Scottish independence would be brilliant for England. The Scottish kept the Labour Party in power and the Labour Party have quite explicitly stated that they wanted to destoy England and reduce the working English people to peasants through multiculturalism, Islam, and flooding with people from the Third World. With Scotland no longer able to influence who governs England the Labour Party will be destroyed, and something can be done about multiculturalism.
@ugizzat No Scots in the war? How on earth could you know that? For all you know Blair could have got into power in Scotland and he could have fooled the Scots into war. Nobody in England especially wanted the war either.
@ugizzat So, Alex Salmond isn't going to be a dictator is he? Presumably there will be other PMs in Scotland if they were to go it alone, they could just as easily do what Blair did... Lie to everyone to convince us we should go to war.
Have scotland even began to comprehend what would happen to their economy and country and general if they gained independance? Don't come crying to us when you want to join us again! aha
This one time I went to Scotland. It rained non-stop and was freezing cold. Everyone is overweight and has false teeth. All the men are transvestites and the women look like men. I was attacked by a swarm of midges and thrown out of a pub for saying that the Loch Ness monster didn't exist. Everyone is constantly drunk and there is a very high level of MS due to the horrible weather. I couldn't sleep at night due to the constant bagpipe noise. I am never going back.
I'll be hoping Scotland votes for independence, that might bring this union crashing down and England can have its own country, build big walls across the Scottish and welsh border and be the country it should be.
Drop kick all the immigrants into Scotland and Wales too as they are the ones who vote Labour and therefore they are the ones who voted for mass immigration and benefits.
Good luck Scotland, I will be cheering for you to make the right decision and leave
Scotland will become like one of these little Balkan bits---just like Slovakia, Croatia, et al. Impoverished and without resources. Dependent on tourism and postage stamps for income. Then of course, maybe the Highlands should secede. After all, it's got a different history from the southern parts. Maybe the Hebrides should go their own way. I'm sure there's good reasons for the independence of the Shetland Islands....
Scotland doesnt ask for its freedom. We wil take it as our right whther England likes it or not. We will determine our own future. The days of taking Scotland for a c*nt are over. All we need are the Scottish people to recognise that this is their country and no fuc*ker should be telling us how to rule it. There are no tories or labour or liberals wwanted in Scotland now. They have all been Thatcherite and we dont want it any more. Vote SNP if you ar truly Scottish and be proud of your country.
For far too long Scotland has been abused by the English and been unable to determine their own destiny. Scotlands people have been their own worst enemy throughout the ages as they have stood divided rather than united. I live in England and they hate the scots down here, and also the Welsh. Scotland can take much credit for turning Britain into a modern world because we invented the things that really mattered. They laughed at the SNP 30 years ago but were are their arrogant laughs now.
The same can happen to Scotland. Scotland should join the rest of the nations of the world and put itself on the map as a great nation. Scotland needs independence. Self determination for a nation is the only way. Saor Alba!
After independence in Ireland there were many hard years but we created a brand that couldn't be sold or bought- our identity! Guinness, shamrocks, potatoes, music, the Craic, not all of it positive and much I it stereotypical but who cares? It was ours! Irish people became famous! We were put on the map with the rest of the countries of the world. We had arrived! This would not have happened under British rule. Obama having a pint in Offaly wouldnt happen!
If 80% of Scots vote unionist while there's still the Oil Argument, what hope will the nationalists have when the oil's gone?
It's a fact that most of us living elsewhere in the UK, I live in Cardiff BTW, are indifferent to Scotland's status. It's the the Scots themselves who resist independence!!
Everyone arguing the case for the SNP here are addressing the rest of UK. It's not up to us: put your case to your own people!
The economic argument is accepted by most Scots. Any reasonable snapshot of opinion shows that most believe the union is economically damaging and that Scotland contributes more than it gets back. Nevertheless many misguided Scots have loyalty towards the Union - loyalty that isn't repaid - and they don't want to break it for whatever reason. Except that loyalty is beginning to quickly evaporate.
@barnbersonol So you are just being selective with the facts. At least you are honest. I don't think the Scots are resisting independence - the direction of travel is most certainly towards it - Centralised rule>Devolution>SNP majority government, all in the space of 15 years - quite a movement towards independence in anyone's book!!
The views of the citizens of the rest of the UK in the forthcoming independence referendum are irrelevant, really.
@globaltraveller Federaism isn't necessarily a stepping stone to independence, Quebec and Catalonia for example. But my original point about the economic argument drained out of the sea remains unanswered
@barnbersonol It is in Scotland's case given that we have devolution. That devolution was only instituted to head off a separatist threat. (Which has spectacularly failed). Quebec and Catalonia have successful sovereigntist movements.
@globaltraveller i don`t think you got the point i made mon ami.You said how wonderful Quebec separatists were and how they were going to take over the world,i put you right didnt ,they`re finished,like the snp will be post referendum.
@bazzatheblue Did I use the term wonderful? I don't think, I did.
Mind you Quebec had two referendums - the first in 1980. So what you are saying is that it took them 31 years from the failure of their first referendum to be completely smashed? So on your logic, the SNP would still be a political force until 2045, at the earliest?
But of course, Scotland's referendum will be successful. The first one.
@globaltraveller no chance.Scots are not stupid,i admire them,always have,we don`t always get along but i would rather they with us than against us,you could keep the oil for me,if that meant keeping the union.
@globaltraveller re :snp ,if the ref fails and as is expected there is no second one,there is no place for them,their whole reason for being is independence,if that didn`t happen,snp kaput,as the germans would say.
@ugizzat i`ll presume what i like.Just because Slippery Salmond tells you your going to be a hippy peacenik ,no nukes ,green,wind farm loving country who will hide away from trouble like so many euro wimp states doesnt mean it`ll happen.You nats are just sad.Not fourth rate,with all the debt you will get ,it will be fifth rate forever for you and no more money from us either,put that in your pipe.
@ugizzat i dont wager anything,this isnt the 18th century.5million inbred scots,a monocultural,sectarian infested state is something England isnt interested in.Goodbye ,good riddance,maybe,possibly but probably not,sadly,all mouth as usual.
@ugizzat you are right i am a swine,i won`t get the expenses unfortunately, i don`t have a duck house but i can knock one up if need be if things change though. As for whisky i only drink the big names like Famous Grouse or maybe Grants, i have a bottle of Bushmills at the moment,thats not bad.
@ugizzat one more post ,i can`t resist it ,the Iraq war,you say Scotland was all against ,well i think you will find a lot of English,Irish and Welshmen ,Manxmen,Channel islanders were too, you try to make out you were the only ones,another thing,that government was full of Scots, HELLO BLAIR,Brown ok Cook was agin it,but please stop bullshitting,i know the truth.You lot love a war,always have.I don`t i was against it.
Yes England need independence from this Scottish parasite, put back Hadrian's wall and insist that any Scot that wishes to cross our English boarder produces his or her passport, like any other unwanted alien.
I use to think that the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland was a great thing and believed that the English, Scots, Welsh and Northern Irish were all important members of the Union, Yes we had great times in history but its time to call it a day....I want England to be an indepandant country, This isn't out of hatred towards the Scots etc but things are clearly not working at the moment and i believe its time we all go our seperate ways... Don't know how this will happen though.
What all these idiot sheep don't realise, is that we depend on England. I really hope that the Scottish people don't buy into this fat slug Salmonds brainwashing tactics. He portrays himself as some kind of William Wallace figure. He's nothing but another rat politician whose number one aim is his personal wealth.
@TheWackadooFuckhead In 1993 when Czechoslovakia splited up many people said that Slovakia depend on Czechs and will go bankrupt in a year. In reality Slovakia is still here.
@ugizzat Well actually recent ligit polls have suggested that you don't have the majority of votes needed for this bullshit, so don't get yourself over excited at this point son.
@ugizzat Your country? Thats funny because I'm Scottish too so therefor this is my country. And you think that fat slug theiving polititian is any different? Just another brainwashed idiot.....wake up pal.....
Alex Salmond is a deluded idiot. May I remind him that it was a Scottish King that "Joined" England and Scotland and our last PM was Scottish. I'm English and I have total respect for the Scots. We live on this island together and we make jokes at each other's expense but we stick together when we have to. Those of you that want Scottish independence, your country will be bankrupt within ten years, the oil won't help you. At least if you go independent my tax bill will be less.
@ugizzat Nope, our taxes will go down. A lot of North Sea gas is off of the English coast and if you go idependent you will have problems with Norway over the oil. Your country has too many public sector jobs at the tax payer's expense. Anyway, who's gonna vote in the Scottish Independence vote? English people in Scotland/ Scottish people in England? Salmond wants good ties with Europe, there goes your oil. Then what? Oh well, good luck to you if you want independence. You'll need it.
