In answer to both Rhun and Miles, money is not the most important thing in life so why would an English man want to throw away the Union in order only to make his own country richer ? Are you really both that shallow ? I like to think not.

Alex fishy Salmon is raising a false flag on a tidal wave of negativity. His entire campaign has been based on a fantasy, so really I should not be surprised by Miles being so easily led up the garden path. The reality is that many of the great things about Britain have fuck all to do with Scotland, and that the few concessions they have made to the left like free education has been heavily subsidised by the English. The tyranny of the multi conglomerates will continue under the SNP and the infrastructure put into to place by the BRITISH will continue to make the barons rich and everyone else poorer. You can not have your shortbread whilst simultaneously eating it.

Maybe we should pull up all the roads, pipes, cables,railways, etc laid by the British and throw that away along with the language, sterling and all the joint history of achievements as a United Kingdom and just shut our English mouths as the sheeple all follow Alex and his pipe, like so many rats into the sea. That would fit the nationalist narrative nicely and then any subsequent problems that Scotland suffers could once again be blamed on the English as though the Northern Irish and Welsh don't exist at all or are all Halo wearing saints.

The Scottish government has already placed less priority on funding the NHS than England. It has allowed even the extremely affluent the luxury of free prescriptions which could have funded help for the less fortunate in real need. Salmond's Scotland will ditch it's promise of social democracy and welcome in the Russian and Chinese elite, lowering taxes for the uber rich and suffocating those at the bottom of the pile in the process.

The Scots already have a separate legal and education system, it's own parliament and MP's in Westminster including two very recent Scottish Prime ministers in Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, in case you have forgotten, so accusations of sweating under an unfair English yoke are nonsense and negative ruses to divide and misinform.

The vitriol, hate and violence espoused by the yes campaign towards anyone challenging their imaginary twisted Union in which there lies no vestige of decency or value is astonishing. When Alex and his cronies attack the United Kingdom they attack not only the English, Welsh and Northern Irish that make such a unique system great but also the Scottish men and women who have enough common sense to understand the value and importance of tolerating difference within the same family. Britain ditching the "Great" prefix was understandable, but seeking to repaint the vandalism of breaking up a United Kingdom as some kind of valiant and honorable march towards freedom, is both dishonest and stupid. I may not have a vote, but I will not sit here in silence and pretend that the Scottish never added anything to that great union, or that the sporting,military, cultural,literary,artistic and political achievements we made together can be so casually dismissed and consigned to dustbin of history, just to appear trendy and right on like countless other dopey, fuzzy headed, non-Scottish nationalist cheerleaders.