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Salmond and Sturgeon Want the English Fish for More Fat Subsidies

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  • Generali
    Generali Posts: 36,411 Forumite
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    IveSeenTheLight wrote: »
    Defence is not a devolved power to the Scottish Assembly.

    Surely if you want the Scottish Assembly to take ownership, you have to give FFA.

    I think we are quite a way down the road away from getting to that stage.

    Only independence would give Scotland power over defence.
  • IveSeenTheLight
    IveSeenTheLight Posts: 13,322 Forumite
    To add to the budget percentage discussion

    J6XP2Rh.png
    :wall:
    What we've got here is....... failure to communicate.
    Some men you just can't reach.
    :wall:
  • IveSeenTheLight
    IveSeenTheLight Posts: 13,322 Forumite
    Generali wrote: »
    Only independence would give Scotland power over defence.

    Again, a statement of neverending dicatorship?

    Why can't this be devolved?

    We already have Education, Law, Police, Fire, Ambulance Services etc devolved.

    There is calls and a motion for the Coast Guard services also to be devolved.

    Why couldn't Defence also be devolved?
    Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
    :wall:
    What we've got here is....... failure to communicate.
    Some men you just can't reach.
    :wall:
  • CLAPTON
    CLAPTON Posts: 41,865 Forumite
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    IveSeenTheLight wrote: »
    To add to the budget percentage discussion

    J6XP2Rh.png

    interesting graph and illustrates why Putin believes he can reverse the greatest geopolitical disaster of the 20th century
  • Generali
    Generali Posts: 36,411 Forumite
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    IveSeenTheLight wrote: »
    Why couldn't Defence also be devolved?

    Because you could have two parts of the same country fighting on different sides in the same war!!!

    This is a wind up, right?
  • IveSeenTheLight
    IveSeenTheLight Posts: 13,322 Forumite
    Generali wrote: »
    Because you could have two parts of the same country fighting on different sides in the same war!!!

    This is a wind up, right?

    Your on the wind up suggesting that the two parts would fight on different sides.

    You have the royal Regiment of Scotland (Infantry), RAF bases (Air force) and Naval Bases (long discussed on these pages)

    Why couldn't they be devolved such as the Police, the Fire Service, The Ambulance Service etc etc etc?

    Your making excuses
    Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
    :wall:
    What we've got here is....... failure to communicate.
    Some men you just can't reach.
    :wall:
  • Froggitt
    Froggitt Posts: 5,904 Forumite
    IveSeenTheLight wrote: »
    Yep, you could build a 100 mile canal for the subs to go through. ;)

    In fact, why not create a link through England to join the Atlantic with the North Sea to save the subs going around the country? ;)
    I would, but you lot would start banging on about infrastructure spending in the South East again, and why cant the Southend to Weston-Super-Mare canal go via Glasgow ;);)
    illegitimi non carborundum
  • IveSeenTheLight
    IveSeenTheLight Posts: 13,322 Forumite
    Froggitt wrote: »
    I would, but you lot would start banging on about infrastructure spending in the South East again, and why cant the Southend to Weston-Super-Mare canal go via Glasgow ;);)

    Good one.
    Just get your EVEL plans in place and have an English Only Budget.
    No problems then :p
    :wall:
    What we've got here is....... failure to communicate.
    Some men you just can't reach.
    :wall:
  • IveSeenTheLight
    IveSeenTheLight Posts: 13,322 Forumite
    CLAPTON wrote: »
    interesting graph and illustrates why Putin believes he can reverse the greatest geopolitical disaster of the 20th century

    Ukraine is not currently part of NATO and their defence budget is not represented on the graph.

    Hard to see how you are correlating the two
    :wall:
    What we've got here is....... failure to communicate.
    Some men you just can't reach.
    :wall:
  • Mortgagefreeman
    Mortgagefreeman Posts: 452 Forumite
    Generali wrote: »
    Because you could have two parts of the same country fighting on different sides in the same war!!!

    This is a wind up, right?

    I expect that in the event of being in a War the Scottish would adopt the Italian position :rotfl:
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