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1 posted on 09/19/2014 1:13:03 AM PDT by Fenhalls555
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Federalism is the future of the UK.

Three regions already have elected Parliaments or legislatures and England will probably get one also very soon.

The UK will no longer be a unitary state and London will no longer run every thing. This is good for the country and for its democracy.

The people of Scotland voted for greater powers within a federal UK.


2 posted on 09/19/2014 1:16:00 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Fenhalls555

This is good.


3 posted on 09/19/2014 1:36:58 AM PDT by odds
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The Scots currently get much more tax money and double(!) the MPs per capita than the English.

I dearly wanted them to vote Yes.

Rats.


15 posted on 09/19/2014 2:37:15 AM PDT by agere_contra (Hamas has dug miles of tunnels - but no bomb-shelters.)
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Reshuffle of the deck, to renege on devomax.
21 posted on 09/19/2014 3:06:51 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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It becomes obvious that Crimea had every right to a vote for independence and must be recognized by the world.


22 posted on 09/19/2014 3:32:49 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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Being a Texan, the results are a bummer.


27 posted on 09/19/2014 4:19:06 AM PDT by BobL (Don't forget - Today's Russians learn math WITHOUT calculators.)
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To: Fenhalls555

Sooner or later, it’s going to happen.


31 posted on 09/19/2014 5:22:41 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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A federalist approach for the UK would indeed be beneficial. The promises of additional autonomy Cameron extended to the Scots should apply to Wales as well.


32 posted on 09/19/2014 5:45:36 AM PDT by ScottinVA (If it doesn't include border security, it isn't "reform." It's called "amnesty.")
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To: Clintonfatigued; BillyBoy; fieldmarshaldj; AuH2ORepublican; GeronL; goldstategop; Perdogg; ...
55-45 no.

That's exactly what I thought the results would be before recent polls showed it tightening, yesterday I was expecting "no" to win a squeaker. Cameron celebrates a decision that saves him from going down as the PM that lost Scotland, but also decreases his chances of reelection.

I guess Idi Amin won't go down as the last King of Scotland (provided that the Queen is not in fact immortal, able to die only if Sean Connery cuts off her head).


33 posted on 09/19/2014 6:02:27 AM PDT by Impy (Think for yourself)
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To: Fenhalls555; 1rudeboy; SunkenCiv

35 posted on 09/19/2014 6:16:43 AM PDT by AdmSmith (GCTGATATGTCTATGATTACTCAT)
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"So, just as Scotland will vote separately in the Scottish Parliament on their issues of tax, spending and welfare so too England, as well as Wales and Northern Ireland, should be able to vote on these issues and all this must take place in tandem with, and at the same pace as, the settlement for Scotland."

So they finally wised up, 239 years later?

38 posted on 09/19/2014 6:47:11 AM PDT by NonValueAdded ("Kerry, as Obama's plenipotentiary, is a paradox - the physical presence of a geopolitical absence")
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To: Fenhalls555
CNN nails it!


40 posted on 09/19/2014 8:02:43 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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I think it was the Queens press release the day before that changed their minds:

“The trouble with Scotland... is that it’s full of Scots! Perhaps the time has come to reinstitute an old custom. Grant the nobles 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!"


44 posted on 09/19/2014 9:06:40 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Hitlery: Incarnation of evil.)
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To: Fenhalls555

Who knows what the true result was as there is evidence that many yes votes were placed into the no pile thus counted as no votes... it’s all quite counter logic.


57 posted on 09/20/2014 12:33:12 AM PDT by Republican1795.
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