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7 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Andy Maciver: The risk... · 0 replies · +1 points

So Salmond and Sturgeon are dictators whose opinions of four years ago must be obeyed by the people of Scotland? Seriously?

11 years ago @ The Toast - A Linguist Explains Wh... · 1 reply · +9 points

Are you even aware that Shakespeare was not British, since during his lifetime the British nation did not exist? He was English. He was most certainly NOT 'British'.

Not everyone in Britain is English. The 'estuary accent' is not even spoke all over England much less all over Britain.

11 years ago @ Conservative Home - Andrew Lilico: The wre... · 0 replies · +4 points

It would be fascinating to know how someone who, as far as he states, has chosen to go nowhere near Scotland, not to live there, give no contribution to the nation or culture and basically have nothing to do with it is by any stretch of the imagination 'Scottish'.

He isn't.

On the other hand, Michael Russell, MSP and SNP Cabinet Secretary for Education, born in England, is Scottish by choice. He lives and contributes to the nation. So is Wasim Mahmood of Scots Asians for Independence. I have no idea where MSP Marco Biagi's or MSP Humza Yousaf's great-grandparents resided. I doubt it was Scotland but they are certainly Scots.

Mr. Lilico has a right to his rather strange and slightly racist sounding opinion, but let's make it clear that it is not coming from any kind of actual Scot.

12 years ago @ Commentary Magazine - What Would Scottish In... · 0 replies · +1 points

If the "scrap of land" you are referring to is Faslane, that supposed "scap" is part of Scotland. It will remain a part of Scotland. If England wants to throw its money away on continuing this vanity project, it can park its WMD next to London instead of within miles of Scotland's largest city.

12 years ago @ Commentary Magazine - What Would Scottish In... · 0 replies · +1 points

Since Scotland is NOT financially dependent on England, your characterisation (and his) has no validity. Scotland puts more into the UK Exchequer than it gets back. Scotland puts in 9.4% of the taxes collected in the UK and receives back only 9.2%.

Do you know anything at all about Scotland and Scottish finances? It looks to me like you don't and you are quite obviously no Scot. What I am curious about is what you as an American get out of your insulting and degrading comments about Scots and Scotland.

12 years ago @ Commentary Magazine - What Would Scottish In... · 2 replies · +1 points

Scotland is certainly NOT "too small to be a country", thank you very much. Scotland is 70% the size of England in land mass--hardly that much smaller and Scotland has about the same land area as the Czech Republic as well as many other nations. In population size, Scotland has a population about the same size as Finland and Norway and a larger population than many, many independent countries including the Republic of Ireland and New Zealand.

As for the nasty asylum comment applying to Scots, I'll leave you to figure out my opinion.

12 years ago @ Commentary Magazine - What Would Scottish In... · 0 replies · +1 points

Since Scotland doesn't get "free stuff" from the UK the argument is absurd anyway. Like the rest of the UK, Scots pay taxes and huge taxes are accrued from the oil and gas in Scottish waters. Scots would be pleased to get back what they pay in--which they don't.

12 years ago @ Commentary Magazine - What Would Scottish In... · 0 replies · +1 points

Which is why the current monarch will still be the monarch of an independent Scotland just as she is the monarch of an independent Canada and Australia. I would say you are the one who is ignorant.

12 years ago @ Commentary Magazine - What Would Scottish In... · 0 replies · +1 points

It is simply not true that "Scots that Scotland gets more financially from the United Kingdom than it contributes". The author actually says that Scots are incapable of paving roads without English largesse?! For his information, Scots put more into the UK Exchequer than they get back in return and this has been the case for many years. A very little research into the GERS shows this.

Scots do not counter this lie/misinformation with an argument that they will get more from the EU since his argument is wrong on the face of it. There is no need to counter it with anything but the truth--that Scotland doesn't need English OR EU largesse.

No one is proposing seizing part of Scotland for England. The idea is absurd.

As for oil and gas, Scotland will own Scotland's oil that is Scottish waters. Any oil and gas in English waters will be owned by rUK (EWNI whatever they chose to call themselves). I have never heard anyone suggest seizing property owned by the Windsors.

12 years ago @ The Tory Diary - The David Miranda case... · 1 reply · +8 points

You might actually know something about it if you followed the coverage instead of sticking your fingers in your ears and chanting, "The government is right. The government is right."

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