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Why doesn't Cameron want Scottish Independence?

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  • ...as far as i am concerned, this is more about whether politicians are filthy liars or not...

    Are you saying there's some doubt about it?
  • pqrdef
    pqrdef Posts: 4,552 Forumite
    zagubov wrote: »
    They're getting more not less popular because frankly they're a better government.
    But that will change, because parties that get elected start to attract candidates who're only in it for the power and the money.
    "It will take, five, 10, 15 years to get back to where we need to be. But it's no longer the individual banks that are in the wrong, it's the banking industry as a whole." - Steven Cooper, head of personal and business banking at Barclays, talking to Martin Lewis
  • FTBFun
    FTBFun Posts: 4,273 Forumite
    zagubov wrote: »
    They're getting more not less popular because frankly they're a better government.

    Indeed - what they definitely won't do (for example) is override the interest of a local population in allowing an American billionaire to build a golf course over a site of scientific special interest.

    The SNP would never do that, ever.
  • zagubov
    zagubov Posts: 17,939 Forumite
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    pqrdef wrote: »
    But that will change, because parties that get elected start to attract candidates who're only in it for the power and the money.
    Westminster parties do, right enough. Will the power-hungry find Holyrood big enough? I'm betting not and that's why they're getting the better quality politicos. The scum's rising to London.
    FTBFun wrote: »
    Indeed - what they definitely won't do (for example) is override the interest of a local population in allowing an American billionaire to build a golf course over a site of scientific special interest.

    The SNP would never do that, ever.
    It clearly hasn't mattered whether they did that or not.

    Spain better hope Scotland doesn't resell their fishing rights to somebody bigger ! :D
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  • robmatic
    robmatic Posts: 1,217 Forumite
    zagubov wrote: »


    It clearly hasn't mattered whether they did that or not.

    Really? What kind of argument for Holyrood is this? It doesn't matter what shenanigans Scottish politicians get up to because no one cares?
  • zagubov
    zagubov Posts: 17,939 Forumite
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    robmatic wrote: »
    Really? What kind of argument for Holyrood is this? It doesn't matter what shenanigans Scottish politicians get up to because no one cares?
    A cracking argument. They must have done pretty good at pretty much everything else for everyone to igniore this Trump-related stuff. :beer:
    Puts their successes in prerspective doesn't it?:D
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  • pqrdef
    pqrdef Posts: 4,552 Forumite
    zagubov wrote: »
    Westminster parties do, right enough. Will the power-hungry find Holyrood big enough?
    The second-rate power-hungry will. And English selection committees might be less keen to select Scottish carpet-baggers who move south just to get into English politics.
    "It will take, five, 10, 15 years to get back to where we need to be. But it's no longer the individual banks that are in the wrong, it's the banking industry as a whole." - Steven Cooper, head of personal and business banking at Barclays, talking to Martin Lewis
  • zagubov
    zagubov Posts: 17,939 Forumite
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    pqrdef wrote: »
    The second-rate power-hungry will. And English selection committees might be less keen to select Scottish carpet-baggers who move south just to get into English politics.


    They already do; shame is then they're up against the SNP's A- team. And we've all seen how well that's going for them!:rotfl:
    There is no honour to be had in not knowing a thing that can be known - Danny Baker
  • robmatic
    robmatic Posts: 1,217 Forumite
    zagubov wrote: »
    They already do; shame is then they're up against the SNP's A- team. And we've all seen how well that's going for them!:rotfl:

    The SNP have an overwhelming majority of 1 seat at the moment.

    There are some really obvious reasons for their electoral success:

    The Tories in Scotland are unelectable.

    People are fed up of Labour after the Blair years, and all the big-hitting Scottish Labour politicians are in Westminster for some reason.

    The SNP don't actually do anything, apart from give out a few 'freebies' of questionable affordability. It's easy to be a party of government when all you have to do is spend money while other people collect the taxes.
  • A._Badger
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    edited 27 October 2012 at 5:40PM
    pqrdef wrote: »
    The second-rate power-hungry will. And English selection committees might be less keen to select Scottish carpet-baggers who move south just to get into English politics.

    Really? They have never been troubled before. The last government was stuffed to the rafters with them.
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