The thing is i think both English and Scottish are small hearted and can not forgive one another and so they can not live together like the Germans. Germans were never a unified country until last century. Look at India, it was never a unified country until 1947. But they agreed and now live in peace as a stronger nation with more population and influence. UK would be stronger thank England or Scotland as separate.
Look at the germans. Each of their states were actually different kingdoms run by different monarchies. In the last century they have unified and now Germany is the most populous nation in Western Europe and the most powerful. Why are the British countries so divided, English oppresses and disrespects Scottish, Scottish thinks having some of taxation and defense stipulation from Westminster is like being ruled by England.
@farabirview I think you should learn of constitution, Scotland is the oldest nation in Europe with the oldest sovereign flag in current use in the world (not the Danish, it used to be the ancient Chinese flag until China changed theirs), with the Scots being the sovereign of their own nation with their own Scots law which is different from English law,
Britain is not a country, it is a 1707 political construct, hence it's artificial as a state, it has no constitution or flag or anthem.
What's so united about the UK? it went down the toilet in the 70's. Vote yes for independence and once and for all get rid of that lump on our backs called England.
@ByronRaver The Scots are not stupid. They know what a good thing they`re onto being part of the UK. But I shall watch most interestedly. It will be a battle between pride on the one hand and roads/ health and education on the other. Either way I shall be laughing on voting day.
Those who want Scotland to run its own affairs, need to put aside differences, and work with common cause to achieve the YES vote. Make no mistake, Westminster will throw every dirty trick in the book, before the vote happens, so we really need a united front for independence in Scotland
@Alastairbell The Scots have free education, free roads, free prescriptions, free nursing care and can send their MP`s down to Westminster to tell us English how much we have to pay for such services. Not in a million years will the Scots vote Independence. They`re not daft !
@valarmanwe Thats because the Scots reconvened their own parliament to serve them as the Scots themselves are the sovereign of Scotland, not the parliament or crown, the Scottish government funds all that through the block grant which is part of Scotland's money that all Scottish resources, profits and taxes all go down into subsidising London, Scotland is then paid back a portion of what it contributes to the UK treasury, that portion is then controlled and allocated by the Scottish government.
@Alastairbell "NOT IN A MILLION YEARS!" think you need to go back to school as your brain hasnt fully developed! HOLD ON!! Yes I think you brain has fully developed to take a crap!! Thats it!!!! Million years!!! Ha Ha
Oh how I long for independence for Wales we need public figures talking about independence for our great nation like Alex and Herdeep are in Scotland. The UK media does its best to keep these feelings of the Welsh people secret time to break that mold time to openly talk about independence.
I wonder why after hundreds of years of war and occupation England decided to form the UK instead of conquering Wales and Scotland, they could have had the whole island to themselves and not have to worry about Independence movements
British government is dangerously corrput and they need to be destroyed. Scotland can actually save England! Scotland has to claim idependence and i mean now! Because this will encourage England to claim independence. British government will have nothing to govern other than Wales and Northern Ireland. British government will effectively crumble in no time. There needs to be a revolution!
Most English people want to let Scotland go... BRITISH prime minister, David Cameron said this "Sour Little Englanders, who want rid of Scotland, I'll fight them all the way". Cameron is probably from a scottish family and even worse hes a pro-zionist! This will explain the reason why he embraces anti-racism, which is a code word for anti-white! Specifically, the English will be sacrificed on the alter of multiculturalism, this had been the plan since the days of Blair and Brown!
Most of the money is made in England and then is shared out to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. England is the only place in Britain that has to pay for their medication prescriptions. English people face genocide from multiculturalism, they will become a minority within their own homelands very soon because of the crooked voting system of sovereignty. The fact the England gets most of the immgrants is not by accient, it is done on purpose! England suffers race riots and destruction!
@LittleDirtyBlonde23 You mention free prescriptions, but forget free roads ( tolls ), free nursing care and free education. You are correct. On all Govt. forms there is place to distinguish oneself as Welsh. Scot, Bangladeshi, Chinese, Polish, Greek, Swahi, black , yellow or sky blue pink. But not English. We, my mate, have been fucking had !
What about English independence from the BRITISH crown? As far as the British government is concerned there is no such thing as English people! English identity has been abolished, English people don't even have their own parliment, England gets most of the third world immigrants and English people are forced to live with them. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland all get a vote on Englands sovereignty which is very damaging for the English, especially since they get most of the immigrants!
What'd happen if Scotland left the Uk, things didn't work out and they wanted to come back? Could they do that? If so, they should leave, wait til they've used all the oil up, then come back. It's pretty obvious, really!
In the last thirty years, Scotland's Oil has has contributed, Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand Million Pounds to the Treasury! And We're the "Spongers?" I think not! Oh and please stop saying we hate the English as we do not! We hate your greedy government! PLEASE ask yourself; If we are sponging off of England, then why is your government fighting so hard to keep us??? Bye Bye UK.:) x
Former US Senate candidate B.W. Miller says, "Our goal is to control all of Europe. We have troops in most European countries and the ironic thing is these Europeans think we are there to help protect them. The Devil's best trick was convincing the world he didn't exist. We are sociopaths, not capitalists. We either control the world or we will destroy it."
I agree with the man in a turban, he's talking sense ALEX SALMOND IS MUCH BETTER THAN CAMERON!! ALEX FOR PRIME MINISTER!! independence for Scotland...and Wales too in the very near future!!
England - aka Mother England or even Mummy England! - has been wiping her ARSE with the Scots - even the educated ones - for a very, very long time now. To add insult to injury, the Scots don't seem to have noticed they are only TOILET PAPER as far as the English ruling class is concerned!!Most of the Irish resented being mistreated like this and three-quarters of the Emerald Isle pulled out of the English Empire. As well as having brown faces, the Scots have bro wn tongues Where's Wallace???
I think the rise of scottish nationlism in scotland will have a knock on effect in england and start to make english people question there identity and own independence too!!! The south will see that the scots want to move to there own devolutional path and start to question there own path! English identity has been suppressed for nearly a hundred year due to mass foreign migration into england that they have lost there identity and now come to terms that independence will egnit english national
General registry office for Scotland statistics: Most popular surnames in Scotland: 1) Smith (Anglo-Saxon origin), (2) Brown (Germanic/Anglo-Saxon origin) (3) Wilson (Viking origin). Oh the irony of it! Give Scotland back to the Scots....if you can find them! AHAHHAHAHAA! By the way, Salmond is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Your leader is a Sassenach! Priceless!
@whitbyjet65 Surnames didn't come into circulation until the Normans completely obliterated England after 1066, so today surnames don't reveal a persons ethnicity you daft tit.
How come OGAP4 code found all over Scotland from over 12 years clearly shows that by far and large the Scots largely have direct roots to the Caledonian Picts that pre-date all the groups you've mentioned.
@glasgow1234 I think its something both countries can agree on in the future is that the union has ground to a halt..i was just mentioning there was a poll done in England two years ago and it came out heavily they supported the break up of the union...good luck in 2014 although as you suggest,you won't need it!
@SuperFruitloopy That's the Scots that vote it up for independence, far far more Scots visit these videos than the English, the English have nothing to do with Scotland, the Scots or their business, nor do the Scots want anything to do with England.
Concentrate on your own country and vote for an English party that supports an English parliament instead of listening to what your unionist Liebour, ahem, Labour and Tory unionist elite masters trick you into believing for their own benefit.
Westminster has no intention of reforming itself, so must be broken up. It is time to return Westminster to its core purpose as the Parliament of England. Devolution is not going to be reversed and any attempt to, such as Cameron’s current already failing Scotland Act Amendments Bill, are doomed to merely increase the tension and anger on all sides.
The best way to achieve this end is for Westminster to spin the worst excesses of the Scots, Welsh or Irish and present them as ungrateful spongers to the English. Something the tame Westminster media is only too happy to do.
My view is simple. The political union, as represented by Westminster, is now a suppurating ulcer, gnawing away at the souls of all who live on this island. It is no longer fit for purpose in the 21st century.
There never was any union of the crowns. The current Queen swore a separate oath to the sovereign people of Scotland the night before her English coronation and uses the ‘Honours of Scotland’ when north of the border - as required by the 1689 Scottish Claim of Right.
The Scots are the sovereign of Scotland, hence it's THEIR right!
Con't, If you crunch the numbers you find that for every £100 that is ‘spent’ on Scotland by the UK Government, £170 is ‘spent’ in the Greater London area for the same population.
