An Independent Scotland?

dinners said:
No but I've got an England top on :)

That's the thing with a small community - everybody knows everybody's business and once we've all voted people just carry on regardless and accept each other for who they are.

Yes - there will be banter but folk get on.
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It's just as well they Cannae read yer posts on here;)
 
Bobsyeruncle said:
We can take a joke. It's not as if we win much:eek: Apart from the referendum, hopefully.
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The Guy's I've met from North of the boarder all have had a great sense of humour :thumbs:
 
dejongj said:
Ahem the electorate hold the power. If the electorate keep on voting for the same thing then so be it. A major blow and move towards socialism? Hmm not sure who is screwing who here ;)
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That's almost laughable. I am one of the electorate, never missed an election local or national but I most definitely do not feel empowered. Regardless of election outcomes the old saying 'same $h!t different day' is very apt. Will it be different if Scotland vote yes, i can only hope.

I'm afraid the socialism comment went straight over my head, sorry.
 
jakeblu said:
That's almost laughable. I am one of the electorate, never missed an election local or national but I most definitely do not feel empowered. Regardless of election outcomes the old saying 'same $h!t different day' is very apt. Will it be different if Scotland vote yes, i can only hope.

I'm afraid the socialism comment went straight over my head, sorry.
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Others vote differently to you. It happens. The majority wins. It's fair.
 
jakeblu said:
That's almost laughable. I am one of the electorate, never missed an election local or national but I most definitely do not feel empowered. Regardless of election outcomes the old saying 'same $h!t different day' is very apt. Will it be different if Scotland vote yes, i can only hope.

I'm afraid the socialism comment went straight over my head, sorry.
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It'll probably be different day, different s*** :LOL:
 
ST4 said:
Others vote differently to you. It happens. The majority wins. It's fair.
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Fair yes.

Whether the majority 'win' - that's less about tonight and more about the next 18 months or so and beyond. Regardless of the result.
 
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jakeblu said:
That's almost laughable. I am one of the electorate, never missed an election local or national but I most definitely do not feel empowered. Regardless of election outcomes the old saying 'same $h!t different day' is very apt. Will it be different if Scotland vote yes, i can only hope.

I'm afraid the socialism comment went straight over my head, sorry.
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Ever thought that perhaps your ideas are then in the minority ;) so you don't know what yes stands for then?
 
dejongj said:
Ever thought that perhaps your ideas are then in the minority ;) so you don't know what yes stands for then?
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Do you think the majority of people in this country voted for and support this Tory government and its policies. Or, to be even handed, the last Labour Government. The power is with the politicans and those who back them, it most certainly is not with the electorate. Many of them are waking up to this fact and are simply not voting. If things do not change it will only be a matter of time before the majority do not vote at all. Not unlike that other 'great democracy' on the other side of the Atlantic where the last time more than 60% of electorate voted in an presidential election was in 1968!
 
What would happen to the Stone of Destiny?
 
Think of all the money the reflective jacket makers will make, all those new yellow jackets with porridge speak words on the back. And all those translation book makers who will have to print 7 million books so the Scots can work out who the hell the yellow jacket clad people are?
 
How much has the referendum cost anyway ? Have Scotland and English tax payers paid for it - I have no idea !
 
Blank_Canvas said:
My son is 17, English but lives in Scotland. He turned up to the polls today bold as brass wearing a Union Jack and voted 'no'
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Good on him.

Why that's even considered controversial is a shame.

Plenty of scots are proud of the union flag but no less proud of the saltire than the yes folk.
 
jakeblu said:
Do you think the majority of people in this country voted for and support this Tory government and its policies. Or, to be even handed, the last Labour Government. The power is with the politicans and those who back them, it most certainly is not with the electorate. Many of them are waking up to this fact and are simply not voting. If things do not change it will only be a matter of time before the majority do not vote at all. Not unlike that other 'great democracy' on the other side of the Atlantic where the last time more than 60% of electorate voted in an presidential election was in 1968!
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Sure of course it is all a big conspiracy. I quite like the Tories although they should be more conservative imo. But hey fair enough it is a coalition. I just don't get the point you are attempting to make.
 
So Bob, are you going to have porridge speak afterwards, like the Welsh have......well, noises that can only be made with half pint of phlegm in their throat?
And will more than 0.0000000000000000000005% of the population actually understand it, yet everything will be printed in it as well as English.

Next question, will you be asking us if you can use English? Or will you be demanding Language Union?
 
