The UK political thread (formerly independence thread)

[Metalchemyst]

If Scotland gets independence I'd like to give them a parting gift of 500,000 recent immigrants. It would boost their economy and give an added blessing of increasing cultural diversity. Scotland is so white it's ridiculous.

[Matty_the_Emo_Slayer]

Scotland has loads of immigrants its just that the blacks there have been turned pasty and ginger by the harsh winds and lack of sun...

[Killing_time]

Scottish people should learn to talk without spitting before getting independence.

[CrappyMike]

You should learn to troll better.

[Matty_the_Emo_Slayer]

Scottish people should learn to talk without spitting before getting independence.

that's the Welsh you're thinking of

[Smerphy]

Do many illegals get into the UK via Scotland? Never heard much about it.


For all the talk of BBC bias this Kevin Bridges show tonight has been pretty balanced.

It was good and quite balanced.

Kevin did say his Yes supporting friends all had their parts edited though.

[MetalBeast]

Keep hearing about this Devo Max option the Scots will get if they vote no, even though David Cameron previously insisted that including it as an option on the ballot paper - alongside full independence and maintaining the Status Quo* - wasn't an option.

I'm guessing it's something like this, but louder and performed by The Proclaimers.

*see page 7 for my shit joke about the Status Quo

[Gandalf the Red]

Apparently they don't want Devo Max as they prefer Irn Bru to Pepsi.

[Nichrome]

I hope the Scots realise that if the Yes vote wins then they'll have to put up with more of Salmond and Sturgeon.

Exactly - this is the thing that does it for me. Every argument I've seen for the 'Yes' people is "We'll have our own government - we hate everyone in Westminster". Everyone hates their government, as soon as Scotland go independent, they'll be complaining 24/7 about whoever is in Holyrood rather than who is in Westminster. Nothing will change. Scotland will not transform in to some socialist utopia overnight. No sane person would take the monumental economic risk. The whole thing reeks of small minded nationalism.

[ribbons69]

Scottish people should learn to talk without spitting before getting independence.

that's the Welsh you're thinking of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnl3N1RQedE

[WorMzy]

I hope the Scots realise that if the Yes vote wins then they'll have to put up with more of Salmond and Sturgeon.

Exactly - this is the thing that does it for me. Every argument I've seen for the 'Yes' people is "We'll have our own government - we hate everyone in Westminster". Everyone hates their government, as soon as Scotland go independent, they'll be complaining 24/7 about whoever is in Holyrood rather than who is in Westminster.

Of course, but better the lying cheating bastard that you know and all that.

And as has been pointed out -- nobody thinks everything is going to change overnight.

[MetalBeast]

I think they should have had Devo Max as an option and had a voting slip with just three pictures on it with tick boxes by them (no words), the pictures being:

[Matty_the_Emo_Slayer]

Scotland will not transform in to some socialist utopia overnight.

Of course it won't, but it'll be easier to achieve change in a Scottish parliament rather than in Westminster which will always be dominated by people intent on representing only one class of people from one part of the country. The vote isn't for change, its for reforming the system to make change actually possible.

[GTFCMike]

I hope the Scots realise that if the Yes vote wins then they'll have to put up with more of Salmond and Sturgeon

....... and less of the likes of Camoron, Cleggy the turncoat clown and the Ed Miller Band. No one policy Nigel too, as an added bonus.

[CrappyMike]

Salmond and sturgeon are just as bad, if not worse. They are just slimy shitheads, wonder what they'll say when they don't get the result they want. Yes I said when, not if.