Scottish Referendum / Independence - Vol 6

[rs1952]

blindswelledrat said:

By any chance are you a bitter scotch pensioner?

No. I'm an English curmudgeon, but thanks for looking at the profile

But would it make any difference?

[blindswelledrat]

rs1952 said:

blindswelledrat said:

By any chance are you a bitter scotch pensioner?

No. I'm an English curmudgeon, but thanks for looking at the profile

But would it make any difference?

I wished I'd looked at it first.
It's a bitter blow to be accused of useless bleating by a person that writes entire books about a train track or a specific cycle route. You should combine the sales of those and buy yourself a happy meal to cheer yourself up .
I don't mind shouting you the extra 70p

[mcdjl]

I'm in Germany this week on a training course. Amongst the normal chat one topic seems to come up. So far is been called "stupidity", "nonsense" and "foolishness" (that I can remember). I won't spoil the suspense by telling you what it is.

[rs1952]

blindswelledrat said:

rs1952 said:

blindswelledrat said:

By any chance are you a bitter scotch pensioner?

No. I'm an English curmudgeon, but thanks for looking at the profile

But would it make any difference?

I wished I'd looked at it first.
It's a bitter blow to be accused of useless bleating by a person that writes entire books about a train track or a specific cycle route. You should combine the sales of those and buy yourself a happy meal to cheer yourself up .
I don't mind shouting you the extra 70p

Can you make that a couple of quid - just to be on the safe side

[Chunkymonkey71]

mcdjl said:

I'm in Germany this week on a training course. Amongst the normal chat one topic seems to come up. So far is been called "stupidity", "nonsense" and "foolishness" (that I can remember). I won't spoil the suspense by telling you what it is.

Invading Poland?

[anonymous-user]

Chunkymonkey71 said:

mcdjl said:

I'm in Germany this week on a training course. Amongst the normal chat one topic seems to come up. So far is been called "stupidity", "nonsense" and "foolishness" (that I can remember). I won't spoil the suspense by telling you what it is.

Invading Poland?

Obviously.

Madness to do that before Czechoslovakia has been sorted out.

[Troubleatmill]

Alex Salmond has lost the plot
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-pol...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2765333/Al...
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/09/22/scottis...

Edited by Troubleatmill on Monday 22 September 21:42

[Langweilig]

I agree with the comment, "What part of the word "NO" do you not understand?"

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/scotland-in...

Edited by Langweilig on Monday 22 September 22:09

[simoid]

RandomTask said:

simoid said:

I think Scotland is a worse place to live because of the SNP, the referendum, et al. I feel we need a leader to bring us all together again - something to remind us we're all Scots standing under the saltire.

I definitely don't think this. The SNP have lead a very credible Government, with far higher approval ratings than the Westminster leaders.

Never in my lifetime have I experience so many people politically engaged to try and change the country for the better. The No vote won, but there are many people saying, ok what can we do now to make Scotland a better place to live?

But they've spent so much time and energy and money on splitting our country which always looked to be against the majority's wishes. How much better could our country be if all that went into the referendum had been utilised positively for society?

The no vote won, but equally there are many people who don't accept this and still want to split up the UK and the SNP still legitimises this belief and aim even though it's likely to be the detriment of Scotland.

And that's before we get to the loss of investment (past and future). And whatever else.

SNP are a popular government and have been good at spending money to please people, but they're in danger of having scarred a generation with their fundamental policy and incitement of the noisy minority.

[sherbertdip]

Langweilig said:

I agree with the comment, "What part of the word "NO" do you not understand?"

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/scotland-in...

Edited by Langweilig on Monday 22 September 22:09

I foresee Mr Salmond having an unfortunate "accident" sometime in the near future!

[Wombat3]

simoid said:

RandomTask said:

simoid said:

I think Scotland is a worse place to live because of the SNP, the referendum, et al. I feel we need a leader to bring us all together again - something to remind us we're all Scots standing under the saltire.

I definitely don't think this. The SNP have lead a very credible Government, with far higher approval ratings than the Westminster leaders.

Never in my lifetime have I experience so many people politically engaged to try and change the country for the better. The No vote won, but there are many people saying, ok what can we do now to make Scotland a better place to live?

But they've spent so much time and energy and money on splitting our country which always looked to be against the majority's wishes. How much better could our country be if all that went into the referendum had been utilised positively for society?

The no vote won, but equally there are many people who don't accept this and still want to split up the UK and the SNP still legitimises this belief and aim even though it's likely to be the detriment of Scotland.

And that's before we get to the loss of investment (past and future). And whatever else.

SNP are a popular government and have been good at spending money to please people, but they're in danger of having scarred a generation with their fundamental policy and incitement of the noisy minority.

