Brendan O'Neill

[DodgyAgent]

He is firmly behind the "No" vote!

Scottish independence: Better Together needs to ditch the bullied-kid act and discover some principles – Telegraph Blogs

He sums it up all rather nicely:

As someone who very much hopes that Scots vote No on 18 September and refuse to allow their nation to become the tinpot outpost of narrow-minded identity politics and nanny statism that the SNP dreams of,

[scooterscot]

I prefer:

Scots voting no to independence would be an astonishing act of self-harm

Imagine the question posed the other way round. An independent nation is asked to decide whether to surrender its sovereignty to a larger union. It would be allowed a measure of autonomy, but key aspects of its governance would be handed to another nation. It would be used as a military base by the dominant power and yoked to an economy over which it had no control.

It would have to be bloody desperate.

[mudskipper]

He is firmly behind the "No" vote!

Scottish independence: Better Together needs to ditch the bullied-kid act and discover some principles – Telegraph Blogs

He sums it up all rather nicely:

As someone who very much hopes that Scots vote No on 18 September and refuse to allow their nation to become the tinpot outpost of narrow-minded identity politics and nanny statism that the SNP dreams of,

I agree with the sentiment that the better together campaign is failing miserably.

[The Spartan]

I agree with the sentiment that the better together campaign is failing miserably.

Perhaps that is what Cameron wants

[Bunk]

I agree with the sentiment that the better together campaign is failing miserably.

It's hard to make a case for a status quo, especially one where a lot people are already dissatisfied. The Yes campaign can promise the world with no evidence to back it up and it will appeal to people who think "well, it can't be any worse". On Facebook I've seen probably 10:1 ratio of Yes campaigners to No campaigners. They are far more motivated and aggressive.

[JustinTime]

It's hard to make a case for a status quo, especially one where a lot people are already dissatisfied. The Yes campaign can promise the world with no evidence to back it up and it will appeal to people who think "well, it can't be any worse". On Facebook I've seen probably 10:1 ratio of Yes campaigners to No campaigners. They are far more motivated and aggressive.

IMV that aggression is why the No voters are keeping their heads down.

[minestrone]

The debate usually goes like this...

"I am quite happy with things as they are"

"So you don't mind foodbanks then, kids are starving every night because of people like you, we wont have an NHS because of you, money spent on weapons of mass destruction rather than on cancer victims, you are killing kids with cancer"

Most tend to avoid people who are behaving hysterically and irrationally, it is tough now that we have to engage with them rationally over subjects so important.

Anyway, I seen Jim Murphy speak 2 weeks ago and there should have been arrests, it was truly bonkers the level of abuse and intimidation that he and his followers were met with. All orchestrated online previously I must add by the nationalists as I seen myself.

[mudskipper]

It's hard to make a case for a status quo, especially one where a lot people are already dissatisfied. The Yes campaign can promise the world with no evidence to back it up and it will appeal to people who think "well, it can't be any worse". On Facebook I've seen probably 10:1 ratio of Yes campaigners to No campaigners. They are far more motivated and aggressive.

Same here - one friend in particular aggressively 'yes'. My cousins haven't mentioned it - that probably means they're 'no's as the 'yes' lot do shout loudly.

[JustinTime]

Same here - one friend in particular aggressively 'yes'. My cousins haven't mentioned it - that probably means they're 'no's as the 'yes' lot do shout loudly.

“An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.”
― Plato

[vetran]

IMV that aggression is why the No voters are keeping their heads down.

so just like a night out in town when a Scottish regiment was bunked at Aldershot.