Scottish Referendum

[THE_Liam]

The worst thing with Scottish independance is that common and financial sense mean sod all really, it's about nationalist pride. I've a lot of family in NI, and the republic. If you asked the majority in NI would they want independance, they'd snap your hand off, they've been fighting for it for hundreds of years, it wouldn't make financial sense and would greatly reduce living standards, but they'd still do it. And if you asked Ireland to join the union? They'd tell England to f*ck off without even considering it!

And this as part of my problem with it. For years there has been war over keeping northern ireland part of the union and thousands of people have died for that but they cant leave but now we are just going to roll over and let scotland leave.

Exactly. The majority in NI are republicans and would love to gain independence or even join the republic, and they aren't allowed a referendum because it would obviously result in the UK losing more land. I don't think they expected this to be close in Scotland, if they did they wouldn't have allowed it.

Hell, a lot of my family have suffered fighting for Irish independence as far back as the easter rising, and they're all pretty pissed off that Scotland can choose and they can't.