On Belleveue Road Edinburgh where I am staying, the number of houses or apartments sporting yes posters had suddenly gone up from 13 to 23, including some great homemade efforts. The No count remained stationary at eleven. I noticed new yes posters in Broughton Street and Albany Street too. There seems a huge last minute proclamation of belief – which is precisely what Andy Murray has done too. In a last gasp of silly bias, the BBC claimed that his tweet was ambiguous, and then stopped reporting it at all. This is Andy Murray’s “ambiguous” tweet.
“Huge day for Scotland today! No campaign negativity last few days totally swayed my view on it. Excited to see the outcome. Let’s do this!”
People with Yes badges stopping and talking to each other on the street. The central belt looking very good indeed. Currently campaigning in Larbert, then Stirling, then Alloa.
C. Crawford Esq needs to persuaded.
http://www.diplomatmagazine.com/issues/2014/september-october/893-should-scotland-be-independent.html
Readership of Diplomat Magazine??
Met your Uncle Joe while I was coming out and he was coming in to the polling station in Muirhouse @ 7am this morning. Didn’t ask how he voted!
Scotref twitter trendmap:
http://trendsmap.com/v2/Lf62/w
Well if that translates to votes one would have to say ‘landslide’. 😀
Two new essays on DV referring to the referendum and some vox pop.
When Scots Ruled Chunks of England
As Scotland decides peacefully whether to quit the Union – a lesson to all — let’s remember history
September 18th, 2014 by Stuart Littlewood
http://dissidentvoice.org/2014/09/when-scots-ruled-chunks-of-england/
A Public Bank Option for Scotland
September 17th, 2014 by Ellen Hodgson Brown
http://dissidentvoice.org/2014/09/a-public-bank-option-for-scotland/
Scots in Their Own Words on Independence
September 17th, 2014 by The Real News Network (TRNN)
http://dissidentvoice.org/2014/09/scots-in-their-own-words-on-independence/
Craig
Do you really believe that Andy “Anyone but the English” Surrey was ‘swayed’ at the last minute by the ‘negative’ campaigning?
Don’t you think this reeks of pressure being applied with Andy giving his opinion just after the media blackout had been imposed to give minimum exposure?
I don’t do Twitter – but sort of understand how it works. That trendmap is really encouraging providing the sampling is objective and unbiased. One needs to understand though, that most old people won’t do Twitter, and they will probably be so set in their ways that most of them will vote no…but even so…Looking good.
Tony
“People with Yes badges stopping and talking to each other on the street. The central belt looking very good indeed. Currently campaigning in Larbert, then Stirling, then Alloa.”
Craig, can you give us an idea of what sort of things your telling the voters during these last crucial hours?
According to the Daily Wail, the bully-boy Yes campaign are preparing a terrorist cadre to target the crown in the event they lose. It’s to be called ‘Aye-Sis’
As an Englishman born & bred, living in Hampshire, who is very unimpressed with the Westminster ruling class may I wish the “Yes” campaign all the best (and the right result) for today. From a not quite neutral observer I also think should it not go the way of the Yes vote today this won’t be the end of it, especially as a many No voters say “I’m voting with my head and not my heart”. But I don’t quite share your optimism regard the number of “Yes” versus “No” posters. From afar virtually all the “Yes” voters seem to be proud to be a Yes and talk with passion, enthusiasm and pride whereas not so many “No” voters seem to show that sense of pride or desire to shout about their decision (except the wealthy ones who seem to be very passionate to keep the status quo!)
Anon – “your (sic) should be *you’re*
James Gray, MP, writes:
“I do not agree with the ‘Devo Max’ proposals which the three party leaders seem to be offering. Talk about feeding an addiction. The more you give them, the more they want.. The Barnett Formula, under which every Scottish citizen gets £1,500 per year more spent on him/her than their English counterpart must be swept away with no delay. We want greater powers for the long-suffering people of England.”
Vote Yes 😀
Ba’al – you should always close the quotes you’ve opened explicitly
“Anon – “your (sic) should be *you’re*”
Thanks Komodo. It’s good to know ur paying thorough attention to my posts.
Vote Yes 😀
Thanks, McSmith. Nice to know *you’re* reading my posts…and that even the trolls are voting Yes.
Interesting that no one is talking about the most revealing evidence about how the referendum election is going – i.e., GCHQ’s Tempora program of everything up to 30 days about what people are saying on fibre-optic cables.
Looks like Cheltenham learned that the Yes campaign was starting to wane, thanks to all the scare tactics the UK’US covert government was conducting.
For English undecideds, a quick course in what it’s about.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjbuTckpcDI
Spoiler alert – it’s Chunky Mark. On great form.
John McSmith,
I’m sure there is an exception to that rule, but I take your point.
In future, can you please end your sentence with a full stop.
Regards,
Anthony
What’s brought you around, Anon1? Was it all that negativity from the NO camp?
PS, some viewers may find the 25 fucks per minute in that clip slightly offensive. Wimps.
Mark always cracks me up, Ba’al. The odd thing is Craig is full Monty on the EU, so independence seems like the Queen going off the cliff in craig’s new Jaguar.
“It’s about water” I think this is true more so than oil.
Glenn; I think anon is being ‘ironic’.
I suspect a lot of “no” voters are doing so much less noisily than the separatists. Why should they scream and shout, display banners, abuse visiting political leaders, and generally make fools of themselves? They can go and vote for the status quo, which has served them well, with quiet dignity.
I wish I had found this before: ‘HUMANITY vs INSANITY – #23 : Scotland & a New Political Paradigm’:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muiZCgC7QB4&feature=youtu.be&utm_source=Scotland%3A+An+Opportunity+for+ALL%3F&utm_campaign=Scottish+Independence&utm_medium=email
I have, however, previously put up a comment on one of the other Scottish threads here that an Independent Scotland should go for a ‘Bradbury Pound’ currency.
Good luck with your campaign, Craig. Welcome to a Brave New Scotland (hopefully!).
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/jimmy-savile-preyed-young-victims-1378482
Thanks, orkneylad, for the link to :
Scotref twitter trendmap:
http://trendsmap.com/v2/Lf62/w
Tweets ain’t votes, but it’s interesting to see how overwhelmingly YES this map is. If you zoom out to the rest of the world, Europe and the USA are also strongly YES. The only NO region in the entire world is England, and who can blame them?
I thought I glimpsed one plaintive NO tweet coming from Caithness, but it may have been a midge flying in front of my monitor.
Stephan Colbert…..chuckle*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uP4a52N_xfM
http://wingsoverscotland.com/us-now-or-never/#more-61777
“But they’re afraid now”
Especially Cameron who is the deserved sacrificial goat. He thought he was being canny when he agreed to the Ref, but that was when the YES vote was tallied at 30%.
Scottish Friends of Israel Salute:
The Fallen IDF soldiers in Operation Protective Edge
We salute every soldier, especially those who made the ultimate sacrifice.
We salute every Mother & Father, Wife & Partner, Son & Daughter,
Sister & Brother.
We salute every Israeli who mans the front-line of defence against
Middle East Fascism.
http://www.scottishfriendsofisrael.org/Fallen%20IDF%20soldiers%20in%20Operation%20Protective%20Edge.html
No wonder they don’t want an independent foreign policy.
First on the list; Catalonia. Orwell, where are ye?
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/europe/140911/these-8-european-separatist-groups-are-totally-inspired-scotland