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Given the polls there are three things that YES/Salmond have to do: Ensure there’s a maximum turnout amongst those currently saying YES; try to win over some switchers, and endeavour to ensure lower turnout levels amongst those inclined to NO.
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Sounds distinctly sinister.
97% of the electorate are going to vote. Council estates have been swept to ensure that people vote. Those people according to the polls will vote yes.
Although now I've looked at the odds I see I'm in profit 2 hours after making the bet, I guess it is getting through.
Freedom! for England.
I don't believe that these men thought they were about to die. Either because:
a) they weren't about to die and the videos are fake, or
b) they were about to die, but thought it was play acting.
Why wouldn't you run away and get shot in the back? Preferable to a knife in the throat. Why read the whole speech? No signs whatever of mistreatment either.
As I posted before, this is Steven Sotloff:
http://friendsofsyria.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/10672238_771548192891571_7878428630419055706_n1.jpg?w=640
This is off, really off.
I'm not watching the video, but I have read this Scottish guy's script -it could have been written by someone wanting to sign the UK up to bomb. It's virtually word for word a 'war sceptic' statement -meaning anyone who makes those arguments will now be making 'ISIS' arguments. It even has a nice PR bit for Tony Blair about him attacking Al Qaeda (which he never did).
Re BBC demos in Glasgow, they've been having them fairly regularly for some weeks/months no. Not news according to the media, though the numbers were not trivial.
Hasn't the equivalent been part of the No campaign strategy, in any case, to discourage Yes voters by how resistance is futile to the huge No leads?
The way everything had gone, I for one, wouldn't be surprised!
The suggestion was the victims were drugged up to the eyeballs, had become accustomed to fake executions or were threatened with torture if they tried to run.
All are possible I suppose
There is an old joke about this, but now is probably not the time
Remember that song?
I had to write a local paper in English at school at the time and thought I was oh so trendy by calling it "Essex Press"
Didn't work very well for him...
If it's a Yes, then Cameron may resign, or he may not for the reasons that have been discussed.
If it's a No, then Salmond is finished as a politician; the generational opportunity will be over.
Therefore Salmond needs this more than Cameron and will use any trick, persuasion, or other means to win this vote.
Rotherham Pig Shit - An Issue of Culture: http://youtu.be/QlNAecgJbro
Hmm.
If people want to have a go at me on that basis, be my guest. But inform yourself about the wider context first.
Just that I cant remember or imagine a hostage living to tell the tale after saying such words
Will be interesting to see who or what the public service broadcaster will be in an Indy Scotland if YES wins.
It was certainly very striking that the BBC closed down almost all comment on its Scottish politics stories on its website very early on in the current parliamentary term (even before the Edinburgh Agreement if I recall rightly, and it can't have been the quality of debate as it was considerably better than the average newspaper, though not so well informed on specialist issues as PB often is).
This BBC protest is very sinister.
I smell a big price movement coming up.
This blog post (caveats apply -it's an excitable peice done by a non-journalist on a Syrian blog) raises some interesting points: http://friendsofsyria.co/2014/09/11/fake-fake-fake-lies-obama-will-do-anything-to-justify-invading-syria/
"Leading economist Joseph Stiglitz has said there is "little basis" for "fear-mongering" over the economy of an independent Scotland.
Mr Stiglitz countered the view of fellow Nobel prize-winning economist Paul Krugman, who recently said in the New York Times that Scotland would face "huge risks" if it voted for independence and told Scots to "be very afraid".
In an article published in the Sunday Herald and the Scotsman Mr Stiglitz said that while there would be risks in the event of a "Yes" vote, the risks of Scotland remaining in the union and the UK leaving the EU would be "significantly greater".
BBC not covering Scottish anti-BBC protest, but China TV is haha WATCH: http://new.livestream.com/IndependenceLive/BBCBiasV …
The party that lets its MPs do that will be annihilated in England.
Basically, labour's scotsmen are gone. If Yes wins they are gone.
If no wins they are still gone, because no means devomax.
I hear rumours from Corby...
Yes look like 'football' hooligans.
Expect Sky to be next to be protested.
Though the images weren't flattering.
Presumably he thinks that an Indy Scotland will be accepted into the EU? On the other hand, the UK leaving would be permanent.
But you would have to find out the details (if there are any) from a different source to the BBC blog.
Weird.
I agreed with @JosiasJessop last night to prevent the torture of his endless pinickity questions so Im not trying to be a brave keyboard warrior!
I wouldn't go anywhere near the middle east personally. Although its probably coming to me soon
My (half Scottish) father is appalled, and asked if we want another Northern Ireland on our hands.
Meanwhile Yes have canvassed once, held a meeting in our village of a few hundred (as well as Sturgeon doing a lengthy Q and A in the nearest town), and sent far more of their propaganda leaflets (even finding it worthwhile to spend a letter to tell me about the handful of jobs saved in Port Glasgow).
The wife takes the kids out every Saturday and they come back with Yes balloons and so on every week and hardly ever encounter BT.
If Yes win (I'm guessing a narrow No win is more likely), I suspect organisation on the ground would more than account for the victory margin.
I am getting "Scottish debt help" and an Asus computer ad.
I must be a different demographic.
It will be even shorter if there is a NO vote.- think fruit fly.
I wouldn't even go anywhere near the Middle East let alone volunteer to hand out aid etc... its borderline madness to do so in my opinion, but these people are made of stronger stuff than I am
But if it's a No, then I still say the idea of "banning Scottish MPs from voting on English laws" will be a nonstarter. I'm not aware of any parliament in the whole world which, itself, bans certain MPs from voting on certain laws? (though I might be wrong.) I would've thought it's an unwritten convention that a directly-elected parliament isn't allowed to dictate the powers of other MPs. Never mind what Labour/LibDem MPs would do, the self-styled "constituional watchdogs" on the crossbenches in the House of Lords would be screaming blue murder. (It would have to pass through the HoL presumably?)
The Yes protest looks like a siege. A turn off.
If the Scots economy goes belly-up as I and many others predict then what makes anyone in Scotland think England will say, 'Welcome back' if they decide to have another vote sometime in the future. It's for the deluded.
I hope that doesn't happen to HurstLama, His libido nearly exploded at the thought of "corset shoes" :-)
English MPs are already "banned" from voting on Scottish devolved matters.
An English Parliament is a solution, albeit not without it's implementation problems. But I really think that the English would vote against creating a whole new category of politicians. The great advantage of a massively centralisated state is that there are as few politicians as possible.
I doubt it's particularly complicated to resolve but it is unacceptable on the basis they have voted to not be part of this nation. After a 'Yes' vote they shouldn't even be allowed to stand, it's a nonsense.