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Thread #155459   Message #3657401
Posted By: Musket
05-Sep-14 - 12:34 PM
Thread Name: BS: scottish independence
Subject: RE: BS: scottish independence
Wouldn't it be funny if the yes vote won but Salmond was barred from public office for lying to the Scottish Parliament?

The snag is, (and on this I agree broadly with Teribus, as strange as it is to say so,) The UK is a member of The EU. Scotland isn't, or is as part of The UK. Spain doesn't want Catalonia getting ideas and Germany can see a skint Scotland in a few years, and they bear the brunt of bailouts.

No. By letting the ugly face of repugnant nationalism have a voice, Salmond and his traitor crew have caused divide, mistrust and hate. Regardless of the outcome, he has divided a country by trying to unite what was already united.

Salmond is not putting forward a case for an independent Scotland. He is putting forward a case for his party and what it wants to deliver. Destabilising the country fundamentally in order to be able to offer such things is reckless. That he cannot afford to deliver them and cannot show how it is costed beggars belief.

Before anybody casts a vote, they have ask themselves how sure they are that Salmond will not change his tune but Westminster politicians will change theirs? Because that is what he is saying.

He is a politician by the way, in case anybody hasn't noticed.