Good for the Scots...good for Britain...good for the Western world.
based on what I heard on BBC5, it sounds like they don’t expect to get actual results for a couple of hours.
And here's a live video feed from whatever the building is in Edinburgh where the counting is taking place:
http://www.irishmirror.ie/news/world-news/live-scottish-independence-referendum-voting-4276290#
I called it 55-45 earlier.
I was hoping for a split, just because it would be interesting to watch. Oh well. Back to the normal international news of terrorists and diseases.
What a relief! Hope it holds.
Wait! CNN announced that it was 58-54 going in favor of “Yes.”
Save England ! Vote YES !
Too bad. Not in an Anglish mood tonight...
That's what we do here.
I hope there are no hanging chads!!!
According to that BBC site linked above, overall turnout was 87.09%
Any chance of setting this up as the LIVE thread for the night ?
54-46 No - exactly the count on what I believe is the first county or whatever they’re called which reported on the election direct from Scotland as now being carried on C-Span3 - a relatively small region which nonetheless turned at an 89% rate - one analyst on air said that this county was expected to lean toward the yes vote, so this outcome is promising for the “no’s”......
Should this YouGov poll prove to be accurate I expect an even worse punch-up than usual in Glasgow city centre after the pubs close on Friday night.
However, if Scotland does vote “yes” one advantage would be that every woad-faced, ginger haired, haggis guzzling, whiskey addicted whinger north of Hadrian’s Wall will have nothing to complain about any more. (Although, no doubt, we English will be blamed for Scotland’s problems in perpetuity).
It would be a treat to see Alex Salmond’s face when an independent Scotland has to cut its welfare state spending. My main concern though is that the SNP would still find some way of getting the remains of the UK to pay for their socialist utopia.
Given that the last two Labour PMs were Scottish and Scotland’s leftist MPs in the House of Commons are often responsible for the passage of legislation which only hurts the English, I am very much in favour of freedom from Scotland.
Polls are worthless in this kind of vote. People are pissed off so they say they will vote anti-establishment, but when push comes to shove, they vote the paycheck.
The betting markets have consistently had the probability of the NO vote prevailing at about 80%.
Of the 32 councils reporting, the “Yes” vote carried only 4, its strongest showing in Glasgow.