• Scottish referendum question is biased, election watchdog finds - government agrees to change it
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[t]http://imgkk.com/i/yblv.jpg[/t] [url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-21245701[/url] [quote]The Scottish government has agreed to change the wording of its independence referendum question, after concerns it may lead people to vote 'Yes'. SNP ministers wanted to ask voters the yes/no question: "Do you agree that Scotland should be an independent country?" in autumn 2014. The wording of the question will now be altered to: "Should Scotland be an independent country?" The change was suggested by the Electoral Commission watchdog. Final approval of the referendum arrangements rests with the Scottish Parliament.[/quote]
Fair enough.
That was a very leading question, before.
Originally the question was going to be 'FRRREEEDDDOOOMMM!?'
I really don't want Scotland to leave. Apart from all the fragmentation of the economy and the like, can't we all just get along?
Scotland is dreaming of becoming Norway when in reality they're not going to get all the oil and they should know that. [editline]30th January 2013[/editline] The English and Welsh better put up Hadrian's wall before its too late.
I remember reading the question a while ago and thinking it was biased. Glad they changed it.
[QUOTE=Zambiesv2;39412269]Scotland is dreaming of becoming Norway when in reality they're not going to get all the oil and they should know that.[/QUOTE] If it's done geographically we [scotland] get around 92% of Britain's North Sea oil.
[QUOTE=-Flapadar;39412417]If it's done geographically we [scotland] get around 92% of Britain's North Sea oil.[/QUOTE] It probably won't be though. I doubt Westminster is going to let all that revenue go.
The question is still wrong, when they leave the UK they will have a brief time of independence then they will join the EU and will lose it again. Much the same way the UK Parliament makes decisions that effect Scotland the EU Parliament will make very similar decisions and Scotland will have even less representation in the EU Parliament than they do the UK Parliament giving them virtually no representation at all.
[QUOTE=Scrappa;39412619]The question is still wrong, when they leave the UK they will have a brief time of independence then they will join the EU and will lose it again. Much the same way the UK Parliament makes decisions that effect Scotland the EU Parliament will make very similar decisions and Scotland will have even less representation in the EU Parliament than they do the UK Parliament giving them virtually no representation at all.[/QUOTE] That is not how it works.
question should be "Should the glorious hard working, innocent people of Scotland be free of Britain's tyranny and evil?"
I don't understand why the first question was biased.
Saying "Do you agree" infers that the people/persons asking the question have already answered in the affirmative.
I think if Scotland should stay, their place in the UK's parliament needs to be sorted out considering the scotish ministers can vote on matters affecting only England but no one but scotish ministers can vote on matters only in Scotland as they have their own parliament.
Either way there is more shit they need to sort out. If you vote yes to independence it sounds like you are saying yes to more questions than just that. Example: You say yes to independence you say yes to making Scotland 0% Nuclear and sacrifice shitloads of jobs because of it and invalidate an entire profession.
[QUOTE=Untouch;39412693]question should be "Should the glorious hard working, innocent people of Scotland be free of Britain's tyranny and evil?"[/QUOTE] [i]1) Are you a son or daughter of Scotland? [b]Y/N[/b] 2) Do you give homage to Scotland? [b]Y/N[/b] 3) Are you William Wallace? [b]Y/N[/b] 4) Are you 7 feet tall? [b]Y/N[/b] 5) Do you kill men by the hundreds? [b]Y/N[/b] 6) Have you ever consumed Englishmen with fireballs from your eyes and/or bolts of lightning from your arse? 7) Dying in your bed, many years, would you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that for one chance- JUST ONE CHANCE-- to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives but they'll never take OUR FREEDOM? [b]Y/N[/b][/i] [editline]30 January 2013[/editline] Just did all the work for them.
[QUOTE=LunchboxOfDoom;39412790][i]1) Are you a son or daughter of Scotland? [b]Y/N[/b] 2) Do you give homage to Scotland? [b]Y/N[/b] 3) Are you William Wallace? [b]Y/N[/b] 4) Are you 7 feet tall? [b]Y/N[/b] 5) Do you kill men by the hundreds? [b]Y/N[/b] 6) Have you ever consumed Englishmen with fireballs from your eyes and/or bolts of lightning from your arse? 7) Dying in your bed, many years, would you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that for one chance- JUST ONE CHANCE-- to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives but they'll never take OUR FREEDOM? [b]Y/N[/b][/i] [editline]30 January 2013[/editline] Just did all the work for them.[/QUOTE] The sad thing is, quite a few of the folk I know that are voting yes seem to have based it off watching Braveheart too many times.
[QUOTE=Memobot;39412259]I really don't want Scotland to leave. Apart from all the fragmentation of the economy and the like, can't we all just get along?[/QUOTE] Only if Alex Salmond lays off the pies and Braveheart.
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