The Org Scottish Referendum

[daveyrach]

Alex Salmond isn't liked because he is an arrogant, horrible little man who clearly just has a problem with the English. All along this was the Alex Salmond show!

I can't see Scotland lost anything like the NHS, free prescriptions and tuition fees etc, if anything you'll get more powers. You Scott already have it better I have to pay nearly £8 a month for my prescription med and I only have 1 atm. I also have to pay for my kids tuition fees, dunno what u lot are moaning about, you'll get your powers and everyone can stop whining.

Originally Posted by andrewsmith

Don't go there
You'll loose this argument

I think it's already been loosed.

22 years in the RAF as a RADAR and comms engineer, 3 years at University studying Diagnostic Radiography, 4 years as a radiographer constantly studying to keep current and to become a cardiac fluoroscopy specialist (that IS how you spell fluoroscopy) don't call me stupid because a smack in the teeth often offends!!!!

[kaivalagi]

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/...ish-referendum

Unfounded nonsense now fuelled by Yes voter sour grapes or something more credible?

Straight out of the manual of cold war politics

[Bibio]

Originally Posted by kaivalagi

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/...ish-referendum

Unfounded nonsense now fuelled by Yes voter sour grapes or something more credible?

as a yes voter i'll even agree with that.

i'm not bitter, i'm disappointed. the people of Scotland have voiced their opinion by democratic means and its something i will have to live with.

[kaivalagi]

Yeah, time to move on with the decision made.

On Wednesday Fiji (my wife's home country and a place close to my heart) had it's first elections since a coup in 2006 and the guy that kicked off the coup and ran the country since then won the elections...to me that sucks and at first I couldn't believe people could forget what sort of things that man had done in the past but you gotta live with the electorates choice and the fact that the observers didn't raise any alarm bells either mutes rigging issues.....I am certainly feeling disappointed for my beloved Fiji though

Originally Posted by kaivalagi

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/...ish-referendum

Unfounded nonsense now fuelled by Yes voter sour grapes or something more credible?

Just the Russians stirring up trouble.

If it was fixed then it was fixed in 30 different counting stations at once since almost every region voted no, and why leave it so close if you're fixing it. 60-40 would be better, plus why promise devolution?

[Bibio]

Originally Posted by daveyrach

Alex Salmond isn't liked because he is an arrogant, horrible little man who clearly just has a problem with the English. All along this was the Alex Salmond show!

I can't see Scotland lost anything like the NHS, free prescriptions and tuition fees etc, if anything you'll get more powers. You Scott already have it better I have to pay nearly £8 a month for my prescription med and I only have 1 atm. I also have to pay for my kids tuition fees, dunno what u lot are moaning about, you'll get your powers and everyone can stop whining.

Dave thats your view about someone who i feel you have not met and judge them by what you read in newspapers and watch on TV. do you honestly think he would have got so far in his career if he was such a horrible person and so anti English.. i doubt it very much.

Scotland do all this by way of a fixed income without loans or any other means of income and that fixed income is going to be reduced, Scotland told to raise revenue by way of taxation to make up the shortfall. while all this is going on Westminster will be pumping the duty revenue raised by oil into the UK coffers for the good of the whole of the UK.

right now was make or break time for the future of Scotland and Salmond knew this. you have to remember that Salmond is an economist who has worked behind the scenes which makes him a very rare politician indeed. biased in his views, yes but i think he has the right to be so.


it was interesting to read that a survey was taken and a very high proportion of young (teen) voters voted yes. thats a big pluss in my book as the reforendum was not about the now it was about the future of Scotland to which these individuals would have had to get on with.

also interesting to note that almost all low unemployed populated areas came back with the highest votes for no, which shows that people were thinking about themselves and their job instead of the future of their country which was not helped by very last minute threats thrown out by the media.



it's done its gone Scotland cant go back so we will ALL have to live with the repercussions that this referendum has brought. what happens to Scotland and how its run might just spread all over the UK so each region of the UK might just end up with block grants and told to raise the shortfall by way of taxation.

[pookie]

I'm sure thats the US and A route of local taxation. I admire the fact the scottish people have gone out and made their voices heard especially the 16- 17 year olds.
It comes as no surprise who they voted for as that was the intention when granting them the vote.