Entry #2-Sunday September 21st

Results of Scotland independence referendum: 'No' campaign victorious

Published: Friday September 19th

Author: Euan McKirdy, Laura Smith-Spark and Nic Robertson

Site: CNN World

As many people know, Scotland had a vote on Thursday, Sept. 18th, to become independent and not part of the United Kingdom. The People of Scotland have made up their mind that they will be staying part of the U.K. The vote final score was 54% of people saying no and 46% of people saying yes. Even though in Glasgow and a few other towns more people said yes then no, the difference was not big enough to sway the vote to independence. Out of Scotland's 5.3 million population, 4.2 million voted for this cause. British Prime Minister David Cameron said, before the voting, that in the event that the Scottish do stay part of the United Kingdom they will be granted more rights and the same goes to Wales and Northern Ireland. During the voting, people were saying that there was fraud going on with the voting even though they had no real proof. The council did state that there was no double voting and if there was, they are looking through records to make sure there was none. For the first time, the vote was extended to 16 and 17 year olds can vote, and almost 110, 000 people under the age of 18 voted. Some of the rules of voting were if you lived in Scotland but you had a different citizenship before, you were not allowed to vote to make sure they didn’t have a bias opinion from other countries, but if you were Scottish and you lived outside of Scotland you were not allowed to vote either. Nearly 800, 000 people applied for a postal vote, the most ever in Scotland.

I think that it is good that Scotland stayed because if Scotland were to leave, they would still need a lot of support from the U.K. because their healthcare would go down and the elderly wouldn't be getting their retirement money. I also think that by England giving more rights to Scotland and the other countries that are part of the U.K., they are preventing other situations like this from occurring

. Scotland, even if they don't know it, is still very reliable on England for their economy and their healthcare.

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http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/18/world/europe/scotland-independence-vote/index.html?hpt=wo_c1