Why I think Scotland will not vote for independence – politicalbetting.com
Why I think Scotland will not vote for independence – politicalbetting.com
? Kate Forbes warns SNP members they “must avoid” public discussions about currency proposals for an independent Scotland. Minutes from branch meeting suggest party leadership knows currency remains a major weakness, more than 10 years on from indyrefhttps://t.co/iFOteHstHD
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So let's avoid talking about it. Right.
Bish-bosh, loadsa dosh?
Bing-bong, those days are gone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULeDlxa3gyc
PS, if anyone is looking for plasterers in the Dorset/Somerset/Wilts border area, PM me - these guys were seriously good. (Appreciate I have probably posted that on the wrong forum.)
ULEZ means I hardly drive my evil, polluting diesel car!
“I don’t think airport-style scanners would be the way to go,” the transport secretary told Sky News. “I understand why you asked the question, and I understand why some of your viewers might be wondering about that.
“We have thousands of railway stations across the UK, and those stations have multiple entrances, multiple platforms. What we can’t do is make life impossible for everyone, but we do need to take sensible and proportionate steps to make the public transport network safe.”
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/03/metal-detectors-train-stations-transport-cambridgeshire-stabbings
In practice, I suspect that a temporary agreement with the UK government would be agreed. It would be in no ones interest to have a rancorous split.
There'll have to some complicated discussions about switching, though,
And yes, I know that would mean an independent Scotland becoming part of the EU.
A formal currency union, as Salmond proposed, is bonkers and was never going to happen.
No migrants have been recorded crossing the English Channel for 11 days, the longest gap so far this year, PA Media reports. PA says:
The most recent date on which people arrived in the UK after making the journey by boat was 22 October, according to the latest Home Office data.
Bad weather is likely to have played a role in stopping migrants from attempting to reach the English coast. Storm Benjamin brought heavy rain and strong winds to northern France and the Channel on 23 October, with further wet and blustery weather on subsequent days.
The 11-day gap in arrivals from 23 October to 2 November beats this year’s previous longest gap, which was the 10 days from 27 August to 5 September.
Channel crossings in 2025 are no longer running at record levels.
The cumulative number of arrivals this year, 36,954, is 7% below the total at this point in 2022 (39,929).
Some 45,774 migrants arrived in 2022 – the highest number in any calendar year since data on Channel crossings was first collected in 2018.
This year’s total of 36,954 has already passed the number for the whole of 2024 (36,816) and 2023 (29,437).
An idea more stupid than almost anything else anyone has come up with this year.
How sad for those oppressed peoples in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, etc. etc. who have lost their independence.
Now they want to win their own vote for hating English people
What we really need is security guards at every street corner, not just using "airport-style scanners", but conducting thorough body searches in order to detect anything that could possibly be used as a weapon, or indeed anything that they don't like the look of.
The only thing that worries me is how we prevent Muslim terrorists from infiltrating the body of security guards, and perhaps even murdering us while we are being searched.
But I'm giving that minor problem serious thought.
Who is going to notice one more government contract for them amongst all the others ?
Democratic: 540,671 (73.8%)
Other: 106,201 (14.5%)
Republican: 85,994 (11.7%)
https://x.com/ZacharyDonnini/status/1985346226569564449
Scanners at Rannoch. FFS.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djzVYqZRdng (18mins)
We forget how big a problem corruption may be in elections
States break up or reunify on a fairly regular basis.
If I lived in New York, I’d be a little more worried.
Today £1=€1.141
So, £1 = £IRE 0.8986
The transition might well be difficult, but an independent Scotland could be an economic success, as the rump UK continues on its path of decline.
The electorate is (I think) mid 60%s Democratic.
Tesla's sales plunged in October in a number of European countries including Spain, the Netherlands and Nordic markets in the latest sign that the US electric vehicle maker's struggles on the continent continue
https://x.com/Reuters/status/1985390263578112113
(I must have seen this response about fifty times over the last few months.)
Raju: Last week, you were very critical of Biden, you said he didn’t even know who he was pardoning. On 60 minutes, Trump admitted not knowing he pardoned a crypto billionaire guilty of money laundering.
Johnson: I don’t know anything about it.
https://x.com/Acyn/status/1985368340379156870
Famously, Paul Whitehouse and Charlie Higson were plasterers who worked on a house being shared by Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, and who used to write for Harry Enfield's plasterer character, Loadsamoney.
1) A left wing politician doing left wing things
2) A turd who has Trump's endorsement.
3) A vigilant.
You can see why many people are voting for number 1...
I'm kinda on the other side of the fence. My experience in Ireland shows me how a small part of the UK can break off, suffer for a while, and then become a success. You can also see that many European countries with a population of 5-10 million seem to do pretty well. Maybe it's a good size for democracy? But I wouldn't want Scotland to become independent because I don't want to see the end of Britain.
If I get paid in punts, how do I buy my groceries in GBP?
