HoratioCuthbert
I appreciate your frankness and the way you intertwine brexit and indy and the complex local politics/family politics et al that go along with divisive issues. And your personal efforts with refugees are to be lauded.
I didn't make any simplistic analyses though...and UKIP all went back to the tories where they were hatched...job done. And Greece suffers to be in the EU because it's worth it for Greece.
The established left in Scotland have been found out to be largely a bunch of self serving and untrustworthy cunts, worse than the right because people trusted them. You can't trust the established left or the established right. I stopped watching tv some time ago, lots of people are either turning their tvs off (or just on thursdays) or are recording everything then examining it, posting it, challenging it. (but I still bought a 4k tv...go figure)
It's wonderful, people are engaged and positive. Remember that girl in England that got caught shoplifting mars bars and was fined £100 when she was starving and penniless? The crowdfunder up at your bit against Carmichael? Trying to stop the ozzie Brain family being deported? The Spanish government trying to take Carla back to face sedition charges? Remember when trump was here and Nicola headed a Pride march in Glasgow a month or so ago when he arrived? May getting booed last week...arrived in secret, went into a building...100s waiting to boo her when she exited and lurched to her car? The rolls-royce affair in Glasgow? The sly little announcement the other week that the Scots government has had over 200 meetings with other countries on trade recently? Baby boxes? NHS pay rise? Renewables. Bedroom tax? Carer's Allowance? Are you aware of any of it? 1000s of things, non-stop.
Sending the (cough) Lockerbie bomber home to die with his family? You think the UK government would ever do that? Ever?
I don't think you're involved in any of the indy communications networks and should check twitter or google or facebook or websites and blogs, look for a local meet-up group and have a chat, throw some questions and see what people are like. We are doing shit that isn't being done anyplace else in the UK and in very few places outside of it.
If there was a second brexit vote...if everyone in Scotland voted the way you wanted them to it wouldn't make any difference to the result.
Zero.
And that's the same for every decision after that, forever, in the union. The amount of powers that the EU has over the UK in comparison to the amount of powers the UK has over us is laughable.
Remember this...the UK government just gave Young's a £1.3 million grant to move their factory from Scotland to England...400 jobs lost here...400 gained there...aye cheers for that seems fair. £168 million given by the EU to Scots farmers...Gove says it's gone to England and that's that. (tells you what they think about our chances though
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Hey...all you parents out there...did you know in Scotland you get a box that has an electronic baby ear thermometer in it and other stuff too? Free meals and care for young ones, free care for the old, free university, prescriptions. A scheme to make sure all poorer women get free period products? btw yes I said free care for the old.
Free crossing of bridges and free parking at (non-pfi) hospitals?
Of the (I think) 315 murders in the last 7 years (not a typo...no zeros missing) 315 were solved. Rapes and sexual crimes, violent crimes, knife crimes...down.
Imagine what we'll do with all the powers.
So join the indy club and never mind that other stuff...it's easy here are the rules.
1: You will talk about indy
2: You will talk about indy
3: If you join...you gotta indy
You made an honest post
HoratioCuthbert , so did I.
I know brexit is the best thing for Scotland's independence but it's a bad thing imo so I'll say it. I'm not sleekit.