Is the Union in danger?
In among all of the Brown/Blair etc stuff in the Sunday Times (print only) today there was a rather worrying opinion poll showing that support for Scottish independence has doubled, with 44% in favour and 42% against. Whatever issues I might have with the Barnett Formula etc, I do not want to see Scotland split away from the Union and would be greatly saddened at the prospect of having to wave a passport when crossing the border.
Some years back when there was a referendum on indepence for Quebec, Canadian unionists mounted a campaign to telephone Quebeckers and ask them (in French, presumably) to vote no and to stress that the callers wished Canada to remain a bilcultural society. I found that really quite moving - see, I do have mushy sentimental tendencies. Perhaps something similar could be considered if Salmond's lot get in and call a referendum.
In the meantime, I am still irate about the asymetric constitutional settlement foisted on us by Blair and co, and feel that this would not be an issue if there had been a properly thought out constitutional settlement that gave England at least as great a degree of control over its own affairs as has been granted to our Hibernian, Caledonian and Cambrian neighbours.
In among all of the Brown/Blair etc stuff in the Sunday Times (print only) today there was a rather worrying opinion poll showing that support for Scottish independence has doubled, with 44% in favour and 42% against. Whatever issues I might have with the Barnett Formula etc, I do not want to see Scotland split away from the Union and would be greatly saddened at the prospect of having to wave a passport when crossing the border.
Some years back when there was a referendum on indepence for Quebec, Canadian unionists mounted a campaign to telephone Quebeckers and ask them (in French, presumably) to vote no and to stress that the callers wished Canada to remain a bilcultural society. I found that really quite moving - see, I do have mushy sentimental tendencies. Perhaps something similar could be considered if Salmond's lot get in and call a referendum.
In the meantime, I am still irate about the asymetric constitutional settlement foisted on us by Blair and co, and feel that this would not be an issue if there had been a properly thought out constitutional settlement that gave England at least as great a degree of control over its own affairs as has been granted to our Hibernian, Caledonian and Cambrian neighbours.
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I'm sorry William,but for my money,the whinging bastards can fuck off.Yellow card me ,whatever!I am sick and tired of subsidising their country's high spending govt.Go there and see how much they hate us.I lived in Glasgow for three years and that's why I'm a firm Scots Nationalist.
They were a separate country before 1707 and they should eb again.
Rigger - if I wanted people to post only if they agreed with me, it would be hideously dull for all concerned.
it was the swearing C,I know you believe in freedom of speech,but the insult just rolls off the tongue.
Heat of the moment, dude - that's how you typed it, you weren't being gratuitous.
William it isn't so much that we want them to be independent, it is more, as rigger rightly points out, a matter of us wishing they would just fuck off and just on with furring up their arteries, play toy town marxist politics and find their own cash rather than nicking huge chunks of ours.
Tartan twats!
These Salmond people do not speak for the vast majority of Scots. It's always a few who are the noisiest and make the most trouble for everyone else. My relatives are Scottish and every last one of them votes Tory.
Rather than having a Parliament for England - one more bloody layer on an already over-governed country - let's just dismantle the dog's breakfast Blair created. Shut down the Scottish and Welsh assemblies. They won't be missed and the real estate must have appreciated by now. Proceeds from the sale of the monstrous Scottish Parliament building can be returned to the Exchequer.
This is the wrong. The creation of these monstrosities (with the purpose of breaking up Great Britain). Let us right the wrong. Not create another wrong.
If the Scottish Tories got their act together it might help. Are they still a part of the proper Conservatives?
Are the English Tories still part of the proper Conservatives?
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