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Scottish independence: First referendum results declared
BBC.com ^ | 9/18/14 | ?

Posted on 09/18/2014 6:04:31 PM PDT by blueyon

The first results are coming in for the referendum to decide whether Scotland should stay in the UK or become an independent country.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: alexsalmond; europeanunion; independence; scotland; scotlandyet; scottish; uk; unitedkingdom
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Looks like the NO's have it
1 posted on 09/18/2014 6:04:31 PM PDT by blueyon
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To: blueyon

That’s the NAEs.


2 posted on 09/18/2014 6:05:25 PM PDT by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyranni)
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To: Bryanw92

Aye. But it’s good to know Drudge’s old siren still works


3 posted on 09/18/2014 6:06:07 PM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: blueyon

Live on cspan 3


4 posted on 09/18/2014 6:09:10 PM PDT by cripplecreek ("Moderates" are lying manipulative bottom feeding scum.)
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To: blueyon

too bad....


5 posted on 09/18/2014 6:10:26 PM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: cripplecreek

I know BBC world news has it on Verzion FIOS channel 107


6 posted on 09/18/2014 6:11:12 PM PDT by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: blueyon

Rats... oh well.


7 posted on 09/18/2014 6:12:42 PM PDT by Viennacon (Obola is a muslim terrorist)
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To: blueyon
“For as long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be brought under English rule. It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom, for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.”

Robert the Bruce, Declaration of Arbroath, 6 April 1320


8 posted on 09/18/2014 6:13:04 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion ( "I didn't leave the Central Oligarchy Party. It left me." - Ronaldus Maximus)
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To: All

To all of us who are puzzled over the pluses and minuses (the North Sea Oil Fields being thought nearly dry/the muzzy invasion of England). What’s in it for each side?


9 posted on 09/18/2014 6:13:58 PM PDT by End Times Sentinel (In Memory of my dear Friend Henry Lee II)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

Scotland isn’t under English rule.


10 posted on 09/18/2014 6:16:20 PM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: blueyon
darn, there goes the opportunity for Labour's forever demise in Parliament!
11 posted on 09/18/2014 6:17:01 PM PDT by RginTN
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To: blueyon
Looks like the NO's have it

Based on 50,000 votes? I think several million people went to the polls.

12 posted on 09/18/2014 6:17:17 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: aMorePerfectUnion
James the Sixth changed all that (Scottish king who ascended to the English throne and united the two kingdoms in the 1600's.)
13 posted on 09/18/2014 6:18:24 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: blueyon

A ‘no’ wouldn’t surprise me. Anyway, even if ‘yes’ i’d imagine Scotland will be part of the ‘Commonwealth Realms’ (unless they opt for a republic), with its own PM but the queen will remain as the Queen of Scotland. Actually if am not mistaken, HM has more Scottish blood than many other British monarchs - her mother came from an ancient aristocratic Scottish family.


14 posted on 09/18/2014 6:19:00 PM PDT by odds
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To: blueyon

Results still coming in. How about some Scottish poetry in the meantime;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4W9p_NFm6qk


15 posted on 09/18/2014 6:22:54 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
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To: blueyon

Well, that was a whole lot of nothing. Now the media can return to your regularly-scheduled programming: Terrorism, disease and the midterms.


16 posted on 09/18/2014 6:24:06 PM PDT by Bettyprob
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult

O flower of Scotland
When will we see your like again
That fought and died for
Your wee bit hill and glen
And stood against him
Proud Edward’s army
And sent him homeward
Tae think again

The hills are bare now
And autumn leaves lie thick and still
O’er land that is lost now
Which those so dearly held
And stood against him
Proud Edward’s army
And sent him homeward
Tae think again

Those days are passed now
And in the past they must remain
But we can still rise now
And be the nation again
That stood against him
Proud Edward’s army
And sent him homeward
Tae think again


17 posted on 09/18/2014 6:32:47 PM PDT by yarddog (G)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion
The Bruces are all in Australia teaching philosophy.

At least according to Monty Python.

18 posted on 09/18/2014 6:33:34 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: cripplecreek
When in doubt, people will always stick to the status quo.

UNLESS, extra ordinary circumstances happen.

19 posted on 09/18/2014 6:38:22 PM PDT by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.- Sarah Palin)
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To: blueyon

It’s all just a bunch of antidisestablishmentarianism ...


20 posted on 09/18/2014 6:38:53 PM PDT by 11th_VA (Negotiating with Democrats is like negotiating with Hamas)
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