tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post474434766681784316..comments2024-02-06T07:57:54.467+00:00Comments on underdogs bite upwards: Overload.Leg-ironhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04932361799889315359noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-91342140035693172002011-05-09T00:22:14.468+01:002011-05-09T00:22:14.468+01:00If Scotland keeps an independent Pound, it would d...If Scotland keeps an independent Pound, it would drift away from Sterling like the old Irish Punt. It would also need a new name. 'Beer vouchers' seems appropriate.<br /><br />I don't know how the details would work, that's up to the SNP to work out. Reliance on North Sea Oil and bloody windmills is just plain stupid. If that's all Oily Al sees as industry then he won't last a year. The whisky industry is worth a huge chunk of change but he's determined to hammer the drinkers along with the smokers.<br /><br />I do like the idea that Scotland would automatically be out of the EU on gaining independence. I also like the idea of Cameron blocking any attempt the SNP made to join.<br /><br />That would make the English move from 'miffed' right up to 'peeved' and they'd demand to know why they have to stay in while Scotland escapes.<br /><br />They wouldn't be the only country thinking that way.Leg-ironhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04932361799889315359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-81580061507715632892011-05-08T19:49:49.668+01:002011-05-08T19:49:49.668+01:00Subrosa finishes her post with: "You English ...Subrosa finishes her post with: "You English - you get a damned good deal from us up here. Why do you think your MPs want to hold onto us so much?"<br /><br />The reason is as stated by Tom Paine - exit from the EU. Cameron/Clegg, etc are sh*ting themselves at the prospect.Save my EU Pensionnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-79771392381394596252011-05-08T19:37:32.699+01:002011-05-08T19:37:32.699+01:00The Scottich Indepepndence referendum should be vo...The Scottich Indepepndence referendum should be voted on in England too. That will give Salmond the result he so clearly wants. And I'll take away (what's left of) the oil/gas, and the windfarms he plans to tax the Crown Lands of, while closing the door and turning out the light. We are thoroughly pissed off now, in England, with whingeing Scotch-Natz-Poltiical-Enemy-Class loathing and tail-twisting. <br /><br />Let the Scottish people have a government, for a while, that by their own failure to not elect it, got in and led them to riun and disater - like the Germans got in 1933 as the cost of the same kind of misjudgement.David Davishttp://libertarianalliance.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-70108879982927992632011-05-08T08:41:30.251+01:002011-05-08T08:41:30.251+01:00Auch Junican, I think Scotland could well support ...Auch Junican, I think Scotland could well support itself if the public service division was shaken up and the standard of education lifted to provide the international quality it once did.<br /><br />Really I'm getting weary of hearing the English bleating on and on about how much Scotland is a drain on them. Poor souls, but I've - as we say up here - nae sympathy. For over 30 years England has benefitted from having the profits from Scotland's waters gush straight into their coffers. It's to slightly compensate for this that we're given a few more £ per head, just to keep us happy.<br /><br />However suddenly folk see through it all. We've also been supplying, free of charge, our excess power to England and that is no small amount either.<br /><br />What Eck wants to do first is to gain hold of the Scottish end of the Crown Estates to ensure that then Scotland can gain financially for the energy we supply England.<br /><br />You English - you get a damned good deal from us up here. Why do you think your MPs want to hold onto us so much?subrosahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00151702590329788260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-57542914353144308292011-05-08T08:32:44.813+01:002011-05-08T08:32:44.813+01:00Eee young man, here are the correct %s.
In the co...Eee young man, here are the correct %s.<br /><br />In the constituency vote the SNP got 45.4% and in the list vote 44.1% - greatest percentage for years in the UK.<br /><br />http://www.scotlandvotes.com/<br /><br />Back in 99 at the devolution referendum labour only had 33% of the vote.<br /><br />What is needed is for the tories or libdems (if they still exist) to back independence or some form of it. They more or less do that with them being responsible for pressing for further powers via the Calman Commission.<br /><br />Speak about the unionists shooting themselves in the feet...subrosahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00151702590329788260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-36122744266114373672011-05-08T08:18:36.210+01:002011-05-08T08:18:36.210+01:00The United Kingdom is the EU member state. If Scot...The United Kingdom is the EU member state. If Scotland leaves the UK, it also leaves the EU (just as East Germany joined by uniting with a member state). When the failed Union finally dies, to the relief of the English, it would be an act of treason not to veto Scotland's application to join. My dream job in politics would be to negotiate the end of the Union. I would particularly enjoy dividing the UK's National Debt by reference to the Barnett Formula.Tom Painehttp://lastditch,typepad.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-82838339366242746402011-05-08T05:56:48.415+01:002011-05-08T05:56:48.415+01:00The Scots will get their referendum on independenc...The Scots will get their referendum on independence on the same day we get the referendum on the EU.<br /><br />Salmond is astute enough to know that, even if he did win a referendum - far from certain - then the harsh reality of fiscal independence would be beyond any ministers the SNP could deal with.<br /><br />No, the sight of Salmond cautioning that a referendum could not be held straightaway, until the will of the people showed they wanted it, reminded me of 646 other bastards with whom I am more familiar.<br /><br />In much the same way that ASH would collectively shit themselves if tobacco were banned, so Salmond want's the carrot of independence to dangle in front of the donkey's nose in perpetuity.john millernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-75522495599171705542011-05-08T02:54:39.678+01:002011-05-08T02:54:39.678+01:00LI.
There is a critical statement in your article...LI.<br /><br />There is a critical statement in your article:<br /><br /> ""I'm not even sure which side I'm on.""<br /><br />I think that Subrosa is also of the same opinion. <br /><br />So who knows who wants what? <br /><br />As an Englishman, I would love to see Scotland go it alone. It would be a great relief. Maybe then we could be rid of the scumbags who are leaching off us English. <br /><br />Gosh! Is that not nasty? Actually, I do not actually believe that at all, but I can well imagine a lot of people feeling that way. <br /><br />Tell me again - who is financing ASH Scotland and Alcohol Concern Scotland, and all the other leaches?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-80581921430120865292011-05-08T02:33:56.644+01:002011-05-08T02:33:56.644+01:00I get the impression from most of the Scots that I...I get the impression from most of the Scots that I speak to that they <i>don’t</i> want independence. Obviously, the ones I meet are down here, so maybe it’s different north of the border, but certainly a quick (and highly un-scientific) straw-poll of most of the people I know tends to indicate that the majority of <i>English</i> people would actively like Scotland to be independent, but the majority of <i>Scottish</i> people want to stay in the Union. <br /><br />Maybe Oily Al should try and organise his referendum in England …….Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-80942059090222668262011-05-08T00:19:49.274+01:002011-05-08T00:19:49.274+01:00Wonder what will happen if the UK minus Scotland l...Wonder what will happen if the UK minus Scotland leaves the EU, and Scotland doesn't, or Scotland leaves and the UK doesn't. Tax haven like Jersey might work. Can Scotland afford to adopt the Euro and how independent would it be if it kept the Pound? Would a new Pound Scots work? Will Scotland stay with GMT when England moves to Brussells time?<br /><br />If Scotland leaves the UK it should adopt Norway's position - maintain a close relationship with the Nordic countries / British countries while staying out of the EU.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com