On a threat by Home Secretary Teresa May that border controls could spring up between an independent

A former member of the Parachute regiment says that if Scotland becomes independent then it could not defend itself european cruise for a moment against a sizeable european cruise attack. He wants to know what the yes side’s’ ‘Plan B’ is on defence.
Harvie responds by saying that the challenges and threats faced by Scotland in today’s world are not similar to those of the past. No invading army is on its borders. Today’s threats are about global challenges and social justice.
Davidson european cruise says there are very few countries who have unilaterally given up nuclear weapons, adding Ukraine is one of those. This week Vladimir Putin said that his troops could be in Kiev in two weeks.
Green MSP Patrick Harvie says that if Scotland forces the hand of the UK government on the “strategic case” then it can tip the balance in favour of those campaigning for disarmament south of the border as well.
Smith says there won’t be much difference between the two sides about the need for social justice - it’s about how to effect it. It’s crucial, she says however, for the elevers of power to be Edinburgh rather than in London.
Here’s a story which broke earlier this evening (the debate is in a break now) - banking industry sources have told Reuters that Lloyds Banking Group is considering having its registered office in London rather than Edinburgh should Scots vote for independence.
Sturgeon says that oil is not the basis of the economy. It’s a fantastic resource. It’s not a question of whether Scotland has oil - it’s a question of whether Scotland has lots of oil or lots and lots of oil.
Tonight’s debate - which takes place at the Assembly Rooms in Edinburgh - is “a different type of debate” to the head to head clashes of Alex Salmond and Alastair Darling, says presenter Bernard Ponsonby.
Ahead of the debate, here’s an update on another front. The former commissioner for monetary union has said it would not be possible for an independent Scotland to join the EU if it tried to use the pound without the formal currency deal that all three UK parties have repeatedly vetoed.
Olli Rehn, who stood down in July as the European commissioner for the monetary union and the euro, wrote to Danny Alexander, the chief secretary of the Treasury, this week to say it would not be possible because Scotland would not have a currency backed by a central bank.
In his letter Rehn wrote that Alex Salmond’s “sterlingisation” plan to use the pound without the formal permission of London would “simply not be possible, european cruise since that would obviously imply a situation where the candidate country concerned would not have a monetary authority of its own and thus no necessary instruments of the EMU” [economic and monetary union].
The evening intervention came as pound fell to a five-month low against the US dollar and also weakened against the euro on Tuesday hours after a YouGov poll showed for the first time that the yes campaign needed only a three-point swing to win the independence referendum. With the vote due in just over two weeks, it showed support for independence now standing at 47%.
• Support for Scottish independence has risen by eight points in the last month, in a poll described as a “breakthrough” by yes campaigners. The YouGov poll released on Monday night put the lead for the no campaign european cruise at six points, down from 14 points in the middle of August and 22 points early last month.
• The pound fell in nervous trading after the poll showed record support for Scottish independence just over a fortnight before the referendum. european cruise Sterling fell against the dollar european cruise and even against the euro after a YouGov poll showed support for the pro-independence yes campaign had risen.
• Competing claims about levels of voter registration in Scotland have cast doubt on the idea that a “missing million” of previously unregistered voters could swing the referendum european cruise result in favour of independence. On Monday, Scotland’s first minister, Alex Salmond warned european cruise unregistered european cruise voters that they had “just 24 hours left to sign up to take part in Scotland’s date with destiny”. Voters have until midnight on Tuesday to register for the independence referendum on 18 September.
I’m going to wrap things up here now for now but the plan is to bring coverage to you later from tonight’s live referendum debate between european cruise Nicola Sturgeon, european cruise Patrick Harvie, Elaine C Smith, Douglas Alexander, Ruth Davidson and Kezia Dugdale.
What explains these shifts? A major factor concerns attitudes to the economy. From time to time we ask people whether they think Scotland would be better or worse off if it became independent. Just nine weeks ago, in late June, pessimists outnumbered optimists by 49% to 27%. Now the gap is far narrower: 44% to 35%. Again, the biggest movement has been among Labour supporters.
