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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 19 2014 at 03:22
Pretty funny if they discovered massive new reserves of oil and gas in the North Sea today.



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 19 2014 at 03:32
Originally posted by someone_else someone_else wrote:

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Originally posted by Blacksword Blacksword wrote:

Originally posted by someone_else someone_else wrote:

I hope the Yes wins because this will give Brussels a good smack in the chops that they have deserved for so long.
 </span><br style="line-height: 14.3999996185303px;"><br style="line-height: 14.3999996185303px;"><span style="line-height: 14.3999996185303px;">Will it? How? </span><br style="line-height: 14.3999996185303px;"><br style="line-height: 14.3999996185303px;"><span style="line-height: 14.3999996185303px;">Salmond ultimately wants an independent Scotland to be part of the EU, maybe even join the single currency. One point that is broadly and deliberately missed in the debate is that Salmond actually doesn't want independence at all. He wants full EU membership, which regardless of how one feels about the EU, is the polar opposite of independence. To have their monetry policy, social policy, employment legislation etc passed in a foreign country by people they haven't elected seems bizarre to me. They moan about the hold Westminster has had over them for so many years, but I'm wondering how much better off and independent they'll be as an EU economic basket case, indebted to the ECB and IMF for decades. </span><br style="line-height: 14.3999996185303px;"><br style="line-height: 14.3999996185303px;"><span style="line-height: 14.3999996185303px;">If it goes that way that will put paid to Salmonds socialist wet dream, because they may be forced to sell off their public services to the private sector to pay their debts.
</span><div style="line-height: 14.3999996185303px;"><div style="line-height: 14.3999996185303px;">You have a good point here, but it would have shown that a superstate has no right to exist because the peoples that are trapped in it always prefer to govern their own affairs without an elusive superpower imposing some unwelcome rules.<div style="line-height: 14.3999996185303px;"><div style="line-height: 14.3999996185303px;">Never mind, the No-camp pulled it off Stern Smile.



Yes, thankfully they did..

I'm curious to see what the extra powers are now going to be, and how that will also be extended to England, Wales and NI..
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 19 2014 at 04:42
I predict the extra powers will be cosmetic and non-critical. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 19 2014 at 05:21
Congratulations to the winners. It would have been interesting though to know how many of the NO voters meant that they are fine as it is now or got convinced to stay in the UK only because of the promises for higher self-governance.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 19 2014 at 11:40


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 19 2014 at 11:50

THe 'w**kers' are already rowing backwards.  Cameron won't want to give the Scots what they want as it will be Labour that pays the price.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 19 2014 at 12:15
Now that the Scottish have failed to achieve independence in their lands, could they be asked to come and try the same here with Texas? Please? 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 19 2014 at 12:22
Originally posted by The T The T wrote:

Now that the Scottish have failed to achieve independence in their lands, could they be asked to come and try the same here with Texas? Please? 


go back to being part of Mexico maybe?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 19 2014 at 12:46
Originally posted by akamaisondufromage akamaisondufromage wrote:


Originally posted by The T The T wrote:

Now that the Scottish have failed to achieve independence in their lands, could they be asked to come and try the same here with Texas? Please? 
go back to being part of Mexico maybe?
Oh no I wouldn't do that to poor Mexico.

Let TX stand on its own. The Cowboy Republic of Texas or the Lunatic Republic of Texas or the Armed and Ready NRA Republic of Texas should do fine.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 19 2014 at 13:03
The capital punishment capital of the world. Please no more politicians from Texas.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 19 2014 at 13:17
Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

Originally posted by Padraic Padraic wrote:

My biggest issue is that Salmond is often unrealistic is how he thinks things are going to play out after a Yes vote.


If the vote goes 'no' I'd see this as an immediate end to Salmond's political career.

If the vote goes 'yes' & it all goes breasts up in a year or so, I'd also see this as the end of Salmond's political career, just a bit in the future...

How ya feeling Alex?



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 19 2014 at 13:49
 


^^ 'Mystic Jim' and his political crystal ball Stern Smile
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 19 2014 at 16:53
The UKIP must party hard, I guess.
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