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I have a friend who has done business in Scotland for years and used to have a facility there. He just returned from a two week trip this week and says if this vote passes the negative financial impacts will be huge - not just there but rippling all over the world.

I seriously doubt it. Scotland has less than 10% of the UK's population. England will get on fine without Scotland (and Wales and Northern Ireland). Much of the English Crown's expansion into the rest of what came to be known as Great Britain was a way to forestall recurrent raids by the Welsh, the Scots and the Irish into England, the most fertile and productive part of the realm. The other part of England's rationale for dominating the British Isles was to deny the continental powers a staging area for the invasion of England. Today, the only thing the continental powers are marching towards is welfare state insolvency.

The other part of England's rationale for dominating the British Isles was to deny the continental powers a staging area for the invasion of England.

With the other article, "Immigrant Vote Crucial To Scotland Independence", someone should be concerned about Scotland become a staging area for Sharia law.

The huge banking, brokerage and insurance companies that are planning to leave are the first big hit that will be suffered in the local economy. Scotland also has oil production but they are heavily mortgaged and controlled by outside interests.

Two people I know closely who are familiar with this say that it is similar to what went on here with Obama hysteria. A lot of people think it would be cool to be part of changing everything with no concept of what they are doing or what they will be getting.