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Originally Posted by edgie
No double standards as i said I care not about the politicians
They will twist their arguments and select facts to suit them self’s as that’s how politicians work. I have my opinion, which I haven’t given yet, based on an emotional and a practical fact based argument.
As to your comment “Scottish born “ why is a birth location an issue in this debate on either side, if come 18 September you are living in Scotland and eligible to vote that’s the issue. Are you suggesting we should limit the vote only to those born in Scotland??
And of course it’s a nationalist issue; the democratic vote of the Scottish nation is what will decide this one way or the other.
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"Scottish born", because no matter how much I may love Scotland, I think someone who was actually born here has a better handle on how nationalism may be expressed. I can observe how Scottish people express their nationalism and relate it here, but as I am not Scottish, and there is no legal means by which I could become so (had I wanted to - which I don't), then that provides useful context for anything I might say about Scottish nationalism.
I am English, I live in Scotland, I have a vote, and I will vote in September on whether I think Scotland is better off taking full control of all the levers of government, or whether it is better remaining in a union with the other home nations which currently share much of that as one nation state called the UK.
As things stand, while I can intellectually conceive of circumstances under which Scotland would be better off separating from the UK, I believe those circumstances are a long way from the actual reality of 2014.