Free Scotland!

[Provost Harrison]

What a load of old horse**** Heraclitus...the only thing Scotland has going for it is that it has perfected the art of deep frying. I would be very surprised if it is contributing a disproportionately high amount to the UK economy - I'd say at best it is even, and I'd say London is proportionally a far bigger contributor.

[BlackCat]

Well, if Scotland really sucs so much, why not grab the opporunity and get rid of them ?

[Riesstiu IV]

As much as Scotland sucks, the need to rule over their barbaric neighbors to the north is far too ingrained in English culture.

[Heraclitus]

Originally posted by Riesstiu IV
As much as Scotland sucks, the need to rule over their barbaric neighbors to the north is far too ingrained in English culture.

Yes the English never could help themselves, they just can't understand that there comes a point where you give oput too much of yourself.

[Kidlicious]

Originally posted by Provost Harrison
What a load of old horse**** Heraclitus...the only thing Scotland has going for it is that it has perfected the art of deep frying. I would be very surprised if it is contributing a disproportionately high amount to the UK economy - I'd say at best it is even, and I'd say London is proportionally a far bigger contributor.

That must be where deep fried stuffed jalapenos come from.

[Thoth]

Scotland is where deep fried Mars bars come from.

[Cort Haus]

Heraclitus, you shallow-thinking merchant of superficial realities and infantile falsehoods, the empire you depicted above was the British empire and not an English one. It even says so in the sodding caption yet still you persist in your puerile analysis. You are the Balkan Mobius, without the troll smiley he always uses when posting his crap, which tells us that he is only really having a laugh.

Britain = England + Scotland.

Any Inglunder with a brain knows the superb contributions that Scottish thinkers and do-ers have made to British and planetary civilisation, and is proud to be in a union with such a great nation. Scottish politicians have, generally, always been very well represented at the highest levels of democratic politics, and the constitutional situation today actually sees Scottish voters in a position of dominance over English ones.

Of course, such facts are lost on shallow, pea-brained internet trolls who have watched too many Mel Gibson films and read too many Asher posts. Although at least Asher, to be fair, does tend to rip on the British generally rather than the English.



Hollywood

[Dr Strangelove]

Scotland is where England's oil comes from.

[Dinner]

THEY'RE STEALING OUR OIL!

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Kidicious


That must be where deep fried stuffed jalapenos come from.

Don't you dare speak ill of deep fried stuffed jalapenos! I'll have you burned at the steak you heritic!

[Heraclitus]

Originally posted by Cort Haus
Heraclitus, you shallow-thinking merchant of superficial realities and infantile falsehoods, the empire you depicted above was the British empire

There is a reason I called it English. You may not know your own history but the Union of Scotland and England was not exactly a event the people accepted with joy.

[Sandman]

A Balkanite exporting Balkanism. How lovely.

[Heraclitus]

Also I don't think just Scotland should be independent. The same would go for England and Wales.

While Northern Ireland can form a federation with Ireland (something to appease the protestants living there).

[Heraclitus]

Originally posted by Sandman
A Balkanite exporting Balkanism. How lovely.

You do realise that my country did very very well by breaking off from that unstable shipwreck of a country when we did. If we delayed we would have had to pick sides in the Croats vs. Serbs vs. Muslims war that followed.


My general belief is that with the EU in place there is little if any need for countries like Spain, Belgium or the UK existing. As a rule smaller countries are more adaptive economically withing the trade block. Also smaller countries are less likely to get involved in wars, actually the only wars small European countries get into today is if other players in the region try to keep them in their current larger polity by force.

Small countries usually do very well, unless annexed by a larger country and that is unlikely to happen in the Europe of today. Slovenia, Estonia, Ireland, Luxembourg, Norway, Iceland, New Zeland, ect. are all countries that have benefited greatly from independence.

The UK could keep its monetary union and even arrange for a common armed forces after its dissolution.

Any you can sugar coat it all you want, but the fact remains that the Scottish are a nation and if you supported the independence of Kosovo because they wanted to split from Serbia then you should support the Scottish right to a referendum (which they would probably loose anyway), but the right should be there.

[Heraclitus]

I really don't understand why a country that has a similar number of people to Norway, is a democracy and has oil just as Norway does can't have the same living standards. Either Scotland is mismanaged or the rest of the union has been leaching off them, I see no other explanation.