Final Alistair Darling-Alex Salmond Debate

[A4R0N]

He's British and Scottish so get over it.

not 4 long

[Mark]

not 4 long

We all know he's pro UK, he even said he loved being team GB

[Kardan]

I watched the debate, and worth noting that I'm not Scottish, (so my opinion means nothing) but I want Scotland to stay. I was hoping that Darling would be better than he was, so that was quite a shame. I also thought the "fairly represented audience" seemed to be a lot more in favour of Salmond, but he didn't impress me much either.

To be fair, he doesn't have a Plan B. It's all about the Pound. But I don't understand Salmond's reasoning at all. If they enter a currency union, they still won't be in charge of things economy related, the Bank of England will. So how is that gaining independence? And if they don't enter a currency union, defaulting on their debt doesn't sound very good (and sounds even worse for England/Wales/NI).

And it's all fair and good saying the pound is as much Scotland's as it is the rest of the UK, but surely the same applies to the oil?

I must say though, the polls afterwards are frightening. I must say it's the first time I've actually thought that 'Yes' has a chance of winning.

[scottish]

I watched the debate, and worth noting that I'm not Scottish, (so my opinion means nothing) but I want Scotland to stay. I was hoping that Darling would be better than he was, so that was quite a shame. I also thought the "fairly represented audience" seemed to be a lot more in favour of Salmond, but he didn't impress me much either.

To be fair, he doesn't have a Plan B. It's all about the Pound. But I don't understand Salmond's reasoning at all. If they enter a currency union, they still won't be in charge of things economy related, the Bank of England will. So how is that gaining independence? And if they don't enter a currency union, defaulting on their debt doesn't sound very good (and sounds even worse for England/Wales/NI).

And it's all fair and good saying the pound is as much Scotland's as it is the rest of the UK, but surely the same applies to the oil?

I must say though, the polls afterwards are frightening. I must say it's the first time I've actually thought that 'Yes' has a chance of winning.

It would still be independent though, currency wise you'd still be tied to Bank of England.

There's quite a difference between currency and natural resources our country gather/collect though.

Yes/No has always been 50/50 or close to it, hasn't it?


Hopefully more up to date poll results soon but the latest ones were earlier this month, so seems about 10-15% undecided, then about 10% more for No.

Survation (7 Aug):
No 50%
Yes 37%
Don't know 13%

TNS-BMRB (7 Aug):
No 45%
Yes 32%
Don't know 23%

You-Gov (15 Aug):
No 51%
Yes 38%
Don't know 11%

Ipsos-Mori (3 Aug):
No 54%
Yes 40%
Don't know 7%

ICM (13 Aug):
No 47%
Yes 37%
Don't know 14%

Panelbase (27 Aug):
Yes 48%
No 41%
Don't know 11%

idk i've not followed it much