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| Quote: WIZEB "The vast majority of Scots voters on both sides of this referendum would obviously prefer to be governed by anything other than the party that currently holds sway in the UK presently though.'"
I know plenty of Scots that are conservatives, they are just not very vocal.
Better, together.
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| Quote: Standee "I know plenty of Scots that are conservatives, they are just not very vocal.
Better, together.'"
They have one serving MP returned to Westminster from the 2010 General Election!
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| Quote: WIZEB "They have one serving MP returned to Westminster from the 2010 General Election!'"
based on national pride, not rational thought.
Anyway, the referendum...
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| Quote: Standee "based on national pride, not rational thought.
Anyway, the referendum...'"
Even the Lib-Dums and their conservative leader won 11 seats.
Mind you, suppose one is better than none.
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| Quote: Standee "I know plenty of Scots that are conservatives, they are just not very vocal.'"
No need to be vocal to vote, just put your X on a piece of paper. You can do it in secret too!
Within my lifetime the tories have held the majority of seats in Scotland, they just watched them all dwindle away to one
Quote: Standee "Better, together.'"
I am still convinced of that but I must admit that a growing part of me is leaning towards "feck'em, let them wallow in their own mire"
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| Any Scots who think Salmond is a socialist are in for a very rude awakening.
He views TTIP as a "massive opportunity for Scotland", all they need do is look at how he bent over while Donald Trump dry-bummed him. He's already been called out over his lies on safeguarding the NHS.
Wee Eck is an obnoxious little upstart but I can't blame Scots for swallowing his rhetoric, we've got plenty South of the border who are falling for Farage's bollox too
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| Quote: cod'ead "Any Scots who think Salmond is a socialist are in for a very rude awakening.
He views TTIP as a "massive opportunity for Scotland", all they need do is look at how he bent over while Donald Trump dry-bummed him. He's already been called out over his lies on safeguarding the NHS.
Wee Eck is an obnoxious little upstart but I can't blame Scots for swallowing his rhetoric, we've got plenty South of the border who are falling for Farage's bollox too'"
don't disagree with any of that cod'ead
this time Friday we'll know, I expect the import text for Scotch doesn't quadruple!
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| Quote: Standee "
this time Friday we'll know,'"
We'll know by breakfast on Friday, don't worry
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| Think I'll tune into the Jon Snow hosted live debate at 10pm on C4 tonight.
Michelle Mone is a panellist so it'll make one of our Sin-Binners happy.
Guardian 2010 profile quote on Mone is fairly amusing -: ''she grew up a Scottish Labour voting Protestant and is now a Conservative voting Catholic who David Cameron invited to come and address his cabinet.''
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| Quote: rumpelstiltskin "Just watched Gordon Brown on SKY give an awesome performance at a NO rally. Talk about a transformation! Gone was the tired figure we saw leaving Downing St, and in its place was a totally reinvigorated man.
This was an old style barn storming Labour Politician, giving it the full monty of blood and thunder......and I have to say, I was more than a little impressed! Michael Foot would have been proud. And if that doesn't convince the waiverers, then nothing will.
Which kinda begs the question...why was that very nice, but very straight middle class chappie Alistair Darling ever allowed to publically debate with Salmond? Who is simply Rab C Nesbitt in a suit, and kicked the booty out of Darling a couple of weeks ago, and got the YES campaign back on track.'"
I fully agree with you. As a critic of Gordon Brown in his previous roles I openly doff my cap to his passionate and effective intervention on behalf of the Better Together campaign. Under the timid leadership of Darling and Alexander the No campaign had never got out of first gear and it needed Buster Brown to shoulder charge his way to the front and give it some much needed momentum and challenge the lies that Salmond and co have been spouting about the National Health Service in Scotland. I hope it was not too late!
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| Quote: Lord Elpers "I fully agree with you. As a critic of Gordon Brown in his previous roles I openly doff my cap to his passionate and effective intervention on behalf of the Better Together campaign. Under the timid leadership of Darling and Alexander the No campaign had never got out of first gear and it needed Buster Brown to shoulder charge his way to the front and give it some much needed momentum and challenge the lies that Salmond and co have been spouting about the National Health Service in Scotland. I hope it was not too late!'"
It's amazing how people behave when they realise they could be out of a job. He wasn't fighting for anything other than his personal gravy train.
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| Whatever the result, whoever wants to win the election next May is going to have to appease the Scots, soothe the English & battle against a surge in support for UKIP.
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| Quote: LeagueDweeb "Whatever the result, whoever wants to win the election next May is going to have to appease the Scots, soothe the English & battle against a surge in support for UKIP.'"
well not exactly, if the vote goes to the Yes party today then there's a good chance that there won't be a UK general election next year and even if there is then the soon-to-be English parliament isn't going to need to appease the Scots over anything.
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| Quote: JerryChicken "well not exactly, if the vote goes to the Yes party today then there's a good chance that there won't be a UK general election next year and even if there is then the soon-to-be English parliament isn't going to need to appease the Scots over anything.'"
We have a fixed term Parliament. That cannot be changed. The Scots will have to be appeased. A yes vote will mean negotiations to make it as clean a settlement as possible. In the event of a No, enough further devolution to shoot the independence fox.
There won't be an English Parliament. If the Scots do vote Yes, there is still a UK left. If they do vote Yes, the 59 Scottish constituencies represented in Westminster should be erased from the UK's political map prior to the 2015 General Election.
If they vote No & more powers are devolved to Holyrood, the vested interests of the Westminster elite, particularly those parties who will lose most seats, will deflect the West Lothian question through devolving some powers to the regions.
40 less Labour MP's last time would have meant a Conservative government. Going forward, this is a huge problem for the Labour party, which is why, apart from his recent visit, Cameron has been happy for them to do all the work for the Better Together campaign.
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| Quote: LeagueDweeb "We have a fixed term Parliament. That cannot be changed. '"
Yes it can
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