The sad thing is that it looks like being so close that,
whichever way
the vote goes, there's going to be a lot of very unhappy and
dissatisfied people in Scotland. It can hardly do much for
community
spirit.
John Hall
Yes, I think you're right there, Alex Salmond etc, has done a
lot of damage, regardless which way the vote goes.
Keith (Southend)
Not to the Scots he hasn't. You are speaking just like a
bloody
Englishman - you just don't understand!
Ardmhor

Much as I hate to disagree with Ardmhor, I have to say that I
fear that John is right, and I am a Scot born and bred and
resident in Scotland. There was little appetite for a
constitutional change of this magnitude until the SNP started
stirring things up, and, now that the result is likely to be so
close, there will indeed be resentment by the more extreme
elements on whichever side loses. That is already manifesting
itself in defacement and destruction of both Yes and No campaign
posters and attacks (fortunately mostly still verbal) by one
side on the other, and I have heard reports of other malicious
acts, such as cars with a campaign sticker being vandalised.
Community spirit is being affected and, whatever the outcome,
the process has already done a good deal of damage.

Anne