plaid because the question is bad.
scotland IS free. unless of course if by free, you mean "at war with the english bastards down south, claymores at hand, warpaint on face", in which case No, not more than we can return the US to the indians, or break up germany into tribes, or return italy to the romans.
The scots today are just UK people. There's no difference between the two apart from the fact that the scots hate the brits. and each other. and anyone who is from celtic (or from rangers). or protestants hatin the catholics or catholics hating the protestants.
(oh and the glaswegians hating the edinburghians because "they sold them out")
On the economic side, separation from the UK would be the signal for the vultures to descend - what little advantage they would gain from running their own resources (the gathering of which is mostly run by UK companies now who woudl "sell" their services) would vanish to the speculators who have an opportunity to squeeze money out of a new market.
The "its now a foreign country" is an excuse everyone and their dog will use to raise prices.
Besides, the money westminster "syphons out of the scottish economy" is simply costs of running the country, which the scots haven't even got the infrastructure to handle, and when hey spend to build it, it won't come free.
Anyway, i'm fairly confident on a NO vote, most of the people around 'ere glasgow say yes but most of edinburgh is for no. People who have a business, or quite simply, A LIFE, don't want the potential for chaos, adding that it's evident to quite everyone that Salmond is doing this for personal gain.
On the other hand, the vast majority of losers, the drunks at the pub, are for a yes vote, ofc, because independence will solve ALL their problems and will make Scotland beat Germany at footie 6-0.