Posted on 02/26/2017 5:10:22 PM PST by Helicondelta
From the Sunday Times:
Nicola Sturgeon and Theresa May are heading for a showdown over who has the right to call another independence referendum and when it should be held.
As the prime minister prepares to head north to speak at the Scottish Conservative conference this week, it has emerged that the SNP government raised the issue of a second referendum at a private meeting with her administration on Wednesday.
The first minister looks set to call a vote by the Scottish parliament — following next month’s SNP conference and triggering of article 50 — to strengthen her mandate to stage a second referendum. At her party conference, Sturgeon is expected to call for Holyrood to have the right to call a referendum.
While there has been no official statement from UK officials in this late hour on Sunday, the prospect of even more politcal chaos, not to mention the sudden possibility of Scotland declaring independence has sent cable into a tailspin, with sterling plunging 70 pips in thin trade, sliding below 1.24 on the news.
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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?
This isn’t William Wallace’s Scotland.
What does Great Britain need with another socialist welfare state?
Some oil and a history of hating England.
I was surprised at the vote. Was there a few weeks before the vote and pretty much all the yards signs were to leave.
Bottom line, they can’t afford their welfare state without England.
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?
Very little, if anything.
Scotland has become a socialist nanny state, full of slackers and gubmint leeches. If they leave the UK, they'll likely fall into bankruptcy in no time flat.
Independence is a long held, romantic idea for the Scots, but leaving now, would be practically suicidal for them.
I hate to say that, as my family's ancient roots are there.
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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Can Scotland lay claim to the oil deposits in the North Sea?
I'm pretty sure that England would nearly go to war to keep them.
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.
I think Gaelexit rolls off the tongue a bit easier.
Scotexit works, too.
It’s our fault. All the fierce and independent warriors moved to America. What is left is just sad.
Seconded.
I too have Scottish ancestors.
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
Aye, my good FRiend.
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.
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