12/09/2014 Scotland Decides

up`to`date. Thank you. Now, the Scottish referendum takes place in

under one week. It is time for our review of the week with James Cook.

Welcome to Scotland. We are here in a very busy person and with less

than a week to go, here is our look back at the past seven days. A poll

about to be published puts the scam a ahead. `` puts the Yes campaign.

The Chancellor says a plan of action will be unveiled to devolve more

powers to Scotland. On Monday Gordon Brown spoke. He suggested... I am

struggling to hear you... The yes campaign cold it a last`minute

bride. The sole tyre was raised above Downing Street in an appeal

from ministers to embrace the best of both worlds. On Wednesday, all

three party leaders reached out to Scottish Borders. The Yes campaign

said they could not trusted. Alex Salmond objective view warnings from

banks over the price of independence and said Scotland was on the cusp of

history and Nigel Farage is in Glasgow today urging the Queen to

speak out in favour of the union. Hello and welcome to the programme.

It all began at the start of the week. An opinion poll electrified

this campaign suggesting for the first time that the yes and was in

the lead. What is the situation? Let's have a look. This is the

opinion poll of opinion polls. It suggests the race is still very

tight. The Yes campaign standing at 48%, the No campaign at 52%. That is

when the don't knows are excluded. That was based on six recent opinion

polls. With the race apparently so close, the prounion parties set out

to try and convince people in Scotland that the offer of more

powers was substantial and that the gown on Sunday with the Chancellor

George Osborne. It is clear that Scotland wants more control over the

decisions that affect the country and that has been clear from both

sides. We propose to deliver on that. You will see a plan of action

to give more powers to Scotland, more tax powers, were spending

powers, more plans and powers over the welfare state. That will be put

into effect and the timetable for delivering that will be put into

effect the moment there is a no vote in the referendum. A clock will be

ticking for delivering those powers and Scotland will have the best of

both worlds. They will avoid the risk of separation but have more

control over their destiny which is where I think most Scots want to be.

The former Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown weighed in, setting out

what he said was a timetable for change. What people want is a plan

for a Scottish parliament with stronger powers that are immediate,

on pretence of an deliverable and has the majority support of the

Scottish people. What I propose is that we set a timetable, we publish

proposals can be legislated in October, we consult in December, we

have a bill that is ready to go forward in January so that Dore Gold

no that a no vote is a vote not for no change, it is a vote for a

stronger Scottish Parliament with more powers over society and the

economy and financial affairs. This, in my view, is what the

majority of Scottish people want and it is a plan that is deliverable

faster than anything that Alex Salmond can do. `` so that people

know. There was no agreement between the parties on the extent of those

new powers. The Labour and the Liberal Democrats had

different operas and this Scotland control over their country.

The Westminster establishment does not want that to happen so they will

throw everything they can add it. Let's take a look at other events on

the campaign trail. There were some bad tempered scenes between opposing

supporters in Glasgow. John Prescott also campaign for a no vote. There

have been warnings of price rises in an independent Scotland from major

retailers but Business But Scotland said the attempts were overdone. An

attempt to raise the sole tyre over Downing Street took a number of

attempts. All of that thing the three main party leaders came north

to campaign. I think people feel it is a bit like a general election,

you make a decision and then you can make another decision five years

later when you are fed up with the effing Conservatives. The three main

party leaders did not campaign together. Alex Salmond said it was a

sign of desperation. He said the team at Westminster was more

interested in saving their own jobs. They jet up to Scotland for the day

because they are panicking. This campaign is a key test on jobs. What

we are interested in is having a powerhouse parliament that can

create jobs but the team at Westminster seem to be concerned

about their own jobs. Several of the big financial firms in Scotland

confirmed they had contingency plans to move parts of their business to

London in the event of independence. It includes Lloyds, standard life

and RBS. The No campaign said it roofed a yes vote would damage the

economy at opponents said there will be little or no impact on jobs and

accused the Treasury of leaking market sensitive information.

Earlier, Alan Cumming dismissed similar concerns. Of course there

are unknowns but this is not about financial concerns, it is about

value. What we value is under threat if we do not vote yes. Education

will be expensive, the whole way that Scotland values things is under

threat. Both of those areas that you referred to are already controlled

by Edinburgh. Not financially. They do not control the money. We are at

the mercy of the cuts that come from Westminster. I have always voted for

the Labour Party. I feel now that the things I hold dear as a

left`wing person and as a Scottish person are under threat and I think

that is what is important. People who would vote Labour should vote

yes. Even the Queen was dragged into what is becoming an increasingly

heated debate on the streets. Newspapers reported her supposed

concerns over independence. I asked Alex Salmond about those reports.

The Queen is head of state and she is head of state in Scotland and her

ancestors were. Reports suggest that the Queen is worried. Her Majesty

The Queen has seen many events in the course of her long reign and I

think she will be proud to be Queen of Scotland and we have been proud

to have her as Queen of this land. You think you know. Have you

discussed it with her? The proper position with an audience at all

moral and I had an audience with her two weeks ago, is that you do not

discuss these matters in public and I think the statement from the

Palace about her neutrality in this matter is perfectly sensible. One

thing that the opinion polls showed at the weekend in addition to the

substantial move to the yes campaign is the enthusiasm by the people of

Scotland to have Her Majesty The Queen as the Queen of Scotland.

Buckingham Palace issued a statement indicating that the Queen would

remain neutral. Any suggestion that the Queen would wish to influence

the outcome of the referendum campaign is categorically wrong, the

statement said. The Bank of England's Governor Mark Carney waded

into the debate saying there were contingency and plans `` contingency

plans in place should the people of Scotland vote to end the union. We

will be... We are the main for financial stability in the event of

a Yes vote. We will continue to be that authority. For the transition

period, under the Edinburgh agreement, 18 months. I will take

the opportunity to say that we have, as you would expect, and we

have been asked this in the past by members of the committee, we have

been doing contingency planning. There has been a lot of activity

online with the build up to the vote. Here are some tweets. Some

banks and companies giving their stance, the economy has been at the

forefront of minds. Well, that is it for Scotland

Decides review of the week. You can keep up to date here on the BBC News

Channel and on our website. Soon we will know who has won.

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