The Jock vote

[Phil]

Thing is, NO needs 60% plus to bury YES for a while.

YES needs 51% to bury NO for good.   

That's the worry, a narrow margin for either side will leave a lot of people pissed off. Hopefully the winning side will get more than the other + non voters total.

If Scotland do vote yes, I say good luck to them. I think unless you have lived in Scotland its hard to appreciate exactly what its like.

The one thing I really don't get is why the YES party want to keep the £. Scotland is voting for an independent country and countries have their own currencies, unless they vote to join the EU and use the €. Or they just use a currency as their own but cant control it, like Montenegro/Kosovo and a fair few using US $.

Nothing to stop Scotland using the £, but as an independent country should their policies be able to control it? One of many things to sort out before March 2016.

Old 'unions' and their original currency and the new independent countries and their currencies.

Czechoslovakia - Koruna
CZ = Koruna
Slovakia = Euro

Yugoslavia - Dinar
Slovenia = Euro
Croatia = Kuna
Montenegro = Euro
Serbia = Dinar
Bosnia and Herzegovina = Bosnia and Herzegovina convertible mark (catchy name)
Kosovo = Euro
Macedonia  =  Denar 

USSR - Ruble
Russia = Russian Ruble
Ukraine = Hryvnia
Latvia = Lats
Lithuania = Litas
Latvia = Euro (was Kroon)
Belarus = Belarusian Ruble
Georgia = Lari

I didn't look up what all those countries used immediately after the splits.