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Ministers reach referendum deal

So it now looks like a referendum on Scottish independance will take place before any on the UK remaining in the EU.

I doubt Alex Salmond will get the vote he so desperately craves but if it were to happen I expect him to take with him his share of the UK debt.

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Ministers from the UK and Scottish governments have reached a deal over the independence referendum.
BBC Scotland understands the final issues outstanding between the governments were resolved on Friday afternoon.
Scottish Secretary Michael Moore spoke to Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon by telephone.
Prime Minister David Cameron and First Minister Alex Salmond are to meet on Monday to sign the agreement.
The referendum is to be held in the autumn of 2014.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotlan...itics-19928013

There are many stories and rumours currently out there but one that narks me is that Mr Salmond expects the UK to provide security/defence for the whole of the UK island.

No thanks Mr Salmond, please feel free to close the nuclear sub base as well because we'll transfer everything back to England, as well as the jobs.

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Originally Posted by jimbuna (Post 1947571)

I doubt Alex Salmond will get the vote he so desperately craves but if it were to happen I expect him to take with him his share of the UK debt.

As if jim, the idea of HS2 going further up to his neck of his woods got. :up:

Then followed would Scotland pay its share. :down:

Latest Willy Hills odds for a Scottish referendum on independence
For 7/1

Against 1/16

Is Alex the phantom Glasgow streaker and what are the odds on that.

Is that really serious, i mean scottish independence and separation from .. well from what ? The 'Commonwealth' ?

I mean it sure was not noce how the woods vanished and the people were forced to give away their ground for sheep, the whisky 'wars' etc., but this was ages ago ?

:huh:

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Originally Posted by STEED (Post 1947642)

Is Alex the phantom Glasgow streaker and what are the odds on that.

1\100 :haha:

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Originally Posted by Catfish (Post 1947646)

The Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP) are indeeed deadly serious but I can't honestly see why breaking up the union would be of benefit to either sde of the border.

Part of me wants it to happen, just so we can turn round and laugh at the delusion of it all. But I have quite a few friends from up there and I wouldn't want to put them through it, I only know of one that says he wants independence - doubt he really means it though.

Another reason would be to hopefully quell the Welsh/Cornish from wanting unworkable independence.

Now if we could just annex off Norfolk . . . :hmm2:

Just posted on FB by a very scottish former colleague -

http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/8...k820507585.jpg

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Originally Posted by Herr-Berbunch (Post 1948325)

Just posted on FB by a very scottish former colleague -

Cant see any difference they must be twins :haha:

the figure to the left is Yabba the Hut and he's real. He lives on a planet far far away from us.

The person on the right is nothing more than an imagination of the english and the scottish peoples fantasy.

Was I correct?? what do I win??

Markus

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Originally Posted by mapuc (Post 1948465)

Yabba

Jabba is spelled with a 'J', not a 'Y'. Ask any Yugoslavian. :O:

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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve (Post 1948470)

Jabba is spelled with a 'J', not a 'Y'. Ask any Yugoslavian. :O:

You are correct, I was so sure about it, that I never bother to check the spelling.

Markus

Well, we former Yugoslavs write Yugoslavia as Jugoslavija :O:

And Jabba (as pronounced in English) is the same phonetic sound as ***273;aba, which means free of charge or useless in urban talk