Posted on 09/06/2014 1:59:54 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
None of this is supposed to be happening at all. Better Together is supported by every major media outlet in Scotland as well as in London. It has the full research resources of the British government and the backing of big business. Yet there now seems to be an irresistible momentum towards yes.
This week saw polls showing a massive eight-point swing to yes in the last month alone, with women and Labour voters leading the way. Photos of people queueing up to register to vote in Glasgow have been circulating. Maybe they were people queueing up to defend the union? Aye, right.
Here are five reasons why yes is winning.
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If Scotland can declare its independence, why not Texas or any other state or groups of states declare independence from the tyrannical federal government?
“...That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”
Bingo.
When and why did Scotland turn socialist?
My great-grandparents left the Isle of Skye, in the dark of night, rowing out to get on a ship to take them to Nova Scotia, or so I am told. This was during the last of the Highland Clearances.
I am curious.
There are plenty more than just five reasons so I will skip
a few and go straight to reason number 55,675, England sucks.
“I believe she is still the rightful monarch over Scotland”
Well maybe they are tired of being the cows surfs which
just happens to be reason #45,887 for forking jolly ol
England out.
Scottish independence is probably a really stupid move. The devil really is in the details. Just what form of association with England will there be?
I wonder what their immigration policies will be? Since the Labour Party is strongly based in Scotland, would they continue to be willing to let in jihadis? Will a more conservative England now move to correct the multi-cultural crap?
Feeling owned? Scotland has been in the driving seat frequently and has been more influential than its population size would suggest. Our last two Prime Ministers were Scottish and our current one is plainly of Scottish descent.
If the Scots do this they will end up a teeny tiny backwater overshadowed by a much more powerful and jilted neighbour. They will never again have the opportunity to have a voice that influences world events.
Something must be a-kilter.
The all encompassing question is, “how will it affect the price and quality of Scotch whiskey?”
Salmond’s policy is to have a much more liberal immigration policy than the rUK, ostensibly to cope with Scotland’s aging population. Currently, Scotland’s ethnic minority population is just over 2% compared to the UK overall of 13%, This will rocket in the event of independence, although the rUK has threatened to erect border posts to stop this.
They Yesnp didn’t seem to realise that the reason we have a common travel area with Ireland is because they have always coordinated their own immigration policy with ours, because open borders are more important to them than they are to us. With 70% of their trade coming to us and no currency union. Independence for Scotland would be an extremely self-effacing act for them, and polls suggest that people of rUK as well as the Government would be in no mood to grant any concessions to the Scots in the independence negotiations. They would be on their own, and our interests would come first. If they vote yes, they will soon realise the consequences of their folly, but by then, it will be too late.
Good riddance.
If the Scots want their independence so much, and I don’t doubt that they do, then, why do they want to join the EU afterwards? They are just exchanging one master for another. I guess they hate the English so much that the yoke of an EU master seems lighter by comparison.
I will still have to go up there, my sister lives up there now with her other half, and my nieces and nephews are likely to be Scottish. I have no wish to spend any more than I have to funding Salmond’s people’s socialist republic. Assuming of course that they won’t have to flee back south over the border when the inevitable savage cuts to the NHS have to be made thanks to Salmond’s rapidly shrinking taxbase.
The difference is that Texas is not a country, but Scotland is a country that is in union with something bigger.
I support their desire for independence, even if I don’t think it’s necessarily in their best interest. However, if they are to succeed, they are going to have to dig deep and find their Presbyterian thrifty roots that allowed them to invent the 20th century.
Otherwise, if they stick with socialism, not even the northern oil fields will save their financial behind.
and Texas and a few other states may well be voting to join Mexico. They almost have the demographics now.
You will probably find that England had a lot to do with why Scotland went socialist.
I can’t give you a very good answer, but I think it is a combination of (a) the fact that the cities of Glasgow and Edinburgh contain a high proportion of the population, (b) there is a very long history of Scottish dislike for the English, especially the governing classes in England.
This tail has been wagging the whole dog in bad faith for some time. Will not the UK be better off without Scotland?
Perhaps Hadrian's Wall will need to be rebuilt. ;>)
I saw an interesting movie a few days ago, called “How I Live Now.” It was about a terrorist nuclear strike on the UK and subsequent guerrilla attacks all over the country. It was obvious the attackers were muslim extremists (no other group fit well with the tactics and brutality). Film was produced in the UK. Perhaps they are starting to wake up to the cancer growing inside.
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