A Yes vote means better jobs for young people in Scotland

CLAPTON

IveSeenTheLight wrote: »

Please find below answers to your queries

so basically you have no definition of a country
and no explanation of why being 'designated' a country by a holy person (?) makes it different to any other land mass or group of people.

IveSeenTheLight

CLAPTON wrote: »

so basically you have no definition of a country
and no explanation of why being 'designated' a country by a holy person (?) makes it different to any other land mass or group of people.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Definition+of+country

CLAPTON

IveSeenTheLight wrote: »

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Definition+of+country

so basically almost any piece of land : like pictland

it defines no special or unique characteristics and nothing to suggest any benefits in separating such an entity from its adjoining neighbours.

IveSeenTheLight

CLAPTON wrote: »

so basically almost any piece of land : like pictland

it defines no special or unique characteristics and nothing to suggest any benefits in separating such an entity from its adjoining neighbours.

Here we go round the mulberry bush, the mulberry bush, the mulberry bush.
Here we go round the mulberry bush, on a cold and frosty morning

I look forward to hearing a NEW concept from you other than one which we have gone over again and again.

Reminds me of "Ariston and on and on and on and on". At least that was catchy though

CLAPTON

IveSeenTheLight wrote: »

I look forward to hearing a NEW concept from you other than one which we have gone over again and again.

Reminds me of "Ariston and on and on and on and on". At least that was catchy though

you have abandoned all your previous reasons for independence from England and now only hold one thin thread

Scotland is a country because... well ... because it's been referred to as a country.

which leaves us as to why one leaves the union on such a thin thread.

of course it has nothing to do with that nonsense but has everything to do with your neighbours

IveSeenTheLight

CLAPTON wrote: »

you have abandoned all your previous reasons for independence from England and now only hold one thin thread

I have abandoned nothing.
I simply refuse to keep going round the mulberry bush with you

MumOf2

I have this vision of Alec, Nicola, John and all their followers putting their hands over their ears and singing la, la, la, la, la at the top of their voices in the face of the real reasons for their passionate desire for separation from their neighbours.


They are in total denial:
They want independence but still need to stay dependent;
They reject anti-English racism but anti-English racism is alive and kicking in Scotland (they just say we're wrong but I'm sorry I'm right I've been targeted and now my husband - who has worked in Scotland since 1985 furthering the employability of thousands and thousands of Scottish young people - is being targeted in the workplace).


They just don't want anyone else to know and they think they can just keep on saying the same old thing like a mantra going round and round and round. And if they say it long and often enough, perhaps, just perhaps someone else will be gullible enough to believe them.

zagubov

CLAPTON wrote: »

so basically almost any piece of land : like pictland

it defines no special or unique characteristics and nothing to suggest any benefits in separating such an entity from its adjoining neighbours.

Tough luck you not believing there could be countries seeing as how the world is made of over 200 of them. Good job countries don’t wait for you to believe in them before forming themselves; at least twenty of them have had the cheek to brazenly form themselves from larger entities in postwar mainland Europe alone.

Despite you thinking there’s nothing special about them, I think they’re easy to recognise. Well, maybe not by you, that is.

They all had 10,000km2 of land or more, at least 600,000 people or more, a capital city, a parliament, a national identity, and, unless they bordered Serbia, well-defined borders.

Oh and usually a common self-belief that they are a country, in many cases because in history they were an independent country, and a feeling that is was time to maximise their self-determination and ability to make their own decisions.

Independent Cities, not so much since the early 1800s and then only a couple.

Independent counties, never to my knowledge.

CLAPTON

zagubov wrote: »

Tough luck you not believing there could be countries seeing as how the world is made of over 200 of them. Good job countries don’t wait for you to believe in them before forming themselves; at least twenty of them have had the cheek to brazenly form themselves from larger entities in postwar mainland Europe alone.

Despite you thinking there’s nothing special about them, I think they’re easy to recognise. Well, maybe not by you, that is.

They all had 10,000km2 of land or more, at least 600,000 people or more, a capital city, a parliament, a national identity, and, unless they bordered Serbia, well-defined borders.

Oh and usually a common self-belief that they are a country, in many cases because in history they were an independent country, and a feeling that is was time to maximise their self-determination and ability to make their own decisions.

Independent Cities, not so much since the early 1800s and then only a couple.

Independent counties, never to my knowledge.

yes indeed you are absolutely correct and many illustrate my point entirely

that is, they became independent countries because they hated their neighbours.

IveSeenTheLight

MumOf2 wrote: »

I've been targeted and now my husband - who has worked in Scotland since 1985 furthering the employability of thousands and thousands of Scottish young people - is being targeted in the workplace).

Hmmmmmmm....

Just a query, does your husband work in a school?
Is he targeted by school kids?
I'm struggling to consider an alternative where he has furthered the employability of thousands and thousands of young Scottish people and yet is being targeted in the workplace.

It is sad if you and your husband have been targeted, but the question I have is it the mindless minority or the situation generally?

My son is about to start school and the head teacher is an English Professor and I have huge confidence in his abilities to develop youngsters