Do you vote? Independance for Scotland

There is the elections coming up and a bit of fuss is being made over Scotland going it alone away from the union. Do you bother to vote and whats your opinion on the push for full independance? A lot of famous names from the football world have put their names forward as being against it. Bertie Auld, Billy McNeill and Roy Aitken are just a few that are against it.

 

I'm still not convinced that the Nationalists' sums add up. But I'm considering giving them my vote to see if they are fit to govern. They could have a 3 year trial then in 2010 we can have the referendum.

And I'd also say that if you are able to vote you should do it.

 

example.... scottish parliment?
no fkn chance!!!!!
alex salmond has all the brains of a * easter egg!

 

I have never voted. I totally understand the point that we all should use our vote but I have never felt that anyone is deserving of my vote. Whatever way you vote I think we will still get done left, right and centre. And I've not got the minerals to stand up and put myself forward with my opinions. Sometimes I think my opinions on everything could be better than all the others running.

 

Maybe the Scottish Parliament elections would suit you better mate. You can use the list vote to help a smaller party if none of the main parties appeal to you.

Parties like the SSP and the Greens can get MSP's elected now.

 

i dont think getting "celebs" to help them will work,, idont think it will,as the scottish people are more intelliegent than to listen to celeb sports people ,or old actors telling us what they think,

we can think for ourselves,

to be honest i dont know what independance is i know what independence means,,but ive not heard what it will mean for scotland,

i know the oil money will stay in scotland,
i know we "scotland" can trade on our own with other countrys
ect ect
but what will it mean for you and i,,, will we be any better off and if they say we willbe better off ,they must be lying because they the s.n.p havent tried it yet,
they should say vote for snp, because we think we can make scotland better,,not just take it as a given that they will

 

Good point mate. They should concentrate on getting elected so they can prove that they are up to the job of running the country before going for full independence.

 

another solution: start a violent revolution and take over the country! worked (and failed) in many other countries already

 

Good point. Maybe I'll get my vote in for this one.

 

do we have to be violient,? cant we just start a revolution,, ,if we say can we start a revolution"please"
we may get away with it

 

I'll be voting SNP. * the union and all it stands for. Imperialistic hun wanks. Tommy Sheridan was campaigning outside my uni today, was class haha

 

There is something wrong with Scots. We have contributed more to the world than any small nation on earth and we dont think we can rule our affairs or we just grumble about the assembly so far. Any other nation with out achievements would be shouting it from the rooftops and want to do their own thing but all we can do is moan and grumble.

We invented:

The telephone: Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922) [ debated ]
The teleprinter: Frederick G. Creed (1871-1957)
The television: John Logie Baird (1888-1946)
Radar: Robert Watson-Watt (1892-1973d things (gas mask) : James Gregory (1638-1675)
steam engine: William Murdoch (1754-1839) [1]
Tarmac: John Loudon McAdam (1756-1836) [1]
Driving on the left: Determined by a Scottish-inspired Act of Parliament in 1772
The pedal bicycle: Kirkpatrick Macmillan (1813-1878) [2]
The pneumatic tyre: Robert William Thomson and John Boyd Dunlop (1822-1873) [3]
The speedometer: Sir Keith Elphinstone (1864-1944)
The lorry: John Yule in 1870
Penicillin: Sir Alexander Fleming (1881-1955)
the artificial kidney (Professor Kenneth Lowe - Later Queen's physician in Scotland)
The piano with footpedals: John Broadwood (1732-1812)
The lawnmower: Alexander Shanks (1801-1845)
Paraffin: James Young (1811-1883)
The fountain pen: Robert Thomson (1822-1873)
The life ring, or personal flotation device: Captain Ward in 1854
The Lee bolt system as used in the Lee-Metford and Lee-Enfield series rifles: James Paris Lee
Tubular steel: Sir William Fairbairn (1789-1874)
Coal-gas lighting: William Murdock (1754-1839)
Cloud chamber recording of atoms: Charles T. R. Wilson (1869-1959)
Wave-powered electricity generator: Stephen Salter in 1977
The steam boat: William Symington (1763-1831)
The first iron-hulled steamship: Sir William Fairbairn (1789-1874)
Making cast steel from wrought iron: David Mushet (1772-1847)
Hollow pipe drainage: Sir Hugh Dalrymple, Lord Drummore (1700-1753)
The mechanical reaping machine: Rev. Patrick Bell (1799-1869)
The adhesive postage stamp and the postmark: James Chalmers (1782-1853)
The post office
The mail-van service
Universal Standard Time: Sir Sandford Fleming (1827-1915)
Light signalling between ships: Admiral Philip H. Colomb (1831-1899)
Logarithms: John Napier (1550-1617)
the decimal point: John Napier (1550-1617)
Criminal fingerprinting: Henry Faulds (1843-1930)
The ultrasound scanner: Ian Donald (1910-1987)
The MRI body scanner: John Mallard in 1980
cure for scurvy: James Lind (1716-1794)
the cure for malaria: George Cleghorn (1716-1794)
surgical anaesthesia: Sir James Young Simpson (1811-1870)
The hypodermic syringe: Alexander Wood (1817-1884)
antiseptics: Joseph Lister (1827-1912)
the vaccine for typhoid fever: Sir William B. Leishman (1865-1926)
Discovering insulin: John J R Macleod (1876-1935) with others

Economist Adam Smith; Smith was born in 1723, hailing from Kirkaldy, a Scottish town north of Edinburgh; the 18th century Scot considered to be the father of modern economics; Smith's


We are certainly the most talented people and small nation the world has ever known and AND WE CANT RUN OUR OWN AFFAIRS?

 

agreed keltoi, im all for independance but i need assurances the snp arent going to * up our country with it. its time to get out of the union, its helped us in the past but i feel the time is right for our great nation to stand on its own two feet once more, my vote goes to snp to see how they get on

 

you missed THE RAMPANT RABBITT, ann sommers 1980

 

Also a Scot who invented the SAS

 

is that a good thing?

 

Well I suppose they are the best at what they do. Not going to comment on what they do. As a point of interest I thibk it was a Cork Irish Catholic who set up British special branch. I think it was in the Victorian period.

 

i just think it would be shame to have Scotland as a separate nation. if that was to happen i would have to higher costs of traveling to football matches and the such like for work and pleasure. i work for a Scottish company ROCKSTEADY and my main work is going to be in Scotland.

 

The thing is independence does not equal SNP rule. After independence goes through, the SNP will no longer have a point and in the first election afterwards they will be turfed out. They are just a vehicle to get independence. Personally, after independence I would switch to a more socialist party. I assume after independence a seperate Scottish Labour type party will set up who are not puppets of the westminster party.

 

If SNP win the election independence won't go through straight away. Another referendum will be done and sent to westminster so we can finally breakaway. We didn't even join the union democratically, it was all the rich folk who were promised more money from the english that sold off Scotland, most people were against it. So its time for a change imo.
More money, less tax under SNP rule.