SO, that is that.

The final television debate has been and gone and Darling and Salmond (alphabetical, no political bias here) have had their final say.

Week upon week, month upon month, discussion, debate and diatribe from Better Together and Yes Scotland (again, alphabetical, no political bias) campaigners have attempted to convince us to vote one way or the other.

Currency, oil, business and even ice bucket challenges have filled column inches and television broadcasts.

Some newspapers will have you believe First Minister Alex Salmond won the most recent debate, while others will say he failed to deliver answers on key issues.

Poll results are crowed over by both those in favour of independence and those calling for the Union to remain in tact.

Similarly, politicians will tell you how they knocked on however many doors and the response was overwhelmingly ‘no/yes’, depending on their political allegiance.

The trouble is, who is to say that is truly what people believe? If any politician came knocking on my door asking for my views, I would tell them exactly what they want to hear so that they will go away and let me watch the football/Hollyoaks in peace.

Yet, if there is just one thing we can be certain of it is that nobody truly knows the truth.

Neither party is willing to give an inch and therein lies the real problem for the public.

We cannot be certain who to believe because neither party will concede a single point, instead simply presenting their own argument as fact and decrying the opposition’s as ‘balderdash’.

Is it really so black and white? Could Scotland be better off in some respects but worse off in others?

We simply do not know and the fact neither group seems willing to acknowledge that this is even a possibility only further adds to the weariness people have of politicians.

Experts – with considerably bigger brains than myself – cannot agree on whether Scotland will be ‘better together’ or better as an independent nation.

In the end, only one poll will matter – and that takes place on my girlfriend’s birthday, September 18.