Posted on 09/14/2014 7:00:23 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
Please, Scotland, leave the UK.
As bad as the politics in the US are, and as crazy as my state of MA is, I have to say I don't think I know anyone who really hates Ronald Reagan. Disagree with his politics? Yeah, my neighbors do. But they don't hate him.
But a lot of folks over there sure hate Thatcher.
Go for it. I’m sure there will be even more welfare and government jobs when Scotland is on its own, and it can’t print any more money for government debt because it doesn’t have the Pound and can’t join the Euro.
Because people will be lining up to buy Leftist government debt in a new Scottish currency, ‘cause they have all that oil, or something.
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Would the UK become more conservative?
Some do, but not all. Its the entrenched elitists and Labour, combined with the leftists at the BBC who scream the loudest
When Reagan died, even vast majority of liberals were respectful and many even praised him.
When Thatcher died, not so much.
Thatcher is no way at the same league as Reagan.
It’s the “Groundskeeper Willie” mindset.
I can't imagine the polling accurately reflects public sentiment.
There are probably a lot of unionists who don't want to be seen in the same camp as Cameron, Clegg and Miliband.
Yes, very certainly so.
British leftist are sick, evil people.
They hate Lady Thatcher but they think it is great that Muslim men gang rape 11 year old Christian girls and force them into prostitution.
The British are typically a macrocosm of the extreme ends of liberal American colleges. I met a professor who absolutely HATED Reagan. She claimed he ‘murdered the gays like the Holocaust’.
When pressed on what the hell this fat b*tch was talking about, I was informed Reagan “did nothing to stop AIDS!”, that the homosexual deviants were of course spreading themselves without Reagan’s help. She was so venomous, her hatred was clear.
This is replicated in the minds of a large contingent of the British when it comes to their finest Prime Minister in anything close to recent memory.
A lot of people have no idea how truly left wing Scotland is. Were it to vote independence, there would be two parties, both of which would be just different degrees of Stalinism.
Electorally, yes. Labour would have no chance of returning to government any time soon. Although not much of a win, since the Conservative Party is also a left wing party. UKIP would stand to really gain however.
I think this is different to Quebec, because if I remember correctly, there was a higher voting age in Quebec. 16 year olds can vote for Scottish Independence, and Salmond intends to fill the booths with young unemployed Scots who want wealth redistribution and watched too much Braveheart.
You have to remember, Reagan didn’t really piss off the majority of American Demnocrats, in fact MANY voted for him.
Different situation in Britain, where Thatcher put the dying coal industry out of its misery, and thus had her time in power marred by harsh conditions for those who had previously worked in the defunct industrial and mining sector. They truly hated Thatcher, voiced themselves through Labour, and the meme has sort of continued as a pop culture thing among left wing youth that Thatcher was a Hitler-esque character.
The unUK would.
‘Hope they all enjoy their islamist paradise.
“How now, sot!”
In that case, Jeremy Clarkson, from “Top Gear” must drive the suits in the BBC stark raving mad.
CC
“The trouble with Scotland... is that it’s full of Scots! Perhaps the time has come to reinstitute an old custom. Grant them prima noctes. First night, when any common girl inhabiting their lands is married, our nobles shall have sexual rights to her on the night of her wedding. If we can’t get them out, we breed them out.”
"It is my Noble right!"
So the Scots are possibly more socialist than the English? Who’ed have thunk it?
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