Thankfully, according to the polls, the 'sane' count is below 50% and has been for about three years now. Sturgeon is vile is she? As opposed to BoJo or Corbyn? As to your jibe about a 700 year old chip on our shoulders, pretty rich coming from a country that voted for Brexit based on endless re-runs of The Great Escape.
You are entitled to have your opinion about Sturgeon, with more knowledge and insight than those of us south of the border. Similar to Brexit and it’s never ending hold on the news cycle I do wish the issue of Scottish independence would go away one way or another. it does the United Kingdom so much harm and fosters bad feelings throughout the land.
I'd imagine it would work in the same way every other small independent country in Europe would work. We discovered oil and gas at roughly the same time as Norway, which has the same population and natural resources as Scotland. Currently we have a budget deficit of approximately £175 billion - Norway has a surplus of about £800 billion. I know it's a football forum but some of the comments here are not only ignorant but verging on the racist. Anyways, PUSB.
By whom? IMO the referendum was called at the wrong time. One of the big sticks we were hit with at the time was 'Scotland can't survive out with the EU'. How did that one work out? As to the currency, what is to stop us having our own in an independent state? So many people in England wrongly equate independence with the SNP. More and more Labour voters here believe in independence as the only way to rid us of the Tories. I've voted SNP all my life but I see them as right wing and reactionary, come the great day it would be Green/Labour (we're slightly more civilized here as we have PR
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A genuine question TSBy whom? IMO the referendum was called at the wrong time. One of the big sticks we were hit with at the time was 'Scotland can't survive out with the EU'. How did that one work out? As to the currency, what is to stop us having our own in an independent state? So many people in England wrongly equate independence with the SNP. More and more Labour voters here believe in independence as the only way to rid us of the Tories. I've voted SNP all my life but I see them as right wing and reactionary, come the great day it would be Green/Labour (we're slightly more civilized here as we have PR
Not really. The whole thing has died down since 2014. Anti-English feeling has been dwindling and is now now not much more than 90 minute nationalism at Hampden (as an aside, the majority of football fans here loathe the 'Tartan Army'). The whole 'Union' thing is vastly overrated, it's very rarely mentioned. Perversely, the biggest Nationalist recruiting sergeants have been the biggest Unionists, eg Thatcher and Johnson. In a long winded way what I'm trying to say is that a lot of Scottish nationalists are essentially anti-Tory at heart more than anything else.
TS - thanks for your input.
I agree that it's for another thread but I'm sure I read that the majority of Welsh people actually voted to remain in the EU? Anyways, here's hoping Mr Reid goes on to to have a glittering career for us, whichever passport he chooses to hold.
Agree and in any independence settlement the economic shock to Scotland would be very significant and would lead to a mixture of increases in government borrowing [at a larger cost], taxes or cuts in services. It could get messy
I agree that it's for another thread but I'm sure I read that the majority of Welsh people actually voted to remain in the EU? Anyways, here's hoping Mr Reid goes on to to have a glittering career for us, whichever passport he chooses to hold.
I'm a simple man, trying to make my kippers for breakfast!
. I don't know, I think it would all work out - the Brexit talks did to an extent. I agree, Tony Benn was (in this instance) a far sighted genius. Thatcherism was a plague which devastated this country - I remember all the Coventry car workers bragging about buying their council houses (nice house, pity you don't have a proper job anymore!). As to BSB - I think our Loyalist chums in Norniron have the stickiest fingers - anyways, can I sign off by retiring to my toast and kippers and wishing all the best to Cov fans the world over in the erstwhile hope that we play a flat back four today. 
I'm a simple man, trying to make my kippers for breakfast!
Happy to do that as I'm sure the majority of people here have little interest in this topic. As a final aside, I said 'Welsh' people, ie people who were actually born and raised in the place (sorry if that makes me sound like a mad cottage burner!). Finally, and please please finally as my kippers are getting cold, I'm old and have no idea what/who DM is!!! PUSB.
Benn, Thatcher, or Johnson?
tbf, Michael Foot ended up as the Plymouth Argyle squad's left winger, so stranger things have happened!
