The New Fat Scotland 'Thanks for all the Fish' Thread.

A_Medium_Size_Jock

Leanne1812 wrote: »

I've noted how you glossed over mollycats 'potentially inflammatory' remark calling pro Indy posters clowns. Don't you recognise your own double standards with certain posters?

Considering YOUR posting history in these forums I don't believe that you are in any position to comment.
Or would you (again) like your past made public?

Leanne1812

A_Medium_Size_Jock wrote: »

Considering YOUR posting history in these forums I don't believe that you are in any position to comment.
Or would you (again) like your past made public?

Oh go on, throw it at me again.

I'm sure the posters will delight at this descending into personal insults once again. I'm pointing out to you that you ignore & gloss over such comments when they support your argument yet decry when it's the opposition.

If that's all you've got then as far as I'm concerned it says more about you and your denial of double standards than me.

Thrugelmir

ruggedtoast wrote: »

Oh yes, the Greeks. Let's consider Greece for a moment. A left wing, statist country, with a massive welfare state that provided absurdly generous benefits without any apparent way to collect taxes to pay for them.

Reliant on astounding levels of borrowing the Greeks blew up their own economy then voted resoundingly to leave the eurozone (note zone, not EU). The Germans then even offered them a billion euros as a sweetener to get them to go, and their government still wouldn't do it.

Stuck with Greece, the ECB introduced measures to stop the euro collapsing while making it very clear that we're Greece to leave the EZ it wouldn't be abandoned. And would in fact get the same kind of development that all the poor parts of the UK that benefited enormously from EU grants used to get, and have now voted out of to spite their own faces.

Naturally when all the right wingers on here were demanding Greece be pilloried a couple of years back, you are now holding them up as an example of German oppression.

Who provided the finance to Greece to buy the goods - Germany. Who sold Greece the goods - Germany. Who imposed austerity on Greece - Germany.

Not the way to have harmony within the EU and it's respective peoples. Particularly as the Greek people still harbour resentment as to the terrible manner in which they were treated during the war by the Germans (as do the Cypriots).

wotsthat

Thrugelmir wrote: »

Who provided the finance to Greece to buy the goods - Germany. Who sold Greece the goods - Germany. Who imposed austerity on Greece - Germany.

Yes, it's all about Germany. Until, of course, it isn't and then it's all about the rules that say everyone has to be in agreement.

Don't know which is true but you seem to use both arguments within a post or two on an almost daily basis.

I suppose there's no point having a cake if you can't eat it as well.

zagubov

I's always like this.
One minute the EU's apparently a superstate run like an empire by Berlin, the next, it's the total opposite; minnows like Spain can somehow block Scotland inheriting the UKs membership or whatever.

Oh and they can uniquely force countries to adopt the euro, except at the same time it has stringent adoption requirements that'll prevent an iScotland being able to adopt it.

EU membership seems to be all things bad to all people.

CLAPTON

zagubov wrote: »

I's always like this.
One minute the EU's apparently a superstate run like an empire by Berlin, the next, it's the total opposite; minnows like Spain can somehow block Scotland inheriting the UKs membership or whatever.

Oh and they can uniquely force countries to adopt the euro, except at the same time it has stringent adoption requirements that'll prevent an iScotland being able to adopt it.

EU membership seems to be all things bad to all people.

even more amasing is that the SNP haven't told the people of scotland what their currency would be when iscotland occurs.
after at least 30 years to think about it, is the reason because they really don't know or is it becasue they don't want the people of scotland to know.

A_Medium_Size_Jock

Leanne1812 wrote: »

Oh go on, throw it at me again.

I'm sure the posters will delight at this descending into personal insults once again. I'm pointing out to you that you ignore & gloss over such comments when they support your argument yet decry when it's the opposition.

If that's all you've got then as far as I'm concerned it says more about you and your denial of double standards than me.

Laughable!
Readers will themselves be able to judge just who "will delight at this descending into personal insults" again by noting the thanks at the bottom of your post.
*hint*
Are they perchance pro-SNP pro-indy antagonists?

Shakethedisease

A_Medium_Size_Jock wrote: »

Laughable!
Readers will themselves be able to judge just who "will delight at this descending into personal insults" again by noting the thanks at the bottom of your post.
*hint*
Are they perchance pro-SNP pro-indy antagonists?

pro-SNP pro-indy [STRIKE]antagonists?[/STRIKE] posters here ?

FTFY.

Give over with getting all het up about likes and calling people that don't agree with you antagonists. Either argue your position on the issue or maybe go somewhere else ( Daily Mail or Express comments sections ? ) where every single other person posting agrees with every word you say.

Brexit and it's political and economic consequences for everyone is the UK is worth debating. One of those consequences may be Scotland leaving the UK. It might not. Some people like me hope so, some like you do not. But we can all at least try and concentrate on the issues rather than getting into petty personal spats here.

I read this elsewhere a few days ago and I meant to post it. Is about the trade between Scotland and rUK. Is it right that it's mostly services rather than goods ? There seems to be a large number of people throwing that 60%+ figure around. Yet when challenged are unable to answer what that trade actually encompasses.

Tricky, one for you ?

An RBS mortgage decision between a Londoner and his local branch also count as "exports" in this strange setup of ours because RBS bronze plaque is in Edinburgh. I wouldn't rely too much on this figure.

Do you know where we can find the breakdown of these trade numbers between Scotland and rUK ?

CLAPTON

Shakethedisease wrote: »

pro-SNP pro-indy [STRIKE]antagonists?[/STRIKE] posters here ?

FTFY.

Give over with getting all het up about likes and calling people that don't agree with you antagonists. Either argue your position on the issue or maybe go somewhere else ( Daily Mail or Express comments sections ? ) where every single other person posting agrees with every word you say.

Brexit and it's political and economic consequences for everyone is the UK is worth debating. One of those consequences may be Scotland leaving the UK. It might not. Some people like me hope so, some like you do not. But we can all at least try and concentrate on the issues rather than getting into petty personal spats here.

I read this elsewhere a few days ago and I meant to post it. Is about the trade between Scotland and rUK. Is it right that it's mostly services rather than goods ? There seems to be a large number of people throwing that 60%+ figure around. Yet when challenged are unable to answer what that trade actually encompasses.

Tricky, one for you ? Do you know where we can find the breakdown of these trade numbers between Scotland and rUK ?

try reading

http://www.gov.scot/Resource/0044/00442854.pdf

its published by the Scottish Government so its probably a pack of untruths

A_Medium_Size_Jock

Shakethedisease wrote: »

Give over with getting all het up about likes and calling people that don't agree with you antagonists. Either argue your position on the issue or maybe go somewhere else ( Daily Mail or Express comments sections ? ) where every single other person posting agrees with every word you say.

Oh please.
Pot, kettle & all that.
That is all you have done in this AND the previous thread.