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Should this be telling them something?
Bad weather has hampered the laying of a new system designed to transform roads into giant solar panels.Originally posted by Flubster -
Sheep have long been drawn to the warmth stored up by roads
You've come right out the other side of the forest of irony and ended up in the desert of wrong.
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Shoot the sheep and the scots, lay the system and cut the kilts into mini-skirts donate out on a sat night in london.Comment
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I bet that if Scotland do manage to generate any power from their tarmac, England will steal it all in a repeat of the North Sea oil plunder.Comment
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How can it still something it already owns. IIRC, Scotland is part of the United Kingdom...Originally posted by PRC1964Illegitimus non carborundum est!Comment
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Originally Posted by PRC1964
I bet that if Scotland do manage to generate any power from their tarmac, England will steal it all in a repeat of the North Sea oil plunder.
How can England steal something it already owns?Originally posted by Flubster
Sounds a bit like when Dubya said the US didn't need to import oil, they could get it from Mexico...Comment
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The reason why some people regard it as stealing, to put it mildly, is the dishonesty that was involved in how the London government ensured that it would be England's to have. In the 1970s an economist wrote a report describing the likely wealth of the Scottish part of the North Sea Oil: he said there would be so much of it that an independent Scotland would have a GNP per head on a level with Switzerland's, and the hardest currency in Europe. Scotland's trading surplus with England would be "so large as to be embarassing".Originally posted by Flubster
Of course that would be intolerable, so the UK government of the day classified the report as secret, for fear that it might persuade the Scots to vote for independence.
That's Scotland's real underlying economic situation vis-a-vis England. What actually happened is that English politicians lied so that England could get all that wealth and spend it.
Just don't tell me that England is subsidising Scotland, please.Comment
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England is subsidising ScotlandIllegitimus non carborundum est!Comment
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.... why don't you want to be told about it...?Vieze Oude Man
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