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  • rpc
    rpc Posts: 2,353 Forumite
    So a private business should explain how they construct survey panels

    They do. Because this is absolutely key to running a decent poll and having any statistical validity.
  • Scotland could face TEN YEAR economic slowdown after independence warns business chief in fresh blow to Salmond

    - 'Yes' would ‘inevitably’ cause a slowdown

    - CBI boss claims this could 'easily' last for a decade because of uncertainty

    - Comes after IMF warned separation could result in financial market turmoil

    - Five Scottish based banks this week warned they would move to England

    - Asda, Waitrose, B&Q and Screwfix say prices would rise after independence

    - Marks & Spencer set to join firms warning against 'Yes' vote next week

    - Comes as poll shows 'No' campaign four point ahead with six days to go


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    Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2753279/Scotland-face-10-year-economic-slowdown-independence-warns-business-chief-fresh-blow-Salmond.html#ixzz3D6EvkAEJ
    “The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

    Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”

    -- President John F. Kennedy”
  • lazer
    lazer Posts: 3,402 Forumite
    Scotland could face TEN YEAR economic slowdown after independence warns business chief in fresh blow to Salmond

    - 'Yes' would ‘inevitably’ cause a slowdown

    - CBI boss claims this could 'easily' last for a decade because of uncertainty

    - Comes after IMF warned separation could result in financial market turmoil

    - Five Scottish based banks this week warned they would move to England

    - Asda, Waitrose, B&Q and Screwfix say prices would rise after independence

    - Marks & Spencer set to join firms warning against 'Yes' vote next week

    - Comes as poll shows 'No' campaign four point ahead with six days to go



    10 years of economic slowdown and uncertainty, and freedom to make there own decisions for the benefit of Scotland's own Economy forever - so long term much more financial benefit.


    I hope people go into to this referendum taking a long term approach, it is not a vote for Alex Salmond or the SNP, or a vote against the Tories etc.


    Political parties and leaders can and do change, economic situations can and do change.


    This is quite simply a vote about giving the Scotland to make its own decisions forever. There will be short term consequences and long term consequences.


    IMO there will be a hard few years to get through before Scotland prospers in its own right.
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  • GUARDIAN POLL today


    NO 51%
    YES 49%


    to close to call
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  • rpc
    rpc Posts: 2,353 Forumite
    lazer wrote: »
    10 years of economic slowdown and uncertainty, and freedom to make there own decisions for the benefit of Scotland's own Economy forever - so long term much more financial benefit.
    Long term there is the possibility of financial benefit, but no reason to expect it to appear. There is also the possibility of doing less well because we will have a smaller more volatile economy. And there is the possibility that things will stay the same.
    I hope people go into to this referendum taking a long term approach, it is not a vote for Alex Salmond or the SNP, or a vote against the Tories etc.
    So why are Yes making this about short term policies? NHS, tuition fees, etc?

    Today they are claiming that they will renationalise BP. Multinationals will be queueing up to invest, knowing that they may get taken over by the state if they become too important to the economy.
  • Archi_Bald
    Archi_Bald Posts: 9,681 Forumite
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    rpc wrote: »
    Today they are claiming that they will renationalise BP.
    Not only that - one of the SNP guys has issued a wholesale threat to any and all businesses that dare to publically voice their concerns.

    http://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/top-stories/day-of-reckoning-post-yes-vote-says-jim-sillars-1-3539754
  • lazer
    lazer Posts: 3,402 Forumite
    rpc wrote: »
    Long term there is the possibility of financial benefit, but no reason to expect it to appear. There is also the possibility of doing less well because we will have a smaller more volatile economy. And there is the possibility that things will stay the same.


    So why are Yes making this about short term policies? NHS, tuition fees, etc?

    Today they are claiming that they will renationalise BP. Multinationals will be queueing up to invest, knowing that they may get taken over by the state if they become too important to the economy.


    NHS is a long term policy - UK want it privatised - it will never go back if it is, Scotland want to power to stop it being privatised.


    The YES campaign is run by the SNP, and they want independence now and know that must voters are just interested in the here and now - will they be better off immediately after independence - it is a way to way to win the votes.


    IMO it's the wrong way to look at it - voters should be looking at it as a chance to change the future!
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  • Marazan
    Marazan Posts: 142 Forumite
    Archi_Bald wrote: »
    Not only that - one of the SNP guys has issued a wholesale threat to any and all businesses that dare to publically voice their concerns.

    http://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/top-stories/day-of-reckoning-post-yes-vote-says-jim-sillars-1-3539754

    He's not a member of the SNP.
  • zeupater
    zeupater Posts: 5,390 Forumite
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    lazer wrote: »
    .... NHS is a long term policy - UK want it privatised - it will never go back if it is, Scotland want to power to stop it being privatised ....
    There are so many points wrapped up in this ploy to farm the 'gullible' votes that it's practically akin to being criminal .... anyway, if the assertion is correct, why was there so much bluster involved in avoiding a simple direct question on this issue on a Daily Politics interview this lunchtime, before finally conceding the point, effectively saying something like "Yes, we've increased private expenditure by lot-of-millions in NHS Scotland, but in the scale of thing it's not a great deal ..." ? - '... pants on fire' or what, you could hear the mind ticking whilst checking whether anyone else had heard the pin drop .... credibility certainly has very strong foundations in past performance, it's just that in this very important debate it seems that sound bytes, bluster and flippant remarks are trumping logic and reasoning ...

    Ah well, less than a week to go - then, whatever the result, it could really hit the fan .....
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  • Linton wrote: »
    The assumption that in the event of a split in the UK sterling is the sole property of England/Wales/NI seems somewhat unreasonable to me. Surely if Scotland is currently a full part of a united country, the UK, rather than a subservient colony it has a moral right to take part in any decision on sterling's future.

    International support for Scottish Independence continues to grow. The North Korean Leader Kim Jong-un has just declared his support for Scottish Independence. He has stated the Scottish People have the right to enjoy Freedom.

    The Scottish YES campaign is unstoppable.
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