BNP: not ready for prime time

[Back In Business]

Thornton Heath Leisure Centre insist that men wear shorts which hide the navel and extend below the knee. Women wear a swimming costume that covers their body from the neck down to the ankle. There are separate sessions for men and women.

All I want to know is: where exactly can these fetching outfits be purchased?

[darmstadt]

One of our local swimming pools has mixed evening sessions where you have to be naked.

[Nicky G]

One question for NG - what is your take on the prospect of Scotland asserting its National Identity - current polls shows a significant lead for the SNP at the expense of Labour - and if Scotland does become indepedent; what are the consequences for England - the first thing which comes to my mind would be the fate of the Armed Services - and the possible cancellation of the Trident upgrade.

50% + of Voters in the last poll (can’t remember who did it) stated they would like an independent Scotland, which is a record level.

Scottish nationalism in my experience is nothing more than thinly veiled racism, the old adage of blaming it on the English. There's a fake notion of Celtic identity also.

The fact is that, considering that Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have a lower GDP per capita than England, and require higher social spending, letting them become independent would benefit England. Scotland is pretty much Britain's East Germany: an expensive nuisance.

Scotland will never be as economically, militarily or politically strong as if it opted out of the UK. An independent Scotland would drop dramatically in the EU standings as well. I don’t know if it has any effective maritime claims for the North Sea oil, but I doubt it.

On the flipside it constitutes 1/3 of the UK’s armed forces, has many renewable energy facilities and then as you mentioned there’s the small Trident matter.

Ultimately it's their choice, whether it benefits them or not. Let them have their day in the sun if they want it. However if independence does occur then I would expect all Scots currently living in England to be repatriated to their new found paradise.

On the postive side an SNP victory would mean the end of the road for NL.

Didn’t New Labour win the last election due to Scottish votes? Indeed.

[wendigo100]

Scotland will never be as economically, militarily or politically strong as if it opted out of the UK. An independent Scotland would drop dramatically in the EU standings as well.

On the contrary, once they are independent, Scotland will get their own, seperate vote in the EU.

But even better (for them), their relative poverty will qualify them for mountains of EU handouts. Look what happened to the Republic of Ireland.

[Nicky G]

On the contrary, once they are independent, Scotland will get their own, seperate vote in the EU.

But even better (for them), their relative poverty will qualify them for mountains of EU handouts. Look what happened to the Republic of Ireland.

The Poor Scotland line is a myth. We could help the poorer English regions more if they were out of the Union, rather than having policy twisted by the myth.

http://www.dwp.gov.uk/asd/hbai.asp

It's in there somewhere.