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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!

Good memory there! Even I forgot I posted this post and was very confused when I saw it pop up

I thought the simple answer in economic terms is that both the UK minus Scotland and Scotland would be taking big steps backwards economically if they split up. The UK government knows that, Alex Salmond knows that but wants to be a guy who goes down in Scottish history - I have no doubt there are quite selfish personal reasons at heart for what he is campaigning for. Personally it is a massive gamble and if I were going to stick my money in there I would vote No. A lot has been said of oil but take that out of the equation and Scotland in terms of revenue generation per head is on par with the UK average. Oil prices and sales are hugely volatile accounting for anything between 10 and 30 percent of revenues for Scotland year on year. AS cannot possibly create a future fiscal policy which contains oil revenues and be confident that he can control taxation. So the numbers argument is really a mute point, the argument is I think are you willing to inherit an unknown number of years of additional financial hardship so you can say that when a politician makes a decision you don't like its from Scotland and not in England, if you think that is worth it then you vote Yes.

If we can rack up 9 pages about the fact that a TTRS is faster than a Zed then 20 pages on these idiots should be a doddle then post it on their facebook page.

If you look on the national statistics site its all on there mate in terms of public spending, you can even download the spread sheet. Trust me, it is not 1%, the spread of spend is about on average £8k per head with variations around that down to £6k per head in some areas and £10k per head in others. As for backbone, have you lived in many other countries to experience their governments and make a view? I have only lived in two countries outside the UK but its no different. I for one would prefer to live here with tolerance than somewhere like France with its every increasing racist views.

which country isnt Economic report this morning actually states that the UK is ninth in the world out of 144 countries surveyed - relatively speaking we are very far from a mess.

It affects all nationalities that live in Scotland, so really that's the only ones that should have a say. My neighbour owns a house in Scotland, is MD of a £2bn business based in Scotland employing over a 1000 people but lives in England because most of his meetings are southern based - should he get a vote?

100% agreed and 100% the point. Absolutely the point - although how many voting Yes genuinely believe the financial forecasts that the Yes campaign are putting forwards? How many are voting Yes for independence and how many because they think they are going the be getting something better in economic terms?

I'm proposing Independence, so that you don't have to worry about my tax, and concentrate on your own. If you think what you pay is enough for all the major Infra projects in that corner of England, crack on. Yeah I saw that about infrastructure, my point was back to your reasoning around the south east paying more tax due to spending. A quick Google and the spend per head on people living in the south east is one of the lowest in the country (I live in Surrey not London) so would love to see my tax go down, Scotland as we know is the highest so by that rationale they should be taxed higher. In terms of infrastructure, yes highlighting the HS2 is fair enough, you are not alone and most people see it as a waste of money north and south of the border. However, personal views aside it is built using UK taxes and situated in the UK with the intention of stimulating the UK economy and therefore UK revenues. The fact is is not in Scotland is really not the issue in terms of the very top level aims of the project (whether you agree with it or not) - it should ultimately drive the UK economy so creating more wealth for the UK including Scotland. In terms of being run by 'Westminster' - trust me, I live 20 miles away from the building and work within spitting distance of it - do I feel any better when crap decisions are made than someone living 700 miles away, not really.

You would propose paying tax proportionate to spending per head?