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The SNP cut college places and reduced the number of university places so that they looked good. It was a vote winner and nothing else. Never mind the untrained and unemployable youth that we have, we need to look better than the Tories.
What , the SNP fiddling the figures , surely not .
Hey , Luckie eddie , make sure you have your'e SNP supplied blinkers on before you read this - i'm sure they'll translate it into something like "all our good Scottish students get their tuition for free and we make those English pay for theirs , titter"
 
Fraid not as far as the believer bit go's , i just can't wait to see the train wreck that an independent Scotland will be (i like disaster movies ):british:
Aplogies to any no voters reading - but you've made your bed with the socialists for too long ............ .
 
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Alex Salmond tries out the new glasses being issued to the Yes supporters.
They are being told to wear these glasses at All times for their own safety...

At the first sign of anything which may alarm them, such as the Weir report on independence, they turn completely black.

He got the idea from the Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy book....

Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses - Hitchhikers

Rumour has it, they are working on a similar in-ear device to block any information detrimental to their Cause


Did somebody mention blinkers ?

I think it's special glasses they are issued with as above.
 

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What , the SNP fiddling the figures , surely not .
Hey , Luckie eddie , make sure you have your'e SNP supplied blinkers on before you read this - i'm sure they'll translate it into something like "all our good Scottish students get their tuition for free and we make those English pay for theirs , titter"

Why do you think I'm an SNP voter?
Cause I ain't! And I'm not Conservative or Labour either
 
I think he has made that assumption as you are follwing a lead largely driven by them, in fact core to their party values...maybe not a voter but a believer?
 
So, as has been pointed out, we will lose our Pound (oh yes we will..eventually..for the euro) thanks to the eec, And we'll lose our stalking and our guns thanks to mad Kenny Mc.

Any other advantages to voting yes ?.

Time's running out. As an excited yes voter posted on facebook "only one more sleep to go".
 
So, as has been pointed out, we will lose our Pound (oh yes we will..eventually..for the euro) thanks to the eec, And we'll lose our stalking and our guns thanks to mad Kenny Mc.

Any other advantages to voting yes ?.

Time's running out. As an excited yes voter posted on facebook "only one more sleep to go".

What utter rot. We will lose neither our guns nor our stalking through a Yes vote. You are just making stuff up. Is this all the "Better Together" camp can do? Cause it's doing my head in, having to listen to such bilge coming from you guys at every turn. If Scotland is such a dependent basket-case why are you even here? If you're so much wiser than the rest of us why aren't you somewhere wonderful?
 
What utter rot. We will lose neither our guns nor our stalking through a Yes vote. You are just making stuff up. Is this all the "Better Together" camp can do? Cause it's doing my head in, having to listen to such bilge coming from you guys at every turn. If Scotland is such a dependent basket-case why are you even here? If you're so much wiser than the rest of us why aren't you somewhere wonderful?

you're an idiot, it's just an observation though... bit like...... with Salmon's own plans to leave us using a foreign currency with business and financial instituations already planning to leave based on this and his plan to cut £400m from the NHS is fantastic.

Lets not forget that the yes vote only guarantees we lose any hope of real independence because we MUST accept foreign currency rule which at first will be the pound and oh yes 'fingers crossed' the effing Euro.... what a fanny you are.

Voting yes isn't about independence, if it was we'd have a currency ready to go and industry supporting the move..... it's about one clown and his ego playing every idiot with an emotional trump card. I don't care what you vote but I do hope you take responsibility if you get what you want and Scotland disintegrates
 
I think he has made that assumption as you are follwing a lead largely driven by them, in fact core to their party values...maybe not a voter but a believer?

To be honest I'm somewhere between Labour and the Greens but as I said Labour have done themselves no good during this campaign whatsoever.
 
What utter rot. We will lose neither our guns nor our stalking through a Yes vote. You are just making stuff up. Is this all the "Better Together" camp can do? Cause it's doing my head in, having to listen to such bilge coming from you guys at every turn. If Scotland is such a dependent basket-case why are you even here? If you're so much wiser than the rest of us why aren't you somewhere wonderful?

Exactly this.

However, you can at least get a sense of the likely direction of policy based on the SNPs explicit ideology with regard to land redistribution, firearms ownership and wildlife management.

Land redistribution: they are keen on finding ways to break up the large estates and limit the amount of land held by single individuals. This has clear implications for the sporting estates and larger farms, with obvious knock on implications for (at the very least) red deer stalking.

Firearms: they have long been committed to devolved firearms legislation anyway, and are very hostile to extensive (or indeed any) private ownership of firearms. Precisely how hostile they are, and how committed to actually removing all private ownership is unclear - though McKaskill himself seems determined to ban all private ownership. This has very clear implications for all shooting sports.

