Jaggy Jim

Of the dozen or so of us that having been going to Scotland games for years only 3 are going tonight. Most of the folk I've spoken to that are going don't usually go to Scotland games. They've been enticed by the England angle.

My cousin saw her in a club in the Cayman Islands, asked her to dance and got knocked back. Says she's even uglier in person!

Has the decision been made by the council yet? If not, get a campaign started. There was a similar threat by Moray Council to a number of primaries and Milnes High School in Fochabers very recently. After a local campaign the council backed down last week the result being that Milnes will remain open and there is a 5 year moratorium on primary closures.

Teams are being told they've got more chance of hosting a Super Bowl if they give up a home game to play at Wembley.

Was a factor. Got quite a few friends and colleagues who couldn't get past this despite me trying to reassure them. A few admitted to being "terrified" about what would happen to their mortgages. Having said that it's the pensioner vote that's decided the result, sadly being taken in by the pensions scare stories. The saddest thing for me this morning was listening to No voters on the radio and none of them said they voted that way because they believed in the union.

https://twitter.com/flemingaa/status/511979146944069632/photo/1 This was a reply from a doc to the NHS scare story from BT the other day

I work for Standard Life who have continually been mentioned by the media as a company who are questioning independence and considering moving from Scotland, and I'll be voting Yes. You have to realise this is all media spin. 90% of SL's customers are south of the border and have their policies denominated in sterling, so if an independent Scotland is not using sterling SL will be required to register some sterling denominated companies in rUK to deal with those customers. This doesn't mean the operations will move south and the board have confirmed this a number of times. The costs of moving a 5000 person operation are prohibitive. First you would need to find out who was willing to relocate and then cover their costs of doing so, then you have to pay redundancy costs to those who don't relocate and then you have to recruit replacements. No company is going to go through all that when they don't have to. SL will still be paying Corporation Tax to a Scottish Treasury on the 10% of customers it does have here, which is roughly equivalent to what the Scottish Govt get s back from the UK Treasury now. If you've been in Edinburgh recently you may have noticed a huge demolition site in St Andrews Square. This is a property bought by Standard Life Investments for one of its' Real Estate funds at a cost of £75m. It's going to be a mixture of retail and offices with penthouse flats on the top floor. Do you really think SL would be investing this sort of money if they thought Scotland was going to be a financial basket case?

Re point 10. Other than the ridiculously over the top statement from Deutsche Bank, written by a mate of Cameron's, I'm not aware of any company that has said independence is a bad idea. Some have quoted the risks as they are required to do by reporting and accounting standards, but that's very different from saying independence is a bad idea.

I've watched most of them so far but tonight was one debate too far for me. Having seen 3 over the last week or so the thought of yet another one was just too much, especially with Murphy on it. I'm sure it didn't cover any new ground. Watching Argentina dismantle Germany was far more entertaining.