Totally bored with their whining, & sense of grievance & entitlement. Please feel free to go off and build your socialist utopia - just don't come running back to your big brother when the oil runs out.
Weren't your parents Inglish Billy? You can take the boy out of Ingland but not the Inglish out of the boy
Love Scotland. Love the history, the culture, the identity and the national pride. I love England more, though, and if the Jocks want out, they should go now. All ties cut, no hand-outs, no residuals. Any Scottish jobseeker, prisoner, and beggar living in England should be moved on forthwith, and vice versa. It won't happen, though. Our government are belly-tickling oafs and Cameron has the bollocks of a eunuch. Either way, Scotland wins.
But it's not them wanting out. The fact people such as FHB and my family can't vote shows the manipulation.
I presume your families are based in England, SuperC. If so, why should they have the vote? I'm not saying they shouldn't, but I'm interested to hear the reasoning behind such an argument.
The thing is PEA, Inglish students at St Andrews can vote but a Scoch living in England, Wales, Norn Ireland can't..... of the 11 Scots who started the last international against Germany a few weeks back only 1 was entitled to vote today? yet an 18 year old Inglish student from the west midlands gets a vote?
Am I right in thinking (genuine question, not to sound patronising), ex- pats get to vote in general elections?
If the vote is YES and Salmonland is not allowed into the EU will the Inglish have to pay for the rebuilding of Hadrian's Wall or will this be shared with Mr Salmon? Will Ingland have to station troops on the wall to prevent the Scotch coming down south to sell the Big Issue?
Reminds me of the old joke from the 80s.....performed in a bad mock Scottish accent... "What is the most common Scottish phrase heard in London?" Answer -"Can you spare some change for a cup of tea"
Yes, but if you go back another Generation you find Austrian and Italian grandparents. I'm a Heinz 57, but a Scottish Heinz 57.
i'd vote no, if i was a scot - purely for financial reasons. if they leave, they'll probably legally have to take a quater of the national debt with them and what with them not making much money i cant see how they would pay it off other than higher taxes. i read somewhere that they would say "get lost" if they left, to their portion of the debt. that wouldnt work - if england quickly said "we're leaving the UK" it wouldnt exempt us from taking debt with us. i think the yes voters are those people who just hate england for the sake of it, and those who dont know any better.
Although shorter and constructed from earth, the Antonine Wall actually post dates Hadrian's Wall and should therefore be used as the new boundary, thus preventing disruption to one of our greatest monuments. Plus we can keep anything below Falkirk! Ex-pats can vote in UK elections, both local and national, but only if they have been eligible to vote inside the UK within the previous fifteen years. Anything over this time, and their rights to have a say are rescinded. I can understand why some people are annoyed that students and suchlike are allowed the vote, whereas actual Scottish people living away from their homeland are not, yet where do you draw the line on who is affected and who is not? In my opinion, this decision should have fallen to the entire UK plebiscite.
My middle name is Heinz. My paternal great-grandfather was German, but my family line on both sides can be traced back to the Jutes and Angles who 'visited' Wessex. I am an Anglo-Jute Saxon.
Alex Salmond reminds me in some ways of the late great Ally McLeod. Ally managed to convince us all that Scotland would win the World Cup in 1978, so much so that the squad did a lap of honour BEFORE leaving for Argentina, and stamps were printing showing "Scotland-World Cup Winners 1978". Teams like Argentina, Brazil and Holland were only there to make up the numbers. In the same way he brushes aside as "scaremongering" and "Doom and Gloom"(where have I heard that?) perfectly valid reasons that independance would be the worst possible thing to happen. Ally Mac may sound mad looking back, but I did 2 jobs for a year to pay to go and see Scotland's historic victory!
I always thought IS stood for Independent Scotland. Now I know otherwise, I'm not so keen on bombing them.
