Paisley Red

Not one round of applause for the incredibly thick UKIP woman but plenty for Alex Salmond. Good work Liverpool audience!

Even including watching a certain sport which is discussed elsewhere on this website I've never ever like this in my life before: excited, exhilarated, nervous, optimistic, pessimistic ... Don't really know what the result will be after tomorrow's vote but I do believe I'm on the right side of this debate. Why would anyone not want more influence over the life they lead, the city they live in, the way you're seen in the world? This is the right thing to do, not just for Scotland but for the people or England, Wales, Northern Ireland ... and the world. I just hope enough people living here feel the same way.

The No campaign's use of the word "foreigner" says a lot about them. Narrow minded bigotry which is turning people towards voting Yes.

What anti-Englishness? They were protesting against BBC bias.

Wee video on the BBC's coverage of yesterday's events - huge Yes rally in Buchanan St, Glasgow (with a much smaller No event in Sauchiehall St) and pro-union march of 10,000 Catholic-hating bigots in Edinburgh: https://www.youtube.com/embed/TSOu8f549iM

Agreed, it's a morose dirge about a battle that took place 700 years ago. Something more modern required, I'd go with the obvious choice of 'George Square Thatcher Death Party' by Mogwai.

Galloway not sounding too optimistic about the chances of a No victory here: http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/scottish-independence-the-political-class-is-doing-what-hitler-couldnt--destroying-britain-9730260.html

Can't view that YouTube video now but I'll have a look; I've seen often enough recently how the BBC can misrepresent but going by the quotes on the BBC article Mook posted I agree with Rape Crisis. Either way, I don't like Galloway and I do think Labour should have put someone up for the debate. They don't seem to be thinking much about how they've lost Scotland.

'Date rape' was the wrong term to use - retracted. I agree wholeheartedly with Rape Crisis' view on what he did say.

An absolute tit of a man. Surely Better Together could put forward a Labour MP to make their case rather than a guy who was expelled from their party. Embarrassing seeing him on the side of the Tories and bankers.

True. I've heard him saying some outrageous things over the years including his view that date rape is just "bad sexual eitquette". I can't see why loads of teenagers would just make it up bit maybe the misheard him and the BBC edited that bit out anyway. There were 100 Labour MPs in Glasgow yesterday; they refused to put one forward for that debate and got Galloway to represent them instead. No wonder Scottish Labour voters are turning away from them in their thousands.

There's a link above but I've not seen it in a mainstream national paper yet ... only one newspaper in Britain is supporting independence, the Sunday Herald. Lots of kids who were at the debate on Twitter saying the same thing; I believe them. If you don't, fair enough.

Galloway raging at being called out on his "bad sexual etiquette" views and also accuses the BBC of inviting a biased 12,000 strong audience (when in fact they simply invited every school in Scotland). http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/george-galloway-slams-patrick-harvie- 4206494 In reality the real bias shown by the BBC was asking kids to pretend to be No voters for post-debate interviews when they were actually Yes. http://perthgazette.co.uk/09/11/indyref/biased-bbc-yes-voters-were-told-to-say-no-to-independence-by-producers-during-a-debate-show/5796 Nigel Farage doing his bit for the Yes campaign today by visiting Glasgow. Would be better all round if everyone just ignored him but I'm sure plenty of people will turn up to give him pelters.

Totally understandable but I hope you reconsider. Scotland is massively wealthy, we will not go bankrupt setting up our own public services. Is voting No not an even bigger gamble? We then gamble on putting up with whatever governments the rest of the UK picks for us ... Boris and Nigel are coming!

Absolutely; hopefully that's the case across the UK no matter how this referendum goes. Up here groups like Radical Independence have been on a recruitment drive around Scotland's most disadvantaged areas in order to get people to sign on to the electoral roll. It emerged today that a record 4,285,323 registered to vote in the referendum. An expected 80% turnout will mean 3.4m people vote. 2,465,722 voted in Scotland at the 2010 UK General Election. The question is: How many of the 'missing million' are going to vote to validate the very system they've previously shown no interest in engaging with? My view is that a huge majority of this group will vote Yes and that this is the factor the opinion polls (average sample size 1,000) are not taking account of.

Seems tonight's debate isn't being shown live; it's on right now at the Hydro and George isn't going down well with the kids according to Twitter. No matter how it goes on the 18th, it's good to know the youth of Scotland can spot a rape apologist dickhead when they see one.

For all you fans of Gorgeous George Galloway, he is representing the No side on tonight's debate along with Ruth Davidson. Nicola Sturgeon and Patrick Harvie appearing for Yes. 9pm on BBC1. I'm sure Better Together previously distanced themselves from Galloway, they must think he'll appeal to the young (audience will be 12,000 16 & 17 yr olds) and the lefties who have moved towards Yes. For those that don't know, Ruth Davidson is the leader of the Scottish Tories. She has Holyrood's Party List system to thank for allowing her to be an MSP; she stood in my constituency at the last Scottish elections and got 7% of the vote.

Exactly. I also have a mate working with the RBS; he says they've been told today their jobs are perfectly safe and he will stick to voting Yes. Mind you, he is the sole member of RBS Edinburgh Communist Bankers Against Capitalism!

@BBCJamesCook: RBS chief exec to staff: moving registered office post-independence “is not an intention to move operations or jobs.” Nick Robinson now saying it's just the "symbolism" which is important. Each to their own of course but I expected the combined forces of the UK establishment - media, Westminster, banks and big business - to launch into a week of threats, lies and hysteria this week. Scotland has stood up to them. They're shitting themselves and want Scots to do the same. Scotland will thrive and flourish without them. Still a Yes from me!

He followed his 2007 Scottish election win by winning by an even margin in 2011 (giving the SNP a majority of the MSPs despite the system being designed to limit the chances of any party ever having such a majority) by "showing little talent for the detail of government"? Many Scots would disagree.

Galloway is completely out of touch with the Scottish left. After years of railing against the Tories and New Labour he now wants us to vote No and stick with the same old shit. Good debater and orator but I don't think even he believes most of the shite he comes out with. As far as this debate goes he's a complete irrelevance.

I know what you're saying mate, not taking it as a personal accusation. The point I'm trying to make is you're mistaken if you think the Yes movement is about nationalism or the SNP; it isn't. The Irvine Welsh piece someone posted earlier sums it up pretty well. I'm not an SNP man myself but the comparisons with UKIP are extremely lazy. UKIP: against being in the EU and against immigrants. SNP: Want Scotland in the EU, the only major political party in Britain to openly support the idea of having more immigration. In my experience the xenophobic nationalism (British - so that's acceptable) of the No campaign is one reason why people who feel strongly about fighting racism are turning towards Yes ... much more so than any form of Scottish nationalism. Good quote from Paul Mason on Channel 4 News tonight summing up the No campaign and the Yes movement - "It's like a clunking fist versus a flock of butterflies".

Like the Better Together campaign you seem to have a problem with foreign countries. They also "don't want their English friends and family to become foreigners" ... What's wrong with foreigners? I've already got friends and family from loads of countries outside the UK, doesn't mean I love them any less ... yet we (Yes voters) are the petty nationalists in this debate??

Mate, I'm voting Yes and it's not for reasons of "petty nationalism". You sound like someone from Better Together; continually painting Yes voters as 'nationalists' (while constantly promoting British nationalism themselves) and as fanatical supporters of Alex Salmond is one of the biggest mistakes they've made in their shambolic clusterfuck of a campaign.