This is like debt and deficit all over again.
Reversing the Boriswave would require massive net emigration at close to a million a year.
Lower net migration going forward is adding to the Boriswave, at a lower rate, not reversing anything.
Just as cutting the deficit != cutting debt.
Hopefully anyone proposing that gets nowhere power.
How will Scotland pay for that dentist you ask? UNIONIST!!!
I look forward to seeing more doors slammed in SNP faces as the campaign gets going. They tried the INDEPENDENCE argument last year and got scunnered. And seemingly the strategy next year is the same. Marvellous stuff.
ISTR his and Higsons first TV was Big Night Out.
If you believe as I do that Scotland is a nation then having a decision as fundamental as EU membership taken out of Scotland's hands - indeed allowing Scottish voters to vote on it and then forcing them out of the EU when they rejected it - demonstrates that the Union is incompatible with that idea of nationhood. Indeed, Brexit was an act of humiliation for Scots. It turned me from a unionist to a nationalist.
Equally though it has made independence far harder, because Scotland trades more with England than with the EU so leaving the UK to join the EU would impose significant economic costs. It's a very unpleasant situation for Scotland.
https://www.bruceforseattle.com/
https://www.wilsonforseattle.com/
I think it will show to what extent Democratic voters are willing to vote for someone who lives mostly in the real world (Harrell), instead of someone who doesn't (Wilson).
Wilson came out ahead, narrowly, in the "top-two" primary in August -- which scared a lot of people with money, and since then Harrell has received enough contributions to put on an expensive TV campaign. (More expensive than you might guess, because the TV stations in this area broadcast to more than 4 million people, and Seattle's population is fewer than 800K. So only about 20 percent of those who see the ads can vote in the election.)
Harrell and Wilson have interesting -- and contrasting -- biographies:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Harrell
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katie_Wilson
(Wiki does not say what is almost certainly true: Wilson's father was, judging by photographs, mixed race. as so many "blacks" in the US are.
People in the UK may find the Oxford detail in Wiki of special interest: I don't know enough about Oxford to know what to make of it, myself.)
Aside from Kotor and Lake Skardar we never really went anywhere other than Herceg Novi. Really want to go back. Maybe 2027.
The SNP's core weakness is their inability to honest with people; that going through the chaotic and financially painful separation is gamble that may result in a more fair, democratic and prosperous country for future generations, , but may also crush the Scottish economy flat and leave the country a basket case.
Voters are unlikely to take that gamble if they understand exactly what's at risk, so the SNP keeps trying to pretend independence would be all honey, cream and sunlit uplands.
@alaynatreene
The Trump administration says it will provide partial food stamp benefits for Nov by tapping into the program’s contingency fund
A USDA official said in a sworn statement that the agency will use $4.65 billion from the fund for SNAP benefits, which will “be obligated to cover 50% of eligible households’ current allotments.”
Irrelevant anyway.
You should ask it to check my posting history which would reveal I am, in fact, Scottish. I'll take being accused of being thick, everyone has an opinion, but getting called an Englander. Ye can get stuffed with that, ya wee fannybaws.
https://x.com/Telegraph/status/1985369764118622626
The BBC edited a Donald Trump speech by making him appear to encourage the Capitol Hill riot, according to an internal whistleblowing memo seen by The Telegraph
I don't and never did believe in the current structure of the Scottish parliament - unicameral, no scrutinising chamber, and our journalism has become utter dogshit so there's no journalistic scrutiny either. Almost designed to fail. For this reason I never voted in the referendum, just sat chainsmoking Marlboro Red in North East Fife watching people go out to vote. Despite voting Remain I see the attraction of the kick-it-over-and-start-again of Vote Leave.
I remember posting on here in the heady early days of Boris that he might be wacky enough to force the referendum himself. He wasn't, but I think that's Reform's policy now? I don't see the SNP going for it. If Reform do force it it's interesting, they can draft the question to remove acquiescence bias, pick the date, all of that.
The SNP don't believe in that unfortunately.
Nor do Westminster parties, unfortunately.
Kotor is lovely, the walled city is so vibrant inside with lots of great bars and restaurants. We would go back in a heartbeat but our four holidays next year are already booked.
The project is totally bereft of any new thinking or initiative. The saltire is looking pretty threadbare despite this being an age of flag-waving.
No wonder Kate Forbes is retiring at the age of 35.
Despite the rhetoric, the SNP were all about continuity, plus a slightly higher spend per per head. Well, apart from centralisation.
Strangely, this has resulted in not much change, apart from some centralisation and a slightly higher spend per head of population.
It's good to see a politician not jump on a bandwagon or overreact.
Not sure I'm joking.
I promised to be modest and self effacing if Cuomo wins.
Final AtlasIntel (A+) NYC mayoral poll:
Mamdani 43.9%
Cuomo 39.4%
Sliwa 15.5%
https://x.com/RpsAgainstTrump/status/1985409674556932546