Scottish independence: momentum is with yes but country is divided

Pro-union experts have weightier arguments but Yes Scotland has powerful elixir of hope for a better future it could all end in upset of historic proportions

The battered boozer taking an occasional swig from his bottle of Whyte and Mackay on the late Inverness-to-Glasgow train shares an ambition with the progressive lawyer nursing a glass of red Burgundy in his lovely north Edinburgh home. Both will vote in the 18 September referendum for an independent Scotland.

Ill definitely be voting for a free Scotland, confirms the tipsy traveller as the train reaches Stirling, scene of Robert the Bruces underdog victory over Edward IIs army at Bannockburn in 1314. As for the English-born lawyer, he has come to the conclusion (Im a romantic) that his long-adopted country can only benefit from ending the dependency culture which has evolved over 307 years of union with its bigger neighbour.

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