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Thread #149513   Message #3478747
Posted By: GUEST
12-Feb-13 - 02:46 PM
Thread Name: BS: Scotland does not exist
Subject: RE: BS: Scotland does not exist
"Turkeys don't vote for Xmas" Based on the usual nonsense that Scots are subsidy junkies. Scots are almost certainly heading towards voting NO but that doesn't mean that they all don't want the financial arrangements to change. Many polls showed that devo-max was the favoured option for Scots. That is moving towards money being raised and spent in Scotland. The Nats were happy to have that option on the ballot. The unionists in the form of the UK govt refused but they have promised that there version of what is to be offered as far as further devolution goes will be unveiled after the No vote in the referendum is secured. Even the Lib Dems who favour a federal UK were against having it on the ballot which I still can't get my head around.

Further devolution would of course involve the agreement of the rest of the UK. Probably in the form of