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Scottish Independence
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True? Should Scotland have its independence and be allowed to prosper (for the 50 years till the oil runs out)?addicted7 wrote:Norway's prosperity is very much due to wealth from resources, namely oil in the North Sea. Interestingly Scotland has more oil than Norway, but it cannot exploit it's potential due to the greed of England, Scotland being non-independent and all.
Potentially Scotland could be one of the best countries to live in Europe if it was independent, which is ironic, because the English often taunt the Scottish nationalists saying 'You'd be nothing without us, let's see how you'd cope on your own'. Theoretically Scotland would cope quite admirably on their own and would probably have enough money left over to help deprived areas of their poor English neighbours. Afterall it would make sense for Scotland to have a strong and prosperous neighbour with whom they conduct most of their trade.
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They have a massive percentage of employed people working for the government and huge healthcare costs.
I would love to see an independent Scotland, but I am afraid it is not as simple as some Nationalists here make out. And the rest of britian doesnt want Scotland to break up, because they will be left with a daft looking flag.
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I hate to be pedantic but just because Scotland became independent doesn't mean we have to get rid of the Scottish Saltire. We didn't get rid of St patrick's Cross when Ireland split up.
That said we could make the flag look really stupid looking by adding the Welsh Dragon and the Red Hand of Ulster. :eek:
I dont know, the Red Hand of Ulster fisting the Welsh Dragon could look good.
Unusual...
The same with Wales...
No. Same as the North East wouldn't either. In fact most of the UK other than the South East and London would have trouble.
Plus, they'd get alot of the SAS and alot of Nuclear subs, nukes, and Ports. It just isn't going to happen.
How do you work that out? Its the Royal Navy, unless they still wanted to have the Queen as Head of State I'd say all those subs, nukes etc. were ours.
As would London. It relies on the rest of the UK, not only for people, but because if the UK was reduced to London and the South East all the multi-nationals would locate their HQs to Germany.
Who is we? It was a Scottish king who took over England and the Act of Union was voted on by a Scottish Parliament. They have more MPs per head of population, the Prime Minister is Scottish, so is the Chancellor. The Queen is more Scottish than English
No reason why they shouldn't have the Queen as the head of state. Anyway not that it would matter - Canada, Australia et al also have the Queen as head of state, but I suspect they would be rather pissed off if the RN decided their shipping belonged to the Brits. Also when you say 'ours' Scottish taxpayers also paid for those shipping and so some of them must belong to Scotland.
I'm not even a devolutionist, never mind a seperatist, but when I see some of the comments uttered by the English and do wonder if the nationalist parties have a point.
Huh? Why would they move, if we dumped the rest of the country we could lower taxes. And why Germany?
The Prime Minister Scottish, have I missed something?
Tony Blair is from Scotland. He was educated in England.
Most multi-national settled in London for several reasons, a major one being that London is the capital of a major part of Europe (ie the UK). If it was just London and South-east London will find it more difficult to attract the creme from the rest of the UK, and would loose the major economic hubs in the North (contrary to the London view the rest of the UK is not made up off starving, ill-educated peasent, working down t'pit for a shilling a day'.
Now admittedly it might be France rather than Germany they move to (or even Rome p'haps), but a London which is little bigger than Belgium looses a lot of it attractiveness.
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Born Edinburgh, Scotland. Educated at Fettes, the Scots equivalent to Eton.
As for independence well thats an essey, beitn half scottish and half english and livinh the nooo in scotland, Id consider my self knowledgable on this,
Like all the Soviet reublics gave the stuff back to Russia?
If they are on thier land, i'd daresay they'd keep them. Plus alot of the SAS guys ARE Scottish.
No, I say we march up there and take them back, put up a big sod off wall and let you get on with it by yourself.
Yea, that wall would be a great idea.
Keep the English out when they come crawling back looking for oil and money from their prosperous neighbours.
Left alone you'd all die from heart disease before the age of 30 anyway.
They have a cancer/obesity/heart disease/lard rate much higher than England because they deep fry everything.
Still though, what's that got to do with independence.
Not a huge amount, but they do deep fry pizza, surely any society which does that can not survive without the better influence of us English.