Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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I feel that the United Kingdom is ripping its self apart just like the Roman Empire did 100s of years ago.We have no law or order now the public does want it wants to do.
Very old saying but a very true one."UNTIED WE STAND DIVIDED WE FALL"
If Scotland goes its own way ,and Northern Ireland ,the UK will fall apart.
The UK must stay as one
Also stop trying to sort the world out that should be left up to the big players.
We must also get a strong leader who will keep the UK as one Scotland must now be told "You have got as much power as you are going to get,Also their MPs must sit in their own power house up in Scotland .Scotland is a great county with a great history behind it ,but that will all be lost if they try to go it alone,they need England and England needs Scotland but by working with each other again we can turn the tables round making the UK a small power house again and also we need Northern Ireland and Wales with us.
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Guest 1881- Registered: 16 Oct 2016
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Shift happens.
Britain was the world's superpower at the turn of the 20th Century. Things change, sometimes for better sometimes for worse (hopefully before becoming better).
Just because you don't take an interest in politics doesn't mean that politics won't take an interest in you. PERICLES.
Captain Haddock
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William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
THE SECOND COMING
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand;
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
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44.7% of Scots voters recently indicated their desire to leave the Union and take back control, approximately (only) 400,000 fewer than the remainers.
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Guest 1590- Registered: 22 Oct 2015
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We know what Yate's believed his poetry caused in 1922,don't we Captain!
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Scotland's biggest problem is their First Minister who driven by a desire to get her name in the history books rather than do what's best for Scotland. They need to stay in the union to receive funding for their heavy public spending, no tuition fees and free prescriptions for all don't come cheap. The oil is running out too.
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Button- Location: Dover
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I'm sure the Scottish electorate is more than capable of deciding what their biggest problem is and what they need.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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jheron wrote:We know what Yate's believed his poetry caused in 1922,don't we Captain!
FWIW I believe Yeats (like many of us) overestimated his own influence, in this case in the post Anglo-Irish Treaty and the setting up of the Free State 'unpleasantness'.
(Co-incidentally I was actually in Béal na Bláth last week!)
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Having just returned from the Highlands most folk are happy to stay as the UK and have no wish to go it alone.
Guest 1033- Registered: 23 Aug 2013
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You might find that people in other areas of Scotland would like to leave the union, and remain as part of the EEC. I think there may be a similar feeling in Northern Ireland, especially as there will be a border of some description between north and south. Personally, I really don't care if any country wants to leave, can't see it making any difference to me, I'm sure that I buy more from the EEC than from Scotland or Ireland.
Incidentally, my mother used to live in Golspie.
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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We love Golspie and will be going back soon.But I still hope that Scotland and the others stay within the UK.
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"