You can add the money that should have come to Scotland as part of our pocket money which the Treasury is sitting on for one pretence or another - some £500 million a year at the last counting – which still shows on the Treasury Accounts as ‘going to Scotland’.
The Treasury’s own figures show that Scotland has returned a tax surplus every year in the last 30. Last year it was £1.6 billion - not including any tax take from the North Sea - an estimated £32 billion a year from the Scottish sector. It is difficult to be precise as the actual figures for oil and gas income are hidden in the Treasury’s extra-territorial account.
The reason many English fear independence here is because England's loss is Scotland's gain FACT! ~ Just remember that that's what Scottish independence always boils down to.
England will became as relevant as Italy at best, and Scotland will gain back it's own national sovereign 100% free right, and be well better off.
@segano1 I'm not even a Unionist. I want England to be independent. I don't quote sources because that is too much effort for just a Youtube comment...
@Paulyb1010 Well you've just posted me two comments there and you clearly had enough room for both paragraphs in one comment box, 500 character limit. Where as I've posted four comments because there wasn't enough space for it all in the same box.
So you'd rather spread unresearched inaccurate opinions rather than factual knowledge and sources just because it's less effort, that's what you're saying?
If you support English independence, you know an English parliament is the answer.
@segano1 Btw chill out. Why write 4 comments in reply to one simply comment? I am actually agreeing with u, but taking it further and saying we don't want the union either.
@Paulyb1010 Also if you do the maths, and consider that even if that were true that more English want it, you'd see it's no surprise as there is almost ten times the population of English compared to Scots, for every Scotsman there's around seven Englishmen. Hence there will be a bit more out there to vote in comparison.
@Paulyb1010 The BBC’s poll earlier this week on the views of the people of England to Scottish independence threw up some very interesting results, the most astonishing of which is that 51% of the English people polled thought that Scottish independence would make no difference to England’s future prosperity.
@Paulyb1010 Con't, That’s amazing when you consider all the time the Unionists say that the whole reason for keeping the long ago time-expired Union going is that Scotland and England are better off being together, yet here more than half the English clearly think there is no advantage to them of being in the Union.
At a stroke, the main argument for the Union is shredded, because most sensible Scots have long ago concluded that Scotland will be better off outwith it.
@Tlb91UK Norway is the richest country in the world because they actually invest in their resources, where as Britain does nowt but squander it, the Scots do not want English governments deciding over Scottish issues, it will just be Maggie Thatcher and the vile Tories again - the worst government EVER! Scotland getting it's own parliament was the death knell of Dependence, now it's just a matter of time until we take back the rest of our powers, Scottish independence does not kill the UK btw.
@Tlb91UK Why would an independent Scotland be poorer? Could you explain how oil revenues, shared between 62 million, and the same shared between 5 million, would produce a less well-off Scotland? That is the case in its simplest form.
As a non British observer it seems sad to think that an independent Scotland would tear apart one of history's greatest nations. I know a lot of Scots feel overwhelmed and at times ignored by the mostly English power of Westminster but couldn't that situation be rectified by a more federalist U.S like system so Scotland has more local governing power and perhaps a new chamber of parliament like the U.S senate with equal representation from each UK constituent nation?
As a non British observer it seems sad to think that an independent Scotland would tear apart one of history's greatest nations. I know a lot of Scots feel overwhelmed and at times ignored by the mostly English power of Westminster but couldn't that situation be rectified by a more federalist U.S like system so Scotland has more local governing powerand perhaps a new chamber of parliament like the U.S senate with equal representation from each UK constituent nation?
@EPDsonny You're American? When your president arrived in 'Great Britain' recently, it was described in the 'British' news as a wonderful thing for "Anglo-American" relations. Terminology can wipe out a people at a stroke.
Independence or nothing. Greetings from Scotland my friend.
@scotchprofessor Yes I am American and I get what you mean. Like whenever people here refer to the queen they always say the "Queen of England" even though that's not her title and it effectively ignores the other UK nations. It does kinda seem like Scotland gets ignored. I have also not been able to find any solid numbers on exactly how widespread support for independence is so I would like to know if anyone can tell me that. And would an independent Scotland really not join NATO?
@EPDsonny Scotland, just like every other nation and government in the world, has the right to run it's own affairs independently. We don't care about the U.S system & America in general it's 100% irrelevant to Scotland.
Plus the states in the U.S are states, not nations, and certainly not ancient historical nations like Scotland with it's own distinctiveness. Scotland has it's own parliament, England does not.
The UK would still remain post Scottish independence but not the British union state.
The richest country in the world is Norway + Scotland has more natural resources than Norway = An independent Scotland can be one of the richest countries in the worls.
@segano1 How on earth is fucking Norway the richest country in the world? Surely the USA, or China or France etc.would beat it. Also, Scotland does have natural resources but they're hard to extract and the amount of money we invest in their extraction isn't worth the amount taken out. Also, how will Scottish students have their tuitions already paid for without English taxpayer money? How will you carry on as a rich nation when you have nothing to export? Why do you want an independent Scotland
@grobo11 Oil extraction in Scottish waters is thought to have as many years remaining as have already been exploited. There is, however, no way of determining exact amounts.
Of renewable energies, Scotland has 25% of Europe's wind power, 25% of its tidal power, and 10% of its wave power. That's your answer to possible exports. The UK economy survives almost solely on oil revenues and London's over-inflated Ponsi scheme of a financial market. What exactly would an independent England export?
@scotchprofessor Machinery and transport, manufactured goods and chemicals are Britain's largest export earners and all of which are situated in England. The UK's pharmaceuticals industry is the world's third biggest earner in this sector and contributes 15 of the world's top 75 best-selling drugs, this too is in England. Britain is the world's second largest exporter of services, including banking, insurance, stockbroking, consultancy and computer programming this is in England also.
@grobo11 Fuckin look it up and see why Norway's the richest, they invest in their resources & take care of it well, Britain squanders what it can because they knew that an independent Scotland would gain it all in Scotland and embarrassed them when it should Scotland would be better off than the rest of the UK, why do you think Labour hid the documents in the 70's when they discovered this? Look up the "McCrone report" Scotland has been proved time after time that it's far better off independent
IMPORTANT! Check out the GERS report that has just been released on the newsnetscotland website! Scotland subsidises the rest of the UK! We are loaded! Read the other article on why Scotland is better off leaving bankrupt Britain! The FACTS are here finally! All the reasons on why we should become independent! If you want to know how to shut up a unionist, direct them to this website and you wont hear from them again. I can't see Westminster getting round this! Vote YES in the in the REFERENDUM
@mrkjames9 BREAKING NEWS: Check the 'Newsnet Scotland' site, A unionist conservative has just admitted that the UK will be worse off without Scotland and the Scotland will be much better off independent and sovereign again!!
@mrkjames9 Indeed, on further reading I found it was Scottish Conservative (Tory) member Annabel Goldie who finally admitted what the Tories do not want the ignorant masses to know, now the Tory party is in disarray after these comments lol.
@mrkjames9 NEWS JUST IN!!! If Scotland becomes Independent we will be the 6th richest country in the world while England will be 16th! If that isn't a good enough reason to vote yes to Independence... I don't know what is! Come on everyone! Lets leave WASTEMONSTER behind us and MOVE FORWARD to a HEALTHIER, WEALTHIER, HAPPIER, STRONGER SCOTLAND! xx
If the warmongering, jingoistic, glory hunting, UK Westminister
Govornment had not attacked Iraq in its illegal war there would
have been no waste of £10 Billion on a lost cause.Look at that
country today.Oh yeah, and the Scottish Nationalists were the
only major UK Party to vote against it.That war in Afghanistan
has cost £20 Billion and the end result will be as it is in Iraq.
S'funny there is never any money for the UK needy but always
plenty for waging wars.Who needs the UK?
ugizzat 4 days ago
Scots Whisky sales increased 23% last year or £125 per
second and with India proposing to ease its restiction on
Scots Whisky imports bodes well for the future of Whisky.
Brazil increased its Whisky imports by 50% last year, this
was equal to 10 Million litres of pure alcohol.The Chinese
market is also burgeoning.Now, all this is good news for
the UK Treasury now but more for an Independent Scotland
later.The "wonderful UK partnership" can then bugger off.
INDEPENDENCE!!!!
ugizzat 6 days ago
@ugizzat
Sorry I missed out that whisky sales made £3 billion
last year,( which equalled £125 per second) and that
is from an Industry employing 10,000 workers with a
gross income of £464 Million. They are three times as
productive as London financial and buisness workers
and six times as productive as the Scottish average.
