• Scotland: Salmond and Darling about to begin second TV debate
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[QUOTE=Thom12255;45802307]Is there a source on this? Also the House of Lords has had next to no real power for 100 years.[/QUOTE] My source is my family and friends from these parts. I'm sure there will be footage out there somewhere of her voicing her dislike for said people [editline]26th August 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=The mouse;45799705]Because I don't see the UK in terms of England, Scotland and Wales. I see us all as British. It seems trivial to me that Scotland should tear up such a 300 year old union over temporary trivial issues such as Trident or Austerity when we share so much more. We have a common Language, Land, History and currency and so many shared institutions, it doesn't make sense to me why the Scots would want independence. Scottish independence would negatively effect both Scotland and the rest of the UK on the world stage. What's left of the UK might be demoted to a second rate power on account of losing about 1/4 of it's territory. The Politics of the UK would be almost certainly changed by Scottish Independence. Wales might too want independence one day and then what? We're left with a broken much diminished shell of what used to be 1 prosperous nation that shared resources but now are 3 nations all acting foreign to each other.[/QUOTE] The Union was forged from the blood of Settlers in America and the bribing of the scottish nobles. Scotland was bent over a barrel and fucked into a Union. What's so damn great and historical about that? Anything that is forged on such things is clearly not something worth fighting to keep. [editline]26th August 2014[/editline] Took me two seconds to find this article. [url]http://www.sevenstreets.com/why-liverpool-wont-mourn-margaret-thatcher/[/url] - Sorry for bad formatting, difficult to do on a phone lagging out. It quite neatly sums up why Thatcher was hated so much and in turn why Liverpool and Northern England are so distrustful of the Tories and prefer to not be associated. From what I've heard from family and friends, these parts are rather Pro-Indy for places not actually in Scotland.
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