[Flipside]

Well, the next bit is down to us really, there are cracks in the Ivory Towers, now's the time for everyone to start pushing.

For my part, I'm glad the final result was 'No', but fully understand why people voted 'Yes'.

But whilst it's being called a decisive victory, I think a split of approx 55%/45% is actually a lot higher than the Government would have been comfortable with, hopefully they'll learn, but if not, we have to teach

[karajorma]

Well let's hope they've learned that games of brinkmanship can quickly end in everyone going over the brink.

[Dragon]

This is good. The world economy is really in no shape to be further messed with. In the end, aside from historical pride, there would be no real point in splitting, and it'd certainly complicate things in the end. I hope that the British government learns it's lesson from this.

[Phantom Hoover]

Calling the driving force behind the Yes campaign 'historical pride' calls your already dubious knowledge of all things Scots even further into question.

[Aardwolf]

So the vote went 55/45? What was the turnout like?

[Phantom Hoover]

Around 85%. It was only 75% in Glasgow though, a fact I attribute to the release of the iPhone 6.

[Mongoose]

It occurred to me that even were we somehow to have such a vote in the US, we probably still wouldn't manage more than 50% turnout.

But hey, at least we don't have to buy new maps, and Andy Murray still counts towards ending Britain's major drought!