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Should Scotland be an Independent Country?

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The independence debate is becoming more and more about anti-Englishnes. It’s got to the point where I feel afraid to talk because I have a Yorkshire accent. In any other context, you’d call it racism.

Twice in recent years, Alison says she has had Union Jack bunting torn from her home — once during the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, and again for the Royal Wedding.

Today, despite being a principled supporter of the Union who will vote against independence, she is afraid to place a ‘No’ poster on the property or in her car, for fear of sparking further attacks.

It’s getting like Northern Ireland, with all the hatred and sectarianism. It doesn’t matter who wins on September 18, it’s only going to get worse. And I’m not the only one who feels intimidated. There are plenty like me.

You try to laugh it off. But there’s an ugly corner of Scotland in which a kind of aggressive, intolerant nationalism lives.

They threaten people who have English accents. “Why don’t you go home?” or “What are you doing up here?” Often it’s said to people who have lived in Scotland for years. I was talking recently to a guy who has been up here 16 years and he’s still getting it.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2745565/Savage-racism-turning-Scotland-no-zone-English.html
 
MalteseMick said:
An extreme form of Government laissez faire didn't help :bandit:
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Absolutely right. The Liberal government of the time should have intervened, that's what governments are for. But Lord Russell thought private enterprise would solve the problem, and that giving state aid to Ireland in the form of free grain from India would encourage dependence and undermine the free market.
 
stopmeandslapme said:
Desperate for you lot to vote No? Couldn't give a **** tbh.
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No.

I meant for your continued readership of the daily fail.

Anti-English racism is rampant in Stirling <doh> Give me a break you boring bastard.

For the record. I'd have ****ing torn her bunting down as well. Only ****ing *****s of the highest caliber put up bunting, that's why you see it at car dealerships.
 
MD 20/20 said:
No.

I meant for your continued readership of the daily fail.

Anti-English racism is rampant in Stirling <doh> Give me a break you boring bastard.

For the record. I'd have ****ing torn her bunting down as well. Only ****ing *****s of the highest caliber put up bunting, that's why you see it at car dealerships.
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"It&#8217;s getting like Northern Ireland, with all the hatred and sectarianism. It doesn&#8217;t matter who wins on September 18, it&#8217;s only going to get worse."

The words of an English woman who lives there but what would you know you drug addled mess?
 
stopmeandslapme said:
"It&#8217;s getting like Northern Ireland, with all the hatred and sectarianism. It doesn&#8217;t matter who wins on September 18, it&#8217;s only going to get worse."

The words of an English woman who lives there but what would you know you drug addled mess?
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What would I know?

More than you ****ing know. I live up the road from Stirling you ****ing mutant.

&#8216;Any time you hear senior members of the SNP complain about &#8220;Westminster&#8221;, or &#8220;the Tories&#8221;, or &#8220;London&#8221;, what they are really talking about is the English. And supporters know it,&#8217; says Stephenson.
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Not PC enough said:
clearly .

Now vote yes and f** off .

The haggis will taste soooo much sweeter when the imperialist yoke has been removed.

You do know Braveheart is just hollywood fiction dontcha ?

come on , own up , you thought it was a historical documentary .

ubercretin.

:cheesy:

freedom !

aye , we will be worse off , but we will be free !

freeeeeedom !
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<laugh>I take it back as I have clearly offended real cretins everywhere by comparing them with you.

"Haggis" and "Braveheart"? You missed out "Porridge", "deep fried Mars bars", and Och Aye the noo Jimmy, so i'm going to have to deduct points for unoriginality and mark you down as a slabbering imbecile alongside anyone who reads the Daily Mail.
 
Archers Road said:
Absolutely right. The Liberal government of the time should have intervened, that's what governments are for. But Lord Russell thought private enterprise would solve the problem, and that giving state aid to Ireland in the form of free grain from India would encourage dependence and undermine the free market.
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Well, the extreme form of laissez faire was that the Government wouldn't even let a lot of private charity help, lest it interfere in trade. There was a famous case of the people of Massachusetts sending a ship of grain to Ireland that English authorities placed in storage claiming that dumping free grain would disturb free market prices (which ironically is Government intervention, and not laissez faire at all). They did eventually go for 'market friendly' intervention to set up work houses and soup kitchens, but they made sure that these paid much less than the market. A lot of people ended up starving by burning up more calories building roads to nowhere than they were actually given by the workhouses.
 
stopmeandslapme said:
"It&#8217;s getting like Northern Ireland, with all the hatred and sectarianism. It doesn&#8217;t matter who wins on September 18, it&#8217;s only going to get worse."

The words of an English woman who lives there but what would you know you drug addled mess?
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<laugh>

I think you actually believe this ****e?

If there is such Anti English feeling why were English residents in Scotland given a vote?
 
Archers Road said:
The Jews in the Weimar Republic had a vote. And look what happened to them.
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Along with almost any public figure who attempts to argue the Unionist cause, Murphy has, in recent weeks, been derided as a &#8216;Quisling&#8217;. This ugly term is derived from the name Vidkun Quisling, a Norwegian politician who collaborated with German occupying forces during World War II.
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According to the dailymail you're as bad as the SNP.
 
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