Scottish Copycats?

[Spiky Bugger]

Heard you folks are staging your own version of our original Boston Harbor Tea Party. When is election day?

And have you moved yet? Maybe I can find a battery-operated gadget as housewarming gift. You cannot reciprocate for housewarming gifts...terrible breach of etiquette.

 

[DianaCox]

Per Facebook, I think she was stranded on the rig due to bad weather, caused by the UK preventing the Separatists from voting.

 

[kirmy]

Afternoon beeoches!

I got home at midnight last night. We vote tomorrow...where YOU CAN TAKE MY LIFE BUT YOU'LL NEVER TAKE MY FREEEEEEDOMMMMM"!
I'm desperate for a socialist break away from the rest of the UK. Our coalition party in Westminster is terrifying and hateful. They must be overthrown.

Over and out comrade. VOTE YES!

 

[Spiky Bugger]

Afternoon beeoches!

I got home at midnight last night. We vote tomorrow...where YOU CAN TAKE MY LIFE BUT YOU'LL NEVER TAKE MY FREEEEEEDOMMMMM"!
I'm desperate for a socialist break away from the rest of the UK. Our coalition party in Westminster is terrifying and hateful. They must be overthrown.

Over and out comrade. VOTE YES!

****..if we had known we could have VOTED our way out...

 

[kirmy]

You love a good war.

 

[DianaCox]

So, who would own the North Sea oil? Would Scotland automatically become economically solvent?

Comments by a friend on another forum:

On a nerdy list, where people were wondering what two level Internet country code Scotland might get, since the obvious candidates like .sc and .sl are all taken:

> Clearly the right answer here is either .SW or perhaps just .WH (since
> a whisky from a place other than Scotland is obviously just wrong ...
> )

I believe the Irish monks who invented the stuff might beg to differ, but really, we're talking about an oil rich nation being repressed by a despotic monarchy, why the hell haven't we invaded already?

We may invade for the whiskey rather than the oil, so I hope you have your kilt-wearing blokes lined up on the shores nearest the Auchentoshen distillery.

 

[Larra]

According to what I heard...well ok, it was Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert on Comedy Central, but still...Scotland has a higher per capita income than the rest of the UK due to its low population and oil field income. If Scotland does separate from the rest of the UK it will have the 12th highest per capita income in the world.
And Jon must be Scottish with the name Stewart, right? Well actually that's his middle name and he's Jewish, but close enough. I think his real last name is Lefkowitz, or something equally ethnic.

 

[DianaCox]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Stewart
"Jon Stewart (born Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz; ..."

 

[kirmy]

Yup. There is the most stunning scare tactics I inferring and "leaks" going on by the BBC. it has been so sobering seeing such twisting and manipulation of the truth. The fact is the Tories couldn't deign to entertain the Scots might have the bollocks to leave the "Union" until they very suddenly realised that the popular support was 50/50. The media manipulation has done what you'd expect it to do to a stubborn, cautious and easily offended proud people....pissed them off. Never have I seen a country so suddenly and passionately politicised.

If we don't win tomorrow then we will have lost more than our right to self determine. We will have lost our pride. That will be a terrifying thing to see.

And yes...we will keep the oil revenues and taxes associated. I hope my corporation tax goes down.

I'm excited.

 

[Larra]

OK Diana, I was close!

Go Scotland! and bring on those men in kilts!

 

[kirmy]

I live on the Estate owned by the Stewarts. Cameron of Locheil. They have skinny legs and pot bellies and went to school at Oxford. About as Scottish as Myrtle my bulldog.

 

[JackieOnLine]

And yes...we will keep the oil revenues and taxes associated.

is there any downside? because I'm not seeing it.

 

[kirmy]

Yes it will be chaos working out a currency union, the deficit and how we divvy up the Uk debt after the Royal bank of Scotland crashed and W&S bailed out by the UK people. There will be a deliberate devaluation of the Scottish pounds stirling by the international market and this will cause our economy to shrink. It will be bad before it gets very very good. We will end up with a massive oil fund surplus after a decade. Until then we will have to make our own way with perhaps a EU helping hand...or not.

Growing up time!

 

[JackieOnLine]

I will watch the news with interest!!

 

[Whit]

I will be wearing Tartan to work tomorrow... I am ready!