Ah bu**er! Being a Scot but, more importantly a proud Brit, and having served my queen for 40 years but never served 'north of the border' I had chosen to ignore this worthless debate until a mate contacted me to draw my attention to SAMXXV's rantings (I like a good laugh) only to discover that I was too late! However, reading between the lines made it somehow even funnier!
Alex Salmond, love him or hate him, is an astute politician who is playing his cards very cleverly! I doubt he actually wants independence but he does want to hang on to power! That he will achieve if he continues to nurture those xenophobic Scots who read their history from the lids of shortbread tins!
Scotland is a great and beautiful country, a former industrial powerhouse and land of scholastic achievement. As I was taught at school in Glasgow many moons ago when its shipbuilding industry was alive but in rapid decline, its wealth and future lay in whisky and tourism. Gas and oil may have given Scotland the thought of future wealth but the reserves of both make neither it nor the United Kingdom equivalent to Saudi Arabia in terms of 'black gold wealth'. Whisky and tourism will remain its only real and sustainable life blood!
There was a very good reason why the Union was formed in 1707 and I can see no reason why any sane person would wish to change it in the future.
If Salmond was daft enough to call for a referendum, those who live in Scotland will not vote in a majority for full independence just as those who live in England will not vote to cast it from the Union!
Only an opinion.
Foldie
PS. The only true fight takes place at either Twickenham or Murrayfield and afterwards we drink!