"GUEST,Allan Conn - 26 Mar 15 - 02:48 AM

Thompson I think the original thread is not about Scots turning on each other. We don't generally do that. Yes there was real differences in the referendum but all in all the process, with some flaws, was a democratic success story with ethnicity etc largely irrelevant to the debate."

GUEST,Allan Conn IIRC comes from the Scottish Borders where 67% of the 95,533 electorate voted NO - Overall 55% of those who voted voted NO as opposed to 45% who voted YES, now if indeed the referendum was the democratic success that Alan Conn claims then a Scottish National Party shoulld not even be standing for election. It is a single issue party by definition and the electorate of Scotland all 4,283,392 of them rejected independence as follows:

1,617,989 voted YES - i.e. they wanted an independent Scotland
2,001,926 voted NO - i.e. actively rejected the idea of an independent Scotland preferring to stay within the UK.
660,048 Did not vote - i.e. electorally they couldn't care less/ perfectly happy with the status quo, if they weren't then they should have voted.

So it is not simply a case of 44.7% saying YES and 55.3% saying NO - the fact is that taking the electorate of Scotland as a whole only 37.8% supported and wanted an Independent Scotland while 62.2% were happy with things they way they are with Scotland being part of the United Kingdom.

I do not think the Scots per se are being criticised in the media, I think one or two prominent Scottish politicians are, and quite rightly. No coincidence that they are the same ones who lied to, and deliberately mislead, the electorate of Scotland throughout the Referendum campaign, the same ones who made very public statements about accepting the will of the people, supporting the democratic process and working for the good of the nation as a whole (Which by the way means the United Kingdom in light of the referendum result) and then reneged on every single statement. Sturgeon and Salmond have no interest in doing what is best for Scotland and they never have.