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There is an endless amount of admin that will come into play - it will take years for the wheels to even start turning correctly.

Interestingly after all the various B List company directors that have been wheeled out in support of either side, the biggie today is Bob Dudley who both AS and DC have endorsed as one of the experts on North Sea oil, and he has gone No.

Some interesting assumptions there DB, London is an amazing place, from afar maybe it is but I would challenge anyone to go live in some parts and come back saying how amazing it is. I am lucky enough to live in Richmond but I drive ten minutes away through some parts of Hounslow and I pray my car doesn't break down. As for geography and investment, it has been shown that public spending for the south east is on part per head as the rest of the country - yes there are no high speed cross rail projects going on in Yorkshire but then again you don't have 8 million people trying to get across 20 miles of space each day. The EU argument is irrelevant, your example is about the UK voting in a body with no experience managing us, which is just not the same as voting for a body that has spent the last few hundred years managing you.

Totally agree that Thatcherism destroyed northern industry. The rest of the big paragraph above though can, and will likely occur under a Scottish government if you go independent - in fact, all the above happens in the majority of other developed countries globally, constantly labeling it a 'Westminster' problem is factually correct but not unique to the UK, I think its somewhat foolish to think none of the above will occur post independence. Yes you can then vote out the people responsible from a Scottish perspective but then you are simply back where you are now taking a popularity vote every five years for people you generally do not trust, Scottish or otherwise. As you said, you are voting for independence nothing more, not for some guarantee of a flourishing economy which is constantly promised by AS which is somewhat baseless in its facts and without certainty.

Because 'wearables' are a massive growing area - the obvious applications are there at the moment but its all about the future and having the tech development in the pipeline to take advantage. I still remember the launch of the iPad and the bad reception it got - the thing about the best tech launches is that at the time they are often viewed as unnecessary but there will be some clever people at Apple with versions 2, 3 and 4 already on the table and plans in place on how they will make money from them. What we see at the moment is just the dumbed down mass prodcution version.

One of the problems that BT have. Yes sounds positive, No sounds negative. Pete It seemed to be just a function of the debate? That the Yes campaign 6 months ago were promising some outlandish things which the No campaign had to challenge and it hasn't reverted back since. The problem with the No campaign offering the sorts of things the Yes campaign were offering is that it was a bit nonsense and having been part of the UK for so long would know its not realistic - however a colourful wonderful painted world of independence does make it easier to promise without worrying about delivering. The No campaign should have been more clear over the last 6 months about what additional benefits would be on the table in terms of powers but in terms of what this means to your average punter who has the Yes campaign saying they will be X thousand of pounds better off is probably minimal.

I had a D1Spec one, interesting sensation - throttle response increases, most settings were unusable day to day driving.

My Glaswegian neighbour lives down here in London (as he was commuting down here for meetings 4 times a week) but the company he heads up is based in Glasgow and employs 1000 people and contributes significantly to Scottish tax revenues, he doesn't get a vote...

Sorry to see this on FB mate, shocked! Mind you classic photo. RB26DET and you are sorted

I just despair of the polls really, when it is so close it really is pointless trying to call it either way There's only one poll that counts but the exit polls are pretty accurate. We'll know one way or the other one minute after the polls close unless its desperately close that is. Pete So we had any polls that have asked the question 'Who do you think will win' rather than 'Who are you going to vote for' - been proved many times that the former is more accurate than the latter.

I met most of my neighbours washing my cars! People who might otherwise have kept themselves to themselves!

Use 'search' exact same question asked and debated about a week ago - probably looking at £30 a cat roughly.

Looking on the positive side, might be a good time to upgrade the Y pipe, lots of good options at decent prices

They are a dying breed but a historical highlight - if you can afford to get yourself a fun car to drive around in and keep it, then I would do that. Someone has to keep cars mint otherwise they rust and get scrapped and disappear. I know in years to come I would love to see the one of the ten Cossies still alive in the world and that car would be priceless. I get the 'if you got it drive it' but so far you have kept it as a keep sake and got your driving kicks elsewhere, so would continue doing that. I went to a B&B in Cornwall a few years back and the people that ran the chalets had a big shed full of racing memorabilia including the first Honda Civic Type R off the production line - turns out Honda had been hounding these people to buy the car offering with six figure sums - but they are waiting until retirement date and selling up for plenty more...it was breath-taking to see the car there like that!

