The Scottish Politics thread

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blueparrot said:
Don’t think there is much anti anglo sentiment,I certainly haven’t ever experienced any in 20 years living in Scotland, there is anti anglo government sentiment, there is anti anglo media sentiment, though there is that in England too.
I’m not anti anglo, mainly because I’m English, last time I voted No. Next time ,almost entirely down to Westminster government, I’m leaning towards Yes. Even more surprisingly so is, until recent years my staunchly British / English wife, while I contemplated Yes for a while last time she most definitely didn’t.
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Don’t burst their cliched view of the world mate. I despair at times.
 
Mëtal Bikër said:
Yes, right. :)

I didn't accuse you personally of hating an entire group of people like you just did me. Scots nats HATE the English, and you can't disprove that. Say you want to leave because 'English people are just a bunch of racists who vote in Tories to power'. That's the rhetoric i'm always seeing on social media, on political discussions.
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I’m a paid up member of the SNP that doesn’t hate a single Englishman other than the corrupt clowns that purport to be our Government. Does that disprove your silly claim?
this thread is social media and yet I haven’t seen any claims that the English are racist.
 
Saddleworth2 said:
I’m a paid up member of the SNP that doesn’t hate a single Englishman other than the corrupt clowns that purport to be our Government. Does that disprove your silly claim?
this thread is social media and yet I haven’t seen any claims that the English are racist.
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Nope. You gone yet?
 
Saddleworth2 said:
I did actually. No matter. I won’t make the mistake again. You should avoid this thread though as you clearly have little worthwhile to contribute other than cliched nonsense. Have a nice weekend.
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Yeah right. Arsed. And i'll be on here as frequently as I wish. Because as we all know, these threads really matter in the grand scheme of things. :)
 
I live in the North of Scotland and I think the biggest problem the SNP have is they don't have many talented people in Holyrood after Elsie Mac selfie leaves. They have someone that studied history running the finances and the fact that they have a dentist in charge of vivid sums them up.
 
Stupid idea to give Scotland and Wales their own Parliaments, without giving England the same option. Stupid idea from Tony Blair, who also cost a lot of British lives and limbs and mental health, in those imaginary weapons of mass distruction, and who has just been knighted. I am no fan of Boris, but a few parties in Downing Street seem like small fry in comparison. That said, those parties were an abomination and so insensitive.
 
Magicpole said:
No, you get that. Enjoy your soveriengty.
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Haha you think Scotland who have a net take, rather than give, from the UK’s coffers, leaving England will make England worse off?
Scotland’s economy would shrink by at least £11bn a year if it became independent, more than doubling the damaging impacts of Brexit, a team of economists has forecast.
The report from the London School of Economics and City University of Hong Kong found that quitting the UK’s common market would hit the Scottish economy two to three times as hard as leaving the EU, just counting the impact on trade alone.
Suggesting that the worst economic effects would take several decades to take hold, the LSE’s Centre for Economic Performance said the impacts on its trade with both the UK and the EU would shrink Scotland’s economy in the long run by between 6.3% and 8.7%.
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Give us the vote, we’ll get rid of you in no time. Save us a headache from you moaning fuckers
 
bluekeith said:
I live in the North of Scotland and I think the biggest problem the SNP have is they don't have many talented people in Holyrood after Elsie Mac selfie leaves. They have someone that studied history running the finances and the fact that they have a dentist in charge of vivid sums them up.
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good point. they shrivel in comparison to the intellectual giants that make up the Westminster Government.
 
bluekeith said:
I live in the North of Scotland and I think the biggest problem the SNP have is they don't have many talented people in Holyrood after Elsie Mac selfie leaves. They have someone that studied history running the finances and the fact that they have a dentist in charge of vivid sums them up.
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I presume you are referring to Professor Jason Leitch, but then his is not a political position.

He would appear to be suitably qualified: ‘an Honorary Professor at the University of Dundee. From 2005 to 2006 he was a Quality Improvement Fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, in Boston, sponsored by the Health Foundation. He qualified as a dentist in 1991 and was as a Consultant Oral Surgeon in Glasgow. He has a doctorate from the University of Glasgow, a Masters in Public Health from Harvard and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow and the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. He is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.’
 
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