There are so many echoes of Brexit here. That's why one or two of the enthusiastic Brexiteer posters actually have some sympathy. We were equally accused of being motivated by racism, when it was just a minority of tossers.
My only issue, as I've said before, is the timing of another referendum. It should be once Brexit is well out of the way. And it should be made clear that it would be "final". No re-runs.
It would make sence to me to hold the referendum once the Brexit negotiations have been finalised, at least they'd know what they're voting for.Fully agree.
The Scots just need to stop playing the victim
Between now and 2020 the UK are handling Brexit - there is no space for handling the distractions of an indyref2
Let the SNP put a referendum in their GE manifesto and at that time the position on Brexit and whether Scotland can independently join the EU will be clear
It all follows - but there is no space for it to happen before
Can i ask what bit of the debate before the referendum did you not understand where Cameron and all the uk establishment plus the EU said there would be no half measures. Cameron got no concessions whatsoever. It could not have been made any clearer that we were voting for hard brexit or to stay in the EU. We voted for the former. To say you were not informed of that is frankly just nonsense.
No, magicpole is still here I'm afraid.
Course you can.
I didn't (and still don't) know about;
trade agreements, reciprocal deals, eu finance, trading 'passports',scientific collaboration, arrest warrants, ttp, ttip, gdp, workers rights, fishing and farming quotas, h and s, security services collaboration.
How would you expect to know the answers to any of those before any deals were made out of interest?Course you can.
I didn't (and still don't) know about;
trade agreements, reciprocal deals, eu finance, trading 'passports',scientific collaboration, arrest warrants, ttp, ttip, gdp, workers rights, fishing and farming quotas, h and s, security services collaboration.
Their delusion reaches new heights from their defence minister yesterday.
“One of the big debates is what do we do with the military assets? Do we start from scratch, do we take an eight per cent share or a nine per cent share of them?
“If we do take a share, what do we take? What are the maintenance contracts? There’s a whole load of things.
“I’m personally very much of the opinion that if we adopt a nine per cent share of the hardware, then we’re pushed down a road from which it is sometimes very difficult to come back.
“I don’t think you can have a bespoke independent Scottish defence policy if you are immediately saddled with taking eight or nine per cent of assets.tion
He told the meeting the party expect to spend about 1.6 per cent of GDP on defence. That would be around the EU and Nato average but less than Nato’s recommendation of at least two per cent.
Questioned if an independent Scotland would have its own intelligence service, O’Hara said: “There’s obviously a very sophisticated intelligent network that exists as part of the UK and it would make no sense for us to tear that down.
“Once Scotland is an independent country, we’re going to co-operate extremely closely with our immediate neighbour. We’d want to build on what’s there. We’d certainly want to work as close as possible in order to make sure that what currently works continues to work.”
The SNP’s previous framework assumed an entirely new agency after a Yes vote.