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He said “Westminster is holding us back” He also said that the vote next September is “not about the SNP, or Labour or any other political party.”

A labour stalwart for 51 years, he cited shadow chancellor Ed Balls’ intervention on currency union as a defining factor in his decision.

She accused the UK and Spain of being behind Mr Borroso’s intervention on Scotland’s position in the EU following independence. Speaking in the French Senate, she said ” the threats formulated by Mr Barroso are inappropriate and the result of Spanish and English pressure. London is increasingly worried. They (the threats) are not credible. If Scotland votes for independence, it will stay within the European Union. It would be in England’s interest.” The French conservative is secretary of the senate’s Foreign Affairs, Defence and and Armed Forces commission and was delivering a special statement to parliament on Scotland and the EU.

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A Business for Scotland report on the viability of Scotland’s economy, even without monetary union, by credit rating agency Standard & Poors. They say “there is no fundamental reason why Scotland could not successfully float a currency.”

The Herald reported on Friday 11 October 13. “David Cameron has sparked a major row after suggesting Scottish lives would be put at greater risk of terrorist attack by independence.” Other Better Together voices have made similar assertions. However, the defence and security think tank the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) stated that “An independent Scotland is unlikely to face the severity of threats faced by the UK.”

Professor Sir Donald Neil MacCormick, QC, FBA, FRSE (1941-2009)

A 2014 paper for the Jimmy Reid Foundation by economists Jim and Margaret Cuthbert.

He said “I have gone from being a sceptic about the relevance of devolution given all the other major political issues of that time to being absolutely convinced that Scotland’s future now lies with independence.”

Commenting on Mr Barroso’s assertion that “it would be”extremely difficult, if not impossible” for an independent Scotland to join the EU, Mr Klaus accused Mr Barroso of arrogance, and said that following independence he would expect Scotland and  Catalonia to remain within the EU.

This will take you to International Political & Legal Implications of Scottish Independence, by Pofessor David Scheffer for the University of Glasgow’s Adam Smith Smith Research Foundation. He makes clear that following a Yes vote there would be two successor states – not one as currently presumed.

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Professor Leslie Young of Cheung Kong  Graduate School of Business, Beijing.

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Paul Boyle, head of Research Councils UK, said in March 2014 that the body would like to see “a single research system continue whether there is a yes vote for independence or not.”

He said “I have always been in favour of home rule for Scotland and we have to give credit to Alex Salmond and the SNP for getting us to this stage in the process. Sir Charles, who is 84, has been a Labour stalwart since the age of 15. He believes a yes vote will return Labour to leadership in Scottish politics.

Comment on Sir Nicholas’s advice to the coalition on the currency debate.