Ashaman Jay

So it's back to 'too wee, too poor & too stupid'. It's amazing how other countries in Europe with our population size can manage. Maybe they should apply to join the union.

Strange how it's always the people who want rid of it that are so critical of it. The Tory's call it a 60 year mistake. and they've been underfunding and reorganising it so the can say to people 'look, it's broke' as an excuse for selling it off. I had lung tumour removed in 2010. It cost me part of my right lung, it didn't cost me my f**king house. So you'll have fully privatised healthcare under the TTIP agreement that Cameron won't exclude the NHS from. Your welcome to it and if your too stupid to see where that'll end up, you deserve it. We go independent, our NHS will be protected in a constitution that no government would be able to sell off. And in my opinion, only a total **** would turn around and say things like 'it's only for scroungers anyway'.

No. It's the same line of bullshit from the same Tory donors because the Conservative party are so toxic up here they have to campaign through the companies that support them. Standard life were the first to shout out about 'moving south'. Keith Skeoch is their Executive Director. He's on the Board of Reform Scotland, a neo-conservative lobby group which wants to abolish the minimum wage, privatize the NHS and pensions and restrict trade unions more than they already have been. Yeah, we're really gonna listen to the likes of him.

All the same companies said they'd leave if we voted for our own parliament in '97. It didn't happen.

For example, citizenship by descent will be available to those who have a parent or grandparent who qualifies for Scottish citizenship. Those who have a demonstrable connection to Scotland and have spent at least ten years living here at some stage, whether as a child or an adult, will also have the opportunity to apply for citizenship. Procedures will also be put in place to allow certain migrants lawfully resident in Scotland to apply for naturalisation as a Scottish citizen. The Scottish Government will allow dual citizenship. It will be for the rest of the UK to decide whether it allows dual UK/Scottish citizenship - though we know that dual citizenship is allowed for those with any other nationality, and the UK Government has said that “it is likely that it would be possible for an individual to hold both British and Scottish citizenship.” (Indeed, the Law Society of Scotland has suggested that it might be contrary to EU law if Westminster attempted to deprive anyone of British citizenship merely because they had acquired citizenship of another member state ie Scotland). Future changes to citizenship laws would be a matter for Scottish governments elected in 2016 and beyond.

Does it mention anywhere the £4bn cost of debt interest Scotland pays towards UK debt?

So why are they so in favor of supporting the benefit state with free bedrooms for the jobless?? again, it indicates they dont know what they are voting for... Because it's not just the jobless, it's the ill and pensioners as well. Just because people up here don't subscribe to an 'I'm all right so f**k you' attitude doesn't mean they don't know what they're doing. Incidentally, nobody here took any notice of all the marches protesting about saving the NHS? I assume you'll all be wanting rid of a burden such as that.

The Daily Mail doesn't count as a non-governmental organisation. If you've looks at the stats and figures have you seen the ones from the GERS reports that show tax reciepts (per head of population) were higher in Scotland than any area of the UK for the last 33 years?

John Prescott on TV saying the UK should combine football teams.... "to beat the Germans"

Wait 4 or 5 years? Scotland hasn't voted for a Tory government since 1959 and we've had 36 years of them. After the 1979 referendum (when we were also promised more powers funnily enough) we got 18 years of the Tory party and nothing but economic devastation up here because of Westminster policies. And the last few years, what's the point of sticking with a Union that doesn't reflect how your MP's voted. http://s3.spanglefish.com/s/26697/pictures/big/a4_westminster_imposed_it.jpg

Never mind. No point in conversing with someone who sounds like a badly informed Better Together campaigner. As for just having another set of idiots, at least we'd be able to vote them out.

Ah yes, Oil. The only country in the world to have it as a curse. Besides, our GDP will still be high even without oil, it would account for 15% of the economy here compared to the 1.5 to 2% of the UK's Braveheart was really a shitty film. Strange how it's always seems to be people against Scottish independence that bring it up. Have a read through some of the posts earlier this thread; Your useless, you'll fail, we won't bail you out, put the wall back up, etc. Why in the name of f**k would we want to stay in a Union with people who have such a high regard for us. And for the record, most folk don't hate the English, they hate Westminster. That's why there are English groups for the Yes campaign up here.

Not as stupid as letting 10% of your economy disappear. Which is what would happen without a currency union.

Poor us in Scotchland eh? Too wee, too poor & too stupid

Passed last Saturday morning at Shieldhall in Glasgow. The examiner followed me in a car and quite often we had other cars between us. His problem I thought, so I paid no more attention to him other than treating him like a sat nav. Convinced i'd failed at one point as i never saw the "20s plenty" signs on the way into an estate (where I live they get repeated every so often, but not in the test area). Only noticed them on the way out. I hadn't been doing anywhere near 30 tho as there were loads of double parked cars and kids running about. Pretty sure hitting someone is a fail. Anyway, after that he asked me to pull over a couple of times, then had me move off. No problems. Then he asked me to pull in 3 more times, twice where there was no room because of bus stops, driveways and parked cars, and once where there wasn't enough room between the last parked car and the T junction at the end of the road. I ignored him all 3 times and just kept riding on. The 3rd one at the junction was a downright stupid request. He actually apologised for that one as "There's not usually so many parked cars at the top of the hill there" Like I said, he was in a car. The rest of the test went fine, even tho I didn't know the area, been through it 3 times I think. Back at the test center there was a learner in a car stopped right in the entrance. Here's where I picked up my 2 minors. I dithered like an idiot when I should have just made a decision and went round them into the car park. I dithered that long that I forgot to lifesaver when turning right in behind the car and then hesistated too long wondering if I was going to get taken out as I went past them. Passed. 2 minors. Better result than I would have given myself or if it was someone on a bike following me i think. Maybe something for folk to think about if they're being followed by an examiner in a car. They will NOT be able to see as much as you do, even if there isn't any triffic in between.