The following are extracts from a post-referendum statement from National Collective:
1. One of the most heartbreaking moments in the campaign will be a familiar one for many.
Knocking on doors and being confronted with an elderly person who had postal-voted No because they were told that they would lose their pension.
The No campaign had shamelessly managed to convince people that, in the 14th richest country in the world, we could not afford pensions.
2. The Yes movement ... faced the full might of the British state, corporate and media power, that was designed to demonise, smear and alienate anyone who chose to side with YES...
3. The No campaign ... played every dirty trick in the book, and ran a campaign based on negativity and scaring the population into thinking that we were not actually capable of running our own affairs.
4. A Guardian journalist sent us sarcastic e-mails refusing to publish details of a list of 1,300 prominent artists and creatives who had signed a letter backing a Yes vote.
5. The press ... controlled the dissemination of information, closed the space for Yes voices to be heard, and thus facilitated and legitimised the scaremongering onslaught from the No campaign.
How many times did you hear that ‘there are just too many unanswered questions’, despite the questions being answered?
Lockerbie. It may be coincidence, but we noted a number of strange looking Americans in our area prior to the vote. When we attended a YES meeting, a spook was in attendance; and the first two speakers were English.
6. The vast majority of the mainstream media have demonstrated their complete lack of autonomy and level of compliance to the British establishment and the corporate elite.
7.National Collective has made plans to continue the Yes movements legacy of a politically engaged and educated electorate.
"I have got a number of businesses lined up that we will look to substantially increase our holdings in.
"They are all international, world-class businesses that would see a significant uplift from a weaker sterling...
"With 80 per cent of UK stock market earnings derived overseas there are very big chunks of the market that will have a very big upgrade from a weaker currency."
The UK's mainstream media and the London politicians have lied to the people of Scotland.
On 124 september 2014, pro-independence Scots rallied outside the BBC's Glasgow HQ to protest against the BBC's pro-union bias and demand the resignation of the BBC's political editor Nick Robinson.
The Scottish National Party (SNP) has proposed replacing BBC Scotland with a Scottish Broadcasting Service after independence.
"One of the many ridiculous myths perpetrated by New World Order advocates is that the bigger and more distant a Government is from the people, the more benevolent and competent it will be...
"A national Government based in Edinburgh will have an obviously stronger knowledge of local issues, greater incentive to meet the needs of the people and generally fewer barriers than exist between the people of Scotland and the London government."
I would vote yes because ... of the well-known advantages of newborn states and more intimate governments.
Scotland ... would be driven towards true self-sufficiency, capable of resembling Denmark, Norway, Ireland or Slovakia as a haven for fleet-footed entrepreneurs.
"The international and security case for Scottish independence has been boosted with Yes endorsements from senior Scottish military and diplomatic figures only days before the referendum.
"The senior Faslane Naval intelligence officer Lieutenant Commander Colin May - who has just retired from the Royal Navy - and former British Ambassador Donald MacLaren have both declared their support for a Yes victory in the referendum.
"The announcement comes shortly after a Yes vote was supported by the last UK ambassador to NATO Dame Mariot Leslie and the former head of the UK defence industry association Ian Godden."
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Lieutenant Commander Colin May said: "Faslane would be an excellent conventional naval base and home for Scottish Joint Forces HQ...
"Unfortunately the UK has not taken the northern dimension seriously in recent years. We are without any serious ocean-going conventional vessels based in Scotland and the MOD scrapped the entire Maritime Patrol Aircraft fleet...
"More settled military service in Scotland will also be of huge benefit to defence dependent communities like those around Faslane and Coulport.
Weapons of mass destruction, sited near Glasgow.
Retired Ambassador Donald MacLaren wrote: "Today’s reality is that, with the Union, we continue to float downwards...
"I tell you, there are plenty of Scots (and non-Scots) in the Foreign Office and in every other branch of government who are ready to swap shaughly Union decision-making for the creativeness and vigour of real responsibility within a Scotland making its new way in the world."
Would an independent Scotland be economically viable?
Not an issue. Scotland ... is the richest UK region outside London and the southeast.
How does the economy differ from that of the rest of the UK?
Scotland remains strong in ... insurance and asset management. Tourism, and premium food and drink - whisky but also products such as Aberdeen Angus beef and seafood - are important. And the North Sea oil industry has helped establish a strong energy services sector.
Scotch whisky represents about 26-27% of Diageo's sales and 25% of Pernod's.
Business for Scotland wrote: "The oil in the North Sea is worth over £1tn.
"There are at least 15-24 billion barrels of oil remaining which will continue long into the 21st century.
Business for Scotland reports on the potential for a west coast of Scotland oil boom that is currently blocked by the UK Ministry of Defence, because of Faslane's nuclear submarines.
Getting oil from Scotland's west coast would revitalise the economies of Ayrshire and the Strathclyde region as a whole.
Scotland's Pentland Firth is the "Saudi Arabia of renewable tidal energy".
Martin Gilbert
Aberdeen Asset Management is the largest fund manager in Europe, managing £350 billion.
It operates across 33 offices in 25 countries.
Martin Gilbert, the boss of Aberdeen Asset Management says that an independent Scotland will be a 'big success'.
He dismisses suggestions that a Yes vote will harm the economy.
Scotland will copy Ireland which has reduced corporation tax - in order to attract top technology and pharmaceutical companies.
