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PostPosted: Mon Feb 17, 2014 8:05 pm 
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The sound of Scotland sleepwalking over the precipice?

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PostPosted: Mon Feb 17, 2014 8:06 pm 
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Talking of Ego Nidge, your promoting UKIP :lol:

A monetary union, EU membership, Plan A :wink: Trust me Nidge there's a popular Plan B it's just we feel we have Westminster right where we want them,Plan A is the prefered option, it's obvious, just read the Facts :D

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PostPosted: Mon Feb 17, 2014 8:30 pm 
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The sound of Scotland sleepwalking over the precipice?


Naw, that was Alistair Darling when he was chancellor during the banking crisis :lol:

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PostPosted: Mon Feb 17, 2014 8:40 pm 
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Political ideology, would you agree with me that the Majority of Scots and possibly English, you never know, don't share the ideology of Westminster, take the test, see if you have the same ideology as the Conservatives,or even Labour, then ask yourself why the Hell if I was Scottish would I ever vote for a political party I don't identify with, I came out Liberal, I'm happy with that :D so what is your PI, great test please share your result :wink:
Nidge2 I'm putting fictional money on you not being right wing :lol:

http://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/sto ... ology-test

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PostPosted: Mon Feb 17, 2014 8:56 pm 
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And next week they will threaten job losses, and the week after it will be that you have no defence system.......it will be veiled threats on threats basically to frighten people.........


We've been getting a steady stream of this kind of doom laiden pish for the past couple of years.
Expect it to ramp up in the next few months. They have nothing else.

They're panicking now as they see the polls narrowing and are waking up to the consequences of a Scottish exit from the UK

http://wingsoverscotland.com/turn-and-river/

http://wingsoverscotland.com/problems-s ... -you-wait/

http://derekbateman1.wordpress.com/2014 ... -bastards/



You are spot on. They are panicking. For the life of me, I can't work out why, but I think you are right. We must be a lot to lose. :?

Skull I much prefer when you don't agree it makes for better reading, are you going soft in yer auld age?


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PostPosted: Mon Feb 17, 2014 9:22 pm 
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Skull I much prefer when you don't agree it makes for better reading, are you going soft in yer auld age?


Nah it's just a tactic to lull my dissenters into a false sense of security before I rip them a new one. :wink:

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PostPosted: Mon Feb 17, 2014 9:47 pm 
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Political ideology, would you agree with me that the Majority of Scots and possibly English, you never know, don't share the ideology of Westminster, take the test, see if you have the same ideology as the Conservatives,or even Labour, then ask yourself why the Hell if I was Scottish would I ever vote for a political party I don't identify with, I came out Liberal, I'm happy with that :D so what is your PI, great test please share your result :wink:
Nidge2 I'm putting fictional money on you not being right wing :lol:

http://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/sto ... ology-test


I took your test Dougie:

Your Result
Left-Wing
You are more devoted to human needs than a liberal. You believe the free-market is not the most important aspect of our economic system. You believe most wars are a result of imperialism and thus should and can be eliminated. You believe in government regulation of markets and other economic instruments to benefit the people. You believe in a more graduated income tax, and stronger social welfare programs to provide things you regard as basic fundamental rights. These might include: Housing, Health Care, Employment, Education, and access to sufficient nourishment.

You believe in immigrant rights and encourage multiculturalism. You feel the government has no place regulating expression, speech, religious beliefs, reproductive rights, and assembly (including political affiliation). You believe in participatory democracy.

They got the Religion bit wrong. It should be banned. Religion is for lunatics.


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PostPosted: Mon Feb 17, 2014 10:15 pm 
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Talking of Ego Nidge, your promoting UKIP :lol:

A monetary union, EU membership, Plan A :wink: Trust me Nidge there's a popular Plan B it's just we feel we have Westminster right where we want them,Plan A is the prefered option, it's obvious, just read the Facts :D



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PostPosted: Mon Feb 17, 2014 10:58 pm 
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Political ideology, would you agree with me that the Majority of Scots and possibly English, you never know, don't share the ideology of Westminster, take the test, see if you have the same ideology as the Conservatives,or even Labour, then ask yourself why the Hell if I was Scottish would I ever vote for a political party I don't identify with, I came out Liberal, I'm happy with that :D so what is your PI, great test please share your result :wink:
Nidge2 I'm putting fictional money on you not being right wing :lol:

http://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/sto ... ology-test


I took your test Dougie:

Your Result
Left-Wing
You are more devoted to human needs than a liberal. You believe the free-market is not the most important aspect of our economic system. You believe most wars are a result of imperialism and thus should and can be eliminated. You believe in government regulation of markets and other economic instruments to benefit the people. You believe in a more graduated income tax, and stronger social welfare programs to provide things you regard as basic fundamental rights. These might include: Housing, Health Care, Employment, Education, and access to sufficient nourishment.

You believe in immigrant rights and encourage multiculturalism. You feel the government has no place regulating expression, speech, religious beliefs, reproductive rights, and assembly (including political affiliation). You believe in participatory democracy.

They got the Religion bit wrong. It should be banned. Religion is for lunatics.


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I chose this test because it was straight forward, I consider myself as social democrat but happy with the fact I'm not Tory or New Labour, I seek a political system, that uses Capitalism for the common good, sort of centre ground of Old Labour and New Labour, it was a good test to find my PI, still learning though :D


Nidge2 take the Test, you fearing though of not knowing what your all about :lol:

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Scottish independence: Currency union block could hurt firms, says Alex Salmond

Blocking an independent Scotland's ability to share the pound could damage business in the rest of the UK, First Minister Alex Salmond has said.

