Posted on 06/24/2016 7:53:23 AM PDT by Helicondelta
Scotland's government began moves Friday to hold a new referendum on independence from the U.K. after the "Brexit" vote, saying it faced being taken out of the European Union against its will.
Scots voted by 62 percent to 38 percent to remain in the EU, according to Friday's results, in contrast to the overall U.K.-wide result of 52 percent to 48 percent in favor of quitting the bloc.
A majority of voters in Northern Ireland also voted to remain in the EU, suggesting the U.K. faces internal constitutional upheaval as well as a contentious divorce from Brussels.
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If they leave they will probably take their oil reserves in the north sea with them.
France will probably offer them a lot of money as well. Won’t be the first time they’ve done it.
Been over there many times and they DO NOT LIKE the English.
Scotland will NOT survive outside of the UK. Way to many goods travel back and forth from the south to the north there.
But, if that is what they want, let them go and find out the hard way. They think that if they are independent and rejoin the EU they will be soveriegn. HA!
Send forth the Duke of York to smite these deadbeat Scots.
Then look you to the coast against the EU orcs.
I don’t think so. They don’t have the means to stand alone right now, even with the outrageous prices of single malt these days.
Not to mention an independent Scotland would be an economic basket case, with politics falling somewhere between Venezuela and Cuba on the left-right continuum.
Let them vote.
To think my Scottish ancestors stole many a castle, took hills, rivers and mountains and named them...
Braveheart now = bwavehaht = fart
Yep. Parasites who contribute nothing except for producing extreme libtards.
Let them go, seal the border and let the EU pay for their asses.
They join the EU and they will become Scotlandistan.
To observe the joy unconfined that greets each fresh tumble in oil prices is to be present at the birth of a new parlour game. Let’s call it Banana Republic, in which the contestants vie with each other to predict the economy of which country Scotland’s would most have resembled if she had gained her independence. Amid braying and snorting and shouts of “Central African Republic” and “Malawi” the winner would be the chap who could name the most colourful-sounding poor nation that existed in his imagination. And then someone would say: “Would the last person to leave the country please turn out the light. Oscar Wilde said that.”
NB: This from the Guardian, and you know how they think.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jan/16/scotland-oil-price-slump-snp-forecasts-critics
It won’t last. Brothers and sisters are natural enemies. Like Englishmen and Scots! Or Welshmen and Scots! Or Japanese and Scots! Or Scots and other Scots! Damn Scots! They ruined Scotland!
They ought to build a wall...oh wait...
The UK is down 2.26%
Germany is down 6.16%
France is down 5.09%
Euronext is down 4.20%
I think I’d be staying in the UK
Yeah, Scottish independence is dead. Scotland in EU = Hard border with England, EU refugees, ruled by Berlin, etc. No brainer. Not going to happen. SNP will use the threat to negotiate, IMO. That’s it.
Pssst...hey, England. Let ‘em go. You’ll be glad you did.
THIS-—>They’ll vote to remain with ANYONE who will pay their bills for them.
Economically, a united Ireland would be a drain on the Republic. Right now, the U.K. is spending more per northerner than on the residents of England. The Republic of Ireland doesn’t have the resources to keep up those kinds of payments. U.K. Naval installations in Northern Ireland would have to be decommissioned. Unification is a very, very big knot.
They already are. You should see the slums of Glasgow and several other places over there.
Last time I was over there the “Adabses”, as they call them, held a huge protest. The Socts couldnt beleieve what they were seeing.
AH’s are A’s and A’s are AH’s over there. So Tom...is Tam. Home, is Hame...etc. When they said Adab(Adawb), I thought, what the hell they talking aboot? Then It came to me when they talked about the portest.
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