An Independent Scotland

[iagodelgado]

There will be a border between Carlisle and Dumfries. Importing and exporting ts girls will become subjected to regulation by Her Majesty's Customs. Oooh.

[Ts RedVeX]

[holzz]

could easy ban escorting with no hindrance from London/Cameron.

damn in that case....means i can't go to Glasgow and fuck/get fucked lol..

[Prospero]

LOL... it will surely have NO impact at all on this world. Except maybe visiting girls from for example the US or Brazil might need to use their passports to get into a newly independent Scotland from the rest of britain.

[martin48]

Our present Prime Minister, David Cameron, will go down in history as the guy who made Great Britain into Little England. His next promise is a vote on EU membership - with feelings at present and the nutters in UKIP, this will be probably a NO vote. Then that's it for us. Bye

[Prospero]

Gawd... I fear you are right Martin. Blind passion has gripped the Scots... and like lemmings they are plunging headlong over a cliff of uncertainty.

[Stavros]

I think the margin of victory, either side, will be smaller than the bookies predict. It is difficult to call because most of the noise has come from the 'yes' campaign and one senses a momentum in their favour without knowing for sure as one often does in say, general elections.

What the campaign has exposed is a deep disaffection with established politics and politicians who are accused of being out of touch, and making policy for the UK defined as corporate interests and international finance, with no regard for the needs or desires of Scots or 'ordinary people' all over the country. And yet, Scotland has its own Parliament, its own currency, its own legal system, its own education system, its own language, its own sporting institutions, and for years has been sending 59, mostly Labour MP's to the House of Commons and while they complain about being ignored by Margaret Thatcher, they did so for 13 years when Tony Blair (born in Scotland) and Gordon Brown (born in Scotland) were Prime Ministers of the UK. But Labour too has been a casualty of this campaign as the 'Yes' campaigners are often heard claiming that they never got anything out of the Labour governments, while some 'No' campaigners have been equally disenchanted with Labour....it is certainly the most interesting vote we have had for some time even though the quality of the debate has often been poor. Incredibly, with so many voters in the UK claiming that immigration is a major issue, I have not heard any exchange of views on this subject in any of the debates, as if it was forbidden. My guess is that the secret, or not so secret history of nationalism suggests a hostility to the idea that with less than 5 million people an independent Scotland could easily absorb 50,000 immigrants a year from Africa, the Middle East and Asia, but I don't expect Alex Salmond or anyone in either the SNP or the Scottish Labour Party to offer refugees from the conflict in Syria or the Ukraine a new life in a country where the rain is often persistent and horizontal at the same time.

I don't know if there is a trend towards micro-states, it may be part of a 'cultural' backlash against globalisation, and may merit a new thread.

[Stavros]

If the currency of an independent Scotland depreciates against Sterling, the Euro and the Dollar, then either the escorts will have to raise their prices to compensate, or the £150 visit in London will translate into S£75 (or less) in Edinburgh and thus lure punters from south of the border in search of a bargain.

[flabbybody]

tgirl rates aside, Sterling at 3 year high vs Euro. Decoupling would be lunacy.
Scots come to their senses in privacy of ballot booth and will vote NO to independence. IMO

[nausicaa]

Well we will know in a few hours either way. I think its fair to say - no matter which side of the divide you are on - that the UK gov ran a truly shambolic campaign