Ah the Pound Scots which at the time 1707 1 Pound Sterling was worth 12 Pounds Scots. What would this new currency be based on? Borrowings made on possible future earnings from the North Sea? On very unsure ground there.

Lithuania took quite a few years to first get an internationally recognised currency and may finally get the Euro 27 years after it started out seeking to acquire it as a currency.

The UK already a member state of the EU will have to renegotiate nothing on the basis of Scotland electing to leave the UK. It will be Scotland that has to do the applying and negotiating after which Scotland in seeking EU membership will have to overcome the greatest hurdle to her gaining membership - the unanimous acceptance of existing member states - Off the top of my head I can think of at least 6 member states, not counting the UK, who would bar Scottish membership, for reasons connected with what they perceive as being in their own nation's best interests.

I am a Scot born and bred, I have no problem being British, never have had, I have never felt as though I have been treated as a second class citizen, in fact quite the reverse. I wish to see my country remain within a Union that has been beneficial to both partners down through the centuries and that is why on the 18th September I will vote NO. I then hope that Alex Salmond and the SNP will immediately resign and apologise to the population of the British isles for foisting upon them the unnecessary waste of £millions on this bloody stupid referendum and campaign that only they wanted, yet were either too stupid or too arrogant to prepare for. A campaign in which their lies, deceptions and distortions have been caught out and exposed time and again.