Should Scotland be an independent country?

Would those crafty Scot's need their own highway code? I'll be damned if we allow them to just run off and copy ours.

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Green lights

Gae oon ya wee bawbag.

I would expect them to switch to driving on the right the very second they can, so there will need to be some re-drafting of the HC. Are you up for the job Snotters?

Already started.

Dematerialised 'services' such as SEO revenues are hard to define as occurring over any international border... Hence the controversy.

How very dare you. You know fine well all transport in iScotia will be dematerialised unicorn chariots. Partisan scum.

the French cant wait to come to an Independent Scotland- vote Yes!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbB3cEytAcY

http://www.alexcartoon.com/

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My Scottish family's opinions:
my nana lives in the Outer Hebridies and is reported to not talking to anyone about this matter with the only word about it being that she will move to England if Scotland becomes independent. She's born and bred Hebridean.

My S-Dad is super pissed off because he can't vote (or vote for a referendum), he's from Glasgow but lives in England.

My mum is more concerned that her mum ^ would move near her if Scotland chooses to be separate.. so she's hoping for a NO.

she will move to England if Scotland becomes independent. She's born and bred Hebridean

I get the impression that Islanders in general regard the inhabitants of the central belt as no better than the English, and at least being governed by the English means benign neglect rather than meddling interference from Edinburgh.

e.g. http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/mar/17/scottish-independence-islands-home-rule

My mum is more concerned that her mum ^ would move near her if Scotland chooses to be separate.. so she's hoping for a NO.

Arf.

I love how my Faceache feed is filled with people saying things like 'neo-liberal elite' and 'lender of last resort' where two weeks ago it was filled with ice bucket challenge

Great cartoon Tester, well found

BBC impartiality claims rumble on. Here's a decent, informative article about the research of John Robertson at University of West of Scotland, published earlier this year. This research has been widely circulated on social media over the last months and can be considered as being behind the anger now felt (the debacle with Nick Robinson just lit the fuse really - something that is not being widely reported). Professor Robertson presented to the Education and Culture Committee, along with representatives from the BBC, who had accused him and his employer of bringing the BBC into disrepute by publishing his findings.

https://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/john-robertson/bbc-bias-and-scots-referendum-new-report

Short video on the same subject:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ajd4R-9BEIw

p.s. I have a massive amount of respect for the BBC as a whole, what they stand for, and in the main, the way they work. The reporting around the accusations of BBC bias seem somewhat truncated and without background.

is it deliberate editorial bias though or just people not very good at their job? I mean its written into their operating standards/code of conduct - surely it would just be a case of for every story about iScotland, they would show one about the union, or am I being stupid?

Eh. Surely you understand it's how you choose to tell the story that's important?

Anyway. All the English losing their minds over the SNP should be focusing on what's going on in their own back yard with Nasty Nigel. Same root causes as Scottish Independence drive, totally opposite reaction on the political spectrum. But at least you've the dignified and neutral voice of the BBC to fall back upon...

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/video/2014/sep/15/ukip-england-east-world-upside-down-video

Still can't believe the Orange Order had a march, unimpeded, in Edinburgh.

why shouldn't they? I'm no supporter, but to ban them would just harden their resolve to be even bigger arseholes

Ha. Just seen a tweet by Alastair Campbell of all people describing a peaceful protest in front of the BBC offices as 'Putinesque'.

From the man credited with the dodgy dossier and who ignored a million marching against the war in Iraq this really is shameless.

so what else you got? apart from this hatred of Westminster?

Instead of trying to personalise the argument to my 'hatred of Westminster' don't you feel inclined to take it upon yourself to explore the facts?

Doesn't it trouble you that all mainstream media outlets are presenting a skewed narrative on events happening in your country?

Is the irony of one of the most disingenuous, warmongering PR men of our time calling a peaceful protest in front of the BBC 'Putinesque' lost on you?

Have you taken the time to read The Wee Blue Book, or any similar literature to understand the arguments put forward by Independence advocates in greater detail?

Salmond's being compared to non-democratic figureheads from Mugabe to Putin for... encouraging democratic debate and highlighting institutional bias. Yet the issue for you is someone else's dislike of Westminster politics, which is shared by millions of other people in England and the rest of the UK even if they respond by voting for someone who can actually be described as at least a xenophobe if not an outright racist.

What have you got, apart from this blank refusal to actually engage with the issues in hand?

Let's face it, 'English, Welsh, Northern Irish, and Cornish Broadcasting Corporation' doesn't have quite the same ring as the BBC.

#ewnicbc