TailWindHome
Über Member
Imagine hating Sturgeon so much you go in to bat for Salmond.
Nicola Sturgeon Arrested
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AndyRM
Elder Goth
Or hating Scotland so much that you move to England (isn't that what @First Aspect did)?
First Aspect
Legendary Member
You do know that it's possible to be in favour of both Scotland and England? The envelope term I use is "British".
I moved for personal reasons, but I would happily move back later in life because Scotland as such is great. I can still think so yet dislike populism, and be of the view that independence would be flagrant self harming.
Fwiw I was also taking on a mortgage again, and paying several thousand less income tax made what we wanted just about affordable here, but not in Scotland. I wouldn't say it was the deciding factor but it was definitely a factor.
Xipe Totec
Something nasty in the woodshed
There's a funny parallel between thinking someone you despise should be repeatedly re-arrested and interrogated until you get the answer you want, and what some people say about the idea of a second referendum, 12+ years after the previous one after which every promise was broken & every material change has been the polar opposite of what was promised.
Ain't there?
First Aspect
Legendary Member
Are you being intentionally ironic, or are you proposing to keep running independence referendums *after* a yes vote?
Xipe Totec
Something nasty in the woodshed
Imagine living in both Scotland & England at different times of your life (as I have) and not realising that they are different countries.
Xipe Totec
Something nasty in the woodshed
Read it again. Go on - it's not very many words.
AndyRM
Elder Goth
Genuine lol at that. Really? Because that's quite something.
First Aspect
Legendary Member
Amateur constitutional law is fun, folks. The UK is a country, with "countries" in it. Which one is a country.
AndyRM
Elder Goth
Psamathe
Legendary Member
I wonder if part of the criticism of Ms Sturgeon is her reaction when people were rainsing concerns about the SNP finances. Reports that she at best responded to those concerns with "lack of curiosity" and at worst was shutting out those raising questions, rejecting their "questions".
First Aspect
Legendary Member
Yes, but he is largely inconsequential. More consequential is the governing party and the then head thereof not being able to organise a pis3 up in a brewery. You keep ducking the reason why this is news, which is if it's not criminality then it is incompetence. Take your pick.
Xipe Totec
Something nasty in the woodshed
I understand that the UK is correctly described as a unitary state, not a country.
Ian H
Shaman
Scotland has its own legal system, a separate parliament, and can print its own currency.
