No Good Deed.

[Just-Jude]

Do you think the large influx of English people living in Scotland were responsible for the No vote?

From a Channel 4 News interview: They've taken our jobs...and now they've taken our freedom!

Why was this vote rigging allowed?

[jennyjoan]

Does it matter Just-Jude - Scotland has said NO

[scorpiojo]

Is there any proof of vote rigging?

[Just-Jude]

...more like England has said no!

[wolf63]

People of any nationality who live in Scotland are fully entitled to have a say in the future of their country.

[Prudie]

Jeez do you know how many Scots have taken our jobs here in England?

[Just-Jude]

wolf, it's "their" country now...that explains it!

[Just-Jude]

Prudie, the Scots may have taken some jobs, but they would never deny the English their freedom.

[-Talbot-]

I thought it had already been explained why Scotland voted NO?

[mushroom25]

it was the Scottish government that decided the entitlement to vote - that many English living in Scotland could, whilst many expat scots could not, was entirely the fault of the SNP-led government. it ill becomes them now to whinge about English voters.

[Prudie]

Thank you mushroom because I'd wondered who'd decided on the entitlement. English students at Scottish universities for example, I ask you.

[factor-fiction]

What influx? The % of people in Scotland who were born in England has edged up from 8.1% to 8.8% over a 10 year period.

[boxtops]

I don't know what you're on about, jude. Amongst the many Scots we know (having married into a large Scottish family), more voted no than yes - they didn't want to break away. Don't blame the English, don't "blame" anyone - it's a democratic vote. You might just as well ask why did the immigrant people living in Scotland get a vote, or do you think that it was the teenagers who voted against. We don't know, and we probably never will.

[Svejk]

if you hadn't run away from the redcoats, as fast as your chafed, pasty little legs could carry you 300 years ago, you wouldn't be having these problems today.