English folk - do you want Scotland to separate from the UK?
English folk - do you want Scotland to separate from the UK?

Poll: English folk - do you want Scotland to separate from the UK?

Total Members Polled: 314

Yes: 66%
No: 34%
Author
Discussion

ViperPict

Original Poster:

10,087 posts

268 months

Tuesday 1st November 2011
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To follow on from the 'Independence' thread, just a simple question...

Corsair7

20,911 posts

278 months

Tuesday 1st November 2011
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Yes. This whole 'we will veto a clock change' stance has pissed me right off.

Even the Russians have now imposed permanent summer time.


Sonic

4,008 posts

238 months

Tuesday 1st November 2011
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If the scots want to separate, then so be it! That's their call, and i wouldn't want to deny them the choice.

Personally i'd rather we all stayed together as the UK.

tomw2000

2,508 posts

226 months

Tuesday 1st November 2011
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Yes. But Scotchland can't afford it smile

ViperPict

Original Poster:

10,087 posts

268 months

Tuesday 1st November 2011
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Don't overthink it in terms of the whys and why nots (that's all in other thread, ad infintum!), just whether you'd prefer Scottish indpendence or not...

thinfourth2

32,414 posts

235 months

Tuesday 1st November 2011
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A don't care option would be good

Also a "Scotland is why england is so st" option would be good for the deluded

EDLT

15,421 posts

237 months

Tuesday 1st November 2011
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Can we have an "I don't care, this will never happen anyway" option?

ViperPict

Original Poster:

10,087 posts

268 months

Tuesday 1st November 2011
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thinfourth2 said:
A don't care option would be good

Also a "Scotland is why england is so st" option would be good for the deluded
I'm trying to keep it simple. Remember, it's seen as cheating if there's a third half-way house option... wink

chimster

1,747 posts

240 months

Tuesday 1st November 2011
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No

Einion Yrth

19,575 posts

275 months

Tuesday 1st November 2011
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ViperPict said:
thinfourth2 said:
A don't care option would be good

Also a "Scotland is why england is so st" option would be good for the deluded
I'm trying to keep it simple. Remember, it's seen as cheating if there's a third half-way house option... wink
But I don't care and thus cannot vote. I however would join in any available veto on the permanent summertime bks.

0a

24,159 posts

225 months

Tuesday 1st November 2011
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Please, go. It's like a foreign country full of negative people that I have to pay many thousands towards each year to keep them grumpy. I like Scottish people 1 on 1, I get bored when it comes to nationalists. I'd give them the oil, and require full tax/spend accounting separation. Massive boost to the English accounts.

Far from the oil rich land, Scotland may find alcoholism and benefit dependency defines an independent Scotland. frown

Edited by 0a on Tuesday 1st November 14:56

KrazyIvan

4,341 posts

206 months

Tuesday 1st November 2011
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Yes if for no other reason then it would shut you up......hehe

eybic

9,212 posts

205 months

Tuesday 1st November 2011
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I voted yes for the fact if they think life will be sooooo rosy without our help then jog on and enjoy it. It would have to be totally seperate though so no financial backing from England at all.

BatleyBoy

2,036 posts

252 months

Tuesday 1st November 2011
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If it means we get rid of that smug tt Alex Salmond from our TV screens, then it gets a big yes from me.

Cheer. BB.

shirt

25,520 posts

232 months

Tuesday 1st November 2011
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eybic said:
I voted yes for the fact if they think life will be sooooo rosy without our help then jog on and enjoy it. It would have to be totally seperate though so no financial backing from England at all.
this would be most amusing, with taxes in scotland rising daily as the welfare system drains the coffers dry. ultimately they'd want to rejoin the uk and all the exercise would achieve is to throw money down the drain.

i don't see why the mainland needs to be seperated from each other [ireland is a different issue given how violent the argument can get]. we waste so much money trying devolve and i don't think either of the three "countries" [speech marks for wales' benefit wink] could really go in totally alone.

DonkeyApple

70,642 posts

200 months

Tuesday 1st November 2011
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We need to retain Scotland because if we do not then within a relatively short period of time we will be bailing it out as it will be run like Greece.

HappySilver

330 posts

195 months

Tuesday 1st November 2011
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Yes - but as long as the national debt at the time of the split is shared between Scotland and the remainder of the UK. I suspect the SNP plan to go and leave the debt behind....

ViperPict

Original Poster:

10,087 posts

268 months

Tuesday 1st November 2011
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Corsair7 said:
Yes. This whole 'we will veto a clock change' stance has pissed me right off.

Even the Russians have now imposed permanent summer time.
To be honest, this doesn't bother me that much. I don't lose much sleep over it, so to speak. wink

andy_s

19,857 posts

290 months

Tuesday 1st November 2011
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I'm an Englishman in Scotland, will I be an illegal alien? My wife is Scottish descent but born in Bedford (I like to remind her), will there be a 'citizenship' test involving speaking Jockenese and mars bars?
It's all to complicated for me, give it all back to the major landowners I say, the Lairds, they are sort of English but do like a spot of Haggis.

Johnnytheboy

24,499 posts

217 months

Tuesday 1st November 2011
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andy_s said:
I'm an Englishman in Scotland, will I be an illegal alien? My wife is Scottish descent but born in Bedford (I like to remind her), will there be a 'citizenship' test involving speaking Jockenese and mars bars?
It's all to complicated for me, give it all back to the major landowners I say, the Lairds, they are sort of English but do like a spot of Haggis.
I've always thought the untangling/allocation of nationalities will be fun.