The Scottish Politics thread

[hilts]

Yes we would be down £11b. We give £79b in and we get £30b back. We will be fine and ee can grow our economy. How much will we be down yrar on year out of europe. Make that up in no time.

It’s really not worth going down the economics of it all, if you gained true independence then any current figures are not that relevant. Your GDP and tax take will be dependent on how successful Scotland as a nation becomes which is how it should be.

The true potential will take years to be clear so the question will always be are you happy being governed in the main by Westminster Parliament. A Scottish Parliament was always a half way house that suited no one long term.

Hopefully next time your fellow countrymen and women will be able to be less risk averse and take the plunge.

I think the SNP should hold their own referendum next year, I don’t think it should be done any later than this you need the Tories to be in power and royally fucking things up to help the cause.

 

[Magicpole]

It’s really not worth going down the economics of it all, if you gained true independence then any current figures are not that relevant. Your GDP and tax take will be dependent on how successful Scotland as a nation becomes which is how it should be.

The true potential will take years to be clear so the question will always be are you happy being governed in the main by Westminster Parliament. A Scottish Parliament was always a half way house that suited no one long term.

Hopefully next time your fellow countrymen and women will be able to be less risk averse and take the plunge.

I think the SNP should hold their own referendum next year, I don’t think it should be done any later than this you need the Tories to be in power and royally fucking things up to help the cause.

I agree that it will take time. But we are in a dosnward spural being run by useless cunts. We can and will do better and the main thing is, we are in control. Not utter cunts who we never voted for. I trust us more than any lying, selfish, greedy, dishonarable bastsrds.

If we were such a burden, we would be let go. We aren't. And the reason is clear to those who are wiling to look. Show me one country who got independence from the UK who wants to return? And we are lightyears ahead of them all. We are in tje shit right now and have been for decades with no chance of a fairer country. O was never a supporter of Indy. Seeing our votes to help labour win as crucial to standing with working class brothers and sisters in the UK. But when they vote Tory the baw is burst. We have no choice. My hope is we succeed and they realise a better way can be found and demand the same. This isnt anti English, I love you twats, its anti Tory.

 

[blueinsa]

But we are in a dosnward spural being run by useless cunts.

We are run by the SNP up here.

I pay more tax to the SNP than I would if I was in England.

If life is so bad I suggest you/we look closer to home.

 

[Saddleworth2]

We are run by the SNP up here.

Partially true mate for devolved matters so they are by no means perfect. They need to operate within the constraints of the U.K. though and significant elements are still run from Westminster. The Scottish government will always have ‘an excuse’ until independence. Scotland needs to take that step and then succeed or fail based on its own competences and decisions.

 

[blueinsa]

Partially true mate for devolved matters so they are by no means perfect. They need to operate within the constraints of the U.K. though and significant elements are still run from Westminster. The Scottish government will always have ‘an excuse’ until independence. Scotland needs to take that step and then succeed or fail based on its own competences and decisions.

Agree but there has to be an acceptance that we are literally ran by a left wing, socialist SNP up here and when the Scottish NHS is failing miserably on waiting times or the Scottish Ambulance service is literally surviving by having the army drive them or our schools are shit and drug deaths are at a all time high and council tax is going up and we ever increasing levels of child poverty etc.

The SNP and their policies run all those services here.

Stop blaming England, accept some responsibility and tell us exactly how a fully independent Scotland will do better because no one is falling for the oil and Whisky argument anymore because its bullshit.

For clarity mate, we have a great life up here and unlike a few on here, life in Scotland and the UK is a very good one and fairly privileged. We both work, not huge wages but a household income of £50k a year and our kids enjoy school, so very well, we want for nothing really and frankly don’t recognise the hell hole some describe the UK/Scotland as on a daily basis?

 

[Saddleworth2]

Agree but there has to be an acceptance that we are literally ran by a left wing, socialist SNP up here and when the Scottish NHS is failing miserably on waiting times or the Scottish Ambulance service is literally surviving by having the army drive them or our schools are shit and drug deaths are at a all time high and council tax is going up and we ever increasing levels of child poverty etc.

The SNP and their policies run all those services here.

Stop blaming England, accept some responsibility and tell us exactly how a fully independent Scotland will do better because no one is falling for the oil and Whisky argument anymore because its bullshit.

we are run by a left wing socialist party. There. After independence we still might be but that will be entirely up to us.
They spend the funds they are given based on their priorities.
Are the problems that face the NHS a purely Scottish problem. Shall we trade stats on which country has the worse? I accept that by certain standards Scottish schools are less good than they were but they used to be world beating.
we are doing much much more in Scotland to reduce child poverty than anywhere in the U.K. and I expect you know that.
Drug levels I will give you. That is a national disgrace and I’m not convinced they still have a handle on it.
I am not arguing that the SNP have got everything right. I would argue that they are far far more in tune with what the majority of Scottish people want from their government than the clowns in the Tory Government. You know those dudes that openly laugh at and mock the representatives that the Scottish populace send down to London to represent us.
Independence might be a disaster, but it will be our disaster, not a long lingering death by a 1,000 cuts that is inflicted by c*nts that weren’t voted for by us, don’t represent us and frankly could not give one flying fuck about us.
I hope you stay in an independent Scotland mate as you know we welcome one and all.

