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  • darmstadt
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    Originally posted by DodgyAgent View Post
    Blair is a Scot with an English constituency. Brown is a Scottish MP. As were a large proportion of the cabinet at the time of when the UK was taken into the war. Only that oily little turd Robin Cook stood against the invasion.
    The Scots therefore had a disproportionatley large influence over the iraq war
    Tony Blair's father was actually English (Charles Leonard Augustus Parsons born in Filey, Yorkshire) but adopted by a Scottish family and his mother, Hazel Blair was Irish but facts never bothered the righties :-)

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  • cojak
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    Yep. CUK is indeed back to normal.

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  • Batcher
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    Originally posted by DodgyAgent View Post
    Between 1997 and 2005 at least 20% of the members of the cabinet were Middle England MPs and yet they whine and whine that they are not properly represented
    FTFY

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  • DodgyAgent
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    Originally posted by d000hg View Post
    I thought the opposition at the time were united with the government, before it turned out all the intelligence wasn't very.
    Between 1997 and 2005 at least 20% of the members of the cabinet were Scottish MPs and yet they whine and whine that they are not properly represented

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  • Batcher
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    Originally posted by DodgyAgent View Post
    Blair is a Scot with an English constituency. Brown is a Scottish MP. As were a large proportion of the cabinet at the time of when the UK was taken into the war. Only that oily little turd Robin Cook stood against the invasion.
    The Scots therefore had a disproportionatley large influence over the iraq war
    They are English Parliament MPs so nothing to do with us

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  • d000hg
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    I thought the opposition at the time were united with the government, before it turned out all the intelligence wasn't very.

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  • DodgyAgent
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    Originally posted by Batcher View Post
    No, they are English MPs.

    HTHBIDI
    Blair is a Scot with an English constituency. Brown is a Scottish MP. As were a large proportion of the cabinet at the time of when the UK was taken into the war. Only that oily little turd Robin Cook stood against the invasion.
    The Scots therefore had a disproportionatley large influence over the iraq war

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  • Batcher
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    No, they are English MPs.

    HTHBIDI

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  • DodgyAgent
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    Originally posted by Batcher View Post
    Yes, like the MPs giving themselves a 10% pay rise and bombing the tulip out of the Middle East. Oh, and not forgetting £100 Billion on Trident.
    Your lot started the war

    The Blair-Brown war cost the Labour party dear | Benjamin Wegg-Prosser | Comment is free | The Guardian

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  • scooterscot
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    Originally posted by original PM View Post
    It was more a collective sigh of relief because more than anything it would have been an incredibly costly task to seperate Scotland from the rest of the UK.
    You only need find a good pavement to get rid that gum stuck to your shoe.

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  • Batcher
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    Originally posted by original PM View Post
    I do not really think amyone celebrated the No result.

    It was more a collective sigh of relief because more than anything it would have been an incredibly costly task to seperate Scotland from the rest of the UK.

    And it would have taken up funds that quite frankly can be used a lot more effectively elsewhere.
    Yes, like the MPs giving themselves a 10% pay rise and bombing the tulip out of the Middle East. Oh, and not forgetting £100 Billion on Trident.

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  • original PM
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    I do not really think amyone celebrated the No result.

    It was more a collective sigh of relief because more than anything it would have been an incredibly costly task to seperate Scotland from the rest of the UK.

    And it would have taken up funds that quite frankly can be used a lot more effectively elsewhere.

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  • scooterscot
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    I'm going to talk to my sources. There'll be some serious words.

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  • MarillionFan
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    Originally posted by scooterscot View Post
    Pictures taken yesterday.. Meanwhile we're about to spend wods on a war with ISIS.


    Och hoots man, not in my name. We're all wee cowardly custards here in Jockland.

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  • minestrone
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    IN fact it is from a daily mail article from 2012.

    Bubbly tax: After furore over VAT on hot pasties, Osborne puts a 'green' levy on champagne drinkers | Daily Mail Online

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