arguments. Must have been frustrating to be involved in as well as to watch.

As for the undecideds with the clickers to show how they were feeling during each speaker's 60, they swung backwards and forwards like a Newton's Cradle in a hurricane. I can't imagine being so flaky or easily swayed!