Scottish Referendum / Independence - Vol 5
Discussion
Another day and another collection of anti-Scottish posts from little Englanders...
Anyhoo, article in today's Metro claiming poll shows 41% Yes / 48% No / 11% Don't Know. Remove the DNS and it's Yes 46% / No 54%. Getting tighter...
Also says 200K Scots will emigrate post-No and 700K will emigrate post-Yes.
Anyhoo, article in today's Metro claiming poll shows 41% Yes / 48% No / 11% Don't Know. Remove the DNS and it's Yes 46% / No 54%. Getting tighter...
Also says 200K Scots will emigrate post-No and 700K will emigrate post-Yes.
d.simoid said:
fair shout!Post independence, however, Scots will eat fewer haggis suppers and we will therefore live longer. If you believe that being in a union with England, Wales, and Northern Ireland means our average age expectancy is diminished.
Edinburger said:
Another day and another collection of anti-Scottish posts from little Englanders...
Anyhoo, article in today's Metro claiming poll shows 41% Yes / 48% No / 11% Don't Know. Remove the DNS and it's Yes 46% / No 54%. Getting tighter...
Also says 200K Scots will emigrate post-No and 700K will emigrate post-Yes.
No it's not, it's been 54/46 for ages.Anyhoo, article in today's Metro claiming poll shows 41% Yes / 48% No / 11% Don't Know. Remove the DNS and it's Yes 46% / No 54%. Getting tighter...
Also says 200K Scots will emigrate post-No and 700K will emigrate post-Yes.
What's more telling is that seventeen percent of the adult population would be so unhappy with a Yes vote that they would leave the country (and who can blame them?). That's a massive chunk of working population just walking out the door.
Yes is killing Scotland, the damage isn't over yet.
Edinburger said:
simoid said:
fair shout!Post independence, however, Scots will eat fewer haggis suppers and we will therefore live longer. If you believe that being in a union with England, Wales, and Northern Ireland means our average age expectancy is diminished.
Edinburger said:
Also says 200K Scots will emigrate post-No and 700K will emigrate post-Yes.
And what does that tell you?Post Yes, 700k will leave, probably all paying tax too.
Thats probably £5-10Bn in tax revenue lost to Scotland. Or in other words perhaps even more than double all the oil revenues.
The 200k leaving if there is a No are presumably all Yes voting anti-English Nats hell bent on burning union jacks. I guess they won't go to England, so will probably head to, err, Norway?
So it seems a No is a big win/win here based on your emigration forecasts!
Funk said:
Yes is killing Scotland, the damage isn't over yet.
As a frequent visitor to Scotland and one who generally likes the Scots and has Scottish ancestry, my greatest concern is that the bile spouted by knuckledraggers on both sides of the debate will have done near irreparable damage to cross Tweed relations whatever the outcome of the referendum.Funk said:
No it's not, it's been 54/46 for ages.
What's more telling is that seventeen percent of the adult population would be so unhappy with a Yes vote that they would leave the country (and who can blame them?). That's a massive chunk of working population just walking out the door.
Yes is killing Scotland, the damage isn't over yet.
Well 17% of 1,041 people. I struggle to agree with the extrapolated figure personally. What's more telling is that seventeen percent of the adult population would be so unhappy with a Yes vote that they would leave the country (and who can blame them?). That's a massive chunk of working population just walking out the door.
Yes is killing Scotland, the damage isn't over yet.
Edinburger said:
simoid said:
I was posting with tongue firmly in cheek. My apologies, I thought that was fairly obviously not a serious line of conversation.
I know!!Edinburger said:
Another day and another collection of anti-Scottish posts from little Englanders...
Oh dear - really?There are plenty of posts that could be considered anti-nationalist - and a few containing a bit of cultural banter........but you must have a very skewed view of things is you consider any of today's posts as anti-Scottish (unless of course you equate anti-nationalist with anti-Scottish).
Einion Yrth said:
As a frequent visitor to Scotland and one who generally likes the Scots and has Scottish ancestry, my greatest concern is that the bile spouted by knuckledraggers on both sides of the debate will have done near irreparable damage to cross Tweed relations whatever the outcome of the referendum.
I'd second that, as a native. Edinburger said:
Well 17% of 1,041 people. I struggle to agree with the extrapolated figure personally.
But you're quite happy to agree with the extrapolated figure for the yes/no poll, and conclude that the polls are "getting tighter".Nice logic you've got there - is it perhaps that you don't wish to believe the consequences of one of the extrapolations?
Moonhawk said:
Oh dear - really?
There are plenty of posts that could be considered anti-nationalist - and a few containing a bit of cultural banter........but you must have a very skewed view of things is you consider any of today's posts as anto-Scottish (unless of course you equate anti-nationalist with anti-Scottish)
Hang on a sec, so it's banter when it suits you lot?! But when I talk of banter I get inundated with tales of people being gang raped and burnt at the cross if they order English Tea at Starbucks with yells of hatred and racism?!?!?!There are plenty of posts that could be considered anti-nationalist - and a few containing a bit of cultural banter........but you must have a very skewed view of things is you consider any of today's posts as anto-Scottish (unless of course you equate anti-nationalist with anti-Scottish)
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