I voted yes....but felt like I'd been kicked in the ba's the day

[Bodie80]

Eh? Does the sky fall down every time you go out?
This is just so ridiculously unreasonable it is impossible to argue against.
Are you seriously trying to say, on a public message board, that Scotland and the Scots have neither the will nor the wit to manage their affairs?
That a nation of five million people are utterly incapable of managing their affairs?
Is every household in Scotland struggling under a mountain of debt because every member of the population is too stupid to even maintain a reasonable household budget?
This is, by far, the most insulting thing I have ever seen on this topic. It even beats the disgusting "Hamish" rubbish the huns come out with.
It is desperately sad that you have such a low opinion of your countrymen.
Yet you want to move down here - this country IS screwed because the Westminster government are utterly incapable of managing their budget and the deficit is spiralling out of control and rising every second.
It makes it even more insulting that you think Scotland cannot do a better job than the incompetent idiots in Westminster right now

You are taking what you think I mean out of my post which is insulting to me. I don't have a low opinion of my countrymen. Scotland would be running at a massive deficit, bigger than any other country in Europe. So yes I think we would be skint.
We do not have enough people or resources to maintain the standard of living we have just now. It's nothing to do with the will of the Scotttish people who by the way voted to stay in the Union. Please do not ever put words in my mouth, thanks

[JackSnakes]

You are taking what you think I mean out of my post which is insulting to me. I don't have a low opinion of my countrymen. Scotland would be running at a massive deficit, bigger than any other country in Europe. So yes I think we would be skint.
We do not have enough people or resources to maintain the standard of living we have just now. It's nothing to do with the will of the Scotttish people who by the way voted to stay in the Union. Please do not ever put words in my mouth, thanks

Who says Scotland would be running at a massive debt? It isn't me... It isn't even the newspapers reporting the public spending gap in March - it is you.
You certainly aren't saying it because you think Scotland is capable of running its own affairs... THAT is an absolute certainty.
Scotland has plenty of people and resources. Out of 28 current member states of the EU, Scotland is better off than 16 of them.
Scotland's employment rate is a record high, and unemployment is currently the same as the UK in total,and better than 24 out of 28 member states of the EU... and better than the USA.

Just how good do you think it has to get before you will consider it to be anything above disastrous???