“You don’t solve your problems by cutting yourself adrift and floating off into the North Sea,” said Benet Allen, a 47-year-old helicopter pilot who grew up on the Scottish side of the border and had his first job at a hotel on the English banks of the Sark. “The secessionists want to keep the pound. They want to keep the queen. They want to keep NATO. That’s not independence. There’s no such thing as independence in the modern world. We’re all tied together.”And yet, his parents and three siblings will all be voting “yes.”