The Industry, indirectly, supports 35,000 jobs creating
a value of £4.2 billion inprofits and wages.As I wrote in
my previous comment there is no limit to growth
ugizzat 5 days ago
If the UK Establishment believe, (as they have always claimed
to do) that the majority of Scots do not want independence why
are they so concerned about the Referendum? If I was as certain
of my position as they clam to be, i would actually encourage the
SNP to go ahead with the vote instead of the constant bitching
about procedure and protocol.They can then show the SNP and
its supporters to be the as insinificant as they assert them to be
but they dont, do they? I wonder why?
ugizzat 1 week ago
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MockBlue 1 week ago
@MockBlue Why not start a credible campaign in favour of English independence?
heddgwynfor 1 week ago
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Scottish independence would be brilliant for England. The Scottish kept the Labour Party in power and the Labour Party have quite explicitly stated that they wanted to destoy England and reduce the working English people to peasants through multiculturalism, Islam, and flooding with people from the Third World. With Scotland no longer able to influence who governs England the Labour Party will be destroyed, and something can be done about multiculturalism.
dignifiedwhite 1 week ago
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dignifiedwhite 1 week ago
I can't believe how many times i hear this sob story...
TONY BLAIR WHO TOOK US TO IRAQ WAS SCOTTISH YOU MORONS!
By your logic if Scotland had it's own way they'd be in Iraq and England would be sitting pretty.
N330AA 1 week ago
@N330AA
ALEX SALMOND WHO CONDEMNED THE ATTACK ON IRAQ
WAS ALSO SCOTTISH, YOU MORON!!!
If Scotland had its Independence and thus its own way / choice there
would have been no Scots involved in the ILLEGAL WAR and so no
Scottish dead and injured. Still, what does that matter to the jingoistic
warmongering UK clowns,its all about vain posturing and glory innit?
ugizzat 1 week ago
@ugizzat No Scots in the war? How on earth could you know that? For all you know Blair could have got into power in Scotland and he could have fooled the Scots into war. Nobody in England especially wanted the war either.
N330AA 1 week ago
@N330AA
Which Party Leader,of the mainstream UK parties, was
the ONLY ONE that actively voted against the illegal war
and defied "Teflon Tony" and his "hounds of war" ? Oh!
yeah, it was Alex Salmond and, time and events proved
him to be correct, Salmond is a bloody genius, A Giant
amid a group of UK Political Pygmies and a great orator
to boot.Would Glasgow Airport have been targeted by the
terrorists had Scotland been Independent?
ugizzat 1 week ago
@ugizzat So, Alex Salmond isn't going to be a dictator is he? Presumably there will be other PMs in Scotland if they were to go it alone, they could just as easily do what Blair did... Lie to everyone to convince us we should go to war.
N330AA 1 week ago
@N330AA
Even you are not daft enough to swallow all the guff in
your last commen Oh, i dunno though, you might be.
ugizzat 1 week ago
@ugizzat What guff is in there exactly? You'll have to point it out to me. As far as i can see, it's all truthful.
N330AA 1 week ago
@N330AA
Speculation is not proven truth. So It is
as meaningless as those who make it.
ugizzat 1 week ago
@ugizzat And the Plaid Cymru leaders in Wales!
heddgwynfor 1 week ago
Have scotland even began to comprehend what would happen to their economy and country and general if they gained independance? Don't come crying to us when you want to join us again! aha
taylor1654 1 week ago
Oh aye mate because Scottish identity definitely consists of turbins!
Either way, Scottish Independence NOW!
1995Scotsman 1 week ago
I think you'll both be pleasantly surprised by Bell's Islander .. almost as good as a single malt!
cadfael9798 1 week ago
@cadfael9798
Now why would a single malt drinker imbibe an 8 year old blend
costing £80 00 here when, for that price, i can get near 4 bottles
of,say, Glenlivet 12 year old single malt or Glenmorangie 10 year
old? Anyway, Islay Mist might be a better buy and I've tasted that
that before.
ugizzat 1 week ago
Scotland, given a yes or no choice, will vote no.
valarmanwe 2 weeks ago
@valarmanwe
Scotland will not be given a choice either way. The people
of Scotland will and they'll vote yes. I know for certain, I will.
ugizzat 1 week ago
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This one time I went to Scotland. It rained non-stop and was freezing cold. Everyone is overweight and has false teeth. All the men are transvestites and the women look like men. I was attacked by a swarm of midges and thrown out of a pub for saying that the Loch Ness monster didn't exist. Everyone is constantly drunk and there is a very high level of MS due to the horrible weather. I couldn't sleep at night due to the constant bagpipe noise. I am never going back.
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ugizzat 2 weeks ago
Scotlands population represents 8.4% of the uk total but
they generate 9.4% of the UKs total of its annual revenues
in tax. around £1000 per head of population more than any
other member of the UK "partnership" It does not suit either
the UK Govornment, treasury, or poular press to acknowledge
that fact. Scotlands 2009-10 GDP deficit was 6.8%, a full 3%
lower than that of England.But hey! why let honest facts pollute the debate, better to work with the Unionist lies.
INDEPENDENCE
ugizzat 2 weeks ago
I'll be hoping Scotland votes for independence, that might bring this union crashing down and England can have its own country, build big walls across the Scottish and welsh border and be the country it should be.
Drop kick all the immigrants into Scotland and Wales too as they are the ones who vote Labour and therefore they are the ones who voted for mass immigration and benefits.
Good luck Scotland, I will be cheering for you to make the right decision and leave
eurosceptic1 2 weeks ago 2
@eurosceptic1
Then both you and I will be content, I, because i voted for Independence and you because you'll have no say
on the matter, apart from the drivel you post here.
ugizzat 2 weeks ago
Scotland will become like one of these little Balkan bits---just like Slovakia, Croatia, et al. Impoverished and without resources. Dependent on tourism and postage stamps for income. Then of course, maybe the Highlands should secede. After all, it's got a different history from the southern parts. Maybe the Hebrides should go their own way. I'm sure there's good reasons for the independence of the Shetland Islands....
boy18inva 2 weeks ago
Scotland doesnt ask for its freedom. We wil take it as our right whther England likes it or not. We will determine our own future. The days of taking Scotland for a c*nt are over. All we need are the Scottish people to recognise that this is their country and no fuc*ker should be telling us how to rule it. There are no tories or labour or liberals wwanted in Scotland now. They have all been Thatcherite and we dont want it any more. Vote SNP if you ar truly Scottish and be proud of your country.
TerryAshfields 2 weeks ago
For far too long Scotland has been abused by the English and been unable to determine their own destiny. Scotlands people have been their own worst enemy throughout the ages as they have stood divided rather than united. I live in England and they hate the scots down here, and also the Welsh. Scotland can take much credit for turning Britain into a modern world because we invented the things that really mattered. They laughed at the SNP 30 years ago but were are their arrogant laughs now.
TerryAshfields 2 weeks ago
When the first Referendum on a devolved Scottish Govornment
was first held and the YES vote was higher than the NO.It was on
a motion put forward by a LONDON TORY MP that 40% or more
Scots had to vote Yes for it to be ratified This had never happened
before or since in the annals of the UK voting system.Indeed a UK
party has been elected to power to run the UK after Polling less than
a 40% UK vote on six occassions in the past No doubt a 150% YES
vote will be needed on Independence
ugizzat 2 weeks ago
The same can happen to Scotland. Scotland should join the rest of the nations of the world and put itself on the map as a great nation. Scotland needs independence. Self determination for a nation is the only way. Saor Alba!
BanjoMan1916 3 weeks ago
After independence in Ireland there were many hard years but we created a brand that couldn't be sold or bought- our identity! Guinness, shamrocks, potatoes, music, the Craic, not all of it positive and much I it stereotypical but who cares? It was ours! Irish people became famous! We were put on the map with the rest of the countries of the world. We had arrived! This would not have happened under British rule. Obama having a pint in Offaly wouldnt happen!
BanjoMan1916 3 weeks ago
great video, it helped remind me how much of an arse George Foulkes is!
chancergordy 1 month ago
In September according to the TNS/BRMB Poll more people
supported Scots Indepemdence 39% as compared to 38%
opposed.This is bad news for the Unionist poodles and their
much vaunted Statistics of the past and, that is the truth of
those Stats, they are in the past, happy happy smiley face :-)
ugizzat 2 months ago
Two £1,000,000 donations to the SNP coffers in support of the
SNP Independence Referendum cant be bad. :-) Apparently the
same financial restrictions on the monies expended on the UK
Elections do not apply to an Independence campaign.Unless
of course the Unionists both Scots and UK, change the rules
by "moving the goalposts" as is the style of "democracy" in
the UK.Perhaps with 110% of Scots voters having to vote yes
before the matter will EVEN be discussed
ugizzat 2 months ago
Question; (okay. I'm a troll!)
