Should Scotland be an independent country?

I’d be delighted if the nukes were relocated out of Scotland, an absolute waste of money when successive governments were obsessed with cutting taxes at the expense of the welfare of its citizens while keeping this nice little earner for a relatively small number of people.

Agreed

I mean the vaccine shambles thats been doing the round the last few days, that doesn't make them look like spoilt brats at all.

A row with a supplier over €300,000,000 cash in exchange for not very much (so far) in terms of the goods promised doesn't make their comms or their contract writing look good, but to say that this one spat undermines the economic and political foundations of the entire bloc is, I would say, over-selling it somewhat.

It's also only being cast in terms of Brexit in the UK, for obvious reasons that we are desperate to find anything we can show as a Brexit benefit.

Can you imagine them going anywhere else in the UK!

“Here Torquay, we are just going to pop these nukes in a bay round the corner”

“Aye, very good”

No where else would take them, it’s a crime they are there!

Still no one has answered my q about the branch office leaders in Scotchland, that’s how effective the opposition parties are.

No where else would take them

No one in Kent wanted to wake up living next to a lorry park - they'll get put where the government wants to put them with zero say from the locals.

Nissan staying put after a massive subsidy, woohoo! Strike 1 for BJ.

I’d take a lorry park over death machines any day.

But that's telling in of itself - Nissan not leaving is shown as a huge victory, not Nissan investing hundreds of millions in a new production line, but just not shutting up and fucking off is now presented as a success.

Scotland is a colony. It’s only called a union to square the white supremacy / white mans burden circle. Until you start framing it like this it will never make sense.

Agreed, absolute shambles spun to make it look good. All those guys in Sunderland who voted for it until they were given redundancy notices, I wonder what they think now?

Would you have a link to the FT article? Don’t recall reading that one in particular.

Thanks.

Agreed. It’s an occupied colony, same as northern Ireland and Wales. Sooner the ‘union’ is dismantled the better.

That's a narrow lens to view through..

Would you have a link to the FT article? Don’t recall reading that one in particular.

Thanks.

https://www.ft.com/content/cc6b0d9a-d8cc-4ddb-8c57-726df018c10e?shareType=nongift

Which end of the lens are you at?

yoon alert

Read my previous, I think you’ll find otherwise.

LOL

My reasons for supporting the current status quo are neatly summarised here (figures which Dirty Deek wanted to reframe)..

Source https://www.gov.scot/publications/government-expenditure-revenue-scotland-gers-2019-20/pages/1/

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So we’re too poor?

Looks like you're not able to afford to rule yourselves, and have to accept being ruled by Boris if you don't want to starve.

A Scots pal of mine is an ardent independence advocate, and a life-long left-winger. He’s left Labour behind and is fully behind the SNP, but that means that he’s had to get behind a collective that includes some pretty right-wing types, which really doesn’t sit well with me.

I don’t know enough about the make-up of the SNP, but we all know what comes to mind if you think of English Nationalists. Where does the SNP sit in the political spectrum?

Any reference to the IMF bailout in 1976, prevailing economic conditions, membership of the EU and justifications for Brexit for those who oppose Scots Indy are of course forbidden.

Indeed, and doff our glengarrys and be eternally grateful for being part of his brigadoon theme park.