By Vox Pop, Our "impartial sampling of public opinion" Team

I'm Gavin Kinnaburgh and I'm here at Edinburgh's St James Shopping Centre to gauge the level of antagonism towards the Scottish Government's White Paper on splitting Scotlandshire away from the rest of the UK.

There seems to be a queue of ordinary members of the public keen to talk to me about their views. I'll talk to a random sample of them.

Cammy Day (36, student) -"Salmond says this is a blueprint for an independent Scotlandshire. My ears have been buzzing since I heard him going on about it earlier. Mair like a bluebottle around shite."

Duncan Haversall (40, educational IT worker) - "670 pages? Is that, like, a book? I read one of them once!"

Ewan Aitken (53, former minister) - "My pal told me that the whole nonsense was dreamed up by somebody who just tells lies all the time about everything. She's always right about everything, so there's no need for me to read it. UK - OK I read that in the Bible!"

Lesley Hinds (age undisclosed , former teacher) - "I've got this letter to post, and the Nats can't even tell me what the price of a stamp will be? Their information is too little, too late, so I'll have to vote No."

Surprisingly, a number of voters seemed to take a different view, but we didn't have time to hear their views, and anyway security were keeping them away from us to keep us safe. However, we have brought you a fair cross-section of Edinburgh society

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