[NCjim]

Close - actually “The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men, gang aft agley.”

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Considering how England is arse kissing and producing radical Muzzies I would say go independent ASAP.

[Romulus]

Cal, you dope.

[Uncle Miltie]

Turns out Robert the Bruce (Braveheart) is my 20th Grandfather (or however you say that....)

[dfwgator]

The Pro-Independence vote is going down and going down hard.

[truth_seeker]

As it is, England, Wales and Northern subsidize Scotland.

Without the subsidy, Scots would have to downsize their governments’ spending.

Logically and rationally.

[Viennacon]

Independence makes no difference. In the long run, the entire continent including England and Scotland, are a train wreck

[imardmd1]

These brave hearts who filled our frontiers and won the land from their murderous predecessors, first came to fight against Americans in the Revolution, because they were promised for that service to be able once again, to wear the tartans and carry arms, and to pipe the terror-inducing war threnodies calling for valor in battle, which tokens were forbidden under English tyranny for many years because of their allegiance to the Stuarts, esp. to the memory of "The Bonnie Prince, Charlie."

Thank the Lord for them and their Reformed theology, for John Knox and Scottish engineering, for stiffening the American spine in our worst struggles for freedom! May their loyalty since to our Flag be heralded forever!

[Neanderthal]

That’s “whisky,” not “whiskey.”

[PoloSec]

I know for fact that Liberals here in America, are equivalent to Communists, does that hold true in Scotland?

They should IMO dump the EU!

As far as all things political go here in America...Revolution NOW!

[DesScorp]

"The referendum generally pits a younger liberal population in favor of separation against older, more conservative Scots."

Not quite. While the old are in favor of Union, so are the very young: the old-enough-to-vote teens and early twenty-somethings. It's the thirty-somethings and middle-aged that most support secession. The old know that if Scotland leaves, then that means no more London paying their pensions. The very young know where the gravy train comes from too. In the end, the vote will fail. Overall, Scotland doesn't have the nads to go it alone. Too much responsibility, too much pain in the transition, too much addiction to benefits cheques from London.

[warsaw44]

Isn’t 95% of Scotland on welfare?

[Rockpile]

On the anecdote level:

I met a couple of middle aged Scots in the ‘90s. Both were big time lefties. They would have wet their pants over our current Sultan and his gang. I hope they were not representative of the majority.

[the scotsman]

Is the American media covering this story at all?.

We get Fox News here as well as CNN, MSNBC and some ABC/CBS news coverage. But I haven’t been watching them.

[Zionist Conspirator]

Good. I recommend the English re-annex Wales, cut Northern Ireland loose (or let the Scots have it) and change their name to The Kingdom of England!

Hey . . . Anglo-Saxons need an ancestral homeland too, y'know.

[Zionist Conspirator]

The naive argument by one young man, who appeared no older than 30, that ridding Scotland of nuclear weapons will somehow make the country safer might make some liberals feel better in the short term, but it denies the reality of peace through strength and the superior argument that having nuclear weapons serves as a deterrent.

This is a perfect illustration of one difference between the Western Left and the Third World Left.

When a Third World Leftist country gains independence, it arms itself to the teeth and celebrates its new-found military (even nuclear) might. The Western Left wants to create pacifist hippie states.

But who knows? The Western Left does have the "patriotism for the socialist motherland" going. Maybe they'll eventually become saber-rattling militarists as well.

[JSDude1]

From my American opinion, I hope that Scotland does become independent for these three reasons: #1) I SUPPORT self determination, secession (heck our own US Declaration of Independence was based on these principles) so they should get to live under the government they want. #2)It would FORCE socialists to grow up when they CAN’T rely upon the charity of the whole of the UK. And #3) If Scotland becomes independent, since a large portion of Labour’s support is from Scotland, it will leave the rest of the UK (England, Wales, Northern Ire, and the minor territories) MUCH more conservative.

[southernnorthcarolina]

As it happens, I will be in London on the day of the independence election in Scotland, though of course the election has nothing to do with the reason for my trip. I will, nonetheless, be watching with interest.

Independence from England worked out pretty well for us in the Colonies, but I don't think it's such a good idea for Scotland. If, on the night of September 18, I see a crowd of blue-faced, kilt-wearing, Scotch-inebriated, bagpipe-playing folks descending upon Hyde Park, I'll have a pretty good idea of how the vote went. Or maybe not -- bagpipes sound the same whether the pipers are drunk or sober.