suburbanreuben
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Yeah, right!highlandsflyer":xyi6en5f said:
Even more cake, and even more eating it!
Scottish independence
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Even more cake, and even more eating it!
technodup
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The majority (around 66% usually) do not want it. It won't happen. Plus it's not really independence when you're desperate to join the EU and be run from Brussels. Break from one more powerful neighbour and join another even bigger?Isaac_AG":nrch8mte said:
The sooner Salmond gets his comeuppance (although he'll still spin it to his advantage somehow) the better. If only we had a Farage type up here proposing to disband the Scottish Parliament and renounce devolution altogether...
For something only supported by 30% (pretty static for decades btw) it is outrageous the amount of airtime and media coverage independence gets. Salmond's puppet running the show lives across the road from me, he'll not be looking so smug when he loses the referendum as well as the plot.
http://www.thinkscotland.org/todays-thi ... full=11885
As for Farage he should have done a Prescott and malkied those student fuds. What a riddy for Edinburgh.
Chopper the ex Copper
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Ah, the wonderful Alex Salmond stoking the flames to feed his own notoriety. After all, he's the only man in the world who seems not to understand the conventions that govern national borders and territorial waters when licking his lips over 'Scottish' oil.
I say we let Scotland have It's independence. The rest of the UK can stop funding them at a level grossly disproportionate to their GDP, the Welsh can have the nuclear subs and the jobs that go with them, and Scotland can rely on men with blue painted faces who strangle cats for music to defend them, or to perhaps act as a tourist attraction.
I say we let Scotland have It's independence. The rest of the UK can stop funding them at a level grossly disproportionate to their GDP, the Welsh can have the nuclear subs and the jobs that go with them, and Scotland can rely on men with blue painted faces who strangle cats for music to defend them, or to perhaps act as a tourist attraction.
Chopper the ex Copper
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What's all this 'we'? I'm not one of the bawbags.
technodup":2mu5xwm1 said:
probably now but only if those south of the border were fed up of hearing how you want independence, how the support for the "other" team always seems to go up, how you can keep the pound but we not say anything about what is done with it (and we know how well that works re euro), duck the bill when two banks with one thing in common go bust, need I go on. Brit loyalty can only take so much........what would you expect
10 years ago probably not, all that's changed is Scotland elected a party determined to gain independence, cake etc been mentioned before.
There is an interesting comparison to the EU, where our European cousins probably would prefer the UK stayed in as makes more sense to be together than divided but are so fed up with a small island trying to dictate the terms that in reality they just wish we would accept it or leave.
the difficulty is the vote will probably take place before all the details worked out and so all very hit and miss as to how it works for all concerned
suburbanreuben
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highlandsflyer":2qwzvm1q said:Chopper1192":2qwzvm1q said:
As for relying on relying on men with blue painted face, Scotland has always punched way over its weight in the armed forces. No amount of lazy stereotyping or patronising, inaccurate assertions about our economic performance changes the facts.
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