BlueBonnetsowertheBorder Posted September 16, 2014 Share Posted September 16, 2014 Despite all negativity and doubts better together want us to believe, will our Scottish resilience see us over the line? I will admit to having little contribution to the campaign as such due to living abroad, but I for one have always made a point of telling people i am Scottish before I am British! I can only hope everyones efforts on the yes side will pay off and after Friday we will at last be finally be able to truly call ourselves Scottish without the automatic shackle of being called British! I sincerely wish I had a vote, but I like many others will just have to sit and wait and rely on those back home putting their cross in the yes box! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sub50 Posted September 16, 2014 Share Posted September 16, 2014 Everywhere I look around me, friends, colleagues and family I see only YES. There are many many no's but I am quietly confident. Though I do live in the YES city! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1ANDYP Posted September 16, 2014 Share Posted September 16, 2014 take it you are a fellow weegie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kps022000 Posted September 16, 2014 Share Posted September 16, 2014 HBOS data centre had put a change freeze on the IT team for this weekend. Brothers nightshift on Saturday night has been cancelled. Contingency plans are afoot for a YES vote. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sub50 Posted September 16, 2014 Share Posted September 16, 2014 take it you are a fellow weegie Pretty sure this is one table Dundee will top! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cove_Sheep Posted September 16, 2014 Share Posted September 16, 2014 Pretty sure this is one table Dundee will top! UKOK say they are confident of winning in Dundeh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fringo Posted September 16, 2014 Share Posted September 16, 2014 UKOK say they are confident of winning in Dundeh If that is true then it's all over. Can't see it though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kumnio Posted September 16, 2014 Share Posted September 16, 2014 Not a hope in hell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueBonnetsowertheBorder Posted September 16, 2014 Author Share Posted September 16, 2014 Right the off to bed, duty calls in the morning and all that, like others it hass been a struggle to think about anything else since Dortmund, just now got to get through the next day now and the end game begins! God knows if i will sleep tonight nevermind be able to concentrate at work tomorrow, because even from afar this is all consuming, and truly what for years and years has been my hearts desire! YES SCOTLAND! We can do this! Hope over Fear! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_burger Posted September 16, 2014 Share Posted September 16, 2014 Over the next couple of days we could all be at the epicentre of a change that will grab the attention of the entire world. How amazing is that. We all think we know what this country is. But if we get that Yes vote Scotland will redefine itself in the modern world. We will grow up as a nation; what will it do for our confidence? Future generations of Scots and adopted Scots wouldn't dream of giving away their country's autonomy. Let's go out tomorrow and win over some more undecideds. It needs to happpen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holty Posted September 16, 2014 Share Posted September 16, 2014 (edited) Today was an amazing day. Canvassed a very affluent part of Inverness this afternoon. Big houses, big money, fancy cars, retired folk, average age prob 55-65. Classic No territory. 13 Yes, 11 No, 2 undecided. Email this morning from an undecided friend, very scared, prob No. Email back with blue book link, she's now a Yes. Undecided woman at my gig tonight, late 60's, wants to vote Yes but not brave enough. She's brave enough now after a 5 minute chat. Definite Yes. Opinion Polls tonight, showing Yes still on the march despite the last two days big push from No. What a day, what a day. Daring to dream...... Edited September 16, 2014 by Holty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_burger Posted September 16, 2014 Share Posted September 16, 2014 Today was an amazing day. Canvassed a very affluent part of Inverness this afternoon. Big houses, big money, fancy cars, retired folk, average age prob 55-65. Classic No territory. 13 Yes, 11 No, 2 undecided. Email this morning from an undecided friend, very scared, prob No. Email back with blue book link, she's now a Yes. Undecided woman at my gig tonight, late 60's, wants to vote Yes but not brave enough. She's brave enough now after a 5 minute chat. Definite Yes. Opinion Polls tonight, showing Yes still on the march despite the last two days big push from No. What a day, what a day. Daring to dream...... Magic. And I have a sneaky feeling the clued up youngsters on their internets will offset the over 65s Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brant grebner Posted September 16, 2014 Share Posted September 16, 2014 "In these final hours of this historic campaign I want to speak directly to every person in this country who is weighing up the arguments they