In reply to IainRUK:
> The job of the NO side is to argue why staying in the Union is better.. by simple logic that means many arguments will centre on things that will change negatively…
You aren't wrong, but I'm not sure you realise just
how negative it has been. There's been a near-constant drip-drip-drip of what will be worse, what will be wrong, what we can't do, what we aren't up to, how scary it all is, how stupid we are for even considering it. And very little about how the UK can be improved, how things can be made better - just how we'd lose what we have.
In the last week I've a conversation with people convinced that Russia will invade once we go independent, followed by another where someone was really concerned we might not have passports any more. (Not UK passports, just passports.)
It's exhausting, people are just fed up with it.
And on the other side, we have people discussing hopes and ideas, their visions of how Scotland can change for the better and what we should do to get there.
Don't get me wrong - the No side have not all been miserable. But the overwhelming mood from them has been one of negativity, and that just doesn't sell very well.