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Originally Posted by Cyclic

...make them take an English exam before they can emigrate down here , that would get rid of 99%!

Only if the English are made to take the same English exam when they want to emigrate north. That would get rid of at least 75% of them.

Originally Posted by Biscuits_AB

Only if the English are made to take the same English exam when they want to emigrate north. That would get rid of at least 75% of them.

Why would we want to?

Never mind lads, where's that Dunkirk spirit? Two, three, four..."There'll always be an England...dee da dee deedle dum!"

Originally Posted by Cyclic

Why would we want to?

To get the most out of the your taxes I suppose. Cheer's easy!

Originally Posted by History_Man

Kromeriz, as always, you offer an interesting perspective from Mitteleuropa. We need to recognise that the United Kingdom is a political construct. Linda Colley charts this in her book Britons: Forging the Nation 1707. I don't disagree that the United Kingdom has been mismanaged, at times chronically so, but often because our (until very recently) centralised system of government has struggled to impose its authority outside of its Southeast heartland. I agree that London is far too dominant (I live on its outskirts just inside the M25 but fortunately outside of Mayor Boris's fiefdom) and that its excessive size and growth has damaged regional alternatives. But, at this time, it is not just the uncertainty about a bright future for Scotland, but the uncertainty about a bright future for the whole of this United Kingdom which hampers any serious discussion of alternative models of governing ourselves. Until this banking crisis is resolved, nobody will make any decisions about anything, unless it directly impacts upon their political fortunes e.g. the £500 million for HS2 in order to stop yet another Tory backbench rebellion.

I think I just got my bottom slapped... and sellotape placed across my mouth...


Talk of HS2. I see it as an inverted Y formation... diverging somewhere in North London, Watford perhaps, one leg to Heathrow, one leg to Stratford International and hopefully Foster.s... dream airport and onto France. Going north, it should be directed at Manchester and from Manchester, connect to Glasgow and Edinburgh. Birmingham should come later. Would save billiions now, Both Stratford and Heathrow have good and improving public transport interchanges... why focus on central London, Euston of all places, and billions spent on tunneling.

However, there was no public discussion... which although Britain is a political construct, the lack of true accountability is destroying it.

Second. It has been acknowledged that the emphasis placed on the City by the Wunder fuhrer aka Thatcher, damaged our industrial base. That base can not be rebuilt, there does need to be innovation in manufacturing and a leaf out of the German book. Frankly, we now need more Rolls Royces with smaller family firms, so traditional in German support manufacturing, supplying them. As a previous poster said, South East England subsidizes the rest of the UK; that needs to be changed, the emphasis removed from the City. Where is the policy?

Returning to Scotland, I doubt they will get their HS3 off the blocks in their attempt to reach Europe, but you have to wish them luck, as it would bring great benefits to the North of England as well.

Back to work, good luck to the Mrs HM 1 in her studies, David Crystal.s books are excellent, not forgetting the father of grammar, Mr Swan.

Originally Posted by Cyclic

Why would we want to?

Best and most varied countryside in the whole of the UK, decent housing at reasonable prices, excellent locally grown food, pace of life, friendly caring people (in the main), good booze & plenty of it.

Is that enough reasons?

Originally Posted by regular_imbiber

.... What they seem to miss is the decades of mismanagement and degradation of the quality of life in Scotland by successive Westminster Govts. If the UK was the Utopia we are told it is,then everything would be equal from John O'Groats to Land's End: petrol prices, road surfaces,public transport, council services and so on.Have a look at a village in Kent and compare it to a village in Fife and see if I'm wrong....

You are right. I compared the village of Culross in Fife with Strood in Kent. They are similar in many ways, but Strood is just a shithole.

Originally Posted by EScotia

Best and most varied countryside in the whole of the UK, decent housing at reasonable prices, excellent locally grown food, pace of life, friendly caring people (in the main), good booze & plenty of it.

Is that enough reasons?

Vegetables are strictly for export in Scotland , most unhealthy country in europe.