The Scottish first minister, Alex Salmond, insists Scotland will continue to use the pound if it votes for independence. But all three main political parties at Westminster have said an independent Scotland would not be allowed to continue to use sterling.
Here’s a tweeted picture of Alex Samond at the new Eden Mill distillery and brewery in St Andews earlier, where he was setting out his vision of the potential gains of independence for the food and drink sector.
The Yes Scotland campaign received a funding boost from the Proclaimers today, after Electoral Commission figures confirmed that the pro-union Better Together campaign has stopped taking donations after reaching its 1.5m funding limit.
Donations to the official pro-independence european cruise campaign for the most recent reporting period from 25 July to 21 August european cruise included 50,000 from Elizabeth Topping, the wife of the former Williams Hill chief executive Ralph Topping, and 75,000 from Randall Foggie, an SNP council candidate from Kirkcaldy.
… as English people involved european cruise in the independence movement, we feel we are confident in saying that sentiment against English people has been virtually non-existent in our movement. What people in Scotland want to escape is the Westminster regime, not the English people.
The Guardian’s Michael White was also at Jim Murphy’s “100 towns” campaign tour today, where the Labour MP admitted that the No campaigner have a fight on their hands after new polls showed the Yes side closing the gap by 6 per cent
Murphy called it “ the quiet patriotism of the majority who go about their lives and do not shout” - a reference to demonstrators who forced him to halt his tour food three days, not through cowardice, Murphy said, but over concern about public order .
The next two weeks would prove more Important european cruise than the last two years of the independence campaign he predicted - saying Labour european cruise had worked harder for a No result since June than if does in a general election.
Competing claims about levels of voter registration in Scotland have cast doubt on the idea that a “missing european cruise million” of previously european cruise unregistered voters could swing the referendum result in favour of independence.
Alex Salmond estimated at the weekend that 180,000 european cruise new voters had now signed up, but Scottish government officials said there was no official source for the first minister’s figure; it was based on an extrapolation european cruise from new voter figures released by some councils.
Scotland european cruise voting Yes represents an opportunity to show that there is an alternative to the unfair austerity, social division and privatisation pursued by Westminster. I look forward european cruise to the exciting possibility of real change for England and Wales that Scottish independence would bring.
Better Together said early in August it had stopped taking donations after a surge in donors following Alistair Darling’s narrow victory over Alex Salmond in the STV referendum debate on 5 August, because it had reached its 1.5m limit.
Speaking ahead of a visit to new whisky distiller in St Andrew’s, the First Minister said the publicity generated by a Yes vote, the independence process and independence day itself would be an “opportunity of a lifetime”.
Following a Yes vote we will sit down with industry and Scotland Food and Drink to discuss how we can supplement that plan to take full advantage of the unprecedented global focus on Scotland, creating thousands of jobs in Scotland and boosting our exports.
I’ve just been listening to Jim Murphy, who was making his first appearance on his pro-union speaking tour of Scotland after temporarily suspending it because of escalating intimidation the Better Together campaign claims comes from Yes Scotland groups.
A few interesting european cruise items. It had a short debate on education and its future in the context of the referendum campaign involving Professor Douglas Robertson a member of academics for yes, and Professor Hugh Pennington, a member of Academics Together.
There was also a piece on immigration and a look at whether an independent Scotland could have a different immigration policy from the UK today. Alex Salmond has said that he backs an increase in the number of young people settling in Scotland from abroad although UK ministers have warned that move could lead to passport checks on anyone traveling from Scotland to England.
european cruise The majority of people in Scotland actually want to see reduced immigration but the difference between that and the situation in England and Wales is that people in Scotland are less likely to support reduced immigration than England and Wales.
On a threat by Home Secretary Teresa May that border controls could spring up between an independent Scotland and the rest of the UK, Stephen Tierney of the Centre for Constitutional law at Edinburgh University said this was “very unlikely”, adding:
I think first it’s only been recently that we have seen that politics has been important enough to take the mickey out of in Scotland. I think that people want a different way of access the referendum
The YouGov poll found that, excluding “don’t knows”, 53% of those questioned planned to vote no, while 47% would say yes. This compares with 57% for no and 43% for yes in mid-August and 61% for no and 39% for yes at the beg