Scotch Independence - the countdown

some amount of beel in the comments under that article

 

I've been beelin' a lot recently with all this carry on. Was pleased to see a few 'No Thanks' placards in my neighbours windows this morning though. Might get some of my own

(More Yes ones though )

 

scotchpsiched, motherwell, United Kingdom, 5 hours ago
Hard-pressed English taxpayers today see Scottish families enjoying free tuition in higher education (worth £9,000 a year), widespread exemptions from prescription charges and state-funded care for the elderly, and wonder why they don¿t get the same benefits,......COS YOU VOTED TORY

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Aldo's been on the Mail website then

 

Well written article that.

Hits the nail on the head. All salmond has done is create animosity. Lovely.

You will all be pleased to know I won't be online today as am at a charity golf tournament.

 

It's coming, Trev...

The Unionist's ****ed it.

And with the 3 stooges coming up today, they are compounding it. Salmond will lap this **** up.

 

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...d-over-postindependence-currency-9720131.html

 

That's not a correct comparison.

Scotland is not Spain.
Spain has a smaller debt to GDP ratio than the UK
Spain's interest is set by the ECB, which has to find a one size Fitz Hall for 18 Eurozone countries.

 

^beelin

 

I read that today as well, the boys clearly a beelin' spastic of a human. The comments are crackin'!

 

Scotland has boomed under the Union, Scots have thrived in the land of opportunity that is England, and much of the North Sea’s oil was extracted only because of English investment.

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"If they're coming up by train, I'll pay the fare." - he's still a ****, but that was actually quite funny from the fat divisive arse.

 

"If they're coming up by train, I'll pay the fare." - he's still a ****, but that was actually quite funny from the fat divisive arse.

 

The fat slug is already acting as if he's president.

 

If it does happen, I hope we have an In/Out referendum on EU membership.

Fuck the EU and its stagflation!!

 

Of all the bad arguments urging the Scots to vote no – and there are plenty – perhaps the worst is the demand that Scotland should remain in the union to save England from itself. Responses to my column last week suggest this wretched apron-strings argument has some traction among people who claim to belong to the left.

Consider what it entails: it asks a nation of 5.3 million to forgo independence to exempt a nation of 54 million from having to fight its own battles. In return for this self-denial, the five million must remain yoked to the dismal politics of cowardice and triangulation that cause the problems from which we ask them to save us.

http://www.theguardian.com/commenti...d-most-dangerous-thing-of-all-hope?CMP=twt_gu

 

Presumably you would get one as one of the first things your leaders will do is seek to join the EU and they wouldn't do that without seeking the consent of the people. Would they?

 

Larry, Curly & Moe rocking up to Scotland. Pure desperation.

 

I don't want to be in the EU, but like Norway and Switzerland, it hasn't cost them anything to be outside the EU and in the EEA (Euro Economic Area), indeed, they're doing better than anyone in the EU by all accounts, bar maybe Poland.

You need to ask yourself, "what difference will Scotland make to the EU, and what difference will the EU make to Scotland?"

I'd say the answer is negligible. They'd impose some of their European Civil Law on us, which has proved to be particularly unpopular in light of the fact we and many English speaking states use common law. We'd be a small voice in a Federalist EU, which makes the decision to split with Nige, to make more decisions in Scotland, to eventually be gobbled up by the EU superstate, all the more perplexing.

If the EU harmonise everything and make it easier for business, then we can adopt those measures if it's in the national interest. It doesn't mean that look inwards and inbreed, it means we get best of both worlds.

What I find hilariously ironic is that the UK should be broken up and 300 years of history and achievement, but we should in turn surrender all sovereignty almost immediately to the EU.

As already shown, Norway and Switzerland are both outwith the EU and in the EEA and both are doing pretty well.