Posted on 09/01/2014 11:04:23 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
I would be sad to see the end of a glorious union of three centuries’ standing. But then again, I have ancestors on both sides of the border.
“Oh, how the ironies prevail.” No, not even close.
It's emotional. Scotland has the best of all possible worlds as part of the UK. I hope that, just as in Quebec, saner minds will prevail and vote this down.
Go for it Scotland!
I for one am tired of paying for your crushing welfare costs, and of having half the political representation per capita that you do.
Say yes Scotland. Say yes.
I am tired of your assertion that Scotland is a drain. We give more to the UK than we get back, and give more than our % of the UK population.
We are 8.3%, we give 9.9% and we get 9.3% back.
Sky News in particular were orgasmically OTT last night about it.
53% still means we NO’s win.
I still say the NO vote will be nearer to 60%.
Scotland until 1964 was heavily Tory, with the rest heavily Labour. The skilled working class and rurals voted Tory. There is still scope for a conservative revival in many parts of Scotland. We just voted our first UKIP MEP this year.
NO thanks.
Strong Scotland in a strong Britain for me.
Not from where I am sitting.
Amen, brother.
Be a strong part of a stronger whole.
The Scots are to the Left of the English. It should be the English wanting out. Unfortunately, as the catalyst and historical engine of the Union, England can't seem to disentangle its identity from that of "Britain."
The Scottish National Party is a left wing party whose nationalism is no different than that of any Communist "national liberation movement" (with the sole exception that they operate only politically rather than with terrorism). They also want to merge "independent" Scotland into the European Union.
The anachronistic William Wallace/Rob Roy Celt-worship on Free Republic is ridiculous. How can people be so uninformed?
Have you ever heard of the Scottish National Liberation Army? Did you know it is a MAOIST organization?
Makes you wonder if the Stuarts had kept the crown, would this independence movement be aborning?
I suppose it depends how you count the figures. Not that it matters. Personally I think there has been too much bean counting in these debates over independence.
Media just trying to make it interesting.
“No” will win by at least 20%.
Well I hope and pray that is so.
The cultural disadvantage of being part of the majority.
I dont think it would make a lot of difference to tell the truth...there are only a few diehard old fashioned jacobites in the pro-independence camp. Maybe there wouldn’t be quite as much of this sickly backwards-looking, inward-looking lionisation of the past - the Scots suffer from it even more than the English do.
If you're referring to the curse of English identity being submerged in Britishness, I agree with you. The same holds true for English-Americans like myself who are denied any identity beyond plain, ordinary, generic, "non-hyphenated" American. That doesn't keep some FReepers for constantly calling for "white history month" or a "Congressional white caucus," though.
I have an ambivalent attitude towards this issue. On the one hand, nobody likes their identity to be marginalised, especially beneath the arc of "majority", so I can understand and appreciate calls for "white history month", or the establishment of an English parliament here in the UK. However, I also understand that such movements only help to highlight the differences between us, accelerating the process whereby the United States/United Kingdom are rapidly becoming the Disunited States/Disunited Kingdom. In the end, what happens in this Scottish independence referendum is less important that what the English make of it all. If the slumbering giant of English Nationalism ever wakes, that really will be the end of the Union. The English are the deciding factor, simply because there are just so many of them. In spite of all the uninformed rhetoric you read on this site, the Scottish, Welsh, Irish, Asians (of either muslim or hindu persuasion) and all the other ethnic minorities in total come to less than 20% of the population of the UK.
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