Fair enough.
I wouldn't grudge them it. Not as sure as the MP's they'd win it though.
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Fair enough.
I wouldn't grudge them it. Not as sure as the MP's they'd win it though.
This morning on Irish radio some Professor from Glasgow was saying the bigger the turnout the better chance for the YES vote ie if the ****s get out of bed they'll vote YES.
Probably Tom Devine.
He kicked f** out of Ruth Dudley Edwards on the radio the other morning. Treated her s**te talk with utter disdain.
That was some speech from Salmond there, fair play to him. Hard to follow that Nicola sturgeon.
But the question is why on earth would they want independence? At least Scotland retains just about a critical population mass in order to be a successful small nation. What on earth would the isles do? Scotland at least has a system of governance, infrastructure etc. to carry on as you were.
Lets see if its treated with the same, lump in your throat, gushing praise G Brown's speech received earlier from some of the British journalistic institutions
Well they'd certainly need to upgrade the hospital. I can tell you that much. If you're in a proper bad way you'll be flown to Aberdeen.
The only infrastructure Shetland has in abundance is oil and gas production.
Not sure if him but we are getting very excited down here,think it was on Newstalk but RTE had lads/lassies on as well
The Northern Isles wouldn't be independent though, they'd be a Crown Dependency like the Isle of Man, or have a similar status to the Faroe Isles within the Danish Kingdom. The United Kingdom would retain the Northern Isles if the hypothetical situation occurred. If Scotland voted Yes, and the Northern Isles voted 60% or more in favour of No, they would have a referendum on their sovereignty.
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/GettingInvolved/Petitions/islandgroups
PE01516: Referenda for Orkney, Shetland and the Western Isles
Date Lodged: 29 April 2014
Calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to hold three separate referenda in Shetland, Orkney, and the Western Isles on Thursday 25 September 2014, one week after the Scottish independence referendum, asking the people of each island group whether they would prefer their island group to:
· to become an independent country, or
· to stay in Scotland
and, in the event of a yes vote in the referendum on Scottish independence, to have the following additional option:
· to leave Scotland and stay in the remainder of the UK
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was that after he was torn a new one by Jackie Bird for ****s sake
jog on.
I don't know, I never heard what Jackie Bird said to him.
I do know that he beat the **** out of Ruth Dudley Edwards. I usually find it quite unedifying for someone to treat their opponent with such contempt.... In a proper debate anyway. But she is a ****, so I don't care.