Was the Scotland vote rigged?

[Old Greg]

A 5 point swing isn't close? Basically if 200k people voted yes instead of No it would independence. There are 500k English people living in Scotland.

HTH

Not if 50,000 people voted No instead of Yes.

[shaunbhoy]

A 5 point swing isn't close? Basically if 200k people voted yes instead of No it would independence. There are 500k English people living in Scotland.

HTH

Oh I see. So that clears it all up then. It only became a NO vote because of all the nasty English people living in Scotland?
Good God............this has gone beyond parody now.

[Unix]

Oh I see. So that clears it all up then. It only became a NO vote because of all the nasty English people living in Scotland?
Good God............this has gone beyond parody now.

Just sayin

[shaunbhoy]

Just sayin

Aye........why blame the English in Westminster when you can blame your English neighbours in Crieff/Perth/Kilmarnock etc.?

If yer granny had baws she'd be your grandad!!

The vote was a resounding NO. Try again in a generation's time.....................NEXT!!

[Batcher]

Oh I see. So that clears it all up then. It only became a NO vote because of all the nasty English people living in Scotland?
Good God............this has gone beyond parody now.

I didn't see where he called the English people nasty

A lot of the English living in Scotland say they voted Yes but no doubts there are a lot of them who believed the rubbish about having to go through border posts to visit relatives down south.

[Batcher]

Aye........why blame the English in Westminster when you can blame your English neighbours in Crieff/Perth/Kilmarnock etc.?

If yer granny had baws she'd be your grandad!!

The vote was a resounding NO. Try again in a generation's time.....................NEXT!!

It won't be as long as a generation. The UK is about to split anyway, the West Lothian question will see to it.

[Unix]

Aye........why blame the English in Westminster when you can blame your English neighbours in Crieff/Perth/Kilmarnock etc.?

If yer granny had baws she'd be your grandad!!

The vote was a resounding NO. Try again in a generation's time.....................NEXT!!

As the loser I get to bitch about it for a generation!! The no voters can't bitch about anything Westminster do

[TykeMerc]

The 45% are now 45+ as lots of No voters have now said they regret believing the Westminster parties and voting No and would change their votes to a Yes if we had another referendum.

It's not sour grapes at all. A lot of people were energised by the debate and got involved in politics for the first time and want to keep it going. The rally on Saturday was arranged by a woman from Edinburgh that had no political experience before the referendum.

We know we now have power to force change and we will keep it going until we get independence from Westminster. If that comes as part of a federal UK then that will be a good starting point

Post result remorse is hardly a new thing, plus lets face it just based on CUK general a very large number of people are prepared to tell bare faced lies when there are no consequences, so after the event these claims are nothing more than hot air.

The referendum was properly scheduled, held, voted on (with a record turnout), counted and the result given, all according to the law of the land. If people wanted to vote the other way the chance was there and they didn't.

2,001,926 voted No
1,617,989 voted Yes

It was a simple majority vote and had a clear result.

If the vote had been held on a constituency basis with the splits done by the administrative areas the result would have been even more stark.
If memory serves there were about 30 areas only 3 of which voted for independence with 7%, 3% and 1% majority yes votes, all the rest voted no, so roughly 10-1 majority.

[Batcher]

Post result remorse is hardly a new thing, plus lets face it just based on CUK general a very large number of people are prepared to tell bare faced lies when there are no consequences, so after the event these claims are nothing more than hot air.

The referendum was properly scheduled, held, voted on (with a record turnout), counted and the result given, all according to the law of the land. If people wanted to vote the other way the chance was there and they didn't.

2,001,926 voted No
1,617,989 voted Yes

It was a simple majority vote and had a clear result.

If the vote had been held on a constituency basis with the splits done by the administrative areas the result would have been even more stark.
If memory serves there were about 30 areas only 3 of which voted for independence with 7%, 3% and 1% majority yes votes, all the rest voted no, so roughly 10-1 majority.

The closeness of the polls forced the 3 Westminster parties into panic mode to make a 'vow' on further powers including keeping the Barnett Formula. This has caused ruptions in Westminster with some saying they will block any moves to give Scotland those powers. The 'vow' has also slipped in the timetable which is bound to cause problems for those parties in Scotland at the GE.

Add in the 'English votes for English laws' speech by Cameron and it's turned out a win/win for the independence movement.

[TykeMerc]

The closeness of the polls forced the 3 Westminster parties into panic mode to make a 'vow' on further powers including keeping the Barnett Formula. This has caused ruptions in Westminster with some saying they will block any moves to give Scotland those powers. The 'vow' has also slipped in the timetable which is bound to cause problems for those parties in Scotland at the GE.

Add in the 'English votes for English laws' speech by Cameron and it's turned out a win/win for the independence movement.

So?

The vote was clear and no amount of bluster and obfuscation will change the result. Out of 3.6m votes cast a bit under 400,000 more NO votes were cast than YES.

Frankly I don't give much of a damn what the fallout is in Westminster.
Anyone boneheaded enough to have believed those 3 muppets saying one thing without a mandate from the Westminster Parliament deserves to be sold shares in my project to re-locate Tower Bridge to Disneyland.