Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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#1
``We are better off `together`.
``together` we have influence in the world``
``will fight with everthing I have to keep us `together``
``together` we count for more in the world``
``together`we have a unique influence in the world``
``we are stronger `together``
............was he talking...........europe or scotland?.............
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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#2
find this one rather strange,
tories are hated in scotland
and cameron sticks with them
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#3
doesn't seem to be much logic here, over hadrians wall the blues are as welcome as a turd im a bouncy castle.
the other parties are strangely quiet over the issue.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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#4
I would let the Scots have TOTAL independence but they would have to fend for themselves with no financial help from central government.
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Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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#5
There's plenty of room for the nuclear subs at Dover then Jan?
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Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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#6
It's doubtful Dave was trying to make a political party point on the proposed issue of separation of Scotland from Britain, but rather one of national unity of the four constituent countries.
I don't believe British union is considered by anyone as being subordinate to party policy, which is why many Scots who voted for the SNP are unionists.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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#7
Why would you (if you were Scottish) vote for the SNP if you are a Unionist Alexander ? - the SNPs sole aim is independance from the UK; you would know that before you put your cross.
Roger
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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#8
Roger, are voters in Scotland or indeed the UK as a whole spoilt or spoiled for choice?
Perhaps the voters of Scotland simply did not wish to vote for a party allied to, connected to or controlled by a main group at Westminster?
Maybe the SNP simply fielded enough decent candidates and the other Partys less so?
The SNP do not have it all to themselves in any case...
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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#9
I am sure DHB could make room
More seriously I am sure there are plenty of 'safe havens' to be found around the coast of England that would welcome the nuclear subs.
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Guest 703- Registered: 30 Jul 2010
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#10
I thought the nuclear subs were orginally sited there when they were
1) new technology and people were scared of them spontaneously combusting
2) a target for the ruskies
I wonder where we'd put them using the same criteria today? Got to be on the west coast so they can reach deep water quick so Liverpool's in (and it's got a cruise terminal with spare capacity), Lowestoft's out
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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#11
You have your thinking-cap on Ray.
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Guest 641- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#12
It would be a bit difficult for the Conservative party to be taken seriously in Scotland as they only have one MP representing the country (unsure of the constituancy), this has got to be a collective offer including all three political parties.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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#13
"all three" Barry?
All this pushing a Westminster agenda could easily yield unintended consequences.
These voters are people, not sheep. Best for the opposing viewpoints to be freely aired...all then rejected, most likely.
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Guest 641- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#14
Well maybe just two, I was kidding with all three to see what sort of response it would get
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#15
flashman upset the scots with his rather patronising offer of possible goodies if the voters said no.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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#16
A touch of "Stranger Danger" there Howard, especially a stranger with 'sweeties'.
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Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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#17
Roger, the opinion polls show that many SNP voters are unionists.
However, in Scotland there is a desire for a change to the Union, so not everyone who wants change to the present establishment is for an end to Union with England.
I too am for a refounded Union, first of all without a private family as head.
Guest 703- Registered: 30 Jul 2010
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#18
I visit Scotland regularly and haven't noticed any great call on the streets for independence. I had a feeling the pro SNP vote was a disaffected Labour vote from those who wouldn't vote for either of the other two major parties rather than a genuine desire for independence.
I was going to look for election statistics to see if they gave any backing to this view but hit a bottle of cider at lunchtime and gave up looking. Just been reading this though and the third comment down (from a Peter Thompson) is interesting reading in this respect.
If you don't want to read the whole article, it's summed up at the end -
"I would suggest that Lord Robertson was prescient about devolution killing political parties stone dead but he got it wrong about which parties. Labour in Scotland 23% in opinion polls this week and falling. If a general election was held next week, the SNP would take 43 Westminster seats."
http://labourlist.org/2012/02/losing-faith/?tw_p=twt