If 80% of Scots vote unionist while there's still the Oil Argument, what hope will the nationalists have when the oil's gone?
It's a fact that most of us living elsewhere in the UK, I live in Cardiff BTW, are indifferent to Scotland's status. It's the the Scots themselves who resist independence!!
Everyone arguing the case for the SNP here are addressing the rest of UK. It's not up to us: put your case to your own people!
barnbersonol 2 months ago
@barnbersonol
The devolved Scottish Paralimentary voting system was set up in
such a manner that no ONE party would ever gain overall control.
The SNP are now in overall control.Now, who do you think it was
who voted for them?The SNP voters like me did but all our votes
were not renough to shift the balance of power from the UNIONIST
PARTIES. to the SNP.Those UNIONIST VOTERS, cheesed off with
the "BOOM AND BUST UNION" did that. If they can do it once, they
can do it again.
ugizzat 2 months ago
@ugizzat I was referring to UK general elections, in which SNP support has remained the same since devolution. In fact it's decreased a bit
barnbersonol 2 months ago
@barnbersonol
Strangely enough the much depised SNP London MPs
never take part in issues regarding the rest of the UK but
only on Scottich matters so it is hardly surprising support
them is static.Obviously this was not reflected in Scottish
elections thats why the SNP are "top dog" today because
MORE Scots voted for them here than they did Unionists.
Instead of hair splitting you might ask yourself why Scots
did so,then think of the Boom and Bust policies of the
Unionist Parties
ugizzat 2 months ago
The economic argument is accepted by most Scots. Any reasonable snapshot of opinion shows that most believe the union is economically damaging and that Scotland contributes more than it gets back. Nevertheless many misguided Scots have loyalty towards the Union - loyalty that isn't repaid - and they don't want to break it for whatever reason. Except that loyalty is beginning to quickly evaporate.
globaltraveller 2 months ago
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barnbersonol 2 months ago
@barnbersonol So you are just being selective with the facts. At least you are honest. I don't think the Scots are resisting independence - the direction of travel is most certainly towards it - Centralised rule>Devolution>SNP majority government, all in the space of 15 years - quite a movement towards independence in anyone's book!!
The views of the citizens of the rest of the UK in the forthcoming independence referendum are irrelevant, really.
globaltraveller 2 months ago
@globaltraveller Federaism isn't necessarily a stepping stone to independence, Quebec and Catalonia for example. But my original point about the economic argument drained out of the sea remains unanswered
barnbersonol 2 months ago
@barnbersonol It is in Scotland's case given that we have devolution. That devolution was only instituted to head off a separatist threat. (Which has spectacularly failed). Quebec and Catalonia have successful sovereigntist movements.
globaltraveller 2 months ago
@globaltraveller the Quebec separitist parties were wiped out at the last Canuck election.
bazzatheblue 2 weeks ago
@bazzatheblue Quebec isn't Scotland and Scotland isn't Quebec. Comprende amigo?
globaltraveller 2 weeks ago
@globaltraveller i don`t think you got the point i made mon ami.You said how wonderful Quebec separatists were and how they were going to take over the world,i put you right didnt ,they`re finished,like the snp will be post referendum.
bazzatheblue 2 weeks ago
@bazzatheblue Did I use the term wonderful? I don't think, I did.
Mind you Quebec had two referendums - the first in 1980. So what you are saying is that it took them 31 years from the failure of their first referendum to be completely smashed? So on your logic, the SNP would still be a political force until 2045, at the earliest?
But of course, Scotland's referendum will be successful. The first one.
globaltraveller 2 weeks ago
@globaltraveller no chance.Scots are not stupid,i admire them,always have,we don`t always get along but i would rather they with us than against us,you could keep the oil for me,if that meant keeping the union.
bazzatheblue 2 weeks ago
@globaltraveller re :snp ,if the ref fails and as is expected there is no second one,there is no place for them,their whole reason for being is independence,if that didn`t happen,snp kaput,as the germans would say.
bazzatheblue 2 weeks ago
@bazzatheblue
When i began to vote for Independence in the 1960s there was no
oil.Pesonally i dont give a tinkers toss about the oil as long as my
country gets out of this saber rattling, jingoistic, warmongering UK,
read as English, glory hunting cesspit of sleaze and corruption.
I want no more Scots cannon fodder dying for a third rate power.
ugizzat 2 weeks ago
@ugizzat sounds like you may be a pinko.good luck fourth rate scotland.you are pathetic.
bazzatheblue 2 weeks ago
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ugizzat 2 weeks ago
@bazzatheblue
Dont presume to know what i may be but you'll soo find
out just how forth rate the uk will be considered without
Scotland.Who knows, you may even have to supply your
own cannon fodder in your future illegal wars.Let us see
how jingoistic you clowns,( in your overpopulated Union),
are then.Your going down the pipes along with your lousy
uk,small "u" small "k", just as it will end up being. LMAO
ugizzat 2 weeks ago
@ugizzat i`ll presume what i like.Just because Slippery Salmond tells you your going to be a hippy peacenik ,no nukes ,green,wind farm loving country who will hide away from trouble like so many euro wimp states doesnt mean it`ll happen.You nats are just sad.Not fourth rate,with all the debt you will get ,it will be fifth rate forever for you and no more money from us either,put that in your pipe.
bazzatheblue 2 weeks ago
@bazzatheblue
I'll wager you presumed the lousy uk state would continue
forever but 5 million Scots are going to do to the uk that
which the uk did to the Scots for years and that is stuff it
and I am proud to play my part . SLMAO
ugizzat 2 weeks ago
@ugizzat i dont wager anything,this isnt the 18th century.5million inbred scots,a monocultural,sectarian infested state is something England isnt interested in.Goodbye ,good riddance,maybe,possibly but probably not,sadly,all mouth as usual.
bazzatheblue 2 weeks ago
@bazzatheblue
5 million inbred Scots? Scotlands population in 1801
was 1, 678,000 while Englands was 10,000,000. While
our population has increased around 3 fold Englands
increased over 5 fold. Do you write some more about
inbreeding, you English nyaff? As to your sectarian jibe,
when last did a Catholic sat on the English throne?
ugizzat 2 weeks ago
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bazzatheblue 2 weeks ago
@bazzatheblue
When Germany bombed and invaded Poland it was on the pretext
Poland posed a threat to the Germans safety and security. Germany
were rightly despised for their crass warmongering act of aggression.
When the united kingdom did the same to Iraq, (the Scots were against it), on much the same pretext, do you think that your uk is detested any
less today than the Germans were in 1939? If so, think again laddie.
ugizzat 2 weeks ago
@ugizzat you been at the buckfast jimmy?You are clearly as mad as a hatter,i wont reply to any of your messages after this.Just so stupid.
bazzatheblue 2 weeks ago
@bazzatheblue
I dont drink buckfast only Single Malt Whiskies, i find
a 12 year old Longmorn to be quite pleasing and, you
posted another comment after your final one.Obviously
a man of your word.You'd make a good Westminister
MP, they cant keep their word either.
ugizzat 2 weeks ago
@ugizzat you are right i am a swine,i won`t get the expenses unfortunately, i don`t have a duck house but i can knock one up if need be if things change though. As for whisky i only drink the big names like Famous Grouse or maybe Grants, i have a bottle of Bushmills at the moment,thats not bad.
bazzatheblue 2 weeks ago
@bazzatheblue
There is world of difference between a blended whisky and
a Single Malt.Indeed were it not for the fact Single Malts are
used in the blends as "toppings" the blends would be all but
but upalatable.I dont drink blended grain whisky, although at
times I will, imbibe a Blended Malt also known as pure Malt,
They are blended from more than one single Malt whisky cask.
I find Bushmills is too sweet for my taste. I'm always civil when
discussing my National drink.
ugizzat 2 weeks ago
@ugizzat wow you know a lot about whisky ugizzat,nearly as much as i know about fiddling expenses ,maybe you aint so bad after all.
bazzatheblue 2 weeks ago
@ugizzat one more post ,i can`t resist it ,the Iraq war,you say Scotland was all against ,well i think you will find a lot of English,Irish and Welshmen ,Manxmen,Channel islanders were too, you try to make out you were the only ones,another thing,that government was full of Scots, HELLO BLAIR,Brown ok Cook was agin it,but please stop bullshitting,i know the truth.You lot love a war,always have.I don`t i was against it.
bazzatheblue 2 weeks ago
Yes England need independence from this Scottish parasite, put back Hadrian's wall and insist that any Scot that wishes to cross our English boarder produces his or her passport, like any other unwanted alien.
