AlfieMoon

He was flapping around on BBC Scotland news at 6.30 as well. Having an absolute nightmare.

I enjoyed that.

I hate all this bollocks about abandoning the rest of the UK and them saying that the current discontent with the political system is no reason to vote for indy. Within that statement they are admitting that things are f*cked so they must also recognise that there is no political movement for change in the rUK. Those people in Newcastle, Liverpool, Manchester and God knows where else should be packing out town halls and marching the streets demanding change if they are so concerned with the current state of affairs. Then and only then will I listen to idiots such as Darling, Murphy and Geldof promoting this nonsense line that they continually push on us.

Whichever way you look at it, there are no winners from the adopted position on the currency union. Despite the fact that there are a number of factors that are making the currency market jittery with Sterling (and I don't think the YouGov poll has realistically contributed that much to it at all) then there can only be a bad outcome for rUK, and to an extent Scotland. Outcome is that it weakens the £ through market perception/uncertainty then this is not good. If they refuse a CU then we walk away from debt and added to that the rUK takes a hit on Balance of Payments and loses approx. 9% revenue = not good. Despite the fact that we can use the £ regardless then this wouldn't be good for us to operate with a weakened currency against the euro, yen, dollar, etc. If we were to then decide to launch a Scots currency due to a weakened £ then this would be difficult as well as we'd be wanting to peg it to the pound to ensure stability of Scottish/rUK cross border trade and also have the transactions costs coming into play. The more you look at it, the more ridiculous it seems that Westminster have put themselves in this position for political posturing. I'd expect a rapid turnaround on this issue after the vote before it even gets to the negotiating table - although in reality it will probably be dressed up in a manner to save face for the Westminster Gov.

The only way Dave will debate at this stage is if they have a particularly strong ace card to announce during the debate in an attempt to make a big bang that would be expected to put Yes on the back foot.

Is there any sort of strong or detailed rebuttal of this as yet?

I think the point is that if he is resident in England then this is effectively electoral fraud that he is displaying very openly.

How common/uncommon is it for a maritime boundary to run horizontally from the point that 2 nations meet on land? There was a pretty detailed rebuttal against Craig Murray's blog on the subject if I remember correctly when I've been googling about this in the past.

Also aware of someone living and working in Rochdale but registered at her parents up here so she has a vote and is voting No.

Keen to know that as well. I'm fairly certain it would be. Are YouGov not traditionally the lowest polling %age for Yes??