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Scottish leader reaches out to Germany in bid to stay in EU
Associated Press ^ | Aug. 10, 2016 3:30 AM EDT

Posted on 08/20/2016 2:59:37 AM PDT by Olog-hai

The head of the Scottish government has reached out to Germany, the European Union’s most populous member, as she tries to keep Scotland in the bloc — and is arguing that Scotland should be able to remain part of the EU without leaving the United Kingdom.

Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon told German broadcaster ARD that “because we are in unprecedented circumstances, we should be prepared to think about unprecedented solutions. And that’s the spirit that I will have in any discussions.”

The U.K. as a whole — which includes England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland — voted narrowly to leave the EU in a June 23 referendum, but voters in Scotland voted by a wide margin to remain in the 28-nation bloc. …

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TOPICS: Germany; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: brexit; eussr; nicolasturgeon; scotland
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From ten days ago. The left loves that EU empire.
1 posted on 08/20/2016 2:59:37 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Treason to the auld alliance! It better hae b’en France/S

Sturgeon needs to go home and smoke a cigar.


2 posted on 08/20/2016 3:14:59 AM PDT by Candor7 ( Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: Olog-hai
Scotland needs to stop embarrassing itself.

Membership in the EU is not free. They need to understand how much they will be forking over each year to prop up the bloated EU bureaucracy.

3 posted on 08/20/2016 3:19:35 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob
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To: Candor7

I would or I had seen the day
That treason thus could sell us
My auld gray head had lain in clay
Wi’ Bruce and loyal Wallace

But pith and power, till my last hour
I’ll make this declaration
We were bought and sold for English gold
Such a parcel of rogues in a nation

Scotland ...same as ever it ever was. Just a different source for the treasonous rogues.


4 posted on 08/20/2016 3:29:14 AM PDT by dasboot
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To: Cowboy Bob; All

Sturgeon’s party, the Scottish National Party (SNP), is “social-democratic”, so that ought to tell anyone where she’s coming from, and it is not for Scotland’s good by any means. (The CPSU started as the Social Democratic Labor Party of Russia, for those that have not figured out what “social democrats” or “democratic socialists” really are.)


5 posted on 08/20/2016 3:30:22 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: dasboot

yes, the Scots have lost their fight to the Euroweenie Culture.

But there are still a few warriors left in the Cuillins
around Glen Brittle.


6 posted on 08/20/2016 3:43:29 AM PDT by Candor7 ( Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: Olog-hai

The full version of Robert Burns epic poem about the Scottish nobility selling their country into English subservience

Fareweel to a’ our Scottish fame,
Fareweel our ancient glory;
Fareweel ev’n to the Scottish name,
Sae fam’d in martial story.
Now Sark rins over Solway sands,
An’ Tweed rins to the ocean,
To mark where England’s province stands-
Such a parcel of rogues in a nation!

What force or guile could not subdue,
Thro’ many warlike ages,
Is wrought now by a coward few,
For hireling traitor’s wages.
The English stell we could disdain,
Secure in valour’s station;
But English gold has been our bane-
Such a parcel of rogues in a nation!

O would, or I had seen the day
That Treason thus could sell us,
My auld grey head had lien in clay,
Wi’ Bruce and loyal Wallace!
But pith and power, till my last hour,
I’ll mak this declaration;
We’re bought and sold for English gold-
Such a parcel of rogues in a nation!


7 posted on 08/20/2016 3:47:36 AM PDT by littleharbour
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To: littleharbour

This time they’ll sell out for Merkel gold.


8 posted on 08/20/2016 3:49:29 AM PDT by littleharbour
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To: Cowboy Bob

Membership in the EU is not free, and IIRC Scotland had been getting a big share of the handouts.


9 posted on 08/20/2016 3:51:25 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftist totalitarian governments are the biggest killer of citizens in the world.)
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To: Olog-hai

When reached for comment, Angela Merkel was said to reply, “Badeeee baaa burr badop baroooo...”


10 posted on 08/20/2016 4:01:47 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: Olog-hai

Scotland didn’t have the balls to leave Britain in 2014 - by a double-digit margin too - and they don’t now.


11 posted on 08/20/2016 4:03:15 AM PDT by Trump20162020
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To: Olog-hai

“Ye canna mix mater and antimatter cold”

Montgomery Scott


12 posted on 08/20/2016 4:47:20 AM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Olog-hai

Scotland needs the welfare $$$.
They don’t have too many Muslims—YET!


13 posted on 08/20/2016 6:58:33 AM PDT by Flintlock (The ballot box STOLEN, our soapbox taken away--the BULLET BOX is left to us.)
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To: Olog-hai

Sturgeon wants to stay in the EU while continuing to receive all the benefits, financial, of being in the UK.

They are too dependant the on other people’s money to survive on their own and they should have learned their lesson with the failed independence vote.


14 posted on 08/20/2016 7:05:58 AM PDT by submarinerswife (Allahu FUBAR.)
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To: littleharbour
I had an Uncle, one of my Fathers Brothers, who, on occasion, would get rip-roaring drunk and recite this piece.
He was a damn good carpenter also.
15 posted on 08/20/2016 7:08:53 AM PDT by Tainan (Cogito, ergo conservatus sum -- "The Taliban is inside the building")
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To: littleharbour

No ! What is the song about the Scotsman who passed out drunk on the side of the road, the young girls who found him and tied a blue bow around his winkie. I think John Denver sang it best.

Now that is a Scottish classic.


16 posted on 08/20/2016 7:10:35 AM PDT by submarinerswife (Allahu FUBAR.)
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To: Olog-hai
As person who's heritage is Scottish, I am truly perplexed as to how a party who would advocate independence from England, would in turn advocate dependence on the European Union.
17 posted on 08/20/2016 7:16:00 AM PDT by jerod (Pro-Abortion Gun Control Freaks & Environmental Nuts who hated Capitalism? The Nazi's)
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I believe an effort to convince everyone of the good fortune of the past two or three decades....all lead back to the EU. But you could go and look at increased tourism to Scotland, and fairly significant commerce situation....and realize that what jobs came....was more due to capitalism working right than the EU regulations.


18 posted on 08/20/2016 7:43:55 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: Olog-hai

We want our independence to be dependent on a large state!


19 posted on 08/20/2016 8:29:19 AM PDT by tbw2
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To: Trump20162020

It’s not a mater of “balls” but rather self-interest. Scotland is heavily subsidized by the rest of the UK, and a substantial number of its voting population realized that it would suffer economically as an independent nation.


20 posted on 08/20/2016 8:40:58 AM PDT by riverdawg
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