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Scotland Seeks Independence Again After U.K. 'Brexit' Vote
nbcnews.com ^ | June 24, 2016

Posted on 06/24/2016 7:53:23 AM PDT by Helicondelta

Scotland's government began moves Friday to hold a new referendum on independence from the U.K. after the "Brexit" vote, saying it faced being taken out of the European Union against its will.

Scots voted by 62 percent to 38 percent to remain in the EU, according to Friday's results, in contrast to the overall U.K.-wide result of 52 percent to 48 percent in favor of quitting the bloc.

A majority of voters in Northern Ireland also voted to remain in the EU, suggesting the U.K. faces internal constitutional upheaval as well as a contentious divorce from Brussels.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: brexit; brixit; europeanunion; libtards; moochers; nato; nicolasturgeon; scotland; scotlandyet; snp; unitedkingdom
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To: Buckeye McFrog

If they leave they will probably take their oil reserves in the north sea with them.

France will probably offer them a lot of money as well. Won’t be the first time they’ve done it.


21 posted on 06/24/2016 8:06:31 AM PDT by Helicondelta
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To: Helicondelta
Whats Scotland got? Abt 3 million people?

Been over there many times and they DO NOT LIKE the English.

Scotland will NOT survive outside of the UK. Way to many goods travel back and forth from the south to the north there.

But, if that is what they want, let them go and find out the hard way. They think that if they are independent and rejoin the EU they will be soveriegn. HA!

22 posted on 06/24/2016 8:06:38 AM PDT by crz
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To: Helicondelta

Send forth the Duke of York to smite these deadbeat Scots.

Then look you to the coast against the EU orcs.


23 posted on 06/24/2016 8:06:48 AM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: TexasFreeper2009

I don’t think so. They don’t have the means to stand alone right now, even with the outrageous prices of single malt these days.


24 posted on 06/24/2016 8:07:31 AM PDT by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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To: lodi90

Not to mention an independent Scotland would be an economic basket case, with politics falling somewhere between Venezuela and Cuba on the left-right continuum.


25 posted on 06/24/2016 8:10:44 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Helicondelta

Let them vote.


26 posted on 06/24/2016 8:12:55 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper ((Just say no to HRC))
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To: Helicondelta
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27 posted on 06/24/2016 8:17:12 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: Helicondelta

To think my Scottish ancestors stole many a castle, took hills, rivers and mountains and named them...

Braveheart now = bwavehaht = fart


28 posted on 06/24/2016 8:18:16 AM PDT by CincyRichieRich (They've set up the system to protect themselves from us...we need to take it back.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
They’ll vote to remain with ANYONE who will pay their bills for them.

Yep. Parasites who contribute nothing except for producing extreme libtards.

Let them go, seal the border and let the EU pay for their asses.

29 posted on 06/24/2016 8:18:18 AM PDT by dragonblustar
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To: crz
Whats Scotland got? Abt 3 million people?

They join the EU and they will become Scotlandistan.

30 posted on 06/24/2016 8:20:09 AM PDT by dragonblustar
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To: Gaffer

To observe the joy unconfined that greets each fresh tumble in oil prices is to be present at the birth of a new parlour game. Let’s call it Banana Republic, in which the contestants vie with each other to predict the economy of which country Scotland’s would most have resembled if she had gained her independence. Amid braying and snorting and shouts of “Central African Republic” and “Malawi” the winner would be the chap who could name the most colourful-sounding poor nation that existed in his imagination. And then someone would say: “Would the last person to leave the country please turn out the light. Oscar Wilde said that.”

NB: This from the Guardian, and you know how they think.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jan/16/scotland-oil-price-slump-snp-forecasts-critics


31 posted on 06/24/2016 8:20:19 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (Looks like it's pretty hairy.)
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It won’t last. Brothers and sisters are natural enemies. Like Englishmen and Scots! Or Welshmen and Scots! Or Japanese and Scots! Or Scots and other Scots! Damn Scots! They ruined Scotland!


32 posted on 06/24/2016 8:21:59 AM PDT by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
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To: Helicondelta

They ought to build a wall...oh wait...


33 posted on 06/24/2016 8:24:49 AM PDT by Dogbert41 (All the days of my life were written in your book before there was one of them!)
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To: Helicondelta

The UK is down 2.26%
Germany is down 6.16%
France is down 5.09%
Euronext is down 4.20%

I think I’d be staying in the UK


34 posted on 06/24/2016 8:24:55 AM PDT by BlackAdderess (A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen... -Emerson)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Yeah, Scottish independence is dead. Scotland in EU = Hard border with England, EU refugees, ruled by Berlin, etc. No brainer. Not going to happen. SNP will use the threat to negotiate, IMO. That’s it.


35 posted on 06/24/2016 8:26:49 AM PDT by lodi90 (Clear choice for Conservatives now: TRUMP or lose)
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To: Helicondelta

Pssst...hey, England. Let ‘em go. You’ll be glad you did.


36 posted on 06/24/2016 8:27:00 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (If Trump loses, America dies)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

THIS-—>They’ll vote to remain with ANYONE who will pay their bills for them.


37 posted on 06/24/2016 8:27:04 AM PDT by CitizenUSA (Proverbs 14:34 Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.)
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To: Kriggerel

Economically, a united Ireland would be a drain on the Republic. Right now, the U.K. is spending more per northerner than on the residents of England. The Republic of Ireland doesn’t have the resources to keep up those kinds of payments. U.K. Naval installations in Northern Ireland would have to be decommissioned. Unification is a very, very big knot.


38 posted on 06/24/2016 8:27:57 AM PDT by MrsEmmaPeel (a government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take everything you have)
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To: dragonblustar

They already are. You should see the slums of Glasgow and several other places over there.

Last time I was over there the “Adabses”, as they call them, held a huge protest. The Socts couldnt beleieve what they were seeing.

AH’s are A’s and A’s are AH’s over there. So Tom...is Tam. Home, is Hame...etc. When they said Adab(Adawb), I thought, what the hell they talking aboot? Then It came to me when they talked about the portest.


39 posted on 06/24/2016 8:29:47 AM PDT by crz
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To: Helicondelta

“The Problem with Scotland is that it’s Full of Scots”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o15PljTS2O8


40 posted on 06/24/2016 8:30:16 AM PDT by DFG
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