Though it is high time someone at the top end of the Government told them to get back in their box, It will not happen for good reason - all we would see in response is a victim card the size of Pertshire being erected along the border.

[Welshbeef]

Troubleatmill said:

Alex Salmond has lost the plot
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-pol...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2765333/Al...
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/09/22/scottis...

Edited by Troubleatmill on Monday 22 September 21:42

What an utter tool - didn't he promise countless times to accept the outcome of the vote and regardless of the outcome eliminate all divides in the country.

2x fails already.



Cannot the Scottish people declare a vote of no confidence in the SNP as it is not representing the Sovereign will of the Scottish people instead after 2 years and counting still ignoring the key issues the people of Scotland want resolved.



Shame on you Salmond - have some dignity. You were given respect after you resigned sadly its quickly getting to the point that those nice comments be retracted.

[johnnyBv8]

RandomTask said:

Never in my lifetime have I experience so many people politically engaged to try and change the country for the better. The No vote won, but there are many people saying, ok what can we do now to make Scotland a better place to live?

The problem is that I don't think many people are being that constructive - most of the yes campaign are (on social media at least) being massively negative 'victims' that have been cheated etc etc.....sadly very few are wondering what they can do to make it a better place to live, and for many I'm not sure the resentment will give way to the necessary forward-looking approach.

[RandomTask]

Welshbeef said:

Cannot the Scottish people declare a vote of no confidence in the SNP as it is not representing the Sovereign will of the Scottish people instead after 2 years and counting still ignoring the key issues the people of Scotland want resolved.

The SNP were polled at 49% after the referendum, their nearest opponents Labour on 31%. They've also recently become the 3rd largest party in the UK (in terms of members)

[///ajd]

RandomTask said:

Welshbeef said:

Cannot the Scottish people declare a vote of no confidence in the SNP as it is not representing the Sovereign will of the Scottish people instead after 2 years and counting still ignoring the key issues the people of Scotland want resolved.

The SNP were polled at 49% after the referendum, their nearest opponents Labour on 31%. They've also recently become the 3rd largest party in the UK (in terms of members)

Is that true? How sad. Do you have a link?

The best thing for Scotland in the union for the future is for Scots to cast the SNP in the bin. I fear any more sustained talk of separatism will really start to put off investment north of the border.

[Langweilig]

RandomTask said:

Welshbeef said:

Cannot the Scottish people declare a vote of no confidence in the SNP as it is not representing the Sovereign will of the Scottish people instead after 2 years and counting still ignoring the key issues the people of Scotland want resolved.

The SNP were polled at 49% after the referendum, their nearest opponents Labour on 31%. They've also recently become the 3rd largest party in the UK (in terms of members)

Come the next general election, isn't it fair to say that the SNP will lose a lot unless AS can be persuaded to shut up and back off?

[simoid]

Langweilig said:

Alex, what part of the word "NO" do you not understand?

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/scotland-in...

When you've got professors of international law calling you "bonkers" in public print, it's probably time to retire.

Oh good, he has.

Retiring means fking off into retirement, but it assume Salmond will want to have his retirement cake and eat it by throwing the regular grenade or three into the political arena.

[RandomTask]

///ajd said:

Is that true? How sad. Do you have a link?

The best thing for Scotland in the union for the future is for Scots to cast the SNP in the bin. I fear any more sustained talk of separatism will really start to put off investment north of the border.

Poll (small sample, but the only one that exists post referendum). About a 3rd of the way down.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Parliament_g...

Members:
http://news.stv.tv/scotland-decides/news/293040-th...

[eharding]

simoid said:

Langweilig said:

Alex, what part of the word "NO" do you not understand?

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/scotland-in...

When you've got professors of international law calling you "bonkers" in public print, it's probably time to retire.

Oh good, he has.

Retiring means fking off into retirement, but it assume Salmond will want to have his retirement cake and eat it by throwing the regular grenade or three into the political arena.

Relax. Salmond and general SNP post-referendum public random spaffing are akin to the twitching of a chicken when you either snap the neck or detach the head completely.

Deep, primordial responses from an embedded nervous system that can't accept that the prime instinct for survival is no longer viable - there may be fragments of a deep reptile cortex memory that can make the headless corpse scuffle around for a minute or so, but in the end we all know the outcome.

[Wombat3]

eharding said:

Relax. Salmond and general SNP post-referendum public random spaffing are akin to the twitching of a chicken when you either snap the neck or detach the head completely.

Deep, primordial responses from an embedded nervous system that can't accept that the prime instinct for survival is no longer viable - there may be fragments of a deep reptile cortex memory that can make the headless corpse scuffle around for a minute or so, but in the end we all know the outcome.

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