Scotland to hold independence poll in 2014

[Fool Count]

95. I wouldn't give a toss. I am Canadian.

We went through much the same thing with the Quebec referendum. That's how I know
that it is utterly futile for the unionists to appeal to constitutional legality, adopt
"clarity laws" or use the central government's authority in any way to sabotage the
conduct of referendum. It only hardens the separatists and might annoy just enough
moderate sovereignists to sway the whole thing. Ultimately, it is the decision for the
people of Scotland, just as it was for the people of Quebec. The only way to keep them
in is to show that the central government respects their sovereign will and is not just
obsessed with its own survival. Then the majority may not mind continuing to accept
such authority as not entirely antagonistic to their national aspirations. There is a very
simple dialectics going on here really - the less badly you want to keep them in, the
less badly they want to leave. And vice versa. Just a friendly advice. You are not
the first in such circumstance. Canadian unity faced much direr odds, still it survived.