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

Shakethedisease

mayonnaise wrote: »

You mean, like the EU referendum?

Why, yes !

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elantan wrote: »

Replying to an inane comment . It seemed appropriate really

I'm not sure that's the truth...because you are guilty of lying to support your POV.

posh*spice

Shakethedisease wrote: »

It won't be illegal, it will be 'advisory'. And might well be a General Election on an independence ticket instead.

Sure it will be illegal in the eyes of the EU because it is unconstitutional. You don't really think they would allow you to do this when this is the situation in Spain with Catalonia. You really are naive.

Catalan secession bid ruled unconstitutional by Spanish court
Decision comes in record time and Spain’s premier Mariano Rajoy hails it as a win just weeks before tightest election in years

So you hold a vote that it unconstitutional and you think this is going to win you friends in Europe. You are mad.

I imagine Rajoy is on the phone right now with Mrs May......

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Shakethedisease wrote: »

It won't be illegal, it will be 'advisory'. And might well be a General Election on an independence ticket instead.

Probably more than the UK is going to have in a few weeks time.

Half of Scotland will.

Accept the result. But won't agree with it obviously and then get on with day to day life like I usually do.

...and no doubt start another unnecessary thread when there was already one that covered the topic perfectly...WHY?

posh*spice

Shakethedisease wrote: »

Half of Scotland will.

And you will look so dumb.

TrickyTree83

Shakethedisease wrote: »

I don't know much about meme's and while the tweeting spat between Murphy ( who blundered into the whole thing unaware via a simple tweet ) has been entertaining. Neither of them can be proved right or wrong. Hague talks.. obsessively it seems.. about GERS and the figures within them. Murphy, thinks the very data which forms GERS is unreliable, relies to much on estimates and extrapolation and could be manipulated to suit, let's just say an 'end point'.

Who knows who's right or wrong.

Here's a good meme for you though, because while we never hear enough about 'one in a generation' we never seem to hear about Ruth's wee proclaimations. Is this meme correct or not ?

You know full well that at the time Ruth was absolutely spot on.

A 2014 Yes meant out of the EU.

A 2014 No meant retaining EU membership via being in the UK.

All were aware of a Conservative manifesto pledge to have an EU in/out referendum.

So instead of addressing the Business for Scotland diatribe you just gave me the same line the indy support keep peddling which has been debunked probably over a million times by as many different people around the country.

It's a nothing argument, you can read the Conservative manifesto from the time, you yourself said people didn't think it would come to it because of the polls, and that was when I said you were hoist by your own petard because that's tacit admission of what I said above regarding awareness of an EU referendum.

You're going to say "who knows who is right or wrong" because although the GERS statistics are accepted by major economic institutions, regulatory bodies (!!!) and eminent individuals in the field, Richard Murphy a largely discredited tax advisor and accountant says otherwise?

Incredible.

TrickyTree83

Shakethedisease wrote: »

It won't be illegal, it will be 'advisory'. And might well be a General Election on an independence ticket instead.

Probably more than the UK is going to have in a few weeks time.

Half of Scotland will.

Accept the result. But won't agree with it obviously and then get on with day to day life like I usually do.

It's been established for you by antrobus that it's in the Scotland Act that such a question would not be legal.

It's been established that you cannot hold a unilateral referendum on reserved matters. A section 30 is a pre-requisite to a referendum on constitutional affairs.

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Shakethedisease wrote: »

Robertson saying 'Scotland will have it's referendum' to a standing ovation. So I think we can safely say 'something' and a plan B was planned in the event of May trying to delay it.


Also the motion above I mentioned on EU citizens etc voting in Scottish franchises was passed overwhelmingly. So hopefully that will go to Holyrood as a bill soon. Wouldn't want anyone missing out on voting who voted in the last referendum now would we.

A standing ovation from? BTW can you please learn to resize and post graphics that fit the MSE page width? It's really not that difficult.

mayonnaise

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BTW can you please learn to resize and post graphics that fit the MSE page width? It's really not that difficult.

It fits fine for me. It's only 1,200px × 679px
What size would be acceptable for your monitor/device?

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A bog standard laptop set at 100%