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The nightmare scenario.....
HAMISH_MCTAVISH
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2015 Scotland votes for independence.
2016 Scotland is accepted into the EU.
2017 England/Wales/NI vote to leave the EU.
2018 Several thousand companies, including most of England's biggest employers, move their EU headquarters and manufacturing plants from England to Scotland.
2019 England begs Scotland for a free trade deal and relaxation of immigration quotas to take all the unemployed English people.
2020 Alex Salmond 'smugness quotient' goes off the charts.
A truly dire outcome....
2016 Scotland is accepted into the EU.
2017 England/Wales/NI vote to leave the EU.
2018 Several thousand companies, including most of England's biggest employers, move their EU headquarters and manufacturing plants from England to Scotland.
2019 England begs Scotland for a free trade deal and relaxation of immigration quotas to take all the unemployed English people.
2020 Alex Salmond 'smugness quotient' goes off the charts.
A truly dire outcome....
“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
-- President John F. Kennedy”
Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
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The dream scenario
2015 Scotland votes for independence.
2016 Scotland is accepted into the EU.
2017 England/Wales/NI vote to leave the EU.
2018 Rupert Murdoch moves his UK operations from England to Scotland.
2019 England begs Scotland to reintroduce Gaelic.
2020 Alex Salmond starts appearing in Public in full military regalia.
2021 The Shetland Islands declare UDI and keep all the oil.
A dream outcome.... 0 -
Isn't the referendum scheduled for 2014 not 2015?0
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Why keep assuming that EU will rfuse to trade with UK if they left?
Has anyone in power actually said that?0 -
2014 - The Scottish people reject independence
2014 - Salmond commits suicide0 -
Scottish independence would be excellent for Hamish as the socialist utopian dream of Alex Salmond would result in excessive taxation on both the oil and whiskey industries in order to fund ever higher welfare payments. The disparity between welfare payments in Britain and Scotland would result in a tidal wave of economically inactive immigrants that hamish loves so much flooding over hadrians wall and invading Aberdeen, pushing house prices up even more, to his uncontrolled delight.0
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2018: England can afford corporation tax of only 15% now no longer subsidising the EU and Scotland. Everyone moves their international HQs to England.
2019: Scotland has unemployment levels to rival Spain, most young generation leaves to find work.0 -
2014 Scotland votes for independence, becomes non-successor state.
Scotland told to reapply for EU membership. Can't be 4rsed. Joins EFTA/EEA instead.
2017 England/Wales/NI wake up, smell coffee vote to leave the UK, become non-successor states.
Told to reapply for EU membership. Can't be 4rsed. Join EFTA/EEA instead.
On last day, all remaining UK debt is flown to Gibraltar and smuggled acrosss the border into Spain at dead of night. Nobody notices.:whistle:
Gibraltar votes to leave UK, leaving no residual successor state
2020 former UK 'smugness quotient' reaches Salmondian proportions.
Warm glow adds to global warming.
A truly dire outcome.... There is no honour to be had in not knowing a thing that can be known - Danny Baker0 -
2014 Scotland rejects independence
2015 Salmond lands some lucrative fat-cat sinecure.No-one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions. He had money as well.
The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money.
Margaret Thatcher0 -
GeorgeHowell wrote: »2014 Scotland rejects independence
2015 Salmond lands some lucrative fat-cat sinecure.
The most likely outcome so far:beer::beer::beer:0 -
What I cannot understand is that the Scottish referendum is actual a vote on the breakup of the union of the countries of the UK, so why is it only Scottish residents who are getting a vote?
I assume it's Scottish residents and not just Scottish by birth?
In fact just who gets to vote in the referendum is a whole can of worms that nobody seems to have opened yet.0
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