Scotland exports more than it imports, unlike England.
The trade deficit for England has widened
This is one reason why the pound sterling has weakened.
On 10 September 2014, the headlines in the newspapers suggested trouble for 'Scottish' businesses.
Yet the truth is otherwise.
On 10 September 2014, we read that twelve analysts have assigned a buy rating to Aberdeen Asset Management.
JPMorgan Chase is one of the firms with an 'overweight' rating on Aberdeen Asset Management.
On 10 September 2014, The Daily Telegraph writes that shares in Cairn Energy are worth considering ahead of a busy drilling schedule.
On 10th September 2014, Investec removed Royal Bank of Scotland from its list of stocks to avoid and moved it to a more moderate ‘hold’ rating (previously ‘sell’).
On 10th September 2014, Standard Life's stock had its 'outperform' rating reaffirmed by RBC Capital in a research note.
They currently have a £460 target price on the stock. Standard Life opened at £405.90 on Wednesday. Standard Life has a 52-week low of £331.70.
James Meek explains that the coal power station at Cottam in Nottinghamshire was privatised in 1991.
Cottam was then renationalised - by the French government.
"In 2000 it was acquired by the French state concern Electricité de France, which also owns a huge chunk of the rest of Britain’s electricity industry, including all its nuclear plants.
"There, in Nottinghamshire, all the supposed goals of privatisation - to dismantle state control over industry, to give ordinary Brits a financial stake in its success, to show inefficient, socialistic European state companies how much more successful privatised, entrepreneurial British executives would be- were being defeated, day by day, hour by hour."
James Meek refers to "privatisation as the dispersal of control over national economies ... towards tax havens, multiple jurisdictions, super-rich families and authoritarian states."
Scotland must realise that England is run by crooks.
"Actually if I were Scottish, I would be voting ‘Yes’ just to spite all the people who are trying to frighten and browbeat me into voting ‘No’.
"Anyone with any spirit must surely feel this way..."
Peter Hitchens imagines ludicrous threats, such as that there will be "a frontier, doubtless with barking dogs, searchlights and minefields planted with exploding haggises..."
Peter Hitchens writes:
"The current strength of sterling is an absurdity and can’t last.
"George Osborne’s boom is the most irresponsible bubble since the 1970s, based entirely on ludicrously cheap housing credit.
"Roughly half the containers that leave our main port at Felixstowe contain nothing but air, and quite a few of the rest are crammed with rubbish for recycling, because our real export trade has collapsed...
"As usual, the biggest story of the week was buried - the rise in our monthly trade deficit during July to £3.3 billion..."
Peter Hitchens writes:
"It is impossible to see how we can live so far beyond our means for much longer.
"Both Government and people are deeper in debt than ever.
"So forgive me if I point out that it’s quite scary enough staying in the UK."
Peter Hitchens writes:
"The trouble with the ‘Better Together’ lot is that scares are all they’ve got.
"None of the three party leaders – supposedly rivals, actually accomplices – truly loves the Union...
"They’ve been working night and day for decades to destroy British patriotism, culture and history, and replace them with a tasteless, pasteurised multiculturalism.
"Who can blame the Scots for wanting to stay Scottish rather than be processed into the same greyish puree? ..."
"One of the many ridiculous myths perpetrated by New World Order advocates is that the bigger and more distant a Government is from the people, the more benevolent and competent it will be.
"This is quite obviously nonsense. In fact the greater the distance, (whether physical or psychological) between the Government and the people the less accountable or understanding the relevant issues.
"A national Government based in Edinburgh will have an obviously stronger knowledge of local issues, greater incentive to meet the needs of the people and generally fewer barriers than exist between the people of Scotland and the London government."
If people in Scotland vote Yes then they will be in control of Scotland’s enormous wealth and resources which is a bad thing because… (Our line here needs development.)
A new ICM poll for the Sunday TelegraphputsYes at 54 per centand No at 46 per cent.
An Opinion poll has found that Alex Salmond comes out with the highest support on who the Scottish public think has done well during the campaign (51% for Mr Salmond compared to 13% for David Cameron.)
More than two-fifths of people aged 25-64 in Scotland are educated to tertiary level, outstripping Ireland, Luxembourg and Finland at the top of the table.
Scotland is up with Canada among the most well-educated countries in the world.
Scotland, unlike England, exports more than it imports.
Mathematical scientist Dr Stephen Watson says:
A. An independent Fiscal Commission, "that is headed up by two Nobel Laureates, has presented compelling evidence on the strength of an independent Scotland's economy.
B. "Their findings were echoed in the recent independent analysis in the Financial Times, which noted that the fiscal position of an independent Scotland would be better than that within the UK.
C. "Indeed, the international Standard and Poor's review of February 2014 also noted that an independent Scotland’s GP per capita would jump markedly upwards after independence, exceeding even that of Germany.
D. "‘Business for Scotland’ and ‘The Common Weal’ have also separately concluded that independence will lead to greater prosperity for Scotland.
E. "Last, even HMRC figures (London government figures) concede that Scotland is a net exporter with a positive balance of trade while the UK is a net importer with a negative balance of trade, all of which bodes very well for an independent Scotland’s future.
F. "In conclusion, the people of Scotland can confidently vote Yes on September 18 safe in the knowledge that a more prosperous Scotland lies ahead."
