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As an Englishman living in Scotland, I'm voting yes. This is only a decision I've settled on about 2 weeks ago, but I'd always had a lot of sympathy with the yes voters. I've never bought either side's propaganda about iScotland* being either an economic disaster or the capital-N Nats' rolling in oil Norwegian fantasies. It will probably be OK either way (one or other might be better, but on current data no one can honestly give certainty).
The question is, really, do you want to support the UK as-is? The last page or so has quite well set out out some of the most egregious excesses of the UK establishment past and present and I cannot bring myself to support that. Admittedly, there is a real chance that the iScotland* establishment would end up being just as bad, but if people get engaged as appears to be the case, then the odds are favourable. I doubt we could swing getting rid of the royals immediately, but I could see that happening 10-20 years down the line (as long as it's far enough away that we don't have President Salmond!). Independence also offers the chance to step away from Westminster's City-focussed economic policy and possibly challenge the neoliberal consensus.