Support for Scottish Independence down to 31% from 39%

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Aberdeen will eventually declare itself independent of Scotland and **** off with what's left of the oil.

And then the rest of Scotland will be left with 30,000 wind turbines just blowin' in the wind.
 
So with the US and UK willing to go to war for oil, the UK are going to let control of North Sea oil and gas go because a few Scots want to govern themselves?

Righto.
 
RebelBhoy said:
I am rather surprised that you think Salmond is advocating that a portion of Scotland be annexed to England. Of course Scotland would struggle if all the major towns on the Clyde stayed under England.

Perhaps in 90 years you can blame the Scotch for making a **** of it.
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An interesting point. I wonder whether there would have been a ship-building industry in Ireland had we British not colonised it.
 
stopmeandslapme said:
Unlike the oirish, the scotch are not parasites.

You are only interested in the scotch leaving the union because you hope the break up of the UK will help to bring about a united oirland and subsequent ethnic cleansing of protestants,
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I have no desire to ethnic cleanse my wife, or my brother-in-law, or my two nieces and one nephew, or my mother-in-law (ok maybe my mother-in-law...) - I've got into this before, I believe smaller states work better and I believe in competition between states - if the government of England decides that it wants to tax you higher to fund its latest military excursion into a place full of brown people you can say '**** this England, I'm hoping next door to Scotland' - or vice versa. Small states within a lightly governed EU framework protect the freedom of the citizen, the consumer of states, to take their business elsewhere and they force governments into providing value for money. At the moment why would you choose Glasgow over London when in London there are more jobs, higher wages, less crime and the same taxes and legal jurisdiction as in Glasgow?
 
"The Continental Shelf Act 1964 and the Continental Shelf (Jurisdiction) Order 1968 defines the UK North Sea maritime area to the north of latitude 55 degrees north as being under the jurisdiction of Scots law[6] meaning that 90% of the UK's oil resources were under Scottish jurisdiction."

Sneaky bastard labour and lib dems pinched 1,000's of square miles by moving the Scottish maritime border from berwick to carnoustie.
 
stopmeandslapme said:
I love how you whine about being oppressed, you're minted and you're only 26.
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I didn't say I was oppressed and I don't feel that I was oppressed (there is another [boring] story about my Grandfather's forced exit from the ship yard at the start of the Troubles, despite being highly qualified in ship architecture, which is a bit of a bitter family sore point). Anyway I had the random good luck to be born with EU citizenship which allows me to shun a state I don't like in favour of one which treats me well, no oppression here.

Oh and I'm not loaded, I'm mortgaged up to my eyeballs and I'm filled with the same self doubt and anxiety about the future as everyone else, worried that one day they are going to figure out how much of a blagger I am - I'll end up back working in KFC, houses repossessed, wife left me, kids hate me - pretty much like ER.
 
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