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I also wonder how the progress of Brexit has influenced the marginal yes voters. Brexit has showed that disentanglement from a form of union will not be easy, nor maybe worth the price. A precedent has also been set that those leaving are expected to pay for the privilege, rather than Salmons claim of being owed 12 1/2% of all U.K. geld. Finally, the rUK will go into negotiations with the experienced gained from dealing with the EU - where are Scotland’s experienced negotiators? - and they will be in no mood to be supportive/helpful to Scotland, they will make Barnier look reasonable.
 
How would Scotland even make a case for joining the EU? It would be on it's own until it could generate sufficient surplus to pay the joining fee and thereafter the ongoing and escalating membership fees. It was obvious years ago that pinning hopes on oil revenues was going to lead to disappointment. Tourism that depends on cheap staff from Eastern Europe isn't going to generate the funds needed. NHS, schools, transport infrastructure and emergency services all need investment. No sooner had Donald Dewar managed to get devolved government for Scotland than the priority of the new parliament members was to get a new parliament building. Where the Welsh parliament building came in on budget and schedule, fighting, bickering and idiocy led to a much delayed Scottish parliament building being planted on top of a water source, to a design by a Spanish architect, who likely died due to stress of working on the project, with all the chopping and changing demanded of him. The cost was massively over budget and a huge embarrassment. How is it supposed to represent Scotland and the Scottish people? It doesn't look vaguely Scottish.

Scottish Labour were booted out for arrogance and incompetence. SNP were chosen to replace them. They took that as a sign that the country wanted to leave the Union. Like the EU, they don't like the "wrong answer" in the ballot. Devolved power was never enough for them and yet they expect, nay demand to be trusted to take Scotland out off the Union on the pipe dream of joining the EU and generating another socialist utopia. Oh, sorry Nichola, what did you say? Ahh, it's okay because we won't have technically left the EU?

I wonder how much all those Gaelic signs cost. They are everywhere, even places Gaelic wasn't spoken afaik.
Presumably they want a restoration of feudalism with chosen affiliates and sponsors becoming lairds?
 
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How would Scotland even make a case for joining the EU? It would be on it's own until it could generate sufficient surplus to pay the joining fee and thereafter the ongoing and escalating membership fees. It was obvious years ago that pinning hopes on oil revenues was going to lead to disappointment. Tourism that depends on cheap staff from Eastern Europe isn't going to generate the funds needed. NHS, schools, transport infrastructure and emergency services all need investment. No sooner had Donald Dewar managed to get devolved government for Scotland than the priority of the new parliament members was to get a new parliament building. Where the Welsh parliament building came in on budget and schedule, fighting, bickering and idiocy led to a much delayed Scottish parliament building being planted on top of a water source, to a design by a Spanish architect, who likely died due to stress of working on the project, with all the chopping and changing demanded of him. The cost was massively over budget and a huge embarrassment. How is it supposed to represent Scotland and the Scottish people? It doesn't look vaguely Scottish.

Scottish Labour were booted out for arrogance and incompetence. SNP were chosen to replace them. They took that as a sign that the country wanted to leave the Union. Like the EU, they don't like the "wrong answer" in the ballot. Devolved power was never enough for them and yet they expect, nay demand to be trusted to take Scotland out off the Union on the pipe dream of joining the EU and generating another socialist utopia. Oh, sorry Nichola, what did you say? Ahh, it's okay because we won't have technically left the EU?

I wonder how much all those Gaelic signs cost. They are everywhere, even places Gaelic wasn't spoken afaik.
Presumably they want a restoration of feudalism with chosen affiliates and sponsors becoming lairds?
There are many errors in this post, with the most glaring being the one I have highlighted.. I suggest you do some research before pontificating on something you appear to know nothing about.
 
A lot described is Wales and the Welsh Government. We do have a few nationalists with Aberwrytwth being a hotbed for some reason.
There is no overall enthusiasm for a vote on Wales being independent. Wales as a country I can't see how we could prosper away from England AND Scotland. Thus I think eventually the independence vote will peter out and the Welsh/Scottish Governments being a arm of Westminster. The inroads of Labour folly will eventually smooth out, regional government was only to smooth the way for EU superstate after all.
EDIT im talking 30 to 40 years.
 
It's a bit like the talking toaster in Red Dwarf, you could be talking about how shockingly bad Audi drivers on the road, and somehow they'd bring it back to freeeeeeeedom!
Excellent article and the view is one I am in total agreement with. I would say though that as he mentions the drop in literacy standards it rings a bit hollow when you spot the literacy errors in his article :)
 
The bit I don't get, is if the SNP truly wanted to win a referendum surely they'd push for it to be a UK wide vote thus ensuring they're more likely to win

It's almost like they want to just maintain the status quo, whilst moaning about it and trying to extract more money from the government.....
The plan seems to be to relax immigration restrictions and boost the population to 6 million in order to generate the taxes required to pay for everything.
 
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