Nicola Sturgeon
England’s better off if they go.
That’s a typical liberal maneuver. Keep on calling for re-rolls of the dice until you get the roll you want.
What does Scotland have or produce that makes them think they are better off without GB?
Independence would require their own currency. QUICK: does anyone remember what their currency was called before the pound? Like in 1603.
Ok.take your time and google it.
I vote for the revival of the gold UNICORN.
Can they find a virgin to pose for it? Perhap, Ms Sturgeon?
To think that Scotland used to hold such a fierce and independent people!
And now it's just another European welfare state, its identity totally subsumed in socialist dogma and the entitlement mentality.
The European Mind has become a pathetic, submissive mass of Marxist mush; it's hard to believe that most Americans arose from the same genetic stock.
Maybe it's genetic: the bold individualists tended to be the ones who migrated to the New World, and the more passive elements, who wanted nothing more than to be taken care of by the nanny-state, tended to remain behind.
The Socialists and Globalists (but I repeat myself) are constantly decrying the fact that America can't "be more like Europe"; they seek to push the United States back "into the fold".
No thanks; I'd rather drown in a river of blood...
Scotlexit?
One suspects that it will eventually happen; and, that as separate countries (and allies), they will get along quite well.
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As an American who proudly has many Scots among his ancestors, it pains me to say that England would be better off without what has become of Scotland and many of the Scots.
It’s our fault. All the fierce and independent warriors moved to America. What is left is just sad.
The amazing thing is how few people there are in Scotland. Brexit vote results by region are at http://www.bbc.com/news/politics/eu_referendum/results
Just checked the GBPUSD forex chart, and the drop is just back to where it has been a couple times already in February. Its no brexit kind of drop, just a penny and a half or so.
Seems to be driven by Brexit.
Scotland not in favor of leaving the EU, but will be taken out with Britain when Britain goes unless Scotland splits.
Sturgeon is bluffing, she is not going to call another referendum.
As Brexit showed you should never call a referendum the result of which you are not sure of in advance and a second “No” vote would kill the idea of Scottish independence for two generations.
The Scots people certainly voted against Brexit but that does not make them keen on swapping the partner they have been with for nigh on 400 years for a mixed bag of nations that might not even exist as a coherent unit in 10 years time.
If Sturgeon were to call a referendum she would have to get a whole heap of ducks in a line first, Scotland’s debt/GDP ratio would preclude it from euro membership, there would be no guarantee that the Spanish, who are very nervous about regional independence movements, would not veto Scotland’s membership of the EU.
A hard border with England would be a logistical and economic nightmare for Scotland, meanwhile as she negotiates these elements the EU descends info further chaos and the sky does not fall in on post-Brexit Britain.
There is no doubt a lot of anger and hurt national self-consciousness among the Scots as they realise that their population of 5 million people means that they are largely an irrelevance when it comes to deciding the fate of the remaining 65 million people in the UK but these are the facts of life.
The UK is leaving the EU and for all their huffing and puffing the Scots and Northern Irish are going with them.
Europe can’t get different kinds of white people to like each other but they want to turn their countries into third world havens.
Here it is in a nutshell.
Scotland has some oil, produces some timber, some ag products like barley and sheep and cattle. Thats about it.
The highlands do not like the English and the Lowlands would most likely break away and stay with England.
It all stems back to the 45 when they stomped the Scots. That was all well, but the dam English then went on a killing spree to end all. That and the Highland clearances really is the reason for this.
Like the Irish, the Scots NEVER forget. They are the most unruly bunch and now, they are extreme socialists for the most part-depends on the region of course.
Scots would be wise to sit back and watch the French Elections before voting to stick with the EU.
first of all,
I think the GB Pound is headed down, whatever.
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if Scotland leaves,
politics in London become
a lot more manageable for the Conservatives.
I would think it would make it go up.
