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Creative accounting? :D

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Magic. There's a reason JK Rowling stays in Scotland, she can magic up money to pay for better services with lower taxes.

Either that or the SNP are saying the only reason thousands of women are not starting and growing their own businesses is down to child care issues.

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If only she were in favour of Independence....

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Is there some sort of rule that dictates this?

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It is in part.

However it's not unique to Scotland. Take for example single parent mothers. There are many hundreds of thousands of stay at home one parent mothers of various age groups throughout the UK whose circumstances are such that they are happier staying at home, not working and getting free or subsidised housing via Income Support, Housing Benefit and JSA (or variations thereof) rather than going out to work or starting up and growing businesses.

An independent Scotland could legislate for changes to their welfare system where this is no longer either an attractive, and indeed in some cases default, mindset for many single mothers.

A forced return to work by means of a revised welfare bill will generate more revenue taxes.

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Good idea in principle - were there is a single mother there must be a daddy! Responsibility must go both ways, unless the daddies are all on the social as well.

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Here's a certain brand of "unionism" that'll be almost certain to introduce a wee bit of NI style sectarianism, just for the craic.

"Campaigners against Scottish independence have moved to distance themselves from a planned pro-Unionist Orange Order march through the streets of Edinburgh just days before the crucial referendum vote."

Some insight from a former UDA commander.

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Just waiting for Salmond to claim that it'd all have been done a lot better in an independent Scotland.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotlan...-west-27404417

He's not exactly slow to come forward when there's some kudos to be had is he... :)

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Clegg apparently having a spot of difficulty in answering calls to publish the results of a tax payer funded poll which some believe shows a rise in "Yes" support.

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Probably be published as the same time as the (Scottish) tax-payer funded legal opinion that shows Scotland can join the EU (in the local argot) "nae bawther"... ;)

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Nick should have just said that he'd reveal the poll results when Alex and Nicola come clean about the costs of the SNP leaders trips to America. Unless I've missed it that is...

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I believe all the costs for those trips have been published.

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Cheers Hugh. I wasn't totally sure. Nick still has a few months to reveal it then? If he does that is.

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Such a non-story. There is no evidence that any 'secret' poll exists other than a letter to a newspaper from a employee whose given name doesn't work at MORI. Governments paying for polling is not new and they've probably commissioned many, many polls none of which is evidence they have a secret poll that shows Yes surging. Also they wouldn't ask a headline yes/no poll, it would be more in-depth answers to specific questions.

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Learnings:

1. Clegg can't deny something outright in the Commons unless he is damned sure it doesn't exist. Misleading the House is a serious matter; his failure to provide an outright denial should be seen in that context, and not as obfuscation or 'difficulty'. Clegg is not running HMG's 'No' operation, Gideon and the ginger freckled one are. His failure to utterly deny is more likely a sign that he was ambushed.

2. Angus Robertson, on the other hand, knows that you can stand up on the opposition benches and say, with very few caveats, anything you like, and he knows that once it is said, newspapers can quote it at will, even if there is absolutely no evidence for it, thanks to the absolute privilege MPs enjoy when speaking in the chamber, and the corresponding protection from action newspapers have when reporting it.

3. Ipsos-MORI has no employee called Kelly Brown. Whoever she is, when she writes to the papers claiming her 'employer' has done a poll and the government is suppressing it, she's talking out of her hat. Assuming she has one.

The Nat's black ops department has been in overdrive for months now. It stretches from the use of Panelbase (which is known to have had its sample panel corrupted) in the production of badly constructed polls which overstate Yes support in comparison to all other polls to the recent, sudden upswing in the number of women apparently taking to Facebook to praise Alex Salmond, the SNP and the Yes camp, none of which are known for their attractiveness to female voters.

All the polling evidence that has been published and scrutinized over the past six months shows that support for Yes, at its most optimistic, has been unable to get past the 45% barrier, which as it happens is the maximum level of support garnered by the SNP in the 2011 Holyrood elections. Even the polls conducted for the Nats by Panelbase have never shown a Yes majority, or a trajectory likely to indicate one in future.

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Speaking of polls, latest one in the HeraldScotland.