have heard. I have no doubt people in Scotland will look past the increasingly desperate and absurd scare stories being generated daily from Downing Street. Those have no place in a sensible debate. So in these last days of the greatest campaign Scotland has ever seen, I want to ask you to take a step back from the arguments of politicians and the blizzard of statistics. For every expert on one side, there is an expert on the other. For every scare tactic, there is a message of hope, opportunity and possibility. The opportunity for our Parliament to gain real job creating powers, the ability to protect our treasured National Health Service and the building of a renewed relationship of respect and equality with our friends and neighbours in the rest of these Islands. But for all that, the talking is nearly done. The campaigns will have had their say. What's left is just us - the people who live and work here. The only people with a vote. The people who matter. The people who for a few precious hours during polling day hold sovereignty, power, authority in their hands. It's the greatest most empowering moment any of us will ever have. Scotland’s future - our country in our hands. What to do? Only each of us knows that. For my part, I ask only this. Make this decision with a clear head and a clear conscience. Know that by voting ‘Yes’, what we take into our hands is a responsibility like no other- the responsibility to work together to make Scotland the nation it can be That will require maturity, wisdom, engagement and energy- and it will come not from the usual sources of parties and politicians but from you -the people who have transformed this moment from another political debate into a wonderful celebration of people power. Does every Country make mistakes? Yes. Are there challenges for Scotland to overcome? Undoubtedly. But my question is this - who better to meet those challenges on behalf of our nation than us? We must trust ourselves. Trust each other. In Scotland we’ve always had the wealth, the resources and the talent. We know that with independence we would immediately be in the top twenty of the richest countries in the world. But what has emerged in this campaign is something very new. It has changed Scotland forever. I have met it in every community I have been in the last weeks. Confidence. Belief. Empowerment. An understanding that if we work hard Scotland can be a global success story. A beacon of economic growth and a champion of social justice. That’s who we are as a nation. We are the land of Adam Smith who said that no society can flourish and be happy if too many of its people do not benefit from its wealth. We are the land of Robert Burns who loved Scotland dearly and also celebrated humanity the world o’er. It’s what we can be. Its why this opportunity is truly historic. Women and men all over Scotland looking in the mirror and knowing the moment has come. Our choice, our opportunity, our time. Wake up on Friday morning to the first day of a better country. Wake up knowing you did this - you made it happen. This vote isn’t about me, it isn’t about the SNP, the Labour Party or the Tories. It’s about you. Your family. Your hopes. Your ambitions. It’s about taking your country’s future into your hands. Don’t let this opportunity slip through our fingers. Don’t let them tell us we can’t. Let’s do this." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hertsscot Posted September 17, 2014 Share Posted September 17, 2014 Many of us on this board have travelled up or down to Hampden with that belief in our bellies that this would be the day. I felt it 2006 when we played France, I felt it in 2003 when we played the Dutch, guess soem of you guys who had the privilege of Paris felt it as well, I woke up today and I feel it today. Odds against us, written off by the experts but this is our time (and unlike that Dutch game there's no second leg!) 'Now's the day, an now's the hour Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dandydunn Posted September 17, 2014 Share Posted September 17, 2014 'Now's the day, an now's the hour Well,technically,it's tomorrow,but I see where you're coming from Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OLAS Posted September 17, 2014 Share Posted September 17, 2014 I can't personally associate this with any fitba' game. We've always a chance in fitba' to rectify our last performance soon afterwards. Independence votes only come once in a lifetime. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thplinth Posted September 17, 2014 Share Posted September 17, 2014 It is like there is a door. A door which is very hard to reach, decades of careful progress to get there, and when we do it opens and you have the choice...do we step through to the other side. If we don't it closes forever and if we do we enter a different world. Shall we step on through to the other side? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UPROAR Posted September 17, 2014 Share Posted September 17, 2014 YES WE ARE...... YES CAN YES WE WILL Albu Gu Brath..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishcumnock Posted September 17, 2014 Share Posted September 17, 2014 We shall overcome ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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