Posted on 08/20/2016 2:59:37 AM PDT by Olog-hai
The head of the Scottish government has reached out to Germany, the European Unions most populous member, as she tries to keep Scotland in the bloc and is arguing that Scotland should be able to remain part of the EU without leaving the United Kingdom.
Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon told German broadcaster ARD that because we are in unprecedented circumstances, we should be prepared to think about unprecedented solutions. And thats the spirit that I will have in any discussions.
The U.K. as a whole which includes England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland voted narrowly to leave the EU in a June 23 referendum, but voters in Scotland voted by a wide margin to remain in the 28-nation bloc.
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Treason to the auld alliance! It better hae b’en France/S
Sturgeon needs to go home and smoke a cigar.
Membership in the EU is not free. They need to understand how much they will be forking over each year to prop up the bloated EU bureaucracy.
I would or I had seen the day
That treason thus could sell us
My auld gray head had lain in clay
Wi’ Bruce and loyal Wallace
But pith and power, till my last hour
I’ll make this declaration
We were bought and sold for English gold
Such a parcel of rogues in a nation
Scotland ...same as ever it ever was. Just a different source for the treasonous rogues.
Sturgeon’s party, the Scottish National Party (SNP), is “social-democratic”, so that ought to tell anyone where she’s coming from, and it is not for Scotland’s good by any means. (The CPSU started as the Social Democratic Labor Party of Russia, for those that have not figured out what “social democrats” or “democratic socialists” really are.)
yes, the Scots have lost their fight to the Euroweenie Culture.
But there are still a few warriors left in the Cuillins
around Glen Brittle.
The full version of Robert Burns epic poem about the Scottish nobility selling their country into English subservience
Fareweel to a’ our Scottish fame,
Fareweel our ancient glory;
Fareweel ev’n to the Scottish name,
Sae fam’d in martial story.
Now Sark rins over Solway sands,
An’ Tweed rins to the ocean,
To mark where England’s province stands-
Such a parcel of rogues in a nation!
What force or guile could not subdue,
Thro’ many warlike ages,
Is wrought now by a coward few,
For hireling traitor’s wages.
The English stell we could disdain,
Secure in valour’s station;
But English gold has been our bane-
Such a parcel of rogues in a nation!
O would, or I had seen the day
That Treason thus could sell us,
My auld grey head had lien in clay,
Wi’ Bruce and loyal Wallace!
But pith and power, till my last hour,
I’ll mak this declaration;
We’re bought and sold for English gold-
Such a parcel of rogues in a nation!
This time they’ll sell out for Merkel gold.
Membership in the EU is not free, and IIRC Scotland had been getting a big share of the handouts.
When reached for comment, Angela Merkel was said to reply, “Badeeee baaa burr badop baroooo...”
Scotland didn’t have the balls to leave Britain in 2014 - by a double-digit margin too - and they don’t now.
“Ye canna mix mater and antimatter cold”
Montgomery Scott
Scotland needs the welfare $$$.
They don’t have too many Muslims—YET!
Sturgeon wants to stay in the EU while continuing to receive all the benefits, financial, of being in the UK.
They are too dependant the on other people’s money to survive on their own and they should have learned their lesson with the failed independence vote.
No ! What is the song about the Scotsman who passed out drunk on the side of the road, the young girls who found him and tied a blue bow around his winkie. I think John Denver sang it best.
Now that is a Scottish classic.
I believe an effort to convince everyone of the good fortune of the past two or three decades....all lead back to the EU. But you could go and look at increased tourism to Scotland, and fairly significant commerce situation....and realize that what jobs came....was more due to capitalism working right than the EU regulations.
We want our independence to be dependent on a large state!
It’s not a mater of “balls” but rather self-interest. Scotland is heavily subsidized by the rest of the UK, and a substantial number of its voting population realized that it would suffer economically as an independent nation.
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