Should Scotland Break Free?

Jamez · Fri 26 May, 2006 17.09

I'm bored of the Scottish always whinging and moaning about this that and the other. It's blatently obvious that they all loathe being part of the United Kingdom, so why don't they just go it alone?

I mean they've got plenty of oil and gas in the north sea to sustain their own economy for the next couple of decades, and they have a thriving tourist industry.

Look at Tony Blair's cabinet. They're nearly all Scottish! Gordon Brown wants to become the next PM of the UK. Ha! As if anyone in England would vote for a brutish old Scot with about as much charisma and popularity as a lump of poo. He regularly pops into GMTV with a painted on smile and tries so hard to appear 'normal' and 'in-touch' and it's just a joke. He claims to be a fan of the Arctic Monkeys.... yeah, and I bet he cannot name all the band members or even a couple of their songs.

I think there's a Scottish conspiricy somewhere, but I can't put my finger on it. Either way, I dlslike the Scottish after they proved themselves to be the most unwelcoming and rude bunch of cretins when I was there at New Year.

Go it alone Scotland, I think you should. And your MP's in Westminster can stop wasting English taxpayers money on propping up lazy scroungebags on Glasgow council estates.

Sput · Fri 26 May, 2006 17.18

Jamez · Fri 26 May, 2006 17.52

nodnirG kraM wrote:
Jamez wrote:your MP's in Westminster can stop wasting English taxpayers money
Aren't you Welsh?

Yes, yes I am. English and Welsh taxpayers money, then.

Mind, it was English taxpayers money that paid for the new Welsh Assembly building in Cardiff. £70m it cost, so that's about £1.20 for every man, woman in child in England. Cheers!

Gavin Scott · Fri 26 May, 2006 17.52

James you would have been very welcome to first foot me at Hogmanay.

But you didn't.

Did you.

Jamez · Fri 26 May, 2006 17.54

Gavin Scott wrote:James you would have been very welcome to first foot me at Hogmanay.

But you didn't.

Did you.

No, I was busy being told to "fuck off back to England" by two drunk Scottish blokes outside a pub when I asked them for a lighter.

Gavin Scott · Fri 26 May, 2006 18.06

Well that's certainly not indicative of the type of welcome most people enjoy in Scotland. The Welsh are particularly welcome.

I've had some splendid nights with Welsh rugby fans when the big games are at Murrayfield.

Jamez · Fri 26 May, 2006 18.16

Gavin Scott wrote:Well that's certainly not indicative of the type of welcome most people enjoy in Scotland. The Welsh are particularly welcome.

I've had some splendid nights with Welsh rugby fans when the big games are at Murrayfield.

The Welsh are always nice to outsiders. When Cardiff was filled with New Zealand fans last October, it was very friendly and it was like one big party in the streets with the red shirts blending seamlessly with the black shirts.

Lorns · Fri 26 May, 2006 18.21

Jamez doesn't sound Welsh. He has a very posh English accent and the Welsh hate the English especially those from North Wales.

Jamez · Fri 26 May, 2006 18.30

miss hellfire wrote:Jamez doesn't sound Welsh. He has a very posh English accent and the Welsh hate the English especially those from North Wales.

I do not sound posh!

Lorns · Fri 26 May, 2006 18.33

Yes you do. Well to me you sound posh, but then people raand ere talk all common like.

Dr Lobster* · Fri 26 May, 2006 19.08

Jamez wrote:It's blatently obvious that [the scottish] loathe being part of the United Kingdom, so why don't they just go it alone?

is this an assertion or do you have a facts and sources to back this up? this sounds like utter rubbish to me.

I mean they've got plenty of oil and gas in the north sea to sustain their own economy for the next couple of decades, and they have a thriving tourist industry.

what is the source of this information, or have you just made it up? i can't find anything either on the national office of statistics website or anywhere else to otherwise suggest that this is anything but nonsense.

Look at Tony Blair's cabinet. They're nearly all Scottish! Gordon Brown wants to become the next PM of the UK. Ha! As if anyone in England would vote for a brutish old Scot with about as much charisma and popularity as a lump of poo. He regularly pops into GMTV with a painted on smile and tries so hard to appear 'normal' and 'in-touch' and it's just a joke. He claims to be a fan of the Arctic Monkeys.... yeah, and I bet he cannot name all the band members or even a couple of their songs.

cabinet, nearly all scotish? perhaps in your world scotland starts in hull.

I think there's a Scottish conspiricy somewhere, but I can't put my finger on it. Either way, I dlslike the Scottish after they proved themselves to be the most unwelcoming and rude bunch of cretins when I was there at New Year.

you get called fat by two scottish blokes and now they're 'all' cretins? by your logic, that would mean that *all* welsh males suffer from an histrionic personality disorder.

Go it alone Scotland, I think you should. And your MP's in Westminster can stop wasting English taxpayers money on propping up lazy scroungebags on Glasgow council estates.

if scotland was devolved it would cost us all. dearly. the reason why this has not happend is that the local economies of scotland and wales would not be able to sustain themselves on their own. that's why *everybody* paid for the welsh assembly.

and you say we should not be paying for 'scroungebags on Glasgow council estates'?

so what is the alternative? give them nothing and force them to break into peoples homes and rob people to survive?