Scottish Referendum

[jason_c]

Hi Lynn

Re the currency, I'm baffled by the SNP policy of keeping the pound. Surely one of the marks of an independent country is that it has its own currency.

This is the type of policy the SNP will have to sell to the Scottish people. Until now its mostly been an anti-English, anti-Westminster manifesto the SNP have been running on. It'll be interesting to see any detailed post Independence policy initiatives coming from Alex Salmond. Or should I say detailed policy initiatives that dont simply rely on North Sea oil or green energy. Im sick to the back teeth of hearing about "our oil" from the SNP. Tidal and Wind energy is an exciting project but I think its viewed as a panacea by some Nationalists up here.

Lynn, thank you for the encouraging words.

[lynn cates]

good luck

Hello Jason. Yes, and I'll keep my fingers crossed.

Cheers.
LC

[Heinrich]

Tell you what, mate: whatever we say on this message board you have never remotely been in our league. ...

My heart is broken. What shall I do?

Hello Robert. Forgive me, but it's like the teenager who runs away from home but wishes to bring his laundry for mum to do.

Oh! Please. How more patronizing could you be to compare the Scottish to dependent adolescents while the English are like the indulging parent?
Not to be unkind but, have you any notion how this sounds?

... Re the currency, I'm baffled by the SNP policy of keeping the pound. Surely one of the marks of an independent country is that it has its own currency.

The City of London makes its living from financial asset management of the wealthy worldwide. Sterling is a reserve currency because of the investment spivs and broker merchants. It is not a prerequisite for countries to have their own currency in order to be sovereign. Many countries in Europe share the euro for example.

[DirectorDave]

I love my English brothers and sisters.....but they are not very easy people to share an island with at times.

I doubt when the time comes the Scottish people would decide to inflict the English unfettered into the world never mind inflicting them on the rest of the British.

I predict 66% of the Scottish people will vote against separation.

[lynn cates]

analogy

Hello Heinrich. I of all people do not wish to patronise the Scots. So feel free to substitute a different analogy--wise, old people if you wish.

But I thought my main point clear enough. If you wish to be truly independent then be so, but don't maintain a small level of dependency.

Where I live now is full of panhandlers trying to scrounge coins. Occasionally, one will make a speech about renouncing society and its ways. Very well, but now why not renounce society's coins?

Cheers.
LC

[lynn cates]

all in the family

Hello Dave. Well spoke.

Cheers.
LC

[Steve S]

IMHO...Two type of people in favour of this: Little Politicians who want their own pool to seem big in...And....Those who have accepted Braveheart as anything akin to reality.....It's so ridiculous,it'll probably get a grant from Brussels.........

[lynn cates]

the mouth

Hello Steve. Some politicians have exceedingly large oral cavities.

Cheers.
LC

[Stephen Thomas]

Hello Mac. Would you be astonished if I said my Domini used the "Book of Common Prayer" for the sacraments? But it's true. He used to have a church in London.

And no, we Presbyterians don't have bishops--we call our bishops something else.

So those Prayer Book and bishops wars were love's labour lost.

So maybe the Scots and English converge a good bit after all?

Hi Lynn

That reminded me of a deliciously surreal joke I heard many years ago.

A Scotsman is asked in court why he had painted 'F*ck the Pope' on a wall in the street and he says 'Because I didn't have enough paint to write F*ck the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland'.

[lynn cates]

here endeth the lesson

Hello Stephen. Good one.

I heard that one particularly calvinistic Domini was preaching his annual obligatory hell fire sermon. After 5 minutes he looked up at the congregation and noted sweat beading up on each brow, trickling down the face, and dripping off forming puddles in the pews.

"This is nae gude." he mused. "I do nae want them to despair. I know, I'll end my sermon on a positive note of hope." After another 40 minutes of minute descriptions of the pains of hell, he ended his sermon thus.

"And then, a' the damned souls in hell will luke up at the gude Laird, oot of the midst of the flames and seh, 'Och, Laird! We did nae ken, we did nae ken!' And the gude Laird will look doon from heaven, in a' his infinite luve and maircy and seh, 'Aye. But I daresay ye kin NOO!'"

Cheers.
LC

[Robert]

"It is not a prerequisite for countries to have their own currency in order to be sovereign. Many countries in Europe share the euro for example."

I rest my case.

[Stephen Thomas]

I heard that one particularly calvinistic Domini was preaching his annual obligatory hell fire sermon. After 5 minutes he looked up at the congregation and noted sweat beading up on each brow, trickling down the face, and dripping off forming puddles in the pews.

"This is nae gude." he mused. "I do nae want them to despair. I know, I'll end my sermon on a positive note of hope." After another 40 minutes of minute descriptions of the pains of hell, he ended his sermon thus.

"And then, a' the damned souls in hell will luke up at the gude Laird, oot of the midst of the flames and seh, 'Och, Laird! We did nae ken, we did nae ken!' And the gude Laird will look doon from heaven, in a' his infinite luve and maircy and seh, 'Aye. But I daresay ye kin NOO!'"

Nice one, Lynn. And educational too. I hadn't realised how frantic Scottish

religion could be. No wonder Irish people feel at ease there.

[Limehouse]

You can say that again.


???
So has Denmark. LOL


And you don't?


Undoubtedly the envy of millions. The Irish must have been out of their minds to leave such political perfection.

I like your style Heinrich

[Robert]

The Irish must have been out of their minds, having fought so long for independence, to almost immediately chuck it away by joining the European Union.

[Robert]

For example :

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16773974