Effect of Scottish Independence Vote

MumOf2

Incandescent - your post 8.10pm: thank you, thank you, thank you. This is exactly how we and our (voting age) children feel but are too intimidated to say.

TCA

MumOf2 wrote: »

Incandescent - your post 8.10pm: thank you, thank you, thank you. This is exactly how we and our (voting age) children feel but are too intimidated to say.

Intimidated by who?

incandescent

TCA wrote: »

So why are you even on here asking questions about your savings? If the muppets at Holyrood can't answer your questions, do you really think you'll get answers on an internet message board?

My question was about how to best protect my savings and investments. This forum seems like a pretty good place to discuss that

Have you ever considered that your last 10 or 20 years have been so difficult in part due to the policies of the UK government? Do you recall the Thatcher years in Scotland? The stuff of nightmares. But of course successive UK governments have done such a great job since - I don't think so. Do you really think your children will have a bright and prosperous future if nothing changes? I admire your optimism. The outlook for the youth of Scotland is as bleak as ever it's been.[/quote
That is ridiculous thing to say. As bad as they've ever been? As bad as the Cowcaddens in the 1930s, where my father grew up? Get a grip.

The UK govt has made plenty of mistakes, but there are many countries which have done a lot worse. There are plenty of countries where ordinary peoples savings were completely wiped out (and not just in the Eurozone). Even the SNP's much vaunted Scandinavian role models had a disastrous banking crisis - they just did it earlier, in the 1990s.

Nationalists seem to have some belief that an independent Scottish government would have been morally and financially superior to every other country on the planet. The problem is we have copious evidence to the contrary. And there is also an inherent element of racism and nationalist delusion in that belief.

You're welcome to more of the same.

And you are not welcome to gamble with my family's lives.

incandescent

MumOf2 wrote: »

Incandescent - your post 8.10pm: thank you, thank you, thank you. This is exactly how we and our (voting age) children feel but are too intimidated to say.

Thanks, I wish more people would speak up and talk about it.

I've remained largely silent on the issue because, yes, we do feel intimidated. We're made to feel like we should be ashamed for not supporting independence. Like we're bad Scots or something. So people tend to just not talk about it, meaning all the running is made by the nationalists who just won't stop talking about it.

Enough. I'm not taking it any more. I don't want to live in a country where people are made to feel like that.

TCA

incandescent wrote: »

That is ridiculous thing to say. As bad as they've ever been? As bad as the Cowcaddens in the 1930s, where my father grew up? Get a grip.

And you are not welcome to gamble with my family's lives.

I was referring to the prospects for youth in the last twenty years that you've found so difficult. Not since the dawn of time.

I think you'll find I'm not gambling with anything. Your families lives are not in my hands, but those of the Scottish electorate.

incandescent wrote: »

Thanks, I wish more people would speak up and talk about it.

I've remained largely silent on the issue because, yes, we do feel intimidated. We're made to feel like we should be ashamed for not supporting independence. Like we're bad Scots or something. So people tend to just not talk about it, meaning all the running is made by the nationalists who just won't stop talking about it.

Enough. I'm not taking it any more. I don't want to live in a country where people are made to feel like that.

LOL. Back to this again. Real drama queen stuff. Wish more people would speak up and talk about it? Made to feel ashamed? Sounds like something from a teen magazine or the problem pages of a tabloid newspaper.

incandescent

TCA wrote: »

LOL. Back to this again. Real drama queen stuff. Wish more people would speak up and talk about it? Made to feel ashamed? Sounds like something from a teen magazine or the problem pages of a tabloid newspaper.

It's the truth. And sooner or later, whatever happens in September, the Yes voters will have to deal with the consequences of it.

TCA

incandescent wrote: »

It's the truth. And sooner or later, whatever happens in September, the Yes voters will have to deal with the consequences of it.

Are you threatening all Yes voters with some reprisals? Is this revenge for their current threatening behaviour towards No voters?

I now feel intimidated.

islandannie

TCA wrote: »

Are you threatening all Yes voters with some reprisals? Is this revenge for their current threatening behaviour towards No voters?

I now feel intimidated.

And right here highlights the nationalists duplicitous campaign.

atush

There was clearly no threat. Why are you picking a fight?

ColdIron

TCA wrote: »

Are you threatening all Yes voters with some reprisals? Is this revenge for their current threatening behaviour towards No voters?

I now feel intimidated.

You were doing so well until then but now your petticoat is showing