Yes I would like to see Scotland independant.

Would love it to be in my father's life time. Would mean alot to him

Take care.

Seoniad

Yes, for me.

Yes, but you said oil companies own the oil, not the state.
And you thought scotland didnt have its own territorial waters like norway, due to the fishing quotas.
However, both of those points are not actually correct.
Of course if scotland joined the EU it would give up some rights to its own waters, which is already the case with scottish waters within the UK in relation to the EU already.
Hence those cod wars in the 70's.
However, westminster owns the drilling licences, thus oil, which is contracts to the oil companies.
Thus the same would apply to hollyrood if scotland became its own state.

There is no fixed answer if Scotland could keep the pound, they may well be able to until they sort their own currency.
Their is also no certainty they would be made to accept the Euro.
At the moment the rules state that accession and member states (except denmark and UK) must eventually join the Euro.
But dont forget the Eurozone is in a process of change.
First Scotland would have to re-apply to join the EU, making them an accession (application) state.
EU accession always take years.
Dont forget other 27 states need to approve scotland joining the EU.
At the moment spain has a policy of blocking kosovo from applying to join the EU.
This is because kosovo is a separatist state, and they do not favour separist states (which is what scotland would be) from joining the EU, due to their own Basque issue. France and Belguim have similar separatist issues
Then they could not join the Euro until they "qualified".
As i said, qualifying criteria will be much different and stricter in the future than what it was before, due to the cock up they made with greece being allowed to join even though they didnt actually meet the criteria at the time.

Then would the SNP be the only party in scotland that would deny the people a referendum on this issue?
Not if they want to be a government, they wouldnt
Imagine the cries of hypocrisy.

the SNP have actually postponed this for as long as they can, mostly because they know it'll be a no vote.

I'm Scottish first, British second and would vote yes to independence.

I'm confused as to why we would lose our currency though, we already have our own Scottish pound ( which the majority of English shops won't accept ) so why would we have to change ?.