Don't make me laugh you eejit. He's got zero respect in the UK. They respect him so much, he's lost 9 out of 15 elections in the last 12 years. He's a pariah in Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿. The Fud in the Fedora.

Abdullah Assadullah well that is just about the most retarded comment I've read all week, congratz

Abdullah Assadullah What a lot of nonsense. Your personal petty nationalism is not a valid substitute for facts. "our accent is more eloquent & spirited compared to the dry soulless accents of most English people." lol "England is the world's 3rd most hated country after Israel & America." Based on what exactly? Is there any evidence for that at all? or did you just make that up as you were typing it?

Abdullah Assadullah You are clearly too childish to realise that the sound of an accent is subjective and different people will like different ones. There is no reliable poll that shows England as the most hated country in the world, unless you would care to offer evidence. That's just something Irish and Scottish people say who think their country is the most admired and loved in the world. The UK is often voted one of the most respected nations in the world if you actually bother to look. I seriously doubt you've lived in Scotland you're entire life because if you had you'd know that there are many accents in England. You seem to assume that everyone here talks like Prince Charles. This is childish and stupid. Perhaps you'd care to pop down to Liverpool and hear our accents? You can tell some of us to our faces that we're effeminate while you're here and see what happens to you. Try the same in the East End of London, or Essex, or Middlesborough, or Manchester, or Plymouth and see what happens to you. Good luck with that.

Abdullah Assadullah " England is the country that has fought the highest number of wars." then "England the land of the effeminate gimp" so are we violent warriors OR wimpy girls? Make your mind up!

Abdullah Assadullah You sound like you have some deep-seated personal issues that are manifesting themselves as predictable and infantile stereotyping of 'the English. I suggest you get out more - who spends their Friday night indoors writing childish comments from behind a computer? ...and perhaps go and see what England is really like for yourself. Just for your information - almost every country on that list has 'beef' with dozens of other countries itself. It's a peculiar conceit, unique to the Scottish and Irish, that leads to the idea that England is literally the most hated country on Earth. It shows an extraordinary narrowness of mind to think that those who've suffered at the hands of China, or Japan or Spain over the centuries would give a shit about 'England' Another point, which I seriously doubt you have the intelligence to know, is that many of the most aggressive British colonialist in Africa and the Asian Subcontinent were Scotsmen - but I guess that doesn't fit your pathetically simplistic and distorted view of Britain does it?

bighands69 The United Kingdom is a country. Scotland is part of the United Kingdom.

bighands69- Do seperatists really expect people to stand by and watch their country torn apart? Ask an American how they would feel if California seceded or a Frenchman if Brittany broke away.

+Centrist Philosopher States of America aren't countries unlike Scotland and Wales and England. US states are prohibited from succeed it was all settle when the traitor hillbillies in the South the confederates tried to do it 1861.

We need to grow support for independence. I want to find those damn aliens.

Do u mean rangers supporters

@@davidbroadley126 no

The lowland scot s helped the english to slaughter the highlander s

U dont know your history and glasgow were slavers

William off orange had the McDonalds slaughtered in there beds

You're no Scot. No proud Scot would willingly hand their democratic voice to their neighbours. The same country our ancestors fought and died to defend us from.

Ask Galloway that if he thinks that the union of Great Britain is so good will he then campaign for Eire to give up it's independence and come back into the Westminster fold.

Eire got its independence, and the Irish are content. Apart from the UK reneging on the counties in the north that is

My point is Galloway supports Eire being free from Westminster rule but not Scotland I will reiterate if The union and being run by Westminster is so good why is he not going over to Eire campaigning for Eire to come back under the Westminster fold. The reason on his part is purely sectarian as he has said that the Catholic minority would in his opinion be persecuted in an independent Scotland which is nonsense. I will say again he is a hypocrite and a champagne socialist.

+Paul Wilson Ireland is different it was oppressed and occupied it culture is different to rest of Britain unlike Scotland who was never occupied or oppressed by England Ireland was.

Scots can just accept immigrants. There is lots of space to build housing in Scotland. I visited a few years ago and it was mostly empty.

@@Myndir did you not wonder why????

How's it going?????

@@polaris7122 Quite well. Current support for staying in the union, in Scotland, is 47%. Down from 55% a decade ago. The union is well and truly cooked. And a time will come when we get a referendum, and when we do, the UK is dead as a project.

@@OneTrueScotsman hahaha, oh how I wish you were right, but you're just another deluded loon!

Yes, but outside the EU, and with our own currency. Anything else is not independence. Unfortunately, the SNP want to drum Scotland into a currency union and then into the undemocratic EU. This is not a real independence referendum.

it will be regrettable. Sadly.....

Both Salmond and Sturgeon have lied about whether Scotland can actually remain independent after it has joined the EU. They know damn well that it cannot. They'll say anything. They are both suffering from a blinkered rationality "we want a yes vote, so we must believe that Scotland can retain is independence after joining the EU." Thye're kidding themselves and the scots.

