Posted on 10/14/2016 2:52:04 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has announced that she will be publishing a draft bill for a second referendum vote, just two years after the country voted not to seek independence from the UK.
"I can confirm today that the independence referendum bill will be published for consultation next week," she said.
"I am determined that Scotland will have the ability to reconsider the question of independence, and to do so before the UK leaves the EU."
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I’m sorry but as I was reading the First Minister’s comments, I was doing it in a faux Scottish accent.
I’m tired. I need to leave work now and go home.
I love how palpably butthurt you are over the Brexit vote.
LOL. EU wouldn’t want Scotland. All a bluff.
Don’t we all mentally read it with a Scottish accent?
Hhhhhmmmm. The plan by the SNP is no more than “let’s pray oil goes back up to a decent price or our 2nd referendum is screwed”. There is virtually no chance of an independent Scotland unless oil nears $90 per barrel. If Scotland bottled the chance of independence at $90 a barrel in 2014 then no way it goes independent at $43 per barrel.
You are a damn totalitarian EU shill.
Scotland gets far more from England than it gives back. So, an independent Scotland wouldn’t have those one-way payments and would have some oil, tourism, fish and scotch. And that’s about it unless they can get some new arrival welfare payments from the EU.
The EU already made clear that they don’t want Scotland or Northern Ireland because neither region would contribute to the EU. Currently both regions take in huge amounts of subsidies and they fear losing their fat welfare checks so they want to be in the EU if the UK leaves.
They’re also making the mistake of estimating that England and Wales need to hang on to Scotland and Northern Ireland. They don’t.
If the Protestants in Northern Ireland want to join the EU then the UK can retaliate by negotiating the reunification of Ireland and telling all those secessionist Protestants that they’re going to be a minority in Catholic Ireland.
With the Scots the payback will come when the English cut them off from the Pound and when the Royal Navy and the rest of the UK forces pull their equipment, personnel (and payroll), and bases back into England.
Then once the Scots get their socialist paradise in place the Brits will need to do some fixing on Hadrian’s Wall to keep out all of the inevitable refugees who’ll be fleeing the new Venezuela in search of a British welfare payment.
Silly Scots. Nobody wants you.
I think this is mostly a case of the nutty SNP pols wanting attention.
“would have some oil, tourism, fish and scotch”
your forgot peat and Haggis ...
Voting for Independence into the EU. Typical leftist Orwellian oxymoronic sloganized speech of totalitarian and traitor Bull sht
I hear Northern Ireland is the only place where Brits are allowed to have firearms. They will need it if it goes to EU
I am sure palpable and butt mix easy for you.
Except you don’t like people voting while I was never against such.
“Hhhhhmmmm. The plan by the SNP is no more than “let’s pray oil goes back up to a decent price or our 2nd referendum is screwed”. There is virtually no chance of an independent Scotland unless oil nears $90 per barrel. If Scotland bottled the chance of independence at $90 a barrel in 2014 then no way it goes independent at $43 per barrel.”
What informs your that Independence hinges on the price of crude oil?
Not quite. Over 6m guns legally owned by private citizens in the rest of the UK.
Crude oil was the determining factor in GERS (Government Expenditure and Revenue Scotland) figures showing that Scotland contributed a higher than average amount per head to the UK Treasury (gross, as the net result still showed a higher than UK average deficit). With the collapse in the price of oil, Scotland’s contribution is also lower per head than the UK average, making the deficit gap even more yawning and undeniable.
The SNP are banking on the same gullible cretins who believed the incredible lies of the SNP on Scotland’s economic position voting the same way, reinforced this time by a sufficient amount of butthurt EUrophile remainers who voted ‘No’ last time. Only problem is, over a third of SNP members apparently voted ‘leave’, and many of them hate the EU more than they hate the UK and have openly stated they will vote ‘no’ next time if leaving the UK means getting back into the EU.
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