RBS will leave Scotland if voters back independence

[Ghost Dog]

69. I'm a Brit. I exiled myself from Thatcher's Britland

at the end of 1987, after having freelance-programmed part of the London Stock Exchange's 'Big Bang', and after meeting a girl from Barcelona...

I kind of 'went native' in Spain - Catalonia & Canary Islands - for quite a while. No, I don't speak (much) Catalan, but I understand a lot of it. I live, think, dream mostly in (Castillian) Spanish now I'm free; but in the last two years I've been learning to work with musicians working here (we're making GREAT music), on the sound recording / human relations / production side, who are internationals. So I'm now using the international English language more.

Writing for DU's been a great language / thought process help over the years, since 2003. Thanks, guys.

My mother's side of the family is from (lowland) Scotland - Mitchell; My immediate family and I lived and worked in the County Clare, Eire, in the early '70s. My brother married an Irish woman and my Niece was born in Edinburgh (my niece and family (her husband is Austrian-American) now live in France and Tokyo).

What I love about Europe is the diversity and the mixing of cultures. This is very creative. I wish the USA could be more that way too... As for freedom for Scotland? Of course. Freedom for the English regions and Wales? also of course. Let London become a post-modern City State. Many, I conjecture, would follow.

... And, hi there!