Being internationally nosy

[dbskyler]

Hello flist! Question for you -- what are your thoughts on the upcoming Scottish referendum on independence? Just curious.

I'm especially interested in hearing from those of you in the UK, but others are welcome to chime in if you like.

Comments

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

If they choose to go, they choose to go - nothing the rest of us can do about it.

Personally, I am wondering why they didn't just go for a devolved assembly as the Welsh did a few years ago. Then again, the Scots have been agin us as much as for us during the last several centuries, so if they want to throw away the Union that was finally negotiated 307 years ago, it's their decision...

(I do get pissed off, though, when idiot news presenters or commentators call it an "Unprecedented move" - hello? Have you LOOKED at British history? Bloody ignoramuses!)

[aralias.livejournal.com]

i would be quite sad if they left - and i am a bit scared about the whole idea of what will become of 'great britain' without that bit at the top, particularly the bit that seems to vote liberal...

as massive as it seems though, and therefore in a way unimaginable, i sort of feel they may well do it. i dont think it's necessarily the wrong decision for scotland, though they'll be quite poor for a bit. but anyway - they may. and then where will we be?

[john_amend_all]

I think it'll be a pity if they do decide to go, but there's nothing I can do about it.

[primsong.livejournal.com]

It would be a bit sad, but at the same time there are a lot of things shifting and changing in the world right now, maybe it's time for a change here as well. I just hope it turns out better and not worse than people think it will.

[clocketpatch]

Sitting on the other side of the pond, I find the whole situation slightly unreal and weird - and this is despite the fact that I grew up along the Quebec border in the 90s.

Whatever happens, I wish everyone over there best of luck.

[thisbluespirit]

I think, as aralias says, I don't have strong feelings about it - Scotland will make its choice and it'll be sad if it does go, but if it wants to, that's fair enough, I suppose, even if at this point, it seem rather silly in some ways. The scary thing is how much harder it will be for the remainder of the UK to get a non-Tory government back in power again afterwards. With the gov't we've got right now, that's genuinely frightening, so selfishly I really hope they vote no.