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For Scottishness, I’m proud to say we had a completely Fife produced Christmas dinner, with Auchtermuchty venison alongside Abernethy grown vegetables. Square sausage…..brilliant…….designed to make sausage sandwiches a doddle! Haggis is delicious, though my wife hates it!
Bullshit
The traidtional scottish menu is Deep fried Tix with chips and curry sauce washed down with Tonic wine
(and tonic wine/irn bru spritzers for the ladies)
Bullshit
The traidtional scottish menu is Deep fried Tix with chips and curry sauce washed down with Tonic wine
(and tonic wine/irun bru)
Whereas in your house it’s just the same old, same old… BULLSHIT everyday.
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..well, I’m rather glad we didn’t move there after all..
Too many seem to be showing their true colours and it’s not very nice.old thread…but quite relevant today. ‘Lekha’, who I think is the lady that is now Clerk of the Course at Warwick, was quite insightful here I think…amongst others…
Mare ….when the jocks vote soon , there’s a strong chance that Pilsen and gamble will start a 24 hour radio station playing non stop ad free music(kate bush only )…interspersed with random musings from the sheep on posting crap on a racing board
But you dont always get what what you wish for laddies !!!
..perish the thought…never quite understood the attraction in Kate Bush…nor Blondie for that matter…
…Nationalism is such an ugly thing…I can’t abide it… best let Scotland go their own way and hope that we here do not pick up this contagion…
Nationalism is a horrid and a deeply unsettling dogma UM
Like you, I hope this plague that’s sweeping that land I love will blow itself ooot…
..but doesn’t this put you off the land that you love, Drone..? I mean, 1 in 2 people there want out, and it seems to have nothing to do with the economy. Prepared to do so without a currency…
I find that depth of feeling unsettling for now, and to be truthful, I won’t be holidaying there again, even if the ‘No’s’ win… and I’m sorry about that…had some lovely holidays in Scotland…The idea of Independence – almost as dirty a word as nationalism -, particularly if promulgated by supposed ‘elders and betters’ tends to bring out the worst in people. If Wales, Cornwall or Yorkshire were to stage an IN/OUT referendum then I’d fully expect around 1 in 2 to mouth-off OUT, OUT, OUT! only for the IN crowd to win and life return to the same ‘ol same ‘ol
Come next Friday I sincerely believe and hope beyond hope that Scotland will still be part of the great Union; and if it is I expect that glorious country will remain the welcoming and hospitable place it has always been on the numerous occasions Drone has dropped his jaw there
If not, I will no longer venture further north than the fine English town of Berwick
If not, I will no longer venture further north than the fine English town of Berwick
and nor you will you – without a passport !
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The Union Jack will be flying over this United Kingdom for a while yet……..There’s been an awful lot of skulduggery from both sides trying in vain to tarnish the others reputation but we expected that,its called Politics and it stinks to high heaven.The Red white and blue will rule next week.No Danger.
Common sense prevails, at least from the Scots, (if not from Westminster), which I think is something intrinsically British and to be proud of, even though we seem to be gradually losing it, especially in England, given recent events in Rotherham and suchlike… and this referendum, which I think should never have been called has only served to bring out the worst in so many people…
…however, I do think the Scots are essentially Nationalist at heart, which I think would be considered irrational, nonsensical even, to most in England…and the Yes voters would have got a majority if it wasn’t for fears about the economy.
..a post-referendum poll of 2000 people found that nearly 50 percent of ‘No’ voters did so because of concerns over Scotland’s economic prospects, the NHS etc…as opposed to any affection for, or attachment to the UK…
..I think we know where we stand…
I certainly wont ever set foot in the place again …or buy anything from there ….a bunch of parasites , let them rot
Jut a personal opinion of course
Very few outwith Scotland do not fully grasp why the people voted yes or no. Forget the braveheart factor from YES voters – I witnessed none of that, nor a hatred of England – again, that never entered the equation. The YES voters were mainly disaffected working class people who were fed with social injustice and Tory Governments imposing their right-wing policies on the Scottish. The make-up of the NO voters were by and large middle-class, the elderly ( who rarely like change of any kind ) and pro-unionists – and by Scottish pro-unionists, I mean the Orange Order and similar other groups ( it was them who started the trouble in George Square following the result )who were instructed by their hierarchy to vote for the status quo. Throw in the weight of the negative campaigning by the English media and Better Together leaders and supporters; not to mention a plea from an "impartial" monarch, and a final throw of the dice by the BT squad, who sent up the three main UK party leaders in am act of sheer panic. Gordon Brown sealed the deal by worrying the undecided ( yes, it was very close before that ) and elderly that their pensions and jobs would be at risk. Yet, for all the weight thrown behind the YES campaign, and all the negativity, 45% of of the people staying in Scotland voted for separation.
The irony is that the overwhelming majority of the Scots who voted NO more than likely support any football team who play England – and that will never change.
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Thanks Himself ,a good explanation ,.makes sense ,must admit I did not understand , why they would want to bite the hand that feeds ??
If you are right and I WOULD SAY you probably are , then its only a matter of time before it happens
The next push will get through
What the consequences will be though is hard to predict , Id say lots of English folk will resent the
almost
yes vote..and boycot Scotland in some fashion
I certainly will
cheers
Very few outwith Scotland do not fully grasp why the people voted yes or no. Forget the braveheart factor from YES voters – I witnessed none of that, nor a hatred of England – again, that never entered the equation. The YES voters were mainly disaffected working class people who were fed with social injustice
Amongst all the post-vote wise-after-the-event hot air from the media ‘experts’ one quote from the bloke who wrote Alex Salmond’s biography is worth repeating
those who voted YES were those with nothing to lose and those who voted NO were those with something to lose
A little too simplistic of course but a pithy summing up that’s about right IMO: the economic uncertainty of independence was the YES camp’s undoing
The irony is that the overwhelming majority of the Scots who voted NO more than likely support any football team who play England – and that will never change.
…it’s for reasons such as this, and all jokes aside, that these days I prefer the Polish people, in the main. They have little in the way of historical beef with us, theirs is mainly with the Russians or other neighbours…
..in fact, it would probably horrify some to know that, during the recent World Cup, working in retail as I do, I sold Union Jacks to Polish young men, and many of the Polish families enjoyed the Royal Jubilee celebrations going on here earlier…
..personally I find them to be a refreshing change, and welcome their presence in the UK…
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