Reply to: The Luck of the Irish

[OwlHoot]

Apologies. I genuinely hadn't read your post.

No need, honestly. I'm always posting something and finding someone else already has - Great minds think alike and all that.

[AlfredJPruffock]

Linky, although I wouldn't describe a comment on a Grauniad article as a blog myself.

Well thanks for saving me the bother NF - and banged to rights - it aint a blog - but thanks for that intervention - Dman it I coould use a good PA ...

[Incognito]

Oh bloody hell, not seperatism/nationalism/jingoism/chiponshoulderyjism again.

WHY do so many people think their lives will be so much better if they have a different parliament, a different flag and a different national anthem? Perhaps people should get their own lives in order instead of hoping some great new nation will rise like a phoenix from the ashes and provide them with a free ride.

Where's the chip on shoulder come from?

I was simply pointing out the flaw in The_Equalizer's argument.

Oh FFS, we have a Royalist Unionist SNP supporter.

Scotland does well with oil but we make the same per person from the City of London.

Get your wee calculator out and do the maths. Come back to me and tell me how much North Sea oil makes the UK and compare that to how much we make from the City of London.

If you read the links you'd see the research was done back in the 70's, before there even was a 'City of London.'

As no doubt you're not aware, Edinburgh is the UK's second largest financial centre and is Europe's fourth largest in terms of equity assetts.

Edinburgh Financial Services Sector - Financial Services in Edinburgh

All that from a nation of around 5 million.

I'm not a Royalist or Unionist actually, but don't let that stop you, you've been spouting rubbish all day anyway.

[minestrone]

Wrong, whilst the SNP did use Ireland as an example of how smaller countries could still be successful players within the EU, the model that Scotland uses as an example of how an independent Scotland could work is Norway..

You may not like to face it, but over 80% of all North Sea revenue comes from waters that are recognised as being Scottish waters.

Scottish Government: Web page currently unavailable.

An independent Scotland in the 70's would have seen us as the playboys of Europe. It'd have been bolly for the neds, not buckie.

BBC NEWS | Scotland | Papers reveal oil fears over SNP

Oh FFS, we have a Royalist Unionist SNP supporter.

Scotland does well with oil but we make the same per person from the City of London.

Get your wee calculator out and do the maths. Come back to me and tell me how much North Sea oil makes the UK and compare that to how much we make from the City of London.

[norrahe]

Linky, although I wouldn't describe a comment on a Grauniad article as a blog myself.

It was an "inciteful" (Sic) comment

[NickFitz]

AJP - Can you post a link to the blog please?

Linky, although I wouldn't describe a comment on a Grauniad article as a blog myself.

[AlfredJPruffock]

I don't know but he was right.

Right - you bloody well Right

you know you're right to say

Yeah-yeah you're bloody well right

you know you're right to say

Me, I don't care anyway!

[SupremeSpod]

I think it was Einstein who once said 'Nationalism is the measles of mankind.'

Or was it Milan ?

I don't know but he was right.

It can't have been Milan then.

[Mich the Tester]

I think it was Einstein who once said 'Nationalism is the measles of mankind.'

Or was it Milan ?

I don't know but he was right.

[AlfredJPruffock]

Oh bloody hell, not seperatism/nationalism/jingoism/chiponshoulderyjism again.

WHY do so many people think their lives will be so much better if they have a different parliament, a different flag and a different national anthem? Perhaps people should get their own lives in order instead of hoping some great new nation will rise like a phoenix from the ashes and provide them with a free ride.

I think it was Einstein who once said 'Nationalism is the measles of mankind.'

Or was it Milan ?

[Mich the Tester]

Oh bloody hell, not seperatism/nationalism/jingoism/chiponshoulderyjism again.

WHY do so many people think their lives will be so much better if they have a different parliament, a different flag and a different national anthem? Perhaps people should get their own lives in order instead of hoping some great new nation will rise like a phoenix from the ashes and provide them with a free ride.

[The_Equalizer]

Wrong, whilst the SNP did use Ireland as an example of how smaller countries could still be successful players within the EU, the model that Scotland uses as an example of how an independent Scotland could work is Norway..

You may not like to face it, but over 80% of all North Sea revenue comes from waters that are recognised as being Scottish waters.

Scottish Government: Web page currently unavailable.

An independent Scotland in the 70's would have seen us as the playboys of Europe. It'd have been bolly for the neds, not buckie.

BBC NEWS | Scotland | Papers reveal oil fears over SNP

It doesn't really matter what I think; North Sea oil is on its way out. The SNP did repeatedly use Ireland as an example of a successful economy and I presume the Norway model was based on saving the North Sea oil revenue for a rainy day. Perhaps the SNP should start buying up Falkland oil explorer shares? Might be able to prove their theory if it comes off.

[Incognito]

The SNP used it as an example of how an independent Scotland could work.

Wrong, whilst the SNP did use Ireland as an example of how smaller countries could still be successful players within the EU, the model that Scotland uses as an example of how an independent Scotland could work is Norway..

You may not like to face it, but over 80% of all North Sea revenue comes from waters that are recognised as being Scottish waters.

Scottish Government: Web page currently unavailable.

An independent Scotland in the 70's would have seen us as the playboys of Europe. It'd have been bolly for the neds, not buckie.

BBC NEWS | Scotland | Papers reveal oil fears over SNP

[SupremeSpod]

WHS

Apologies. I genuinely hadn't read your post.

[AlfredJPruffock]

Alf's Mum's Corner

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Goodness me Alfred - now see what a terrible quarrel youve started with your silly post - now be a good boy run along to your room and quietly read some Poetry.

Yes - Mother.


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"The Luck Of The Irish" by J Lennon



If you had the luck of the Irish
You'd be sorry and wish you were dead
You should have the luck of the Irish
And you'd wish you was English instead!

A thousand years of torture and hunger
Drove the people away from their land
A land full of beauty and wonder
Was raped by the British brigands! Goddamn! Goddamn!

If you could keep voices like flowers
There'd be shamrock all over the world
If you could drink dreams like Irish streams
Then the world would be high as the mountain of morn

In the 'Pool they told us the story
How the English divided the land
Of the pain, the death and the glory
And the poets of auld Eireland


If we could make chains with the morning dew
The world would be like Galway Bay
Let's walk over rainbows like leprechauns
The world would be one big Blarney stone

Why the hell are the English there anyway?
As they kill with God on their side
Blame it all on the kids the IRA
As the bastards commit genocide! Aye! Aye! Genocide!

If you had the luck of the Irish
You'd be sorry and wish you was dead
You should have the luck of the Irish
And you'd wish you was English instead!
Yes you'd wish you was English instead!