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The EU paves the way....
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Originally posted by meridian View PostSo, let’s see how much you can get wrong in a single post.
Island? Nope. Rock.
EU Parliament? Nope. Committee.
Voted to recognise the island? Nope. Rock.
Voted to recognise as a colony? Nope. Just a footnote to a draft law and makes no legal difference.
100% part of UK? Debatable. And by that I don’t mean their right to be considered part of the U.K., but the “100%” is debatable, they have no representation in Westminster.
Paves the way? Nope. Draft law only.
Stay in the EU to see the breakup of the UK? Nope, the draft law is only relevant in the case of No Deal.
EU draft law says Gibraltar is a British 'colony' | Euronews
United Kingdom | The Commonwealth
The UK is a union of four countries: England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The Crown dependencies (the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man) are largely self-governing with the UK responsible for their defence and international relations and are not part of the United Kingdom.
Gibraltar is an Overseas Territory, another name for a colony.Comment
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Originally posted by Batcher View PostGibraltar isn't any part of the UK, far less 100%.
United Kingdom | The Commonwealth
The UK is a union of four countries: England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The Crown dependencies (the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man) are largely self-governing with the UK responsible for their defence and international relations and are not part of the United Kingdom.
Gibraltar is an Overseas Territory, another name for a colony.Comment
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Originally posted by Whorty View PostBrexit will cause the breakup of the UK. Scotland will vote out in Indyref2, and it's highly likely the NI will follow suit. You was warned of this pre ref in 2016 but you argued it was project fear. If you really cared about keeping the UK together you wouldn't have voted leave.
Stop being a hypocrite - this is what you voted for. Own your decision and stop being a snowflake.
During the spring of 1975 the Wall Street Journal ran a powerful headline. “Goodbye Great Britain”, the American business newspaper declared. The UK was known as the sick man of Europe. Investors were taking flight in the face of its ruinous economic performance and endemic industrial strife. Greatness had made way for spiralling decline.
The prediction proved premature. Britain was bailed out by the International Monetary Fund and subsequently saved by North Sea oil and, some would say, by Margaret Thatcher’s economic revolution. In any event, a decade later Thatcher was dancing on the world stage with US president Ronald Reagan.
Goodbye EU, and goodbye the United Kingdom
Scotland will be Independent, Brexit will cause economic ruin in England and Scotland's oil won't be available to save them next time.
That's the reason the state fought so hard to keep Scotland in the union in 2014. Don't believe what they say about Scotland being subsidy junkies.
We generate enough wind and hydro power electricity to power Scotland without the need for nuclear or carbon based fuels. Loch Ness holds the most water with 7.4 million m3, which is more than all the English and Welsh lakes combined. - Scotland’s freshwater | Scotland's environment web
England will run out of clean drinking water in 25 years - Climate change: Water shortages in England 'within 25 years' - BBC News
Anyone who says England won't trade with an independent Scotland is talking nonsense when we will have the resources to sell you to keep you aliveComment
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Originally posted by meridian View PostWhile I agree, I was trying to play nicely. And still got called names. :-(Comment
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Originally posted by Batcher View PostGood piece in the FT:
During the spring of 1975 the Wall Street Journal ran a powerful headline. “Goodbye Great Britain”, the American business newspaper declared. The UK was known as the sick man of Europe. Investors were taking flight in the face of its ruinous economic performance and endemic industrial strife. Greatness had made way for spiralling decline.
The prediction proved premature. Britain was bailed out by the International Monetary Fund and subsequently saved by North Sea oil and, some would say, by Margaret Thatcher’s economic revolution. In any event, a decade later Thatcher was dancing on the world stage with US president Ronald Reagan.
Goodbye EU, and goodbye the United Kingdom
Scotland will be Independent, Brexit will cause economic ruin in England and Scotland's oil won't be available to save them next time.
That's the reason the state fought so hard to keep Scotland in the union in 2014. Don't believe what they say about Scotland being subsidy junkies.
We generate enough wind and hydro power electricity to power Scotland without the need for nuclear or carbon based fuels. Loch Ness holds the most water with 7.4 million m3, which is more than all the English and Welsh lakes combined. - Scotland’s freshwater | Scotland's environment web
England will run out of clean drinking water in 25 years - Climate change: Water shortages in England 'within 25 years' - BBC News
Anyone who says England won't trade with an independent Scotland is talking nonsense when we will have the resources to sell you to keep you aliveComment
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Originally posted by Old Greg View PostHowever, an independent Scotland in the EU may End up with a hard border with England.
“The period of the disintegration of the European Union has begun. And the first vessel to have departed is Britain”Comment
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Originally posted by Batcher View Post... when we will have the resources to sell you to keep you alive and haggisDown with racism. Long live miscegenation!Comment
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Originally posted by shaunbhoy View PostNot to mention a currency called the Euro, elements of the impending EU Nuclear fleet located at Faslane, and FOM just for starters.
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Originally posted by shaunbhoy View PostNot to mention a currency called the Euro, elements of the impending EU Nuclear fleet located at Faslane, and FOM just for starters.
Not quite thought this through, have you?Comment
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