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Re: Scots still want to be Poms
Reply #30 - Sep 20^th, 2014 at 7:36am

brumbie wrote on Sep 19^th, 2014 at 9:49pm:

Unfortunately,as you and I know Lord H(well me anyway) North Sea Oil isn't the sort of grade that produces much,it is owned by everybody but the Brits (it was sold of years ago) and all it does nowadays is keep a lot of Jocks in work..beats me where the English are involved in that one?

Makes me wonder..why aren't the English allowed a bloody Referendum on whether we want to keep the Scots?

someone mentioned that Wales would be next.... cant wait! Roll Eyes

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Dnarever Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 59026 Here Gender:	Re: Scots still want to be Poms Reply #31 - Sep 20^th, 2014 at 7:49am Quote: Scots still want to be Poms Probably just like us, the other option was worse or they could see no justification to spend billions to in reality achieve only a cosmetic variation with significant risk of making it worse.
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bogarde73 Gold Member Offline Anti-Global & Contra Mundum Posts: 18443 Gender:	Re: Scots still want to be Poms Reply #32 - Sep 20^th, 2014 at 12:48pm Exactly right dna
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Re: Scots still want to be Poms
Reply #33 - Sep 20^th, 2014 at 6:12pm

pretty sad the sore losers are tearing the place down now...

what is it about losing that people go crazy....as has been mentioned they are going to get greater control over their own future...so they really think they are able to take care of themselves????....

I am blowed if I understand what change they are looking for...what difference would it make to Mr and Mrs Average????.. they would end up with a massive bureaucracy to support for ever and a day.

good luck with that!

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Perses Full Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 239 Gender:	Re: Scots still want to be Poms Reply #34 - Sep 20^th, 2014 at 9:01pm Wake Up! No bugger likes an Englishman telling them what to do.
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Re: Scots still want to be Poms
Reply #35 - Sep 20^th, 2014 at 9:07pm

Perses wrote on Sep 20^th, 2014 at 9:01pm:

Wake Up! No bugger likes an Englishman telling them what to do.

But they sure as hell like living off their handouts eh......that is the only reason for the NO vote......they'd be bankrupt in a year or less.....if they'd have voted YES.....

And Englishmen taught most of the planet "what to do" dear...

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Perses Full Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 239 Gender:	Re: Scots still want to be Poms Reply #36 - Sep 20^th, 2014 at 10:16pm What Fugging Handouts ?? The English get more from Scotland So were are these handouts ??
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St George of the Garden Gold Member Offline http://tinyurl.com/n 3o8m2x Posts: 9809 Gender:	Re: Scots still want to be Poms Reply #37 - Sep 21^st, 2014 at 7:25pm bwahahahahahah
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Mnemonic Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 1530 Melbourne Gender:	Re: Scots still want to be Poms Reply #38 - Sep 21^st, 2014 at 10:06pm St George of the Garden wrote on Sep 21^st, 2014 at 7:25pm: bwahahahahahah https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bx_YXitIUAIxWEy.jpg I clicked on Stop. What happens now?
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issuevoter Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 9200 The Great State of Mind Gender:	Re: Scots still want to be Poms Reply #39 - Sep 21^st, 2014 at 10:25pm This is not 1745. Bury your tribalism. Two and possibly three countries on that little island would but utter folly.
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Re: Scots still want to be Poms
Reply #40 - Sep 22^nd, 2014 at 8:49pm

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John Key: let’s rid NZ flag of union jack

“I’d like to get on with it, to me I’d like to do it as a 2015 issue,” Key told commercial station Radio Live.

“I’m obviously a big supporter of the change, I think there are a lot of strong arguments in favour of the change.”

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/22/john-key-2015-referendum-new-zealan...

Let us get rid of the bloody Union Jack too!

Key is a conservative but unlike Abbott he is not a reactionary. He also has brains, again unlike Abbott.

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Re: Scots still want to be Poms
Reply #41 - Sep 25^th, 2014 at 4:20am

Perses wrote on Sep 20^th, 2014 at 10:16pm:

What Fugging Handouts ?? The English get more from Scotland So were are these handouts ??

England gives billions of pounds every year to Scotland in handouts.

The Barnett Formula also means that relatively wealthy Scotland receives more public spending per head of population than every other region of the UK, including POORER Wales and the English regions (like the North East and North West) which are also poorer than Scotland.

Scotland also takes more from the Treasury, every year, than it puts in.

The "freebies" that Scots enjoy - such as free university education, free medical prescriptions and free care for the elderly - are all paid for by the English taxpayer despite the fact that the English taxpayer also has to pay for those things the Scots get free.

"Scottish" oil is only able to be brought up from the North Sea thanks to massive English subsidies and English-based companies like BP.

The amount that is spent every year on socialist Scotland's massively bloated, over-generous welfare system is THREE TIMES that of the total annual North Sea oil receipts.

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Andrei.Hicks Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 23818 Carlsbad, CA Gender:	Re: Scots still want to be Poms Reply #42 - Sep 25^th, 2014 at 4:26am Perses wrote on Sep 20^th, 2014 at 10:16pm: What Fugging Handouts ?? The English get more from Scotland So were are these handouts ?? Scotland costs England more than it does to keep it. Where do you think the bailout money for RBS came from? The Moon?
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Re: Scots still want to be Poms
Reply #43 - Sep 25^th, 2014 at 4:28am

Andrei.Hicks wrote on Sep 25^th, 2014 at 4:26am:

Perses wrote on Sep 20^th, 2014 at 10:16pm:

What Fugging Handouts ?? The English get more from Scotland So were are these handouts ??

Scotland costs England more than it does to keep it.

Where do you think the bailout money for RBS came from? The Moon?

It would have been interesting to see how Scotland would have been able to bail out its banks, RBS and HBOS, when they crashed in 2008 had it been an independent country at the time. The cost of bailing those banks out was many times Scotland's entire GDP, so they were only able to be bailed out thanks to Scotland being part of the world's sixth-largest economy (fifth largest when it overtakes France soon).

Had Scotland been an independent nation state back in 2008 when its banks crashed it would have been stuffed.

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