User blog comment:Saturn120/Scotland Referendum - Aye or Nay?/@comment-4843137-20140918005307/@comment-7576024-20140918081228

I cannot echo this sentiment enough. I've listened a ton to British news lately (because its funnier than American news), and from what I've heard Salmond say, including his debate with Alistair Darling of Better Together, he wants a free Scotland that will just magically support itself out of thin air.

He wants to force the UK into a currency union by threatening to default on the Scottish portion of the UK's debt, which would be catastrophic for a nation, least of wise one wishing to join NATO and the EU.

When pointed out how illogical it would be to become an economic vassal of the rUK by just adopting the Pound Sterling without an official currency union, Salmond just babbled on about how it was possible, not addressing how it would still be bad.

There will be MAJOR capital flight from an independent Scotland; a number of larger institutions have indicated their intentions to do so.

As for rUK's future, I think that a Yes vote would be good for the Tories, but bad for Cameron personally, not that he hasn't been trying. Without the 40 seats in the House of Commons for Labour that come from Scotland, the Tories would have an outright majority on their own in the UK's Parliament. Will UKIP ever catch on? I'm still not fully convinced that they will do anything other than push the Conservatives further to the right.

I do believe, however, that should the Scots get the needed percentage to go free (which is looking more bleak than it did last week), they will be wholly welcomed into the world (especially if they don't default, fricking Salmond and his lack of economic knowledge [what do you get from a socialist, eh?]). The two other major countries that need freedom are Catalonia (if they want it) and Tibet.

Thanks for reading this TLDR post. :)