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Sir Paul McCartney Joins Celebrity Calls Against Scottish Independence
The Guardian ^ | Saturday 30 August 2014

Posted on 08/30/2014 8:47:36 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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To: raccoonradio
It's a fine enough song, but if I want semi-modern music that evokes Scotland I'd go with Dougie MacLean or even Big Country. Perhaps even the Proclaimers...
61 posted on 08/31/2014 4:13:20 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: nickcarraway

Do the British ever knight real men and heros these days?


62 posted on 08/31/2014 4:33:41 AM PDT by lormand (Inside every liberal is a dung slinging monkey)
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To: Joe 6-pack

yup, and def. remember Big Country. In Boston there’s the Dropkick Murphys, whose bagpipe laden “Shipping up to Boston” was in the movie the Departed and, together with a modern version of the old standard “Tessie”, became Red Sox anthems


63 posted on 08/31/2014 4:57:34 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: lormand

They knight senior officers. Honours and knighthoods have a military division and a civilian division, the military obviously gets the military division and everyone else the civilian one.


64 posted on 08/31/2014 6:27:35 AM PDT by sinsofsolarempirefan
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To: nickcarraway
Typical radical 60s blowhard. All that crap about freedom and independence they wailed and gnashed their teeth about.

Turns out they're all a bunch of conformists.

65 posted on 08/31/2014 7:33:30 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Texas Eagle

McCartney is sooooo YESTERDAY!!!


66 posted on 08/31/2014 8:02:36 AM PDT by mason-dixon (As Mason said to Dixon, you have to draw the line somewhere.)
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To: nickcarraway
McCartney once sang "Give Ireland back to the Irish."

I say, give The Beatles back to England. Thrown in Elton John as well.

67 posted on 08/31/2014 8:04:40 AM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I think ethnically Macca is Scottish and he owns a farm in Scotland. I guess he and Sean Connery don’t see eye to eye on the issue.


68 posted on 08/31/2014 9:04:52 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: raccoonradio

Mull of Kintyre is one of my favorites from him.


69 posted on 08/31/2014 9:17:20 AM PDT by rabidralph
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To: nickcarraway

Would Scotland allow themselves to be overrun by muslims if they gained their independence? And what would they do for a national economy without the rest of U.K.


70 posted on 08/31/2014 9:19:48 AM PDT by rabidralph
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To: cherry

1—0.9% of Scotland is Muslim.
2—No thanks, Scotland is fine as it is, part of the UK.


71 posted on 08/31/2014 9:27:08 AM PDT by the scotsman (UK)
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To: Lizavetta

Nope.

That’s a myth, and I say that as a NO voter.


72 posted on 08/31/2014 9:27:39 AM PDT by the scotsman (UK)
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To: montag813

I am a staunch NO voter.


73 posted on 08/31/2014 9:27:54 AM PDT by the scotsman (UK)
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To: Bethaneidh

No.

Salmond (SNP) is a clown, and the Labour/Tory/Liberal Democrat leaders are not bad, but rather weak and insipid.

We’d need a Farage up here and we aint got him.


74 posted on 08/31/2014 9:29:25 AM PDT by the scotsman (UK)
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To: the scotsman

Wrong, Scotland will flourish on it’s own.


75 posted on 08/31/2014 10:43:09 AM PDT by MadMitch (nemo me impune lacessit)
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To: MadMitch

I never said we couldn’t go it alone, we can.

The question is are we better to. And I say NO.


76 posted on 08/31/2014 11:02:11 AM PDT by the scotsman (UK)
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To: MadMitch

So what % whiskey production?


77 posted on 08/31/2014 11:08:57 AM PDT by laterldf
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To: laterldf

There is no e in whisky from Scotland. Overseas sales are at £4.3bn by value.


78 posted on 08/31/2014 11:15:40 AM PDT by MadMitch (nemo me impune lacessit)
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To: the scotsman

I say YES. Going by the posters in windows YES is winning by about 100 to 1 (I’ve only seen 4 no posters). Are people ashamed to show no thanks posters? Will they always be known as Quislings?


79 posted on 08/31/2014 11:28:14 AM PDT by MadMitch (nemo me impune lacessit)
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To: the scotsman

Farage came to Edinburgh and had to hide in a pub until the police came to rescue him!


80 posted on 08/31/2014 11:30:26 AM PDT by MadMitch (nemo me impune lacessit)
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