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Everyone pays their fair share of tax has to include those one man builders window cleaners dole boys working on the side. They often get missed out of the argument in favour of the big corporations, as u just have.  Remember it's the pennies which we need to look after not the pounds. But you won't have to worry about that come September ey?

I rather think you need to look after the pounds, the billions upon billions of missing pounds from the UK tax revenues.  I'm afraid you ain't gonna pay off the deficit with pennies.


Equality can't exist by ignoring some but not all. Start with the small and work up  After all that one man band probably doesn't contribute to the country to the extent those big corps do. In fact if percentages were calculated I'm sure the one man band takes more than gives. just a guess

Oh yes but of course it would seem that Scotland (who begged to be part of the UK originally) want their 'freedom back but want/need to keep the strength of the Pound sterling.

This will be the first time that people in Scotland will have been asked if they wish to be part of the UK. 
Of course we want to keep the pound, it's as much our currency as it is England's, Wales or Northern Ireland's.
And in any case come a yes vote, Westminster will be suddenly keen on a currency union.  Unless that is that England really wants to bite off it's nose to spite it's face. 


Since it was a representitive of the Scottish people who asked William (who didn't ask the people for opinion) for the Union perhaps it's time the English were asked if they actually want Scotland in their gang

After all how will they be invited in to Europe with out it

Scotland is already part of the EU.  Which is another reason why many Scots will vote YES.  If we stay with the UK we could be dragged out of Europe by the fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists doon south.  Most people in Scotland want to remain in the EU.

So just googled (all a learning process)  and found this.......not sure but it kind of questions Scottish membership in EU in it's own right
see below  but as a personal opinion what is really to be gained by independence, after all if the people are to be allowed to travel freely across the border stay with the same currency (unless we're talking different like french and belgium franc) so basically for all intent and purpose nothing changes , why bother?


[color=rgb(51, 51, 51)]109.  Scottish-based business leaders were clear that Scotland should remain part of the EU single market. Sir Philip Hampton, Chairman of the Royal Bank of Scotland, said:[/color]
[color=rgb(51, 51, 51)][/color][color=rgb(51, 51, 51)]"The overarching framework, assuming that Scotland and the UK stay within the European Union, is that we have a single market for the main products and services, including financial services. The overriding existence of the European single market and the presence of a potentially independent Scotland and the United Kingdom within that should trump relatively smaller, effectively regional differences that might arise."[[/color][color=rgb(51, 106, 159)]130[/color][color=rgb(51, 51, 51)]][/color][color=rgb(51, 51, 51)]Mr Rupert Soames, CEO of Aggreko plc, said:[/color]
[color=rgb(51, 51, 51)][/color][color=rgb(51, 51, 51)]"Being part of the European Union would be the sine qua non of our having our headquarters and manufacturing facilities there [in Scotland]. We need not only access to the free passage of goods within the EU but the protection of all the EU trade agreements."[[/color][color=rgb(51, 106, 159)]131[/color][color=rgb(51, 51, 51)]][/color][color=rgb(51, 51, 51)]110.  The Scottish Government's policy is that an independent Scotland should be an EU member state.There is however no precedent to show how, after a "Yes" vote in the referendum, Scotland would move from its present status within the EU as part of the United Kingdom to membership of the EU in its own right. While we were taking evidence in Scotland in October 2012, there was controversy about the transition and especially about what legal advice the Scottish Government had or had not had from Brussels. Mr John Swinney MSP indicated to us that Scotland's position in the EU would befor discussion between a "Yes" vote in 2014 and independence in 2016:[/color]
[color=rgb(51, 51, 51)][/color][color=rgb(51, 51, 51)]"In that period after a referendum and before the establishment of an independent state in the spring of 2016, Scotland would be involved in a process of settling the independence process and conducting negotiations with the United Kingdom Government and with the European Union about the terms of Scotland's membership of the European Union."[[/color][color=rgb(51, 106, 159)]132[/color][color=rgb(51, 51, 51)]][/color]
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa.../15207.htm