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12:46 Thu Aug 28
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He is not a bully but a very shrewd politician. He has got the Westminster suited and booted, cloned, elite running around in a muck sweat because they have severely underestimated him an his appeal.
Cameron et al are literally afraid of going up to Scotland because they realise that their very appearance gives votes to the yes campaign.
This run for Scottish independence was signalled years ago and Salmond had used a Bullingdon boys run government to his own advantage.
How ironic it would be that a Prime Minister with a very Scottish surname is culpable in the break up of the UK.
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Pub Bigot
12:41 Thu Aug 28
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Alec Salmond is a fat Avram Grant lookalike.
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Pub Bigot
12:39 Thu Aug 28
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Alec Salmond is a fat Avram Grant lookalike.
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12:32 Thu Aug 28
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To me there could be an advantage in being separated from an independent Scotland.
We could reboot our democratic systems for a start and also refocus on where we stand in the world.
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SurfaceAgentX2Zero
10:34 Thu Aug 28
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Lloyds/HBOS and TSB will also be down here within 12 hours of a yes vote.
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JohnnyL
10:05 Thu Aug 28
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Independence will undoubtedly mean that a large number of companies will move their central functions and head offices south. The much derided RBS, for instance, will have to move to a Head Office to London and probably have to revert to NatWest Group ! Their Fred Goodwin built Edinburgh offices can become a hotel for all those new tourists who will visit an independent Scotland. Others will have to do likewise. Sounds like a good idea and a boast for the economy .... Of England.
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DaillyShaggedMyWife
9:32 Wed Aug 27
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And the opposing view, it could be said, wilfully forgets that things could get better in an independent Scotland.
Is Salmond playing on people's blind optimism and imagination? Quite possibly so. But that being true doesn't necessarily make the idea of independence as a whole a bad one, or a good one for that matter. It's unrelated.
What I also think is being wilfully ignored, or under-reported, is the simple fact that a key motivation for voters is just to be in sole control of their affairs, in good times and bad, governed by a party (whichever party that is - there's no guarantee it has to be the SNP) that they have voted for, rather than, in part, by a party in Westminster that they would never vote for.
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Alex G
8:54 Wed Aug 27
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That sort of viewpoint wilfully forgets that things could get worse should Scotland go for independence.
However one person's idea of things getting better isn't necessarily the same as someone else's. Hence why the blank canvas of what independence means is so powerful.
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DaillyShaggedMyWife
9:26 Tue Aug 26
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The debate isn't about whether or not they're well off as part of the UK.
The debate is whether or not they'd be even better off as an independent nation. A lot people would look at what has been achieved without full control of their affairs and suspect they would be.
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Alex G
8:36 Tue Aug 26
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Or it shows them that they're actually pretty well off as part of the UK.
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DaillyShaggedMyWife
7:25 Tue Aug 26
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There was a lot of detail missing in the White Paper, but you can't blame people in putting their faith in him.
Tuition fees are already free, and prescriptions are now free. That would lead people to wonder how else they could be better off if they had sole control of their affairs.
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Alex G
7:10 Tue Aug 26
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It does seem to me that the Yes campaign involves creating a blank canvas of what they want to achieve so that the voters can let their imagination runaway with what a free Scotland will be. And then not explaining how they'l pay for it.
In the past week on facebook I've been told that if Scotland wins independence everyone will be a few grand a year better off, child poverty will be eradicated, food banks won't be needed any more, car duty will be 50 p a litre less, students will never have to pay tuition fees and the NHS will provide a far better but still free service.
And no taxes will be increased. Presumably ever.
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mentor
6:54 Tue Aug 26
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Latvia are coping on their own.
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COOL HAND LUKE
6:37 Tue Aug 26
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Bloke's a twat. He wants Scotland to sail off on its own, ably supported in every danger area by the good old English.
In bed or out of barracks is the old expression.
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jools268
4:50 Tue Aug 26
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I dont think that Salmond has taken into account the depth of feeling about a "currency union" in the rest of the UK.
If he thinks for one minute that the public will stand for a foreign country being tied to our currency and all that entails, then he is sorely mistaken.
It would be political suicide for any party to give that the go ahead.
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bruuuno
4:45 Tue Aug 26
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13 Brentford Rd 4:36 Tue Aug 26
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That's the thing, the scots are exact the same as 99.999% of Englishman in that they're governed by a load of toffs from another world making decisions hundreds of miles away without our say so
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mentor
4:39 Tue Aug 26
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I like the Iapetus Suture, in much the same way as I like the English Channel and the Bosphorus. If only man had heeded what nature intended.
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13 Brentford Rd
4:36 Tue Aug 26
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Why do the Scots who don't want the Tories to govern them think that it's unfair?
Many people wherever they live including ENGLAND don't get the government they voted for, it's called DEMOCRACY!
Their whole argument is based on not being governed by what they percieve as England just because the House of Parliament is in London, however they don't mind keeping the Pound as it benefits them.
They're economy will be dependant on North sea gas and oil which could run out within 40/50 years, which says it all about their plans.
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Turan
4:06 Tue Aug 26
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No they are not, why do you ask that?
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Leigh Jim
4:05 Tue Aug 26
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silly zoltan
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