We already have BBC Scotland which creates its own national programs/news while also scheduling the majority from the central organisation. Also we have different requirements e.g. Gaelic programs which would continue.

I don’t see any radical changes happening when it comes to the Beeb. I suppose we would pay money to a Scottish TV Licensing agency instead.

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One of the issues with the No campaign is that there is no agreement on what a post-referendum Scotland would look like. Ruth Davidsons “line in the sand” has been redrawn so many times its embarrasing, the LibDems long-avowed policy of a federal UK seems to have vanished without trace and the Labour Party in Scotland can’t hold a policy together. Throw in moves to stop “Scottish” MPs voting on English-only matters, an EU referendum and the further downgrading of the UKs AAA rating and it’s pure guesswork as to what the UK will look like. But that’s just the nature of politics. Asking questions now about what sort of policies an Independent Scotland might adopt in 2016 is equally fraught with difficulty yet any uncertainty is being painted as something unique to the Yes case.

All we can really do at this point is look at the general direction in which we’d like to travel, either a more unequal society (by any independent measure) or somewhere that cares a bit more about the less advantaged.

I think it’s even more fundamental than that: Simply, do we want to be free to decide for ourselves?

Scotland hasn’t mattered in the UK for a long time – the way we vote doesn’t matter, our opinions don’t matter, nothing we can do will change the situation – apart from this. We can decide to be able to decide things for ourselves.

I hope Scotland will be a better place after independence, but that doesn’t affect my decision.

We’re in for a long phony war stage in the campaign where neither said will make clear statements about what life in an independent Scotland for fear of the other side ripping their position to pieces So the yes campaign will carry on avoiding specific details of how policies will be financed and Better Together will feed us a diet of rumours and scare stories.

I hate that phrase. We’re already “free” – free to choose.

Epicyclo that’s exactly why the yes campaign are tactically right to avoid specifics, although it’s also just plain sensible not to say what their position will be in 18 months and assuming the yes campaign win when the UK government in conjunction with better together is not going to say what its negotiating position will be in the event of a yes vote. Like i said we’re in for a long phony war stage.

Probably because you’ve been whittering on about it for so damned long, been so chippy about it, while pretty much having a government system that was pretty effectively different from the rest of the UK so as to look from outside as if you’re running things yourselves anyway, that everyone south of the border has just got pissed off and is happy for you to just get on with it.
We don’t actually give much of a toss what you do, what happens in Scotland now or in the future, or at least, nobody I know gives much of a damn, anyway.
By the time this all gets sorted, we’ll let you keep the empty oil wells…

So David Cameron is about to speak on the independence debate, it seems cmd is going to talk about the impact of independence on the defence industry. However with even Alan Massie saying that the number of jobs involved is less than 2 thousand cmd could be playing right into the yes campaigns hands

I reckon CMD is playing a double bluff though, if not he’s a bigger berk than I thought….

Like Cameron’s father-in-law who has a holiday home on Jura, “owned” by a shell company in the Bahamas.

Is that really what it is? The Tories are worried that an independent Scotland won’t let them buy big estates tax-free?