I beg to differ, especially if cameron gets his way with redrawing the political boundaries.
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Nice to wake up this morning still being British.
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What a waste of time and money. That ridiculous sideshow must have cost a bloomin fortune!!
I think there should be some sort of punitive punishment and I would start by putting a tax on ginger people and cooking fat.
What a waste of time and money. That ridiculous sideshow must have cost a bloomin fortune!!
I think there should be some sort of punitive punishment and I would start by putting a tax on ginger people and cooking fat.
Sounds like a plan.
It's going to take a long time to heal the division in Scotland now. There's some very nasty comments from yes voters on the bbc website already
Leave them to fight it out amongst themselves. Should be a good night in Glasgow this Saturday! :slap:
I think we all get similar treatment from London to be honest and they thought they could do it better. There was too much uncertainty around the economics that the SNP couldnt confidently explain. What this will do is give them more power which the Welsh and the Irish will expect parity then this will happen again in 10 years time.
Highly doubtful.
This was the moment for the nationalists. The conditions were as fertile as they will ever be.
The only sure thing the future holds for Scotland is diminishing oil. And the more that drips away, the more dependent they become on the rest of the UK.
Highly doubtful.
This was the moment for the nationalists. The conditions were as fertile as they will ever be.
The only sure thing the future holds for Scotland is diminishing oil. And the more that drips away, the more dependent they become on the rest of the UK.
I think it will, it all depends on what this additional 'power' looks like.
The oil wells are pretty stocked at present so it isnt going to run dry within the next few years, more like 40.
I think we all get similar treatment from London to be honest and they thought they could do it better. There was too much uncertainty around the economics that the SNP couldnt confidently explain. What this will do is give them more power which the Welsh and the Irish will expect parity then this will happen again in 10 years time.
There are 2 things which distinguish Wales from Scotland-the latter currently has access to a lucrative natural resource and has far more land available to it. Even with a terribly co-ordinated No campaign and a Bullingdon Club PM No still won 55-45. Westminster can kick this into a non issue by making good on what it's promised, and in a few decades time the economic case will be a weaker one thanks to the declining importance of oil.
If there were a time for it to leave then this was it. I was set on voting No when the referendum was announced and that's how I ended up voting as there was no strong economic case for a Yes and I simply couldn't endorse nationalism particularly when they were using England as a scapegoat for Scottish problems. They missed the boat.
I seriously think Salmond was guilty of having a Kinnock moment last week.
I seriously think Salmond was guilty of having a Kinnock moment last week.
The interesting thing is the stance now taken by the Tories who sniff an opportunity. Ban Scottish MP's from voting on matters no longer relevant to them.
Bye bye labour.
75% of those who voted "No" say they did so because they believed the lie that Scotland could no longer use the English Pound.
That was despite the fact that the Irish Free State continued to use the English Pound exclusively for six years after their own independence and for another fifty years after that alongside their own currency.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_pound
Any justification for this statistic?
More than half (57 per cent) of No voters said the pound was one of the most important factors in their decision
It was a post-referendum poll by Lord Ashcroft into the biggest reasons why people on both sides voted the way they did.
I thought I remembered Sky News reporting it as 75% but according to Lord Ashcroft's own website that should be 57%.
http://www.conservativehome.com/pla...t-new-polling-how-scotland-voted-and-why.html
Reading through some of the pages about the post-debate between the two parties. Really sad to see that two factions have been created 'the 45' and '55'. I read a thread about that the No voters cannot sing the national anthem anymore because they are not 'hearing' the lyrics and now have no right to sing it anymore.
This is getting ridiculous! I hope this dies down but I think we can expect this to be bubbling around for a while.
Fed up of the Yes voters taking the moral high ground as though everyone who voted No holds the working classes in contemptand loves David Cameron. The same people who call unionists traitors and Quislings for feck's sake.
I know, there's some disgusting comments on BBC that the country full of scared spineless jelly fish, etcs
This was always going to happen with one side pushing nationalist rhetoric for years. If there's ever a referendum on the EU membership the British version will raise its head and I'll oppose it just as strongly.
It'll be a rerun of the Scottish referendum with celebrity billionaires forecasting Armageddon and financial institutions threatening to move their headquarters overseas if the UK dares to leave the EU.
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