Should Scotland stay in the UK?

[palmerq]

I a not sure how much oil is actually in what would be scottish waters, I dont think it is enough to keep a country going and I am not sure what scotland can do to become a self running country, we dont really make anything and only export whisky really :S..

I'm going to vote yes in the referendum.

[Gandalf]

Sean Connery says for Independence. Good man. The former Bond lest we forget.

[AdamGB]

Sean Connery says for Independence. Good man. The former Bond lest we forget.

Is this Connery, the women beating patriot whom doesn't live in Scotland?

[AdamGB]

That's the long and short of it Kirkland, the oil won't last forever and somebody has to pay their dole.

[Gandalf]

Have you never punched a man? Why make differentiation based on gender lines? Are you a feminist? Sean Connery was James Bond. JAMES BOND!

[AdamGB]

I've punched men in a boxing ring and a couple of times outside of the ring in defence when physically attacked.

I'd never assualt a physically weaker person (which a woman almost always is, I am not differentiating based on a mere arbitory gender status) due to a verbal argument and I never will, to do so would mean a complete lack of self control and morals on my part.

For example I'd no sooner give you a good beating than I would a woman.

I only say Woman beater because Connery never confessed to or endorsed giving the elderly, frail or infirm a slap to put them in line... Just woman, which would make him a woman beater?

Hope this helps.

[Gandalf]

I've punched men in a boxing ring and a couple of times outside of the ring in defence when physically attacked.

I'd never assualt a physically weaker person (which a woman almost always is, I am not differentiating based on a mere arbitory gender status) due to a verbal argument and I never will, to do so would mean a complete lack of self control and morals on my part.

For example I'd no sooner give you a good beating than I would a woman.

I only say Woman beater because Connery never confessed to or endorsed giving the elderly, frail or infirm a slap to put them in line... Just woman, which would make him a woman beater?

Hope this helps.

Very well articulated. I agree with you. Nobody should be slapping anyone else and regardless of gender or condition it isn't a very nice thing to be saying.

Not related to the above, but just a further point about the banks. It isn't just about the fact that they weren't allowed to go bust, it was also the fact that NOTHING was reformed. Okay, you could very well argue that the effect on the economy would have been tremendous, and no doubt it would, but then if you were to bail out fraudulent banks, then surely there had to be consequences for doing so. You don't just allow the public to suffer and not make the banks and bankers themselves suffer. They should feel the brunt of the suffering and that would have meant the top bankers in prison and serious banking reform. None of that happened and so now fraud has been legitimised and we are seeing it all through the government and banking. They have crossed the path into something completely crooked and corrupt and still the public suffer and long will they suffer and those banks haven't paid for their crimes.

People can handle it if things go wrong and the guilty pay a price. Instead the guilty have got away with it and the people are paying the price. That is the problem with the banks. I would like them to vanish and for banking to be completely nationalised and controlled. I don't see how swamping the public with debt is good for an economy, I really don't. The society of credit and debt is something that is cruel and abusive. People should have been bailed out and the banks left to rot. For too long it is society that has been preyed on by the banks, and eventually when they made a bet too far it collapsed. They deserved it, but they didn't deserve to be helped. The preyed upon deserved to be helped.

[Andre]

Have you never punched a man? Why make differentiation based on gender lines? Are you a feminist? Sean Connery was James Bond. JAMES BOND!

And he says the word Sausage so well.

[Master]

Have you never punched a man? Why make differentiation based on gender lines? Are you a feminist? Sean Connery was James Bond. JAMES BOND!

And he says the word Sausage so well.

Your jokes are not appreciated here.

[Beanz]

Sean Connery says for Independence. Good man. The former Bond lest we forget.

All your heroes are cunts. ALL.

[Beanz]

Sean Connery says for Independence. Good man. The former Bond lest we forget.

All your heroes are cunts. ALL.

Connery ? A Jock bond ? You call yourself camp and witty and Ghey and you prefer Connery over Roger Moore.

[Beanz]

Also nice to see you return only to never change and continue in your dictatorial, facist way. Even Englishmen living in England have no say which on way Scotland will vote and yet you want your opinion from South Korea to be taken into account. The Queen has no say and yet apparently she is a cunt and you are not. Hmmmm ?....

[Gandalf]

Strange posts, GB.

I want what's best for the people of the UK and that means the Scots get their freedom. Unlike the Queen, I do not try to keep people hostage with nonsense babies and blackmail. It is about the values. There are no values with a monarchy and a Tory government. Free healthcare and education are British values and if England fails, then England should fall. There is no mandate to destroy the welfare state and Scotland doesn't want to. Sell off the monarchy and hey presto, Britain has free education and healthcare for all permanently. It's the blinkers, take them off.

[Kirkland Laing]

I a not sure how much oil is actually in what would be scottish waters, I dont think it is enough to keep a country going and I am not sure what scotland can do to become a self running country, we dont really make anything and only export whisky really :S..

I'm going to vote yes in the referendum.

80% of north sea oil has already been extracted. The remaining 20% will cost increasing amounts of cash to extract and won't provide the same revenue to an independent Scottish exchequer that the original 80% did to the British exchequer.

Once the oil runs out you've only got whisky and a vast number of unemployable neds drinking buckfast and creating another generation oflosers. You're much better off in the long run being permanently subsidised by the south of England.