Is there anyone out there who understands what this Scottish Independence business is all about? If there is will you please tell me, but more importantly, tell all those native Scots living north of the border.
Let's face it, all those so called big hitter politicians, political commentators and programme presenters just fill the airways with undiluted waffle telling us all a big fat ZILCH! Don't forget it's just as important for the rest of us in the UK beside the Scots, to know all the implications.
Ah well they've got to appear to be doing something - however useless - to earn their overinflated salaries so however hard it is for the thinking individual to stomach let's try to be tolerant.
How many people know about the origins of the UK? Not too many I guess. A lot more would see it as not worth allocating thought to and might not even know that in the early years of the eighteenth century, Queen Anne had a lot to do with it.
I'm a great believer in the old saying that 'if it aint broke don't fix it' and that the Scots need only ask themselves two questions when considering which way to vote in their referendum...
The first question is never going to be easy to answer if the powers that be do not provide details of what the post independence model is going to be.
The second question will probably be tied in with getting revenge on England's Edward 1 or thoughts related to Culloden and the Jacobite Rebellion. I ask you...shouldn't sitting on and breaking the crossbar at Wembley and an occasional win at Twickers or Murrayfield have been sufficient to put this to bed?
I'm not going to say much more or I'll get tagged with being an over-opinionated Englishman but I must question why it's all so one-sided.
The Scots are the prime movers in this business and obviously feel very strongly about breaking from the UK. Their leaders want something more than having their own parliament and also having a say in the other UK country's affairs by their seats at Westminster. Shouldn't the playing field be levelled up?
Shouldn't the other countries of the UK be asked to vote on whether or not they prefer that Scotland should remain as part of the UK. Seems a reasonable suggestion for after all the Scots started this whole sorry episode!
Let's face it, all those so called big hitter politicians, political commentators and programme presenters just fill the airways with undiluted waffle telling us all a big fat ZILCH! Don't forget it's just as important for the rest of us in the UK beside the Scots, to know all the implications.
Ah well they've got to appear to be doing something - however useless - to earn their overinflated salaries so however hard it is for the thinking individual to stomach let's try to be tolerant.
How many people know about the origins of the UK? Not too many I guess. A lot more would see it as not worth allocating thought to and might not even know that in the early years of the eighteenth century, Queen Anne had a lot to do with it.
I'm a great believer in the old saying that 'if it aint broke don't fix it' and that the Scots need only ask themselves two questions when considering which way to vote in their referendum...
- Will I be better or worse off in an independent Scotland.?
- Will my decision be based only on my historical hatred of England?
The first question is never going to be easy to answer if the powers that be do not provide details of what the post independence model is going to be.
The second question will probably be tied in with getting revenge on England's Edward 1 or thoughts related to Culloden and the Jacobite Rebellion. I ask you...shouldn't sitting on and breaking the crossbar at Wembley and an occasional win at Twickers or Murrayfield have been sufficient to put this to bed?
I'm not going to say much more or I'll get tagged with being an over-opinionated Englishman but I must question why it's all so one-sided.
The Scots are the prime movers in this business and obviously feel very strongly about breaking from the UK. Their leaders want something more than having their own parliament and also having a say in the other UK country's affairs by their seats at Westminster. Shouldn't the playing field be levelled up?
Shouldn't the other countries of the UK be asked to vote on whether or not they prefer that Scotland should remain as part of the UK. Seems a reasonable suggestion for after all the Scots started this whole sorry episode!
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