Aint it complicated? However does someone like me - interested in what's going on in the world, ready to listen to all sides - get to grips with what the Scottish referendum is all about.
For all the information the media has been smothering us with the question which hasn't been answered is: As an independent nation would Scotland be better able to take back true democracy from the multi-national companies and international money which currently run the show? Would a Scottish government be any more immune from the financial bribes, the massive lobbying power of vested interests, the threats to withdraw capital?
Democracy isn't about whether the government is in London or Edinburgh. It is about those tentacles of the economic system, in which our political and social systems have become entrapped, which determine our everyday lives. Want affordable housing - no, because developers make more money out of selling larger houses; want a high street with small independent shops - no because multi-nationals have the money to put them out of business; want a NHS - no because there's loads a money to be made out of health provision.
So, the question of Scotland remains: Will an independent Scotland be in a better position to resist these pressures? More open to proper, real, authentic democracy? Answers in simple terms please!
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