Posted on 09/16/2014 11:28:05 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
... “When a relationship breaks, when one part of your country is trying to get a divorce, it doesn’t work to just say, ‘You’re never going to be able to survive on your own. You’re going to be too poor. You’re going to come running back,’ ” said Rory Stewart, a Parliament member who represents the English side of the border. He helped to lay the first stone in July and has overseen the cairn’s construction ever since. “You have to say, ‘I love you.’ ”
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“You don’t solve your problems by cutting yourself adrift and floating off into the North Sea,” said Benet Allen, a 47-year-old helicopter pilot who grew up on the Scottish side of the border and had his first job at a hotel on the English banks of the Sark. “The secessionists want to keep the pound. They want to keep the queen. They want to keep NATO. That’s not independence. There’s no such thing as independence in the modern world. We’re all tied together.”And yet, his parents and three siblings will all be voting “yes.”
Everybody must get stones.
They’re all headed for rule by the European Union.
Break apart, reassemble the way you want. Rinse, repeat.
Break out the lipstick, time to expand the PIIGS.
You know you’ve lost the argument when all you can say is I love you.
“You have to say, ‘I love you.’ ”The atmosphere in the Scottish independence race has become "soured", according to the leader of the Better Together campaign. Alistair Darling said aspects of the trail were "deeply depressing",
They’re all headed for rule by the European Union.
Would it be D(ivided) Kingdom?
Well, I just learned something.
But you know, I don't see YES winning. Not saying, it couldn't, but if it does, it'll be something.
Yes, I don’t believe they would secede.
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