MegaGayjesus 3 months ago
@MegaGayjesus
I agree then we can sell our surplus produce to you instead of
having it taken from us.Scotland can feed its 5.24 million. This
includes all the unwanted aliens the UKs useless border force
allowed in and who, your lousy UK courts and money grubbing
parasitical "human rights lawyers protect" for a large fee.The UK
needs Scotland, Scotland does not need the UK and, when this
present financial crisis comes to a head. as it will, its bye bye UK
and hullo self dtermination.
ugizzat 3 months ago
I use to think that the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland was a great thing and believed that the English, Scots, Welsh and Northern Irish were all important members of the Union, Yes we had great times in history but its time to call it a day....I want England to be an indepandant country, This isn't out of hatred towards the Scots etc but things are clearly not working at the moment and i believe its time we all go our seperate ways... Don't know how this will happen though.
arsenaljsutliffuk 3 months ago
What all these idiot sheep don't realise, is that we depend on England. I really hope that the Scottish people don't buy into this fat slug Salmonds brainwashing tactics. He portrays himself as some kind of William Wallace figure. He's nothing but another rat politician whose number one aim is his personal wealth.
TheWackadooFuckhead 3 months ago
@TheWackadooFuckhead In 1993 when Czechoslovakia splited up many people said that Slovakia depend on Czechs and will go bankrupt in a year. In reality Slovakia is still here.
ignac1111 3 months ago
@ignac1111 What a totally pointless statement. The situation in Czechoslovakia was just a little bit different than here......
TheWackadooFuckhead 3 months ago
@TheWackadooFuckhead
Yeah! they didn't have 55 million "dependants" sucking the life out of
their country as the Scots do.Stuff the Union and believe me it will be
stuffed.Keep you Union and its illegal wars. We'll have independence
and if you dont like it you can always fuck off.If you care to scroll back
on this comments column you will find comments from me, in which
i "forecast" the growth of power by the SNP and the comments from
Uionist lackeys, such as you, ridiculing me.
ugizzat 3 months ago
@ugizzat Trying to break up Britian? You are a disgusting disgrace to Scotland.
TheWackadooFuckhead 3 months ago
@TheWackadooFuckhead
I have voted for Independence for the past 40 odd years Longer,
i would guess, than you have lived.If that makes me a disgrace
then so be it.I can live with it,just as i will live with Independence.
Something you and other Union lackeys will have to learn to do.
ILMAO.
ugizzat 3 months ago
@ugizzat Well actually recent ligit polls have suggested that you don't have the majority of votes needed for this bullshit, so don't get yourself over excited at this point son.
TheWackadooFuckhead 3 months ago
@TheWackadooFuckhead
How recent will those polls be in 2014? I never get excited at the
prospect of the inevitable, purely because it is the inevitable.
ugizzat 3 months ago
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@ugizzat If you say so. You must be some kind of fortune teller.........
TheWackadooFuckhead 3 months ago
@TheWackadooFuckhead
I hope you watched Panorama tonight to find another reason
for getting my country out of the undemocratic UK, the great
friend of Gaddafis inhuman torturing regime. I want no part of
this foul scumbag, shithole of a union. Fuck your lousy UK.
ugizzat 3 months ago
@ugizzat Your country? Thats funny because I'm Scottish too so therefor this is my country. And you think that fat slug theiving polititian is any different? Just another brainwashed idiot.....wake up pal.....
TheWackadooFuckhead 3 months ago
@TheWackadooFuckhead
Oh! your a Scot are you? Well i suggest you begin to think and act
like one and try putting your country before your Politics.
Salmond was not leader of a the SNP or indeed ,of the devolved
Scots govornment when i first voted SNP in the 1960s because
(a) he was still a schoolkid and (b) because we had no Scottish
govornment.I am fully awake and choose not to vote the "same
wye ma da did" like some unthinking moron You know the kind
of moron i mean, dont you?
ugizzat 3 months ago
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@ugizzat You really are pathetic. Enough said.
TheWackadooFuckhead 3 months ago
Alex Salmond is a deluded idiot. May I remind him that it was a Scottish King that "Joined" England and Scotland and our last PM was Scottish. I'm English and I have total respect for the Scots. We live on this island together and we make jokes at each other's expense but we stick together when we have to. Those of you that want Scottish independence, your country will be bankrupt within ten years, the oil won't help you. At least if you go independent my tax bill will be less.
MrMegabreath 3 months ago
@MrMegabreath
When we Scots are gone you can sit back, relax and watch,
as your tax bill GROWS, wIthout the Scots to subsidise you.
ugizzat 3 months ago
@ugizzat Nope, our taxes will go down. A lot of North Sea gas is off of the English coast and if you go idependent you will have problems with Norway over the oil. Your country has too many public sector jobs at the tax payer's expense. Anyway, who's gonna vote in the Scottish Independence vote? English people in Scotland/ Scottish people in England? Salmond wants good ties with Europe, there goes your oil. Then what? Oh well, good luck to you if you want independence. You'll need it.
MrMegabreath 2 months ago
@MrMegabreath
In my life time in the UK taxes have never gone down what the
UK Govornments give with one hand they invariably take twice
as much back with the other back with the other.Where are the
110,000 Scots fishing job lost since the UK handed our fishing
grounds over to the then EEC. now EU
If you were 66 years old and lived under sleazy Unionist Party
Govornments for that time you might have had some point to
debate you have not, and so have not.
ugizzat 2 months ago
Will the National debt be split if the Union breaks up?
BritishWarLord 3 months ago
@BritishWarLord Yes
CiaranXD 3 months ago in playlist CiaranXD's favourites
The thing is i think both English and Scottish are small hearted and can not forgive one another and so they can not live together like the Germans. Germans were never a unified country until last century. Look at India, it was never a unified country until 1947. But they agreed and now live in peace as a stronger nation with more population and influence. UK would be stronger thank England or Scotland as separate.
farabirview 3 months ago
Look at the germans. Each of their states were actually different kingdoms run by different monarchies. In the last century they have unified and now Germany is the most populous nation in Western Europe and the most powerful. Why are the British countries so divided, English oppresses and disrespects Scottish, Scottish thinks having some of taxation and defense stipulation from Westminster is like being ruled by England.
farabirview 3 months ago
@farabirview I think you should learn of constitution, Scotland is the oldest nation in Europe with the oldest sovereign flag in current use in the world (not the Danish, it used to be the ancient Chinese flag until China changed theirs), with the Scots being the sovereign of their own nation with their own Scots law which is different from English law,
Britain is not a country, it is a 1707 political construct, hence it's artificial as a state, it has no constitution or flag or anthem.
Calengela 3 months ago
What's so united about the UK? it went down the toilet in the 70's. Vote yes for independence and once and for all get rid of that lump on our backs called England.
ByronRaver 4 months ago 6
@ByronRaver Check the 'Newsnet Scotland' site, you'll see there what the unionist media would not dare publish...
Calengela 3 months ago
@ByronRaver The Scots are not stupid. They know what a good thing they`re onto being part of the UK. But I shall watch most interestedly. It will be a battle between pride on the one hand and roads/ health and education on the other. Either way I shall be laughing on voting day.
valarmanwe 1 month ago
@ByronRaver i think you are the lump on our backs jock.what a bigot
bazzatheblue 2 weeks ago
Nicol Steven takes it up the backdoor - fucking moron.
KaneAlmsivi 5 months ago
Those who want Scotland to run its own affairs, need to put aside differences, and work with common cause to achieve the YES vote. Make no mistake, Westminster will throw every dirty trick in the book, before the vote happens, so we really need a united front for independence in Scotland
Alastairbell 5 months ago
@Alastairbell The Scots have free education, free roads, free prescriptions, free nursing care and can send their MP`s down to Westminster to tell us English how much we have to pay for such services. Not in a million years will the Scots vote Independence. They`re not daft !
valarmanwe 4 months ago
@valarmanwe Thats because the Scots reconvened their own parliament to serve them as the Scots themselves are the sovereign of Scotland, not the parliament or crown, the Scottish government funds all that through the block grant which is part of Scotland's money that all Scottish resources, profits and taxes all go down into subsidising London, Scotland is then paid back a portion of what it contributes to the UK treasury, that portion is then controlled and allocated by the Scottish government.
Calengela 3 months ago
@Alastairbell "NOT IN A MILLION YEARS!" think you need to go back to school as your brain hasnt fully developed! HOLD ON!! Yes I think you brain has fully developed to take a crap!! Thats it!!!! Million years!!! Ha Ha
Alastairbell 4 months ago
Oh how I long for independence for Wales we need public figures talking about independence for our great nation like Alex and Herdeep are in Scotland. The UK media does its best to keep these feelings of the Welsh people secret time to break that mold time to openly talk about independence.
