Scottish Independence. Good or Bad?

[Guitar Shark]

Classic stuff here...

https://twitter.com/TheTweetOfGod/status/512734553186656256/photo/1

[FORD]

Just as long as it's the bank tellers and not the bank executives - like the HSBC assclowns who launder the BCE's drug money.

Here's the link for the BBC election results page. Nothing there yet, of course. But just posted for future reference.........

http://www.bbc.com/news/events/scotland-decides/results

[FORD]

The one thing that IS on the BBC's page is the turnout number for today's vote......

87.09%

When was the last time ANY election in the US had that kind of turnout??

[FORD]

Here's a little something for the Farcebook fans....

[Angel]

Those voter turnout numbers are astounding.

[Seshmeister]

The one thing that IS on the BBC's page is the turnout number for today's vote......

87.09%

When was the last time ANY election in the US had that kind of turnout??

To be fair it's a crazy high figure for here too.

I'm convinced it's going to be a no vote about 53-47 which is a shame In a way but it's going to shake things up a lot.

London is getting more and more like Washington becoming corrupted by big business lobbyists and career politicians.

This is a kick in the nuts for them so we'll see what happens next.

[Nickdfresh]

This is the ridiculous thing I'm the exact opposite.

I am incredibly wary of sausages and burgers which have to be the most expensive purest going but occasionally eat haggis which is by definition offal.

To be honest like wearing kilts it's not something the majority of people do more than once a year - if that.

I figured haggis is a traditional thing and not eaten often. You can't get it here because of the meat importing laws having to do with some broad dying after eating tinned Brit beef in the 90's during the Mad Cow craze. I think, the internal organs can be more risky for passing on disease...

[Angel]

I figured haggis is a traditional thing and not eaten often. You can't get it here because of the meat importing laws having to do with some broad dying after eating tinned Brit beef in the 90's during the Mad Cow craze. I think, the internal organs can be more risky for passing on disease...

Who the HELL would eat imported or CANNED haggis? . We make it up here. Every city has a restaurant or pub that pulls it out for Robbie Burns day...

[Von Halen]

That stupid golf course voted to let women be members.

Who the fuck was keeping the place clean before now?

[FORD]

The Shetland isles would like independence from Scotland . Seemingly they think Scotland is full of soft shandy drinking southerners
Plus they keep all the oil and make some sheep billionaires

Ironically enough, it seems the Shetland Isles are decidedly against breaking up the band at all.......

Shetland Islands 18,516 Y- 36.29% N-63.71%

Orkney Islands are even more against it....

Orkney Islands 17,806 Y-32.80% N-67.20%

That's all that was available when I checked. More results to follow....

[cadaverdog]

The one thing that IS on the BBC's page is the turnout number for today's vote......

87.09%

When was the last time ANY election in the US had that kind of turnout??

That's not an easy thing to research without some parameters added. The highest turnout for a U S presidential election was in 1876 with 81.8% of registered voters casting a ballot. Rutherford B Hayes won but he didn't win the popular vote. His opponent Steven Tilden got 50.9% of the popular vote. Hayes was a republican, Tilden a democrat. The next highest was in 1860 when Abe Lincoln won. He won the popular vote and had more electoral votes than the three other candidates combined.

[Nickdfresh]

Who the HELL would eat imported or CANNED haggis? . We make it up here. Every city has a restaurant or pub that pulls it out for Robbie Burns day...

No, it wasn't haggis in a can. It was some sort of meat product from the UK that gave her Mad Cow Disease in the late 1990's severally restricting meat imports thereafter....

[Nitro Express]

Scotland is only five million people. Independence is a pretty big decision and everyone there knows about it so they are going to turn out at the polls. I wonder what the turn out is for a regular election?

[Nitro Express]

Ironically enough, it seems the Shetland Isles are decidedly against breaking up the band at all.......



Orkney Islands are even more against it....



That's all that was available when I checked. More results to follow....

If they were called the Shatland Isles nobody would want to live there. It sounds like a shitty place.

[Nickdfresh]

Reuters is reporting that Unionists have a 4% edge in voting:

Scottish supporters of United Kingdom have 4 percent point lead: YouGov poll
Reuters
September 17, 2014 6:19 PM

EDINBURGH (Reuters) - Supporters of keeping Scotland in the United Kingdom have a four percentage point lead, the biggest opinion survey of the campaign showed just hours before Scots vote in an independence referendum.

The poll, for the Times and Sun newspapers, showed Scottish support for staying in the United Kingdom on 52 percent with Scottish support for independence on 48 percent, excluding undecideds who number 6 percent of voters.

YouGov said the poll showed men were much more supportive of independence while most women broadly supported staying in the United Kingdom. YouGov questioned 3,237 voters between Sept. 15 and 17.

(Reporting by Alistair Smout, editing by Guy Faulconbridge)

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That's still shockingly, mindbogglingly close to me