Next Stage....Salmond: UK should share pound It is absolutely the case that the Yes campaign could win the Scottish independence referendum, a UK minister has said. Scottish Secretary Alistair Carmichael has confirmed comments he made in an interview with the Observer newspaper. He said a Yes vote was not impossible and that the No campaign needed to show more hunger. First Minister Alex Salmond said the Yes campaign has the wind at its back at the moment. Mr Carmichaels latest intervention in the referendum debate came after a row over currency sharing in the event of a Yes vote. Speaking on the BBCs Sunday Politics show, he said: What I said was it was not impossible that the Nationalists could win, and that is absolutely the case. The biggest danger for the UK camp in this whole argument is that people look at the polls, they show us with a healthy lead consistently and as a consequence they think that it is not going to happen, it cannot happen. Continue reading the main story Scotlands independence referendum Who? Voters in Scotland will go to the polls to vote on their countrys future. What? They will be asked the yes/no question: Should Scotland be an independent country? When? The vote takes place on Thursday, 18 September, 2014. Well I have got to tell everybody it could - not least because the Nationalists have an enormous advantage in terms of the amount of money they have at their disposal in order to buy momentum. They are out there, going to advertise in cinemas, on street hoardings, they will be advertising at football matches on social media right across the way. He added: They have an unprecedented war chest to pour into this campaign.
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