Wildlife management: they appear to favour an American model of wildlife management, where all wildlife is the property of the state (ie. the deer on your land actually belong to the 'Scottish people'). SNH in particular appears entirely committed to this approach, and is explicitly in favour of taking direct control of, at the very least, setting cull targets. However, based on conversations with members of SNH, what they really want is to control every aspect, from population monitoring through setting cull targets to actually conducting the culls (or at least licensing them via tendered tickets for specific numbers of animals). They are vehemently opposed to the current system, both on ideological grounds and on the grounds that it prevents the emergence of coherent, landscape level management plans.

The first two, I think, are rather ambitious, and even with a strong Yes mandate, it will take years for anything really substantial to change - during which time there is every possibility of the SNP being voted out. To put it in perspective, even in Zimbabwe, it took ZANU PF about 20 years to get really serious about land seizure!

The last I think is the most worrying, because there is already considerable traction for changing the way deer are managed at the national level, and it is something that is likely to proceed, in one way or another, even in the event of a No vote. My guess is that, within 10 years or so, we will start to see the emergence of local cull targets set by SNH (ie. they will tell a given estate or farm how many should be taken in that year), and stalkers will have to apply for (and probably buy) a per animal ticket. I'd guess that this will be accompanied by an increase in the qualifications required to actually be allowed to stalk - probably to DSC2 or equivalent, and possibly beyond. Given the importance of visiting stalkers to the rural economy, I doubt this will be prevented, but I'm fairly certain that they will be obliged to always be accompanied by a locally licensed guide (as is the case in, for example, Africa).

My predictions anyway.

I like things the way they are thanks, don't need a bunch of poltical muppets screwing it up.

Scotland isn't "a dependant basket case" (not yet anyway), where exactly did I say that...now you're making stuff up.

Bilge eh, got your peril sensitive glasses on then :)
 
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you're an idiot, it's just an observation though... bit like...... with Salmon's own plans to leave us using a foreign currency with business and financial instituations already planning to leave based on this and his plan to cut £400m from the NHS is fantastic.

Lets not forget that the yes vote only guarantees we lose any hope of real independence because we MUST accept foreign currency rule which at first will be the pound and oh yes 'fingers crossed' the effing Euro.... what a fanny you are.

Voting yes isn't about independence, if it was we'd have a currency ready to go and industry supporting the move..... it's about one clown and his ego playing every idiot with an emotional trump card. I don't care what you vote but I do hope you take responsibility if you get what you want and Scotland disintegrates

:rofl:

The question on the ballot paper and the Yes or No options in answer to it say otherwise.

Aye!.webp
 
Lets not forget that the yes vote only guarantees we lose any hope of real independence because we MUST accept foreign currency rule which at first will be the pound and oh yes 'fingers crossed' the effing Euro.... what a fanny you are.

Paul
Just my view but I would say that the pound would be looking to us to bolster it as it is predominantly oil that supports it at the moment
Long term who knows as the EU seem not to keen to let us in then it won't the euro for a while and that's the way I'd like it to stay
What's to stop us setting up our own currency based on the pound?
Whatever it is it needs to be decided within 4-6 months after the referendum as this would give time to get the notes printed. Even then we could still use the pound with a like for like exchange with the new currency.
This is where the bargaining chips will be used by those in power at the time
Just because the rest of the UK don't recognise it doesn't mean that it isn't achievable or viable.
 
tell you yes voters what..... if you are so confident in a better Scotland let's draw up a contract where I vote yes but my vote is secured by a £100,000 guarantee in Bank of England notes. It's simple really, if I get a better deal you own me nothing but is I lose out you owe me £100,000 and I only need one person to sign on the dotted line.

Any takers?

hows about giving something to your country instead of taking :lol:
 
As a 58 year old who has only visited your beautiful country once I hope that whatever way the vote goes all parties afterwards will come together as one. Personally I hope Scotland does remain part of the UK but only the Scots can decide.
 
Paul
Just my view but I would say that the pound would be looking to us to bolster it as it is predominantly oil that supports it at the moment
Long term who knows as the EU seem not to keen to let us in then it won't the euro for a while and that's the way I'd like it to stay
What's to stop us setting up our own currency based on the pound?
Whatever it is it needs to be decided within 4-6 months after the referendum as this would give time to get the notes printed. Even then we could still use the pound with a like for like exchange with the new currency.
This is where the bargaining chips will be used by those in power at the time
Just because the rest of the UK don't recognise it doesn't mean that it isn't achievable or viable.


There are lots of company owners who say they won't survive for even a few months if out of the eec.
They say they will solve that problem...by moving South.
And as for the rest of it...get the notes printed etc?...

:doh:

ps... There's a company called Thomas De La Rue who print banknotes for a lot of countries around the world.They also print the UK banknotes
I used to know someone who worked for them.
They're in England and doing rather well.
 
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Appalling...and depressing... levels of ignorance about economics and politics on display throughout this thread.

It is clear that some of the yes voters on here haven't got a scooby what they are voting for!! Shame really.
 
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