LukeLewisAnimation 5 months ago
I wonder why after hundreds of years of war and occupation England decided to form the UK instead of conquering Wales and Scotland, they could have had the whole island to themselves and not have to worry about Independence movements
Doominator99 5 months ago
British government is dangerously corrput and they need to be destroyed. Scotland can actually save England! Scotland has to claim idependence and i mean now! Because this will encourage England to claim independence. British government will have nothing to govern other than Wales and Northern Ireland. British government will effectively crumble in no time. There needs to be a revolution!
LittleDirtyBlonde23 5 months ago
Most English people want to let Scotland go... BRITISH prime minister, David Cameron said this "Sour Little Englanders, who want rid of Scotland, I'll fight them all the way". Cameron is probably from a scottish family and even worse hes a pro-zionist! This will explain the reason why he embraces anti-racism, which is a code word for anti-white! Specifically, the English will be sacrificed on the alter of multiculturalism, this had been the plan since the days of Blair and Brown!
LittleDirtyBlonde23 5 months ago
Most of the money is made in England and then is shared out to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. England is the only place in Britain that has to pay for their medication prescriptions. English people face genocide from multiculturalism, they will become a minority within their own homelands very soon because of the crooked voting system of sovereignty. The fact the England gets most of the immgrants is not by accient, it is done on purpose! England suffers race riots and destruction!
LittleDirtyBlonde23 5 months ago
@LittleDirtyBlonde23 You mention free prescriptions, but forget free roads ( tolls ), free nursing care and free education. You are correct. On all Govt. forms there is place to distinguish oneself as Welsh. Scot, Bangladeshi, Chinese, Polish, Greek, Swahi, black , yellow or sky blue pink. But not English. We, my mate, have been fucking had !
valarmanwe 4 months ago
What about English independence from the BRITISH crown? As far as the British government is concerned there is no such thing as English people! English identity has been abolished, English people don't even have their own parliment, England gets most of the third world immigrants and English people are forced to live with them. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland all get a vote on Englands sovereignty which is very damaging for the English, especially since they get most of the immigrants!
LittleDirtyBlonde23 5 months ago
What'd happen if Scotland left the Uk, things didn't work out and they wanted to come back? Could they do that? If so, they should leave, wait til they've used all the oil up, then come back. It's pretty obvious, really!
barnbersonol 5 months ago
i am supporting you, greetings from Holland!
prooijtje 5 months ago
go on scotland, from a proud welshmen, i wish more welsh people where like me and scotland and desperatley want independance!
theljd90 5 months ago 2
In the last thirty years, Scotland's Oil has has contributed, Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand Million Pounds to the Treasury! And We're the "Spongers?" I think not! Oh and please stop saying we hate the English as we do not! We hate your greedy government! PLEASE ask yourself; If we are sponging off of England, then why is your government fighting so hard to keep us??? Bye Bye UK.:) x
mrkjames9 5 months ago
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BobbyWarrenMiller 6 months ago
I agree with the man in a turban, he's talking sense ALEX SALMOND IS MUCH BETTER THAN CAMERON!! ALEX FOR PRIME MINISTER!! independence for Scotland...and Wales too in the very near future!!
milo88100 6 months ago
England - aka Mother England or even Mummy England! - has been wiping her ARSE with the Scots - even the educated ones - for a very, very long time now. To add insult to injury, the Scots don't seem to have noticed they are only TOILET PAPER as far as the English ruling class is concerned!!Most of the Irish resented being mistreated like this and three-quarters of the Emerald Isle pulled out of the English Empire. As well as having brown faces, the Scots have bro wn tongues Where's Wallace???
squirell1952 6 months ago
I think the rise of scottish nationlism in scotland will have a knock on effect in england and start to make english people question there identity and own independence too!!! The south will see that the scots want to move to there own devolutional path and start to question there own path! English identity has been suppressed for nearly a hundred year due to mass foreign migration into england that they have lost there identity and now come to terms that independence will egnit english national
Alastairbell 6 months ago
General registry office for Scotland statistics: Most popular surnames in Scotland: 1) Smith (Anglo-Saxon origin), (2) Brown (Germanic/Anglo-Saxon origin) (3) Wilson (Viking origin). Oh the irony of it! Give Scotland back to the Scots....if you can find them! AHAHHAHAHAA! By the way, Salmond is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Your leader is a Sassenach! Priceless!
whitbyjet65 6 months ago
@whitbyjet65 Surnames didn't come into circulation until the Normans completely obliterated England after 1066, so today surnames don't reveal a persons ethnicity you daft tit.
How come OGAP4 code found all over Scotland from over 12 years clearly shows that by far and large the Scots largely have direct roots to the Caledonian Picts that pre-date all the groups you've mentioned.
segano1 6 months ago
Thumbs up if you are going to vote YES to Scottish Independence !
glasgow1234 6 months ago 19
@glasgow1234 When you see thumbs up for Scottish independence...most must be from the English...lol
SuperFruitloopy 4 months ago
@SuperFruitloopy English people won't be voting and from the last vote, more Scottish people are for independence than against ;)
glasgow1234 4 months ago
@glasgow1234 I think its something both countries can agree on in the future is that the union has ground to a halt..i was just mentioning there was a poll done in England two years ago and it came out heavily they supported the break up of the union...good luck in 2014 although as you suggest,you won't need it!
SuperFruitloopy 4 months ago
@SuperFruitloopy That's the Scots that vote it up for independence, far far more Scots visit these videos than the English, the English have nothing to do with Scotland, the Scots or their business, nor do the Scots want anything to do with England.
Concentrate on your own country and vote for an English party that supports an English parliament instead of listening to what your unionist Liebour, ahem, Labour and Tory unionist elite masters trick you into believing for their own benefit.
Calengela 3 months ago
@Calengela Yeah your right you get very little English in these channels ..lol...down to the fact they couldn't care less!
SuperFruitloopy 3 months ago
Probably less than the English IMF bailout of 1976.
HLecterPHD 6 months ago
Thumbs up if you are going to vote YES for Scottish Independence !
glasgow1234 6 months ago 2
@glasgow1234 watch?v=xwDHg-mpZC0&lc=p9MHDwuEoR0eSKpfWyLU3pbDAmD10ZaUtjdiIRGOPL8&feature=inbox
TheFatalInstinct1 6 months ago
Westminster has no intention of reforming itself, so must be broken up. It is time to return Westminster to its core purpose as the Parliament of England. Devolution is not going to be reversed and any attempt to, such as Cameron’s current already failing Scotland Act Amendments Bill, are doomed to merely increase the tension and anger on all sides.
segano1 6 months ago
The best way to achieve this end is for Westminster to spin the worst excesses of the Scots, Welsh or Irish and present them as ungrateful spongers to the English. Something the tame Westminster media is only too happy to do.
My view is simple. The political union, as represented by Westminster, is now a suppurating ulcer, gnawing away at the souls of all who live on this island. It is no longer fit for purpose in the 21st century.
segano1 6 months ago
The union of the crowns
There never was any union of the crowns. The current Queen swore a separate oath to the sovereign people of Scotland the night before her English coronation and uses the ‘Honours of Scotland’ when north of the border - as required by the 1689 Scottish Claim of Right.
The Scots are the sovereign of Scotland, hence it's THEIR right!
segano1 6 months ago
Con't, If you crunch the numbers you find that for every £100 that is ‘spent’ on Scotland by the UK Government, £170 is ‘spent’ in the Greater London area for the same population.
You can add the money that should have come to Scotland as part of our pocket money which the Treasury is sitting on for one pretence or another - some £500 million a year at the last counting – which still shows on the Treasury Accounts as ‘going to Scotland’.
So Scotland clearly is vastly short changed.
segano1 6 months ago
The Treasury’s own figures show that Scotland has returned a tax surplus every year in the last 30. Last year it was £1.6 billion - not including any tax take from the North Sea - an estimated £32 billion a year from the Scottish sector. It is difficult to be precise as the actual figures for oil and gas income are hidden in the Treasury’s extra-territorial account.
segano1 6 months ago
The reason many English fear independence here is because England's loss is Scotland's gain FACT! ~ Just remember that that's what Scottish independence always boils down to.
England will became as relevant as Italy at best, and Scotland will gain back it's own national sovereign 100% free right, and be well better off.
segano1 6 months ago
@segano1 Actually if you look at the polls more english want an independent Scotland than the Scottish!
Paulyb1010 6 months ago
@Paulyb1010 And where did you get that info from? Another brainwashed English unionist no doubt?
