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Originally Posted by LondonRoad
Are there no risks by voting No? The political landscape will change either way.
Without smearing anybody - the NO campaign is also blindly claiming that everything will be OK with an undefined Devo-max. Have you seen any figures for this? The ridiculous assertions of the Yes campaign are matched by the condescending negativity of BT.
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You already know what the Union offers. No one is claiming it's perfect or that we can see the future. Better Together cannot offer anything more than what you have as it's a cross-party effort where the parties disagree on various policies. I don't think they've said everything will be OK. It won't be. Life will go on and there will still be problems facing the country. There will be problems for every generation, and the generation after that, and the one after that just as there have been for all the generations prior.
Yes has a massive advantage. They don't have reality to deal with. All their assertions and promises are for the future. This gives them considerably more leeway in promoting a optimistic vision without the realities of implication weighing them down.
No has no such luxury, the flaws are there for all to see. No cannot promise a richer Scotland because it would be here already. It cannot offer much better pensions, because rUK is having to try and cut down on the bill. It cannot not offer a job for every young person because how the hell do you do that? We don't have the money in the UK to have everything we want and since No is burdened by the reality of governance it cannot pretend it would either.
So yes it is negative. No cannot give you everything Yes is claiming they'll give you. There isn't really much that can be done about that. There isn't really much more to say.
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Relevant Simpsons Clip:
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