The United Kingdom have led again, this time not in steam engines or modern colonization, but in politics. Politics wrapped around a true sense of human right and freedom. The British allowed it's people, the Scottish people to choose it's path. Fortunately and/or unfortunately depending on which side of the divide you are in, they have said NO. They have believed that unity is better than division. Big is better than small. Power and king Is better than pauper. It's easy to see why. To be a player in this modern world, you have to be big. QED. That's why the United States, Russia, China the Euro Zone and even Nigeria are such big forces. Idea rule this world. You need a big united country to have abundance of this talents. That's why new talents and inventions (90%) are only abound in these big countries. They even steal the remaining 10% of talents. Little wonder why countries like the United States collect our bright stars, give them scholarship make them do PHD and hand them over resident permit or citizenship for free. Little wonder why the US cannot take off their hands off alaska. The bigger the better.

I know for sure being big doesn't alway mean good. That's why some countries are actually better off being independent. A pro Biafran friend once told me that, the Igbos are better off ruling themselves than allow outsiders to rule them. I told him that as long as greed exist nothing changes really. So instead of a YES vote, why don't we tackle greed in Washington, in Westminster, in Abuja etc. if we can't do that a big country, we certainly can't do that as a small one