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It declares the 'indissoluble unity' of Spain. There is no get-out, there is no alternative. There is no provision for a constituent region or nation within Spain to secede. If that isn't a block on democracy, what would you call it?
With respect Don, what you or I prefer isn't particularly relevant, but then it appears that what the Catalan people prefer isn't relevant either.
Scotland doesn't need the advice of a millionaire antisemitic Aussie religious extremist drunk. Even if he paints himself blue.
Freedom is taken, never offered by the supposed oppressor. Scotland was free, before during and after their free choice.
Nor do they need the opinions of UKIP or BNP which are just British antisemitic drunks. But Gibson is Irish-American.
So Scotland is free to print their own money, drill their own oil and a dozen other things I can name off the top of my head.. that it couldn't do before? So Scotland is only as free as free as the UK allows. :lol:
Governments had better start listening to its people, or else.
or else... what?
We'll hold a democratic referendum to decide on independence... or did you have that glorious patriotic revolution kicking around in your mind?
Nor do they need the opinions of UKIP or BNP which are just British antisemitic drunks. But Gibson is Irish-American.
So Scotland is free to print their own money, drill their own oil and a dozen other things I can name off the top of my head.. that it couldn't do before? So Scotland is only as free as free as the UK allows. :lol:
Scotland DOES print it's own money.
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=s...anknotes_current_bank_of_scotland.php;332;180
The oil centres are Aberdeen, Orkney, and Shetland. Nigg Bay for rig parking and repair. All in Scotland.
Lol
Actually Scottish banks do print their own money, something other UK banks do not. On the monetary point; that was a major feature of the debate and as far as I understood they planned/wanted to retain monetary union even after independence.
Democratic Referendum my (&^*U^.
It is a matter for the Scottish people, the Scottish people alone must make this decision...bla bla feckin bla.
I've never seen such a pointless undemocratic waste of time. We have no idea what the majority want, because as usual Westminster changed the goalposts.
The questions set on the ballot paper were agreed and the "red line" issue for the Conservative Government was that the Devo Max option must be removed from the ballot paper. That was done, it was removed.
Come the Referendum however, it was leaning to a Yes vote.
So a week before the vote, the Westminster trio came haring up to Scotland and after much squawking, they completely ignored the agreed parameters of the Referendum and did what?
They put Devo Max back on the table.
Because that is the only way they could stop the Scottish people from making a democratic vote on the Yes/No questions everyone had agreed in cast iron and upon which both sides had based the campaigns.
Dirty, cheating, dissembling, lying *&^&&^&&&s
We still have no idea what the majority want. The No vote definitely contains a proportion of people voting for Devo Max when it was put back on the table in the last few days before the Referendum. Therefore, the No vote is split between people who did actually vote No...and those who were voting Devo Max.
We are told the Devo Maxers swung the vote.
Now....after what we all went through, what detritus are we stuck with?
The Devo Maxers were not the majority. Probably the smallest block of voters.
But everyone gets what the smallest block wanted. Devo stupid Max.
Well done Westminster. It is no surprise. After all, you changed the goalposts last time we voted for independence with a Yes majority. And you changed them again this time.
Fear not, we will take Devo Max and continue gradualist policy until even global corp (you know, those who threatened and said "If you go independent, we are taking our business to England and you will all starve in the street) are dragged in by improved investment opportunities ....and don't care when we eventually say we are independent.
And as for all of you other types posting here, who will say freedom is what you and your country stand for...I know better. Not one of you supported democracy in this case.
Or....
1) The polls were always correct and the No vote was always going to win.
2) Social attitudes surveys point out that Scottish people feel equally Scottish and British, a higher number feeling this way than any time before.
3) Regarding Devo Max, Professor Curtice of Strathclyde University claims that the heads of Parliament didn't change people's opinion of Devolution or of their position on the referendum but they did feel Scotland would gain more powers.
So basically, a democratic process was held, a high proportion of people expressed their opinion freely and fairly and you are unhappy about their decision.
Technology boost for Scotland's oil reserves in North Sea
New gas and water technologies could add decades to the lifespan of oil reserves in the North Sea, according to Edinburgh researchers.
A Heriot-Watt University team said they had made a breakthrough in developing clean and cheap methods to maximise extraction from existing fields.
The university has been working on a technique known as low-salinity water injection.
The team has been researching which fields would benefit most from it.
Researchers have also been developing gas injection technologies for use in reservoirs that are already flooded with water.
Professor Mehran Sohrabi, director of the university's centre for enhanced oil recovery, believes new technologies could be a game changer for the industry and has called for more investment to reverse the decline in North Sea production.
'Too expensive'He said: "At least half of the original oil still remains in the North Sea reservoirs but there are great challenges in extracting it using enhanced oil recovery (EOR) techniques.
"These include limited platform space and large well spacing, making extraction too expensive to pursue.
"Following years of research at the university, we now believe we can overcome these challenges."
BBC News - Technology boost for Scotland's oil reserves in North Sea
In your and the biased opinion of all UK media only. They were not always at No and no Devo Max was available until your buffoon of a PM bottled it and put it back onto the agenda, where it should always have been but wasn't....until the polls showed Yes in the lead. At which point the polls showed the actual swing of the Devo Max voters as THE game changer.
-- You missed the bit where natcen was discredited. Repeatedly.
-- God love him, he would say anything to get his strange visage on the news. His wavering unfactual opinion means less than yours.
-- No, basically the democratic process was derailed by people who think they got away with it. I am happy to follow democratic process.
-- I am not happy to see democracy made a total fool of. And neither should you be. How many times did you hear that patronising statement "this is a decision for the Scottish people alone"? And how fast did you see that trampled into the ground when it didn't go how they expected...
I am not unhappy, by the way. I am effing incandescent. And I am far from unique.
Texas and NE Colorado want to secede once a month, like a bad period.
Too bad Texas doesn't live up to the standards of the Great Man, sam Houston .
Scottish referendum vote-rigging claims spark calls for recount
Tens of thousands sign petitions wanting recount or fresh vote based on videos that purport to show evidence of electoral fraud.
Esther Addley
The Guardian, Monday 22 September 2014
Scottish referendum vote-rigging claims spark calls for recount | Politics | The Guardian