Jeez Dan, sleeping problems! Happy birthday Matt

Slightly off topic, but I bought a set of these http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/331155869630 which I keep in the boot - very handy

Difficult to find any objective reports, most of those links are from where people want to present a point and find evidence to back it up. Just seems given the thousands of factors involved many of which are unknown, any of these reports that says this is how it will be are always biased one way or the other.

Read the post properly, I am talking about fiscal policy and budget planning. North Sea Oil fluctuates in price, revenues from it last year dropped 50% compared to 2012. Scotland will need to fund their own public sector spending (which they currently do not cover) if year on year Scotlands biggest revenue generator is potentially leaving a multi billion pound gap in your budgeting as per my previous post it's either accrue debt or raise taxation. The 1% of something point is not the point at all.

From my understanding: 1. I think it will be the £ because I am not in the know enough to say otherwise, and neither is anyone commenting on this thread. Although how this actually works I am not sure, saying however it will be the £ because otherwise we won't take on the debt is not an answer, its a route to an answer but the answer could be £ or something else. 2. Again its not clear as there is not precedent for a country currently in Europe having to apply again - to be part of the EU you have to pass a number of tests which I believe includes having a tested stable economy which Scotland currently does not have. Also the UK has some favourable terms in EU membership will these terms be passed on? As with anything EU this would take at least 5 years to sort out. 3. This is an area that is the most cloudy and no where near as cut and dry as people say, oil prices fluctuate massively, not a few percent but revenues can change by 2/3rds year on year - due to all the issues we should all be clearly aware of. You cannot base a fiscal policy on something so unstable, that your economy of 5m people could be £10b down for instance one year to the next, its manageable if you have 500m people but not 5m. When you spread oil revenues by population rather than geography or remove them altogether Scottish average contributions are about the same as the UK average. So the oil running out is not the issue in my mind, its how they deal with having such a small population handles oil price changes and shortfalls in revenues. Only way is taxation but for 5m people to offset £10b...you either accrue huge debt or you whack up tax.

Get the car down to Abbey/H-Dev/RS for a remap to remove the limiter But unless you are running it on track it shouldn't be inconveniencing you on public roads....

I bet neither Westminster now AS have accounted for at any point the cost of independence in terms of admin! That will cost more than HS2 by some distance

Equally there are plenty of comments from SMEs from both sides of the border countering such arguments. Stating opinion from a selection of SMEs as fact is not stating fact. Admittedly I don't know the full facts about this, neither do you, probably no one outside of Westminster probably does, we can only read up ourselves and report back. I have found this thread a great read as I wanted to know more (I did economics at Uni so its something I always have a personal interest in), and have picked up interesting stuff from yourself and from my own motivation to read (and read from places like the ONS not from English tabloids or other rhetoric). I am willing to stick my neck out here and say that the Sterling would not crash in the event of Scottish independence...

Im actually speechless at this, if you really believe that then you seriously need to pull your head out Salmonds arse. Jesus. Yes in amongst some reasonable debate this seemed like a somewhat out of character comment which is completely baseless. In terms of tax contribution, Scotland under deliver vs the UK in terms of income taxation but over deliver vs the UK in spend taxation (i.e. alcohol + cigarette taxation...avoiding any stereotype joking here!). Overall Scotland on average commit slightly more in the way of tax revenues to the UK vs the UK average but that's if you work off the assumption that you associate oil revenues by geography rather than population - take out oil (due to reasoning previously) then they under deliver vs the UK average. That aside, to suggest England/Wales/NI would crash without Scotland is somewhat naive and I suspect it was GMan just slipping from his previously calm persona!

VOSA have nothing to do with speedo conversion, the kits are freely available and most of the time the import company will convert the speedo for a fee although mostly all they do is convert the workings and just put an M sticker over the K sticker. To pass the SVA/IVA at the moment the guidelines say that it should show mph although in the past not sure that was the case as there are quite a few imports that came in 5 or 10 years ago still driving around in KPH.

Well if you see a white R33 around west London I will reciprocate a headlight flash!