There was a recent poll undertaken by the BBC in England last week and 48% of all English wished Scotland would stay within the union.
The source? Newsnet Scotland.
segano1 6 months ago
@segano1 I'm not even a Unionist. I want England to be independent. I don't quote sources because that is too much effort for just a Youtube comment...
Paulyb1010 6 months ago
@Paulyb1010 Well you've just posted me two comments there and you clearly had enough room for both paragraphs in one comment box, 500 character limit. Where as I've posted four comments because there wasn't enough space for it all in the same box.
So you'd rather spread unresearched inaccurate opinions rather than factual knowledge and sources just because it's less effort, that's what you're saying?
If you support English independence, you know an English parliament is the answer.
segano1 6 months ago
@segano1 Btw chill out. Why write 4 comments in reply to one simply comment? I am actually agreeing with u, but taking it further and saying we don't want the union either.
Paulyb1010 6 months ago
@Paulyb1010 Also if you do the maths, and consider that even if that were true that more English want it, you'd see it's no surprise as there is almost ten times the population of English compared to Scots, for every Scotsman there's around seven Englishmen. Hence there will be a bit more out there to vote in comparison.
segano1 6 months ago
@Paulyb1010 The BBC’s poll earlier this week on the views of the people of England to Scottish independence threw up some very interesting results, the most astonishing of which is that 51% of the English people polled thought that Scottish independence would make no difference to England’s future prosperity.
segano1 6 months ago
@Paulyb1010 Con't, That’s amazing when you consider all the time the Unionists say that the whole reason for keeping the long ago time-expired Union going is that Scotland and England are better off being together, yet here more than half the English clearly think there is no advantage to them of being in the Union.
At a stroke, the main argument for the Union is shredded, because most sensible Scots have long ago concluded that Scotland will be better off outwith it.
segano1 6 months ago
@Tlb91UK Norway is the richest country in the world because they actually invest in their resources, where as Britain does nowt but squander it, the Scots do not want English governments deciding over Scottish issues, it will just be Maggie Thatcher and the vile Tories again - the worst government EVER! Scotland getting it's own parliament was the death knell of Dependence, now it's just a matter of time until we take back the rest of our powers, Scottish independence does not kill the UK btw.
segano1 6 months ago
@Tlb91UK Why would an independent Scotland be poorer? Could you explain how oil revenues, shared between 62 million, and the same shared between 5 million, would produce a less well-off Scotland? That is the case in its simplest form.
scotchprofessor 6 months ago
When put in perspective Scotlands grant from the UK tresuary
seems a great deal until you find the UK Inland Revenue get back
over 65% of that money in the form of the income tax on wages and
VAT on purchases.So the grant aint that much after all and less when
you consider how much more Scotland puts into the UK kitty than it
"takes out". If the grant is say £50 billion on paper it is actually around
£17 Billion in reality and we produce more than that annualy
Were being screwed.
ugizzat 6 months ago
@Tlb91UK scotland actually has oil too in the north sea estimated at around 1 trillion pounds
bolgert911 6 months ago
Scottish indepenence -£30 Billion per annum in subsidies from England = "Greek style" IMF/EU Bailout.
JONNOG88 7 months ago
@JONNOG88 McCrone Report.
scotchprofessor 6 months ago
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As a non British observer it seems sad to think that an independent Scotland would tear apart one of history's greatest nations. I know a lot of Scots feel overwhelmed and at times ignored by the mostly English power of Westminster but couldn't that situation be rectified by a more federalist U.S like system so Scotland has more local governing power and perhaps a new chamber of parliament like the U.S senate with equal representation from each UK constituent nation?
EPDsonny 7 months ago
As a non British observer it seems sad to think that an independent Scotland would tear apart one of history's greatest nations. I know a lot of Scots feel overwhelmed and at times ignored by the mostly English power of Westminster but couldn't that situation be rectified by a more federalist U.S like system so Scotland has more local governing powerand perhaps a new chamber of parliament like the U.S senate with equal representation from each UK constituent nation?
EPDsonny 7 months ago
@EPDsonny You're American? When your president arrived in 'Great Britain' recently, it was described in the 'British' news as a wonderful thing for "Anglo-American" relations. Terminology can wipe out a people at a stroke.
Independence or nothing. Greetings from Scotland my friend.
scotchprofessor 6 months ago
@scotchprofessor Yes I am American and I get what you mean. Like whenever people here refer to the queen they always say the "Queen of England" even though that's not her title and it effectively ignores the other UK nations. It does kinda seem like Scotland gets ignored. I have also not been able to find any solid numbers on exactly how widespread support for independence is so I would like to know if anyone can tell me that. And would an independent Scotland really not join NATO?
EPDsonny 6 months ago
@EPDsonny Why do you care? You're a Yank.
TheFatalInstinct1 6 months ago
@EPDsonny Scotland, just like every other nation and government in the world, has the right to run it's own affairs independently. We don't care about the U.S system & America in general it's 100% irrelevant to Scotland.
Plus the states in the U.S are states, not nations, and certainly not ancient historical nations like Scotland with it's own distinctiveness. Scotland has it's own parliament, England does not.
The UK would still remain post Scottish independence but not the British union state.
segano1 6 months ago
The richest country in the world is Norway + Scotland has more natural resources than Norway = An independent Scotland can be one of the richest countries in the worls.
segano1 7 months ago
@segano1 How on earth is fucking Norway the richest country in the world? Surely the USA, or China or France etc.would beat it. Also, Scotland does have natural resources but they're hard to extract and the amount of money we invest in their extraction isn't worth the amount taken out. Also, how will Scottish students have their tuitions already paid for without English taxpayer money? How will you carry on as a rich nation when you have nothing to export? Why do you want an independent Scotland
grobo11 7 months ago
@grobo11 Oil extraction in Scottish waters is thought to have as many years remaining as have already been exploited. There is, however, no way of determining exact amounts.
Of renewable energies, Scotland has 25% of Europe's wind power, 25% of its tidal power, and 10% of its wave power. That's your answer to possible exports. The UK economy survives almost solely on oil revenues and London's over-inflated Ponsi scheme of a financial market. What exactly would an independent England export?
scotchprofessor 6 months ago
@scotchprofessor Machinery and transport, manufactured goods and chemicals are Britain's largest export earners and all of which are situated in England. The UK's pharmaceuticals industry is the world's third biggest earner in this sector and contributes 15 of the world's top 75 best-selling drugs, this too is in England. Britain is the world's second largest exporter of services, including banking, insurance, stockbroking, consultancy and computer programming this is in England also.
grobo11 6 months ago
@scotchprofessor watch?v=xwDHg-mpZC0&feature=channel_video_title
TheFatalInstinct1 6 months ago
@grobo11 Fuckin look it up and see why Norway's the richest, they invest in their resources & take care of it well, Britain squanders what it can because they knew that an independent Scotland would gain it all in Scotland and embarrassed them when it should Scotland would be better off than the rest of the UK, why do you think Labour hid the documents in the 70's when they discovered this? Look up the "McCrone report" Scotland has been proved time after time that it's far better off independent
segano1 6 months ago
@grobo11 Scotland subsidises the UK treasury FACT!
Look up the work of the two world academics who proved this in OCT 2010.
segano1 6 months ago
IMPORTANT! Check out the GERS report that has just been released on the newsnetscotland website! Scotland subsidises the rest of the UK! We are loaded! Read the other article on why Scotland is better off leaving bankrupt Britain! The FACTS are here finally! All the reasons on why we should become independent! If you want to know how to shut up a unionist, direct them to this website and you wont hear from them again. I can't see Westminster getting round this! Vote YES in the in the REFERENDUM
mrkjames9 7 months ago 18
@mrkjames9 BREAKING NEWS: Check the 'Newsnet Scotland' site, A unionist conservative has just admitted that the UK will be worse off without Scotland and the Scotland will be much better off independent and sovereign again!!
Calengela 3 months ago 4
@Calengela I know isn't it just fantastic!!!
mrkjames9 3 months ago
@mrkjames9 Indeed, on further reading I found it was Scottish Conservative (Tory) member Annabel Goldie who finally admitted what the Tories do not want the ignorant masses to know, now the Tory party is in disarray after these comments lol.
Calengela 3 months ago
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@mrkjames9 NEWS JUST IN!!! If Scotland becomes Independent we will be the 6th richest country in the world while England will be 16th! If that isn't a good enough reason to vote yes to Independence... I don't know what is! Come on everyone! Lets leave WASTEMONSTER behind us and MOVE FORWARD to a HEALTHIER, WEALTHIER, HAPPIER, STRONGER SCOTLAND! xx
mrkjames9 3 months ago 2