Phil K Phil, if the UK government did not send £53 million a day (£19.3bn a year) to the EU, then Westminster would have the money to properly finance Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The money is flowing in the wrong direction. I remember there was a treaty between England and Scotland from 1707, known as the Act of Union, which says that the union should be an equal partnerhsip. Westminster cannot fulfill its financial obligations under that treaty, because Westminster is obliged to send the money in the wrong direction. Brussels is the bloodsucker, not Westminster. That's why we're having this idiotic indy debate in the first place. Let's stay out of the EU, and build a better UK, more federal.

Phil K There is no subsidy.

***** Wrong, all natural resources contribute about 13% of GDP to Norway's economy. Without oil and gas they would be about as rich as Sweden. Also they can import anything they want, EU doesn't forbid buying and exporting their goods to countries that are not part of EU. Stop perpetuating stupid myths.

iambehindthemirror "Wrong, all natural resources contribute about 13% of GDP to Norway's economy" Hydrocarbon products make up 60% of Norwegian exports. Not sure where your 13% natural resources figure came from.

tommyboomboom GDP and exports are two totally different things.

iambehindthemirror I realise that. But I was just remarking that if hydrocarbons make up 60% of exports, Norway would need one enormous public sector for natural resources to only create 13% of gdp

guys lighten up/ the issue is not economic not political. it is the NATION. the nation of Scotland. the nation is the question . the nations independence , a nations right to be independent. All other issues are secondary waffle . you commenters are forgetting the importance of the issue. Independence is a once in a lifetime fundamental right for any nation. if the people vote it to be so then it is to be accepted and established. The political issues the parties will come and go as they always do. independence will be a long term lifetime vote. political parties and the economics will be what they will be. they are secondary to the question of independence. the people choose the other issues follow not the other way around. .

There's a right to protest people but not to harass and intimidate them. Harassment and intimidation are not only of questionable legality, they are bad for democracy; they allow majorities to silence dissent.

More Scottish people voted for Brexit than they did for the SNP

@Jack The Film Fanatic drivel

Of course it is the nationalist mindset Westminster does not care about Scotland only its resources so it was very clear that the union means nothing to English nationalists.

All I saw was a traitor hiding in a pub. Hiding from a righteously pissed off local citizenry.

I can't really see him narrating the Noddy books..

How's it going????

@@polaris7122 it's going fine thanks.... How are you, are things going good...where are you from... let's have a little chat.

@@cauliflourhead I don't chat with 'LOONS' the description of your head sums it up!

@@polaris7122 the fear has got to you, it's OK, good luck.

Independence would be austerity turbo: private insurance instead of the NHS, emigration for the young, and tuition fees/graduate taxes for students.

Richard Hunter "Unlike all those completely factual films that you could name presumably." But the English don't base their politics on Robin Hood or King Arthur.

Richard Hunter Too much of this independence lark is people trying to hark back to a bygone time (The Middle-Ages) and using things such as Braveheart the film as a base for their political views. It is pathetic.

Richard Hunter UKIP aren't running the country. Last I looked they had no seats in westminster.

***** lol, good one.

Richard Hunter What ignorance? I have seen what many Scots think.

John G Not a lot of influence if you are correct. Surely this means that England will control Scotland's monetary policy with the result that Scotland will never be financially independent until they have their own currency

It would be neither in the best interests of Scotland nor the rUK to not allow Scotland to have the pound. Both countries rely heavily on each others trade and Scotland not being allowed the pound would be bad for both economics. An independent Scotland would get the pound. Negotiations would see Scotland look towards the opportunity of having members in the Monetary Policy Committee to ensure any alterations were in the best interests of both economies.

Cailean Gall Mr Salmond thinks that it would be in the best interest of Scotland to go it alone that's the whole point of independence. His argument is based around what he perceives to be Scotland's interest and not the interest of the union. With doubts on currency and doubts on EU membership after a yes vote whose interests will be served? He has been asked many times about this currency issue and has yet to come up with a definite answer, the reason being has to be that he has not got an answer and that he will be relying on the good will of the Bank of England and the English government, who at present are not warming to him.In the short term it may not be in the rest of the UK's interest to see an independent Scotland but after a while it would be.No English tax payer's money would be going north of the border and trade would balance out as new markets are found and industry re-locates southwards,when possible restrictions come into force as workers from a country outside the EU try to find work in the rest of the UK as a result of some form of dual currency and tax regime being put in place. A disaster for both sides but because of the industrial size differentials, the rest of the UK would be able to recover much quicker and with less social problems as a result........only my opinion......I am not an economist.......just a worried onlooker. better

Phil Street the currency is certainly an issue. Eu membership is a faulted argument as staying in the UK would face Scotland leaving the EU imminently when a referendum comes due to the great movement in England towards leaving the EU. Scotland's economy is structured differently than England, and, ideologically think very different from England also. Governments we continuously don't vote for, Boris Johnson (more than likely next tory leader) saying less devolved powers and spending in Scotland is worrying from my point of view.

scotland will be able to use the pound for two reasons. First and foremost, if London refuses to allow a currency union it gives scotland the right to refuse a share of the national debt and liabilities. Also if London forces scotland to adopt an alternative currency, it would cost businesses extra millions to do cross border trade. George Osborne would have a tough sell to English businesses.

If your country is willing to send 16 and 17 year olds to kill and die in wars, in far off lands for reasons that are they have nothing to do with them they should be allowed to vote. well done SNP.