Salmond "We can take Scotland in two weeks"

[jemb]

I think they may as well vote YES. This is a comment today on the Scotsman website.

...Salmond comparing apartheid South Africa with the situation in Scotland

One of many I would expect..

I stood outside the South African embassy back in the day and protested with the rest of those who gave a damn. Apartheid was a real evil.

Please tell me he didn't drag apartheid into this.

[Old Greg]

I think they may as well vote YES. This is a comment today on the Scotsman website.

One of many I would expect..

Although of course, it could just be a fiction planted by a No supporter.

[Unix]

I think they may as well vote YES. This is a comment today on the Scotsman website.

One of many I would expect..

Either it didn't happen, or the investors are using it as an excuse and wanted to move anyway. I bet a lot of business will use the ref as a scapegoat for decisions that would normally cause problems.

[eek]

Although of course, it could just be a fiction planted by a No supporter.

If so its a sockie who has been posting on the site for 4+ years. That is one hell of a sockie account being created two years prior to the referendum was announced.

[Old Greg]

Either it didn't happen, or the investors are using it as an excuse and wanted to move anyway. I bet a lot of business will use the ref as a scapegoat for decisions that would normally cause problems.

Or it's genuine. It's possible even if that doesn't align with how you would like reality to be.

[Old Greg]

If so its a sockie who has been posting on the site for 4+ years. That is one hell of a sockie account being created two years prior to the referendum was announced.

I would expect no less from Perfidious Albion.

[eek]

Either it didn't happen, or the investors are using it as an excuse and wanted to move anyway. I bet a lot of business will use the ref as a scapegoat for decisions that would normally cause problems.

I'm sure there are businesses with high wage costs that are potentially cheaper elsewhere who will use it as an excuse to move somewhere cheaper. The thing is I thought they would use the excuse of a YES vote to do that, my worry would be that uncertainty is enough.

[eek]

I stood outside the South African embassy back in the day and protested with the rest of those who gave a damn. Apartheid was a real evil.

Please tell me he didn't drag apartheid into this.

He has see Indyref Daily: Stephen Daisley on independence referendum campaign | Scotland | News

picked especially to avoid any link that others may call biased...

[Old Greg]

I'm sure there are businesses with high wage costs that are potentially cheaper elsewhere who will use it as an excuse to move somewhere cheaper. The thing is I thought they would use the excuse of a YES vote to do that, my worry would be that uncertainty is enough.

Business and the markets do not care for uncertainty.

[scooterscot]

Well the winners are those with a job.....and the unemployment rate is 2x the UK. That equates to another 2 million unemployed in the UK
Of course, you may well think that's ok and a price worth paying.....it isn't.

You're making the assumption people of working age have to be 'in work'.

Since 86' Italy's unemployment rate has always floated around 10%. People in the UK are poorer, more working class, they have to work for the landlord.

Gold reserves:

Italy 2,451.8 tons

United Kingdom 310 tons


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