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  • jimjames
    jimjames Posts: 17,532
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    Archi_Bald wrote: »
    Newspapers not invited to the Alex Salmond resignation press conference this afternoon: Financial Times, Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, Daily Express. The Guardian declined to attend after they were told which one of their journalists would be allowed to attend.

    Imagine what the day of reckoning would have been if they'd actually won.

    Shows how petty they really are by trying to censor the press.
    Remember the saying: if it looks too good to be true it almost certainly is.
  • A._Badger
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    baxie wrote: »
    I wonder what people will think if there is reneging on the promised extra powers.

    Possibly much the same as those of us whose minds were boggled by the unconstitutional proffering of those bribes in the first place.
  • talexuser
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    jimjames wrote: »
    Shows how petty they really are by trying to censor the press.

    Just how mean and pathetic is that, typical really (coupled with the fact he answered the question "will you resign if there is a 'no' vote?" during the campaign with a flat denial. Time to throw the toys out the pram.
  • Thrugelmir
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    baxie wrote: »
    I wonder what people will think if there is reneging on the promised extra powers.

    That's wasn't the question on the ballot paper. ;)

    A smokescreen to deflect Salmond's loss of face.
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  • CLAPTON
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    black_taxi wrote: »
    better together

    1st promise broken

    Sept 19th

    timetable for new powers thru a motion UK parliament



    quite right : there was no democratic mandate from the UK voters
  • colsten
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    black_taxi wrote: »
    better together

    1st promise broken

    Sept 19th

    timetable for new powers thru a motion UK parliament

    where was that promise made, and by whom? The UK parliament is currently still in its summer recess, and nobody ever mentioned a recall of parliament.

    There is, however, one promise that was definitely broken. The person who told people he would not resign has now announced his resignation. http://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/top-stories/alex-salmond-won-t-step-down-in-event-of-no-vote-1-3531594

    It is time for the lies to stop.
  • Glen_Clark
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    Glen_Clark wrote: »
    Has the Westminster Establishment in order to hang on to its power, bribed the Scots with English taxpayer's money?
    (Public spending per person £1400 ,per year higher in Scotland etc)

    When I put this question to a Scotsman he said No. The Westminster Establishment in order to hang on to its power, bribed the Scots with Scottish taxpayer's money, because tax raised per person averages £1700 higher in Scotland :o
    “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” --Upton Sinclair
  • Biggles
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    Glen_Clark wrote: »
    When I put this question to a Scotsman he said No. The Westminster Establishment in order to hang on to its power, bribed the Scots with Scottish taxpayer's money, because tax raised per person averages £1700 higher in Scotland
    .. which is in the UK coffers, not Scottish. But aren't the Scots already getting that £1,700 in additional benefits anyway?
  • eskbanker
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    colsten wrote: »
    where was that promise made, and by whom? The UK parliament is currently still in its summer recess, and nobody ever mentioned a recall of parliament.
    Agree about how unachievable it would be, but it was published in Better Together literature at cefe0af34b0a0723c6_0vm6i6d6g.png
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