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Given that Nicola has survived the latest Tory plan to take her down a peg or two...is it time to consider devo max or federalism yet?
Is Salmond a tory now then ? I thought it was him that was causing her the problemsGiven that Nicola has survived the latest Tory plan to take her down a peg or two...is it time to consider devo max or federalism yet?
Can anyone explain how it would work now we're not in the EU as far as I can see it requires a hard boarder.
I'm not sure I like being governed by local gov., regional (Senedd), Westminster and recently EU. Only two layers required as far as I can see.It's simply a choice between being governed by a greedy shower of sh1t or being governed a different greedy shower of sh1t.
It will make little difference which one it is.
Hard border will never happen - just look for information what happened in January/February in NI.Can anyone explain how it would work now we're not in the EU as far as I can see it requires a hard boarder.
I'm not sure I like being governed by local gov., regional (Senedd), Westminster and recently EU. Only two layers required as far as I can see.
Thats what I meant by two. The extra layers allows avoidance responsibility/accountability and increases potential for corruption (edit personally don't care as much where the top layer sits as much as there are fewer layers)Only one layer, Westminster and the lame duck regional/district council.
I was in Scotland last week for four days and talked to dozen of big potatoes farmers (seed and ware) - majority of them was against Scottish Independence - one of them even called his PM a "communist". They said that independence and re-joining EU won't do any good to their businesses since "we have 10% of population of UK, but we grow 20% of spuds". As a foreigner I was slightly shocked to hear it, since I assumed that most of Scottish farmers would be more of nationalists.Lets wait and see what the Scottish people think first. Rather than what the Tory media monkeys are trying to influence.
What requires a hard border?
All this talk of 'hard borders' I find baffling because there are no borders in Europe and they have been very very lax about policing or maintaining them for decades, certainly for long before the EU came into being. As I have mentioned before, before Schengen was even a word the entire continent of Europe had difficulty with international organised crime and terrorism for years because of the ease with which wrong-uns could get people or material across European borders.
From the pov of someone who's British but really English, isn't it time we just jettisoned Scotland?
Seems to me, that the majority wanted to remain under the thumb at the last count and they probably still do.England fought for it for long enough and killed enough young boys over it in the past, so I guess it wants to keep it - crushed and under the thumb, which is more than the romans managed
Seems to me, that the majority wanted to remain under the thumb at the last count and they probably still do.
England fought for it for long enough and killed enough young boys over it in the past
Really? When was that? Last battle (Culloden, 1746) was certainly not England v Scotland but was really Scotland v Scotland. More Scots on winning (Government) side than losing (Jacobites).