Let's stick together #indyref

Dear Scotland,

Please don't Balkanize the island of Britain. If you do you'll be out of the EU and without a proper currency and it will be a right royal mess. We can get a Labour government for Britain next year and more devolution is on the cards.

And wouldn't your children become foreign students at English universities and have to pay the very high tuition fees rate per year for foreign students? According to HSBC these average £11,933 and range up to £38,532 for the top places, without taking into account living costs.

It would be better to try and create a sort of "Benelux" zone - actually it partly exists already - in the islands of Ireland and Britain, if only we could get Republic of Ireland to join the sterling zone! That's not at all likely, to put it mildly, but we might all end up in the Euro zone eventually, perhaps.

Wouldn't it be much better to have devolution but economic integration within Britain and Ireland, including the Republic? That would be my ideal. It's only this writer's personal opinion of course but it would be very handy for nipping back and forth to Dublin - and Scotland.

Now if Scotland increases divisions in these islands by voting Yes, it only makes life more difficult from my point of view. The difficulties that I foresee will also apply to you but you may think the benefits of independence and separate EU membership outweigh such considerations, but I hope "No, Thanks!" carries the day.

Regards, best wishes,
Harry Lemon