 

[blueinsa]

we are run by a left wing socialist party. There. After independence we still might be but that will be entirely up to us.
They spend the funds they are given based on their priorities.
Are the problems that face the NHS a purely Scottish problem. Shall we trade stats on which country has the worse? I accept that by certain standards Scottish schools are less good than they were but they used to be world beating.
we are doing much much more in Scotland to reduce child poverty than anywhere in the U.K. and I expect you know that.
Drug levels I will give you. That is a national disgrace and I’m not convinced they still have a handle on it.
I am not arguing that the SNP have got everything right. I would argue that they are far far more in tune with what the majority of Scottish people want from their government than the clowns in the Tory Government. You know those dudes that openly laugh at and mock the representatives that the Scottish populace send down to London to represent us.
Independence might be a disaster, but it will be our disaster, not a long lingering death by a 1,000 cuts that is inflicted by c*nts that weren’t voted for by us, don’t represent us and frankly could not give one flying fuck about us.
I hope you stay in an independent Scotland mate as you know we welcome one and all.

My point mate is a very simple one.

Left, right, there is no magic wand. No simple answers to real world problems and there never will be.

Life is tough. It will always very sadly leave some behind but for the vast majority, it’s actually pretty good and it’s good regardless of the political parties running us because the reality is, nothing much will or ever changes.

My beef is this incessant insistence we live in some third world hell hole that is all the fault of the Tories and Westminster and that a vote for someone else will have us all living in some socialist nirvana.

Its bollox lol.

On independence mate I’m happy either way and relaxed as again, in or out, I don’t expect my life to drastically change and I will go to work, pay my bills, see my kids grow and enjoy my life like most of us do.

In the same breath, those demanding it as an answer to all their prayers will I have little doubt, sit there like those of us who voted for brexit and think what the fuck was that all about? Nowt much has changed, what has is not for the better and all we have is arguments and issues no one really faced up to or accepted.

Yes, that’s me thinking my brexit vote was a right old mistake!

 

[Octavian]

I agree that it will take time. But we are in a dosnward spural being run by useless cunts. We can and will do better and the main thing is, we are in control. Not utter cunts who we never voted for. I trust us more than any lying, selfish, greedy, dishonarable bastsrds.

If we were such a burden, we would be let go. We aren't. And the reason is clear to those who are wiling to look. Show me one country who got independence from the UK who wants to return? And we are lightyears ahead of them all. We are in tje shit right now and have been for decades with no chance of a fairer country. O was never a supporter of Indy. Seeing our votes to help labour win as crucial to standing with working class brothers and sisters in the UK. But when they vote Tory the baw is burst. We have no choice. My hope is we succeed and they realise a better way can be found and demand the same. This isnt anti English, I love you twats, its anti Tory.

You’re going on like the SNP aren’t also “lying, selfish, greedy, dishonarable bastsrds.”

No one is as bad as the Tories granted but they’ll be gone soon enough. Even right wing people down here have turned on them. Johnson will have to go and there will be pressure for a GE soon.

Personally I want you to go, I’m sick of people in England and Wales being the worst looked after in the union and yet the moaning coming from Scotland.

 

[Saddleworth2]

My point mate is a very simple one.

Left, right, there is no magic wand. No simple answers to real world problems and there never will be.

Life is tough. It will always very sadly leave some behind but for the vast majority, it’s actually pretty good and it’s good regardless of the political parties running us because the reality is, nothing much will or ever changes.

My beef is this incessant insistence we live in some third world hell hole that is all the fault of the Tories and Westminster and that a vote for someone else will have us all living in some socialist nirvana.

Its bollox lol.

On independence mate I’m happy either way and relaxed as again, in or out, I don’t expect my life to drastically change and I will go to work, pay my bills, see my kids grow and enjoy my life like most of us do.

In the same breath, those demanding it as an answer to all their prayers will I have little doubt, sit there like those of us who voted for brexit and think what the fuck was that all about? Nowt much has changed, what has is not for the better and all we have is arguments and issues no one really faced up to or accepted.

Yes, that’s me thinking my brexit vote was a right old mistake!

A simple point made about a complex subject: do politicians/ government make a difference to the public they serve. Your answer tends towards the negative. I think that they can and do, both negative and positive.
just look at the social democracies of Northern Europe for as much evidence as you like that good government can make an enormous difference to public wellbeing.
well Done on fessing up on Brexit. Many of us thought it would be counterproductive and gain no pleasure from being right.
Anyway, to important matters. I am off to don my lucky City shirt in time for the game.

 

[Saddleworth2]

No one is as bad as the Tories granted but they’ll be gone soon enough.

This government maybe but not Tories. You will continue to vote them in for the next century.
Anyway, if everyone agrees that Scotland should be independent maybe we can move the subject on to Scottish Politics.

Have you watched how Scottish Parliament conducts itself? What do you think in comparison to how Westminster conducts its business?