'No' option on the betting exchange is now down to 1.011 - 1.1p winnings for every £1 you stake. If it were a one-day cricket match, the first team would have made 350, and the second team would be 200-7 after about 35 overs.
Kinda looking like that but its 4am and the Dundee result just in with yes a 14k majority. Other areas letting the side down.
I've been up all night. Been long and disappointing. So Glasgow says yes with a big majority but too little too late.
Nah. This is where it gets good. Off to put the kettle on, gonna be great watching the misery compounded, vote by vote
Oh I am sorry. No offence intended. Never mind, think about Braveheart William Wallace. Oh...hang on, the Stirling Yes vote got smashed as well didn't it. Oops
i'd just like to go on record....any comments coming from me on this, are purely banter. i always maintained i didn't give a ****, and still don't. hopefully no one sulks and takes their sporran and claymore home (massive losers)
"And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies, that that they may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom!" No, you'll do that all by yourselves via the democratic process. FFS Scotland you had the chance to break free of London and blew it.
daft jocks have just wasted everybodies time with all this. fine em heavily westminster ....go on ...lets do this!!
Interesting that those areas that had a majority in the Yes camp actually seem to have the lowest turnouts. Glasgow and Dundee both had under 80% whereas Edinburgh was over 80%, the final vote in of Highland voting No had an 87% turnout.
Its interesting that those areas with the lowest turnouts are the big cities with large majorities of mainly working class people. Edinburgh, even though it is a city, as the capital has a bigger percentage of people from other demographics, and had a bigger turnout than other cities. Its hard to draw any other conclusion than that working class people are those who have turned out in smallest numbers, percentage wise, even though the turnout was impressive. Thing is, it is generally working class people who complain loudest about the political class. If things dont work out how people wanted in the future, and people complain about the westminster bstards, I hope they only do so if they voted. This was an enormous once in a lifetime vote, where every vote counted. I cant understand how anyone would not be interested in having a say in the matter and casting their vote.
There was one lad shown on the news yesterday, in what looked like a council estate, that was saying he was "going to have a really good think this afternoon" because he didn't know which way to vote. The fact that some people would be almost walking into the polling station still not knowing how they felt seems astounding to me. People saying that they didn't know the issues, there's been plenty on TV, there is so much access to information these days, surely there can be no excuse for that.
The more I think about it, the more I think that the turnout was actually a bit disappointing. In such a momentous, one off, life changing decision as was on the table yesterday, approx. 1 in 6 people still could not be arsed to vote. They didn't even need to get off their fat arse and walk to a polling station, they could have voted by post. Baffling. A 100% turnout is not realistic as there will always be some who, at the last minute find something gets in the way of getting to a polling station but a proper turnout for a decision of this nature would have been something in excess of 95% The other thing I find amazing is that, according to the final adjudicator this morning, when she was reading through the numbers and including the spoiled papers, it included 691 people who voted for both answers. Just how thick do you have to be to make the effort to go and vote and then not manage to get it right when faced with putting a cross in one of 2 boxes?. The mind boggles!