British Conservative politician and, since 2005, he has been the only Conservative Member of Parliament representing a Scottish constituency (Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale) at Westminster.
Posted on 09/18/2014 12:34:01 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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Kids at Yes rally outside Scottish Parliament. Pipes playing. Feels like a vigil #indyref
2:06 PM - 18 Sep 2014
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09/18 14:06 by Donna Edmunds
Back in October last year Russell Brand made waves by urging people to incite revolution by not voting. He admitted in an interview with Jeremy Paxman that he had never voted, and never intended to, but went on to exhort people not to vote, claiming that democracy needed to be swept away. (You can read the full babbling transcript here.)
Has he changed his mind?(continued)
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The whole thing about the Scottish vote is that it is a Emotional Issue not one of Logic.
I don’t think I have seen any concrete plan for an Independent Scotland.
So if they do indeed leave the UK then I predict a very uneasy road for the immediate future.
Scotland is overwhelmingly socialist. There isn’t one tory MP from Scotland. So they will go socialist. The upside is, without the Scottish vote, the Labour Party will have zero chance of winning in England in the foreseeable future. Probably why the English press is against it.
Passion or pocketbook? Which will sway the voters? Who will turnout?
The passion is all one way - independence.
The pocketbook issues have been muddied by competing claims. I could see folks being afraid to change anything that might disrupt their benefits, but the separatists claim that they will lose their universal health coverage if they don’t separate. The oil, the currency, the banks, the sub bases - all have claims on both sides.
I’m on the edge of my seat for this one. I’ll probably stay up till the results are in tonight.
Polls are closed... Buckle up everybody...
British Conservative politician and, since 2005, he has been the only Conservative Member of Parliament representing a Scottish constituency (Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale) at Westminster.
It is, isn’t it.
That’s what I get for believing what I hear on the radio.
No will be ahead but I think closer; 52-48
I think that the smart money and the bookies odds have been running just as you say:
No 52-48
I hope that we hear about exit polling soon.
“Scotland is overwhelmingly socialist. There isn’t one tory MP from Scotland. So they will go socialist. “
So apparently is the United States. We too have gone socialist as a country.
I just heard a comment in the live coverage that turnout was high.
First reports are expected around 7-8 PM on the US East Coast, coming in from the Western Isles of Scotland.
I really don’t know enough to express an opinion, BUT .. my gut instinct is that it has the sense of something that would “feel good” short term, but in 5 years Scots wake up with a hangover, asking “what were we thinking?”
If they vote NO for independace I hate to say Willie response that be going be scary
So a split would probably drive "independent" but socialist Scotland to the EU, and give the then tory-dominant Britain more power against the EU, perhaps enough to win a vote out of it. So is tory Britain behind this, like a trapped animal chewing it's leg off to get away? And does that represent an even deeper dynamic of trapped factions doing what they can to escape a globalist collectivism? And yet, the idea of Britain being conservative seems impossible these days because of what it has become - but is that exactly the results that have been brought about by the Labour/socialists that the tories want to reverse? Whatever the case, this isn't just arising frm Scotland, and it's not as straighforward as it appears.
“There, Mr. Holmes, you take me into regions of high international politics. But if you consider the European situation you will have no difficulty in perceiving the motive. The whole of Europe is an armed camp. There is a double league which makes a fair balance of military power. Great Britain holds the scales. If Britain were driven into war with one confederacy, it would assure the supremacy of the other confederacy, whether they joined in the war or not. Do you follow?” - The Adventure of the Second Stain by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
YouGov poll says 54% no.
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/scottish-independence-blog/live/2014/sep/18/scottish-referendum-results-live-coverage-of-the-independence-vote
I am really looking forward to Groundskeeper Willie’s response to the results.
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