Scottish independence scare stories

[BrilloPad]

STFU you thick ****.

OG only insults the intelligent posters round here.

[BrilloPad]

When Scotland becomes independent there will be an ebola outbreak. And Russia will invade. And Nibiru will send Zeity's mates to anally probe everyone.

Probably.

[DodgyAgent]

OG only insults the intelligent posters round here.

So do I BP . I have always thought what a great guy OG is

[TestMangler]

When Scotland becomes independent there will be an ebola outbreak. And Russia will invade. And Nibiru will send Zeity's mates to anally probe everyone.

Probably.

Stop reading the Daily Mail Brillo.

[OwlHoot]

There's an incisive Telegraph article by Nigel Farage, explaining the obvious EU angle.

2014-09-11 Scots won’t get independence from a Yes vote

But if they do vote to leave, I believe they will suffer a fate of which Aesop warned in one of his most famous fables. The frogs complain so much that Zeus replaces benign if boring “king log” with “king stork” who, you will remember, gobbled them all up!

If being part of the UK is the former, I think the Scots would find Brussels very much equates to the latter.

[ZARDOZ]

Ever since the opinion poll showing the Yes vote in the lead, it has been slightly embarrassing at the amount of scare stories from the establishment to try and sway the Scots from voting Yes.

Can you imagine the level of scare stories we will get if we ever get a vote on coming out of the EU?

Of course banks like RBS & Lloyds will have to move some operations to England because that is where most of their operations are, but to portray it as a mass close down of Scottish business is totally crap.

This is exactly why politicians are not trusted, they spin to play on fear.

I am not Scottish, but if I had a vote I would be voting Yes.

Since the 911 this is the standard tactic for politicans to get their way as covered by this TV series

The Power of Nightmares Part 1- Baby It's Cold Outside - by Adam Curtis on Vimeo

[centurian]

BBC News - Irish Republic bail-out in UK interest - George Osborne

We gave them a loan, for which the Irish accepted the teams, paid interest - have made the commitments of the loan so far - and we can have a very high confidence that we will get all the money back.

Contrast this to a new country, who are using debt as a bargaining tool and are triumphantly stating that they may not pay debts already incurred from bailing out companies in their country (i.e. Scottish banks).

[Old Greg]

We gave them a loan, for which the Irish accepted the teams, paid interest - have made the commitments of the loan so far - and we can have a very high confidence that we will get all the money back.

Contrast this to a new country, who are using debt as a bargaining tool and are triumphantly stating that they may not pay debts already incurred from bailing out companies in their country (i.e. Scottish banks).

EWNI won't let them go under. The world doesn't work like that, just as the world doesn't work by newly independent countries reneging on their share of the national debt. It's just a dishonest electioneering trick.

[tomtomagain]

RBS says relocation is scare story and true story


Well it made me laugh.

[minestrone]

I know a small Scottish financial company that has agreed to open an office in England on the back of requests from scots wanting to move control of their financial affairs south.

People with large sums of money don't want to leave it here if there is a yes vote. The public are driving much of this themselves. It is lunacy to discount capital flight as it is happening now.