The people of Scotland vote on Thursday on whether or not to split from the United Kingdom and become an independent country. It doesn't take rocket science to see that splitting from England would be a very dumb move, leaving Scotland as a very small, insignificant nation, almost entirely depended on the dwindling North Sea oil reserves to keep fiscally solvent.
But in fact the polls show the race too close to call at the moment, so nationalism and emotion may well trump reason in this case. Well, people make their bed so they get to lie in it. If the Scots vote to leave the UK, they will have generations to regret their decision.
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