Alex Salmond has said live on TV that Scotland won't take on any UK liabilities if they don't get what they belive is their fair share of the assets. He means that if he doesn't get control over the currency he isn't paying any of the debts.
Basically since Tony Blair lied about Iraq and the banking crisis, there is a general feeling that politics is shit and we want a way out. So charismatic guys like Alex Salmond (Scottish Prime Minister), Boris Johnson (London Mayor) and Nigel Farage (Leader of the majority of our European representatives) are picking up votes. Add to that the percentage of Scotland that hates England forever because and you have a new country possibly appearing.
Unfortunatly for Scotland, England is 86% of the country and if we have anyone half way decent in charge if independence happens, Scotland is going to get royally screwed over - and for real this time:
1) They want control of the currency ("Currency Union"). What the fuck? How is a foreign country having half the say on your currency going to work, especially with a 90-10 population/economy split? The UK refused the Euro for the same reasons we will refuse this.
2) 90% of the customers of most Scottish companies are going to become foreign and possibly subject to export taxes and exchange rates, guess were they are going to move their headquaters after independence?
3) They want to automatically join the EU. While the UK can shurg off losing Scotland, Spain cannot lose Catalonia as it's half their economy and will likely cause trouble and make them unable to join. This has been confirmed by one of outgoing EU Presidents.
4) All countries joining the EU for about a decade or so have had to join the Euro and Schengen (free movement without passports) no exceptions. As the UK isn't in Schengen we will have to build a border fence, which we can because the far north of England is an underpopulated wilderness. I think that this opt out is the sole thing we should help Scotland with, we have an alternative called the Common Travel Area which is the same thing but just with UK and Ireland. Unfortunatly this probably won't happen as Alex Salmond wants to mass import foreigners into Scotland to boost the population since they have 96% white people.
5) Scotland wants to join NATO but disarm half of it's nuclear deterrant since the UK one is hidden in some scottish loch which we are unable to replicate anywhere else. Ironically the only unpopulated part of England where we could build something to house it is next to the Scottish border! Don't think that this will happen.
6) Since they won't get this "Currency Union" they want (I thought they wanted independence?), they'll not pay any debts and so even though the UK has committed to paying it, it'll still be seen as a default.
7) Alex Salmond wants more than he is letting on, a few years ago he wanted to get rid of the Queen and join the Euro. Expect expensive bullshit bilingual signs in gaelic which nobody can actually read, like Ireland and Wales suffer at the moment.
8) The most scottish political party in the UK will be permanently out of power as a big chunk of their voters will vanish, so you'll see more scotland unfriendly diplomacy from the UK.
9) Scotland's national dish is "Deep Fried Mars Bar", it's a chocolate bar covered in fat and oil. All of their oil revenues will be going into keeping their population alive. They already get higher than average money per person than the rest of the UK and have things the rest of us don't have like free University fees. Are they going to nationalise the oil rigs or tax it?
10) Since Alex Salmond want's Scotland to be like Norway etc, people and buisnesses will flee to England to escape the tax.
TLDR: Independence is going to massivly benefit England and Scotland will be providing years of failiure drama. Saying that, to me Scotland is part of the country so I don't want them to leave even though I'll benefit if they do.