Salmond "We can take Scotland in two weeks"

[EternalOptimist]

Why the f*** the Yes campaign just can't acknowledge the risks is gobsmacking. Unix, Batcher et al. have already said they would vote 'Yes' even if they knew there would be no CU - so honesty wouldn't scare everyone away.

because any self-respecting SWP or militant tendancy member will tell you, talk about 'the revolution'. Never talk about what comes after the revolution
that way, the dreamers can all have their own little dream

[vetran]

Brit telcos warn Scots that voting Yes could lead to HEFTY bills

oh well at least normal service is resumed the telecoms operators will up the prices for you as well.

[Unix]

That is deluded, and shines an interesting light on your other delusions. Possibly Cameron would have to go.

Cameron would do, nice cherry on top of the independence cake.

[jemb]

There are risks, but the problem is the doomsday tactics of the no campaign make it difficult to have a reasoned discussion on the risks. As soon as you admit it the No campaign and MSM would have it all over their front pages as end of the world.

I agree that the doomsday tactics are bonkers. But there are a few things that are real:
1. There will be no CU
2. Entry into the EU will most likely be via Article 49.
3. The Yes campaign have ignored the realpain that will follow a Yes vote.

In fairness - the banks are keeping schtum on a lot of the possible implications of a Yes vote. I guess some of us on here will have been signing NDAs for contingency planning over the last few weeks.

[LondonManc]

If you want to use the UK pound, watch out for the increased interest rates. Which, in case you didn't realise, you'll have no control over.

[Unix]

Brit telcos warn Scots that voting Yes could lead to HEFTY bills

oh well at least normal service is resumed the telecoms operators will up the prices for you as well.

Don't see the logic, they already provide a service. Sounds like more scare stories to me.

[LondonManc]

a 2:2 from St Andrews is hardly the stuff of greatness.....

The first class coach is very comfy to be fair.
Oh sorry, though it said 2:20 from St Andrews.

[Churchill]

So your pro independence? You should be out there canvassing the Scottish electorate.

I'm pro-schadenfreude.

[Old Greg]

Don't see the logic, they already provide a service. Sounds like more scare stories to me.

Might be a scare story, but I guess there are three factors that could drive up prices:

1. Reduction in economies of scale, as new corporate entities have to be set up in Scotland serving smaller population.
2. Sparser population could lead to higher maintenance costs for remote communities being shared between Scottish client base (if a single pricing structure across Scotland is to be maintained), rather that across UK client base.
3. Less competition is smaller suppliers withdraw from Scottish market.

Take a look at phone / mobile / broadband prices in the Republic of Ireland. It's certainly a risk, or do you think there is no risk?

[EternalOptimist]

If you want to use the UK pound, watch out for the increased interest rates. Which, in case you didn't realise, you'll have no control over.

People are talking as if the BOE will adjust interest rates just to make the scots squirm and punish them.
I think there is a 1% chance that this will never happen