Scottish Referendum

tim_wand

Now we have plundered Scotland of every useful resource it had (North Sea Oil) is it not only fair they have a vote which enables them to stop being a liability to the English tax payer anymore. (Besides surely we havent got anymore Royals who want a free University Education).

lemoncurd

It's a good idea - as long as it doesn't adversely affect the supply and price of Walkers shortbread.



And Laphroaig.

daviesee

GiantMike

tim wand wrote:

Now we have plundered Scotland of every useful resource it had (North Sea Oil) is it not only fair they have a vote which enables them to stop being a liability to the English tax payer anymore. (Besides surely we havent got anymore Royals who want a free University Education).

Er, I refer you to the following Scottish cashcows that should see the Scots through the next Ice Age and beyond:

Tunnocks
Tartan, bagpipes, haggis etc
Top-level International football
Scotch/Whiskey/Whisky
Andrew Neal's ongoing hair transplants
Wind
Scotty dogs for old ladies

I rest my case.

plowmar

Mind knowing who's against it _ Cameron, Clegg and Miliband _ then I'm all for it and if I could (££££), I'd move straight away.

verylonglegs

Do they get royalties for those little zip up tartan slippers and tartan shopping trolleys that become compulsory when you reach 70? That market must be worth millions...

Team4Luke

are they going to fund themselves

tim_wand

Aye theres the rub? at what point does indepedence mean financial indepedence? or will they just join the long list of "foreign countries" that we send "ring fenced" foreign aid to.

This includes Brazil who have now taken over from us as the sixth largest national economy demoting us to seventh, but we still send them aid money?

Apparently Scotland intends to align itself with the Scandinavian none euro zone economies, such as Norway, Denmark and Iceland. Humm? Iceland now theres a success story.

Bozman

It should have happened a few years back but then who would've bailed out the Scottish banks? Scotland could've joined a little club with Iceland and Ireland.

rc856

GiantMike wrote:

tim wand wrote:

Now we have plundered Scotland of every useful resource it had (North Sea Oil) is it not only fair they have a vote which enables them to stop being a liability to the English tax payer anymore. (Besides surely we havent got anymore Royals who want a free University Education).

Er, I refer you to the following Scottish cashcows that should see the Scots through the next Ice Age and beyond:

Tunnocks
Tartan, bagpipes, haggis etc
Top-level International football
Scotch/Whiskey/Whisky
Andrew Neal's ongoing hair transplants
Wind
Scotty dogs for old ladies

I rest my case.

Excuse me, but you're forgetting

Irn Bru
sectarianism
knife crime
deep fried Mars Bars
knife crime



on a serious note.....I personally don't know anyone who wants independence.
It's pure pi$h by the way!!

BigG67

It's worth our English members realising that an independant Scotland and the proposed reallocation of seats for Wales will amlost certainly result in a majority for the Conservative party at Westminster for the forseable future.

Might be a good thing; just saying...

tim_wand

Shit!!!!! Long Term conservative majority, suppose it figures , not too many Torys in Scotland and Wales
bet Cameroon gives this one his full backing.

Maybe the Home Counties and Cheshire should get independence too just to balance things up.

daviesee

tim wand wrote:

shoot!!!!! Long Term conservative majority, suppose it figures , not too many Torys in Scotland and Wales
bet Cameroon gives this one his full backing.

Maybe the Home Counties and Cheshire should get independence too just to balance things up.

That's a good reason to ponder as to why he is so strongly trying to keep Scotland within the Union.
Just show's that it is a complex issue.

LeicesterLad

GiantMike wrote:

tim wand wrote:

Now we have plundered Scotland of every useful resource it had (North Sea Oil) is it not only fair they have a vote which enables them to stop being a liability to the English tax payer anymore. (Besides surely we havent got anymore Royals who want a free University Education).

Er, I refer you to the following Scottish cashcows that should see the Scots through the next Ice Age and beyond:

Tunnocks
Tartan, bagpipes, haggis etc
Top-level International footballScotch/Whiskey/Whisky
Andrew Neal's ongoing hair transplants
Wind
Scotty dogs for old ladies

I rest my case.

You must be confused?

Redhog14

GiantMike wrote:

tim wand wrote:

Now we have plundered Scotland of every useful resource it had (North Sea Oil) is it not only fair they have a vote which enables them to stop being a liability to the English tax payer anymore. (Besides surely we havent got anymore Royals who want a free University Education).

Er, I refer you to the following Scottish cashcows that should see the Scots through the next Ice Age and beyond:

Tunnocks
Tartan, bagpipes, haggis etc
Top-level International football
Scotch/Whiskey/Whisky
Andrew Neal's ongoing hair transplants
Wind
Scotty dogs for old ladies

I rest my case.

GM I used think you knew what you were talking about...

you forgot to mention Rain, next time England suffers a drought...

Frank the tank

I'm looking forward to addressing the haggis at a Burns night a week on Sat'day, kitted out in me kilt and all the regailier.

Fair fill your honest jolly face
Great chieftain of the pudding race

Team4Luke

Wales next up then

Wirral_paul

Would it mean me having to carry my passport and funny money when i do LEJOG??

Crapaud

Frank the tank wrote:

... Fair fill your honest jolly face
Great chieftain of the pudding race

I heard on the radio the other week of a Burns Supper in Germany which had the address to the haggis translated into German then back into English for the english speakers.

'Great chieftain of the pudding race' came back as 'mighty fuhrer of the sausage people'.

BigG67

daviesee wrote:

tim wand wrote:

shoot!!!!! Long Term conservative majority, suppose it figures , not too many Torys in Scotland and Wales
bet Cameroon gives this one his full backing.

Maybe the Home Counties and Cheshire should get independence too just to balance things up.

That's a good reason to ponder as to why he is so strongly trying to keep Scotland within the Union.
Just show's that it is a complex issue.

There is a theory (continued by the MIGHT Daily Mash) that he's currently trying to piss of the Scots by "interfering with the process" just so we "rise like a nation again". Oh God I do worry for us at times

Frank the tank

Crapaud wrote:

Frank the tank wrote:

... Fair fill your honest jolly face
Great chieftain of the pudding race

I heard on the radio the other week of a Burns Supper in Germany which had the address to the haggis translated into German then back into English for the english speakers.

'Great chieftain of the pudding race' came back as 'mighty fuhrer of the sausage people'.

Can't help but think it loses a certain something in the translation.

Crapaud

Indeed. But it gains something too. I'm still laughing at it weeks later.

uneasyonwheels

Scots are subsidy junkies and cost the English taxpayer millions of pound every year to keep them in the style to which they think they are entitled. Why then when independence is mooted is there an outcry that this will mean ruination for the UK taxpayer? Could it be (perish the thought) that they have in fact been milking the Scottish economy all this time and pretending that the Scots are costing money rather than in fact subsidising England? How could anyone believe a politician could be so dishonest?