Scotch Independence - the countdown

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Should Scotland be an Independent Country?

  • Yes

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Tina's Hairless Scrotum said:
The election for choosing a new gov't is in 2016 which gives us the best part of two years to negotiate with rUK and the EU.

Anyway, there's always uncertainties. Who's going to win the general election next year? Will the Tories win an outright majoirity or have to go into coalition again? And with who? UKip? The Ulster Unionists?

The opinion polls up here show a big lead for the SNP in Holyrood voting intentions and I gues it would make sense to stick with them in the event of a Yes vote, for at least one term anyways.
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I don't disagree about the UK election but the question was solely about Scotland mainly as i was thinking about the promise to scrap Trident which is said will bring more than a billion in savings. It's a very attractive proposition but are all the parties that are likely to win an election in favour of that? I'm not actually trying to make any point here - just interested - or bloody nosy depedning on your view point.
 
A vote for either campaign is a vote for less than a 100 per cent of the truth.
 
Dan Starkey said:
I don't disagree about the UK election but the question was solely about Scotland mainly as i was thinking about the promise to scrap Trident which is said will bring more than a billion in savings. It's a very attractive proposition but are all the parties that are likely to win an election in favour of that? I'm not actually trying to make any point here - just interested - or bloody nosy depedning on your view point.
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Well, the SNP have a majority and are in power until 2016 at the least so it's up to them. You could say that voting Yes is giving the Scottish Government the mandate to scrap Trident. The SNP, the Greens and others have put scrapping Trident as part of their reasons to vote Yes so if the people of Scotland decide to go independent then it should go ahead.

The only other party likely to win an election in Scotland in the near future is Scottish Labour and if they decided to keep Trident it would be political suicide.
 
Dan Starkey said:
Serious question ST - as i understand it, and I don't mind being wrong, all your'e being asked to vote on is independence. If that happens you then have to vote in a government. Surely, if that's the case, there is a lot of uncertainty all dependent on who is elected?
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It will be Labour Dan.
 
Tina's Hairless Scrotum said:
Well, the SNP have a majority and are in power until 2016 at the least so it's up to them. You could say that voting Yes is giving the Scottish Government the mandate to scrap Trident. The SNP, the Greens and others have put scrapping Trident as part of their reasons to vote Yes so if the people of Scotland decide to go independent then it should go ahead.

The only other party likely to win an election in Scotland in the near future is Scottish Labour and if they decided to keep Trident it would be political suicide.
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Fair enough - thanks <ok>
 
Tina's Hairless Scrotum said:
Well, the SNP have a majority and are in power until 2016 at the least so it's up to them. You could say that voting Yes is giving the Scottish Government the mandate to scrap Trident. The SNP, the Greens and others have put scrapping Trident as part of their reasons to vote Yes so if the people of Scotland decide to go independent then it should go ahead.

The only other party likely to win an election in Scotland in the near future is Scottish Labour and if they decided to keep Trident it would be political suicide.
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aye but we would still want to hang on to the coat tails of the NATO nuclear umbrella.

horrendous hypocrisy.
 
Ciaran said:
I'd imagine the SNP will have that covered, too many jobs and too massive an issue.
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You'd think...

But I don't think they've given too much consideration to those who will lose their jobs ...unless they want to relocate.
 
pud said:
You'd think...

But I don't think they've given too much consideration to those who will lose their jobs ...unless they want to relocate.
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Where else could they put them though?

Hardly gonna trust the Micks with them in Belfast Lough.
 
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