[BTW this is Conrad, experimenting with OpenID after Facebook said it would tell LiveJournal everything about everyone I knew: apparently I am now a a long string of gibberish and a spammer, which is hardly inappropriate]
So no, I don't think that the BT future is risk-free, and I don't think that they'll think about Scotland again after Scotland votes No, except to perhaps take some more stuff. Not in a malicious way, mark you, but just in the sense that Scotland isn't very important.
Risks on the Yes future are pretty damn huge too. But I think they're being painted as much worse than they are, and since most of them are economic, and economists gave us all the joy and pleasure that we're currently enjoying, I'm very skeptical of treating the economy as the primary factor in your choice. But ok, the economic uncertainty: Scotland will lose the pound. It will be a lonely bankrupt economic basket case that can't borrow a penny. Etc.
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So no, I don't think that the BT future is risk-free, and I don't think that they'll think about Scotland again after Scotland votes No, except to perhaps take some more stuff. Not in a malicious way, mark you, but just in the sense that Scotland isn't very important.
Risks on the Yes future are pretty damn huge too. But I think they're being painted as much worse than they are, and since most of them are economic, and economists gave us all the joy and pleasure that we're currently enjoying, I'm very skeptical of treating the economy as the primary factor in your choice. But ok, the economic uncertainty: Scotland will lose the pound. It will be a lonely bankrupt economic basket case that can't borrow a penny. Etc.