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Salmond and Sturgeon Want the English Fish for More Fat Subsidies

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  • elantan wrote: »
    Well there you have it the Smith commission has been delivered ... according to Lord Smith of Kelvin ...

    Yes they have. As he noted it was never going to be easy to even get to this stage and compromise was needed and agreed to by all parties. But be honest Elantan nothing short of FFA or Independence would be enough for a fair size group of Yes voters. And that was never on offer.

    In a Daily Record article on the subject he went on to make the point, there were 4 issues he felt need to be looked at.

    - 'Improvements in relationship between SG and UK governments. The devolution settlement is complicated , it relies on good faith and positive intent to work well.

    - improved parliamentary oversight in Scottish Parliament to ensure decisions are properly scrutinised.

    - Further devolution from Scottish Parliament to local areas

    - improved public awareness of the respective powers of UK and Scottish governments and parliaments.
  • Tromking
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    45% of Scottish voters want full independence. About another 10% -20 % on top of those want further powers. Now, try your best to finally work out why the SNP won the most votes standing on a platform of pushing even further than Smith. And really, really think about it given the above information.

    it must so galling then for the 45-65% that the SNP can't seem get past the preservation of their beloved Barnett. It's as if the hope and dreams of large proportion of Scots can go hang as long as England is dolling out the cash.
    Shame.😎
    “Britain- A friend to all, beholden to none”. 🇬🇧
  • elantan
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    I will be honest and say it won't be enough for me ... I do want independence and nothing less ...
  • Generali
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    elantan wrote: »
    I will be honest and say it won't be enough for me ... I do want independence and nothing less ...

    You had your chance and blew it. Sorry pal.
  • elantan wrote: »
    I will be honest and say it won't be enough for me ... I do want independence and nothing less ...



    With idiots like this one in charge no doubt:-


    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3316442/SNP-forced-apologise-race-hate-row.html
  • Generali
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    Basically it's a picture of a vast pig with "Rothschilds" written on the side suckling piglets with things like ISIS, an Israeli flag, CIA and Al Qaeda on their sides.

    It's in the Jewish Chronicle. It really isn't pretty. I link to their article on the basis that the Jewish Chronicle isn't full of rabid anti-Semites. Don't click on it and moan that you don't like it as you have been warned:

    http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/149228/scottish-national-politician-sandra-white-apologises-posting-repellent%E2%80%99-antisemi

    I don't really see how you can Tweet that and not resign.

    From The Chronicle:
    The image had originally been posted from an account run by a man called Charles Frith, who has repeatedly posted antisemitic messages and images. Ms White has previously re-posted messages from his account.
  • .string.
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    I can't see it so clearly on the device I'm using to view it but the pig poster seems to place Britain in the same category as Isis etc as well.

    It seems to be undeniable proof that the SNP has this hate thing going for GBP / The English, Welsh & Northern Irish not to mention the unionists in Scotlland.

    The SNP seems to be infested with those that despise the British.

    ... Waits patiently for unconvincing protestations of "not me" .....
    Union, not Disunion

    I have a Right Wing and a Left Wing.
    It's the only way to fly straight.
  • Generali wrote: »
    I don't really see how you can Tweet that and not resign.

    It's the SNP.

    Their supporters will just repeat the tired "SNP-BAD" meme and write off all wrongdoing as a media conspiracy.

    You see the same sort of blind allegiance with KIPPERS, it appears to be a Nationalist tendency.
    “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”
  • This just confirms my belief that currently Scotland doesn't have MSP's of intelligence or sufficient intellect to run a Tombola stall never mind a Country. !!!!!! she claims she retweeted it accidently....only if you are an eejit could you do that, either that or she is lying. She should be gone. I don't mean a 'kid on' resignation either. Sacked. Activists (extremists) that claim they have nothing to do with the SNP just because they are not SNP members are really just a joke...they should come out.
  • Generali
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    The only job she seems to have had is as press officer of the William Wallace Society which I assume is this lot:

    http://www.thesocietyofwilliamwallace.com/index.html

    They don't seem terribly keen on the English:

    http://www.thesocietyofwilliamwallace.com/story.htm

    I suppose it's a short step from disliking, to be charitable, the English to antisemitism. They're all south of Berwick after all.
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