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Concerning the production potential, are you concerned that foreign investors would be leery of investing the capital required to develop those potential energy sectors? If I were a Scot I think this would be a big concern for me. Independent Scotland isn't an emergent West African coastal state ravaged by war, not by a long shot, but any new government is ripe for mismanagement.
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Let's throw this into context.

Right now we're underepresented by our current government. 

They can't promise any new powers (or more so won't).

They're planning on destabilizing the NHS. 

There's mention of potentially trying to take powers away from us.

Their main argument in the general election is "What about the pound?" in which they sneakily ignored the part in which they mentioned that no laws exist that can actually stop us using the pound.

If I could vote for england and scotland to remain the same but to uplift Westminster, I would. This campaign is less to do with actual nationalism, and more to do with having a likeminded, proportionally realistic governing body over a likeminded voting population, with a new government that can be openly "clean slated" moulded by it's will. 

As for halo, I get this is pretty emotional for you. I just would try and refrain from putting too emotion into the argument. Ofcourse things get turned into bitesized bits of information for the scalability of mass media consumption. I won't argue that both sides keep the complexity of the situation, however if you were to look at it in the simplistic view, one states "oppertunity", the other states "it's complicated so it might fuck up". Scotland is one of the few countries in the world that has so much going for it as it is, any new government has teething problems, but it's also a risk to stay in the UK. 

And, for UKIP, they are still the largest growing political party in the UK, mainly in england.