Do you think the majority of people in this country voted for and support this Tory government and its policies. Or, to be even handed, the last Labour Government. The power is with the politicans and those who back them, it most certainly is not with the electorate. Many of them are waking up to this fact and are simply not voting. If things do not change it will only be a matter of time before the majority do not vote at all. Not unlike that other 'great democracy' on the other side of the Atlantic where the last time more than 60% of electorate voted in an presidential election was in 1968!
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To be fair, less than 50% of those eligible to vote actually did so in the last Scots Elections. The SNP were voted in with far less than 25% of the electorate, so the Scots aren't in a position to moan about minority Governments in Westminster.

For the sake of balance, the SNP have a huge mandate compared to the PCC's in England & Wales, most of who had less than 15% of the electorates votes.
 
dejongj said:
Sure of course it is all a big conspiracy. I quite like the Tories although they should be more conservative imo. But hey fair enough it is a coalition. I just don't get the point you are attempting to make.
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What conspiracy is that then, ohh wait, the socialist one, I get it now.
 
Bernie174 said:
So Bob, are you going to have porridge speak afterwards, like the Welsh have......well, noises that can only be made with half pint of phlegm in their throat?
And will more than 0.0000000000000000000005% of the population actually understand it, yet everything will be printed in it as well as English.

Next question, will you be asking us if you can use English? Or will you be demanding Language Union?
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Its oor language as well:p If ye dinnae like us using it, then póg mo thóin!
 
ST4 said:
I disagree. You vote, you choose. I was speaking to yes voters who say scotland doesn't get a say in UK politics. I asked them, have you voted before. No is the answer. They have only themselves to blame.

Apathy is the problem with low electoral turn outs. Not the system. The democracy we have is second to none.
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Absolutely disagree. Every four years being given the "choice" to vote for a punch in the face or a kick in the face is not democracy. The party out of office is always going to undo the horrific damage the current government is doing - they get in, and continue right where the other shower left off. Where is Cameron's bonfire of red tape, and the great repeal? Cutting back the 4,000 new statutes per year? Absolutely nowhere, in fact he's doubled down on that and it's worse than everything he accused Labour of. We have parties going to court to fight that electoral manifestos are not binding on them. We have MPs fighting to continue their right to lie in the commons. And we call it a democracy? It's a democracy if we choose to believe it's one, but failing to understand WHY it is rotten, is failing to understand why many in Scotland want to leave. It is NOTHING to do with England, or English , at least for me. I love England, and have nothing but good experiences wherever I have travelled - customers in Manchester, down in Cornwall, London, York, Newcastle - travels used to take me all over, and it's a place I love. But I believe England is as badly served by our political system as Scotland is - it's just that Scotland has a chance to get out from under that political system. That's what today is about. Maybe we make it, maybe we don't - but I hate seeing it categorised as wanting to leave the UK, or to leave England - it's not. It's solely Westminster rule, and Westminster's support of THE square mile above every other square mile in our currently united kingdom.
 
jakeblu said:
That's almost laughable. I am one of the electorate, never missed an election local or national but I most definitely do not feel empowered. Regardless of election outcomes the old saying 'same $h!t different day' is very apt. Will it be different if Scotland vote yes, i can only hope.

I'm afraid the socialism comment went straight over my head, sorry.
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Exactly. Every election you are offered Blue rosette, Yellow rosette, Red rosette - experience shows it makes not a damn bit of difference which one gets in. Whichever one gets in shears the landless peasants, and the other two complain to the media about how awful it is, and how they'll put it right in four years time, just you wait and see..... Rinse and repeat.

For any aspect of life you can accept it, you can change it, you can leave. It looks like Scotland may not be willing to accept it any more. It further looks like Scotland doesn't believe change is possible for this "democratic" system. So Scotland may leave. To me that is the only reasonable approach. I can equally argue that we as electorate are at fault, because we haven't created any viable alternative - and that's a reasonable argument. But that's looking anyway vanishingly unlikely - so for me leaving that system and starting again, starting smaller and hopefully controllable is the much better option. We shall see (or not, depending how tonight goes).
 
Its oor language as well If ye dinnae like us using it, then póg mo thóin!
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Yes, but you wont have access to the Dictionary of Last Resort, The Oxford English. Without that you'll just be using with no protection, where would you go to get proper spellings and meanings? Has the SNP made it clear? I notice Salmond avoided the subject!

Anyway, the EU will insist you use French if you want to be in their gang.
 
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