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Every time I look at Darling I see the manner of Tony Blair and hear the voice of David Cameron.
Not an endearing spectacle.
I think for most people it comes down to certain trade offs-if you're wealthy you'll vote for the status quo, if you're not you'll vote for change.
We keep hearing that Scotland has an aging population. Mostly because it ships 40,000 young people abroad every year to find work that isn't available at home, and has done for centuries. Cap Breton in Canada has more Gaelic speakers than Scotland, and a better social and economic outlook too.
Darling bringing up shipbuilding jobs on the Clyde is another fail: successive Tory and Labour governments have pursued policies that turned Glasgow into a graveyard from being one of the industrial hubs of the world and chucking them a contract to build MoD jetskis every few years doesn't solve a huge legacy of failure.
I've been undecided for a long time but all the No campaign can do is try and put the shits up people over currency, and the BBC/Graun coverage is infuriatingly loaded towards the RUK stance, which is in itself deeply annoying. The fact is that the Union has had a long time to improve the lives of people throughout the UK and have only succeeded in skimming off the top and giving it to the ermine robed cronies in Whitehall and their cohorts whilst the satellite cities and states are left on life support through a lack of interest and investment.
I'm in Glasgow now and the jobs available are starvation wage fodder, and that's the way it's been forever unless you go abroad for years, get experience and are then prepared to come back and take a huge pay cut to do the same work here.
So, I'll be happy to say goodbye to the Tories, a right of center Labour party, woefully ineffective Lib Dems, the House of Lords, UKIP, forced privatisation of essential services like the NHS, and actually feel that there's a direct link between my vote and the policies and actions that are enacted as a result, and if the shoe was on the other foot I think most English people would do the same. Of all the English people with a vote up here that I know, which is admittedly only about 6, all are voting Yes, and that in itself says a lot.