Mr Salmond said the UK Treasury could impose "hundreds of millions of pounds" in costs on firms if plans for a post-Yes currency union were rejected.

Last week Chancellor George Osborne said a vote for independence meant walking away from the pound.

Prime Minister David Cameron said Mr Salmond was "a man without a plan".

The row came ahead of the 18 September independence referendum, in which voters in Scotland will be asked the Yes/No question: "Should Scotland be an independent country?"

Mr Salmond hit back at Mr Osborne during a speech in Aberdeen, as he published Scottish government analysis which said that a separate Scottish currency under independence could mean £500m in transaction costs for the rest of the UK.

He said the bill would be incurred by industry and customers wanting to import and export from an independent Scotland.

The first minister said Mr Osborne had downplayed the disadvantages to the rest of the UK from a sterling zone.

"He said you don't need to be in a currency union to trade with other countries. No you don't. But it can impose a cost - a big cost," he said.

"I am publishing today an estimate of the transactions cost he would potentially impose on businesses in the rest of the UK.

"They run to many hundreds of millions of pounds."

Mr Salmond added: "My submission is that this charge - let us call it the George tax - would be impossible to sell to English business.

"In fact if you remove oil and gas from the equation, Scotland is one of the very few countries in the world with which England has a balance of trade surplus."

Mr Osborne's position that he could not support the Scottish government's currency union plan was backed by the other two main Westminster parties, Labour and the Liberal Democrats.

Mr Salmond said "attempts to dictate from on high" the terms of the debate were damaging the democratic process.

He said Mr Osborne's position was not an economic assessment, but a "campaign tactic", adding that the "accumulated negativity" of the campaign to keep the Union, would "differ greatly from the reality of life" after the referendum.

The Scottish first minister said: "To be told that we have no rights to assets jointly built up is as insulting as it is demeaning.

"To be told there are things we can't do will certainly elicit a Scottish response that is as resolute as it is uncomfortable to the 'No' campaign.

"It is, 'yes we can'. It is a sign of just how out of touch and arrogant the Westminster establishment has become."

In response, Mr Cameron said the first minister had not delivered on his promise of a detailed response to the arguments put forward by Mr Osborne.

"Alex Salmond is now a man without a plan," said the Prime Minister.

"He told us he wanted to have a currency union and that now looks under threat.

"He's told us that he wanted Scotland as part of the European Union - that is under threat."

Mr Cameron added: "And he's making, I think, quite an empty and rather angry speech today - but he hasn't got a plan and I think people will see he hasn't got a plan."

Mr Salmond's speech also came after European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso cast doubt on Scotland's membership of the European Union in the event of a "Yes" vote.

Mr Barroso said it would be "extremely difficult, if not impossible" for an independent Scotland to join and that it would have to apply for membership and get the approval of all current member states.

But the first minister said the EU had admitted so many countries that a "pragmatic way" would be found in the case of Scotland.

Mr Salmond said no member state had suggested it would seek to block an independent Scotland from becoming an EU member.

Analysis

Douglas Fraser

Business and economy editor, Scotland

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You may agree with the Scottish government that it's bluff, and there will be goodwill and co-operation once negotiations get under way.

Having digested it, and Alex Salmond's response this morning, my reckoning, for what it's worth: that would be a brave thing to do.

It's your judgement as to whether it's bullying or ill-judged in tone.

But I got the sense these Treasury officials meant what they wrote.



Analysis

Brian Taylor

Political editor, Scotland

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Alex Salmond's demeanour in his Aberdeen speech was intriguing.

He was addressing business supporters. His audience like independence. Yet, from the first minister, zero in the zone of rhetoric, no Nationalist bombast whatsoever.

Why? Because, of course, his true audience lay well beyond the Aberdeen hotel - where, incidentally, Mr Salmond launched his campaign for re-election as party leader; an initiative that led us, albeit circuitously, to today's referendum.

Mr Salmond knows well that the faithful will vote 'Yes' in the referendum, regardless of George Osborne's comments upon the currency.

They yearn for independence, they cleave to it. Indeed, if anything, their zeal may be reinforced by the latest controversy.

However, to win this referendum, the first minister knows he has to convince the sceptical, the fretful, the anxious, the uncertain, the disquieted.

Those who gaze upon the independence project and mutter: "Aye, but . . ."


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-s ... s-26220638

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Of course with the exchange rate being in our favour with the pound being much stronger than whatever the Scots want to call their currency, we will be quids in. :mrgreen:

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PostPosted: Tue Feb 18, 2014 11:38 am 
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Of course with the exchange rate being in our favour with the pound being much stronger than whatever the Scots want to call their currency, we will be quids in. :mrgreen:


What do you base that bit of wishful thinking on?

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Of course with the exchange rate being in our favour with the pound being much stronger than whatever the Scots want to call their currency, we will be quids in. :mrgreen:


What do you base that bit of wishful thinking on?

The fact that the revenue from the North Sea oil fields is English and not Scottish. The seabed where the oil rigs are situated is English and not Scottish. Some of the oil may be coming ashore in Scotland at the moment but it wouldn't take long to build a new pipeline into northern England and cut the lot off. That would just leave you with whisky to export and we can do without that if we need to.

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Grandad we love you :D but your out of touch on this one, the boundary is governed under international law, Tony Blair re-drew the boundary line in his time in office but an independent Scotland could claim the line be put back to its original under international law, also there is a huge amount of oil on the west coast ready to be drilled, the Oil belongs in Scottish water :wink:

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