Any thoughts on what will be the impact on consulting jobs in case of yes vote?Jet

Lloyds, RBS etc. move down to London, that's £££ (not the Scottish ones) for us...

Lloyds, RBS etc. move down to London, that's £££ (not the Scottish ones) for us...

I don't think the FS work will be that big, as the banks have said they aren't going to be changing their model, just the registration.The government consulting, however, will be through the roof, can you imagine how many system separations/data migrations/etc are going to be required to pull apart every government department and give the data to the scots then set up a new system on the other side and integrate it all?Not to mention the management consulting that sits on top of that too in terms of setting up the new functions.

yay! {sarcasm}public sector evil

The problem i see with this Yes vote is that due to uncertain economic environment there may not be enough investment activities which will hurt strategy consulting and possibly operational consulting. I agree that public sector work will go up but not everyone would be well placed to do that type of work.

+1 to president BJet- ANYONE can do public sector consulting - that's sort of the point of it....

Disagree. Needs a whole new set of people skills.

And ability to get agreement from "committees" that work at the speed of an asthmatic snail going uphill with a club foot.

Doesn't work - snail don't have feet...Blackadder originally said "an asthmatic ant climbing up a hill while carrying heavy shopping". It was a reference to how far they had gone forward against the Germans.To make it topical, you could have changed it to:"An asthmatic snail climbing up an oil covered hill while carrying some heavy shopping"This then makes reference to the oil; a limited resource whose price goes up and down like a yo yo but which somehow is blindly seen as the saviour of all economic issues. Your use of it here would then show how missguided the view of one resource being the saviour of all economic issues actually is.

Of course the YES argument about oil is that Scotland could model itself on Norway - but this overlooks the fact that Norwegian revenues from oil far outstrip that of the UK given that North Sea oil is quickly running out and the infrastructure is decrepit.

[quote]Doesn't work - snail don't have feet...[/quote]Au contraire - http://www.snail-world.com/snail-anatomy/A website more interesting than what I'm currently doing...

Haha Loved the site, way more interesting than my Change Request which is going for approval tomorrow!SuperS, looks like I stand corrected, the amateur snail lover on the website link you sent called it a "foot" so it looks like snakes, snails, starfish, basically most animals whose name starts with "s" do have feet after all...As to the Scottish Yes / No vote, lets leave it here and see what happens on the 18th.

well, looks like the "No thanks" brigade opened a huge can of woop @ss and served it for breakfast to the "Yes" boys