Oh what a day it's been. Ruined the British Empire's economy and now I need a nap.
Posted on 05/10/2010 9:22:52 AM PDT by SonOfDarkSkies
Yes but Scotland is still part of the Union, and hence is entitled to its democratic representation just as much as any other section of the country. You might equally say that if not for the North East it would have been a rout for the Tories, or if not for the shire counties, it would have been a rout for Labour.
Would you really want to be in charge when the debt crisis hits?
Thats an awful lot of suck :) Perhaps we should rename him Gordon Dyson.
Just sayin’ maybe to the Tories, letting Scotland go independent might not be such a bad idea.
It has been said by some observers that this was a very good election to lose...
You might have a different viewpoint if you live, as I do, on the borders. All the evidence from history is that this island is not big enough for two governments.
Agree with you on the issue of Scottish independence. Scotland drags down the rest of the UK both ideologically and financially. The Scottish Nationalist Party is even further left than Labour. Scotland’s impact on UK politics is very similar to the impact that the province of Quebec has on Canadian politics. The fear of independence leads the other parties to policies of appeasement. If Scotland and Quebec were independent, Britain and Canada would both be better off.
Clegg wants him gone. I know that.
“Letting Scotland go independent?”
I don’t think it is the Tories who oppose it,just that Labour depends much like any liberal party on the a large monolithic Anglo socialist bloc.
Not to mention they could lose quite a few seats if Scotland bounced.
But no the UK is as unlikely to crack down on Scottish Independence as it is to really back the Unionist cause in Northern Ireland.
These areas were never really part of England anyway.Unlike Wales or Cornwall.
They have some agriculture, and some fisheries, and there's always tourism, but that's not going to keep them going. Most of the heavy industry has long gone. The shipyards are dependent on subsidies. They have a very good education system that they won't be able to afford without English subsidies, so that will go downhill. Unemployment will rocket, and in order to pay for it they will have to print money or raise taxes, which will impoverish them even further. Odds on they will blame the English for their celtic paradise going belly up (the alternative would be to take responsibility for their own ineptitude, and of course they will never do that, being guid lil socialists).
The prospect of a paranoid, poverty-stricken, fragmented and riotously unstable nation to the north doesn't fill me with much cheer. Particularly as I live in the borders.
Didn’t they mostly live by cattle-raiding each other before Bonnie Prince Charlie days? Most of my Scottish history comes from romances (Outlander, yay!) & children’s novels (Sally Watson).
Pretty much sums up the American southwest.
So Scotland is Detroit, MI basically; they don’t realize that those they keep voting to put in power, due to the fear of losing their handouts, are the very same people who destroyed their economy in the first place?
lmao
Looks like UK Conservatives manage to get out maneuvered even when they win.....just like here.
But, “It’s Scotland’s oil!”....
Good to “see” you again!
Look up the word “reiver”.
Its where we get the words “bereft” and “bereaved” from.
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