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Forum: General Chat 21-04-2015, 16:30

Replies: 317 Poll: Do the Scots REALLY want Independance? Views: 9,350 Posted By Gordon Booth Re: Do the Scots REALLY want Independance? Farage has stirred up politics but he's a poor politician- he says what he actully thinks. He hasn't learned how to lie, avoid answering a question or any of the tricks you need to succeed. Still...

Forum: General Chat 18-04-2015, 15:04

Replies: 317 Poll: Do the Scots REALLY want Independance? Views: 9,350 Posted By Gordon Booth Re: Do the Scots REALLY want Independance? Funny but I saw it differently. She was demanding he agree to share with the SNP, making it clear he wouldn't be PM without her backing. Pure arrogance but she's lethally good at it. I noticed...

Forum: General Chat 11-04-2015, 14:22

Replies: 317 Poll: Do the Scots REALLY want Independance? Views: 9,350 Posted By Gordon Booth Re: Do the Scots REALLY want Independance? Well,they haven't got indepedance(yet) but it looks like they might do better than that! Why just control Scotland when you can control the whole of the UK? Watch young Nicola- she's got ambition!

Forum: General Chat 17-09-2014, 16:24

Replies: 317 Poll: Do the Scots REALLY want Independance? Views: 9,350 Posted By Gordon Booth Re: Do the Scots REALLY want Independance? Salmond wins if it's Yes. But he wins if it's No- they've promised him virtual independence with a massive sweetener from the English taxpayer and guaranteed backup from the Bof E. I'll bet he's...

Forum: General Chat 10-09-2014, 20:22

Replies: 317 Poll: Do the Scots REALLY want Independance? Views: 9,350 Posted By Gordon Booth Re: Do the Scots REALLY want Independance? Are you comparing Alex Salmond to Hitler? I think I'd prefer Hitler. He didn't do as much damage to the UK as Salmond will!

Forum: General Chat 09-09-2014, 15:56

Replies: 317 Poll: Do the Scots REALLY want Independance? Views: 9,350 Posted By Gordon Booth Re: Do the Scots REALLY want Independance? The English do. Something like £1500 more per person spent per person in Scotland by the Scottish Government(due to Barnett formula) than p/p in England. They don't pay more tax than us so we're...

Forum: General Chat 07-09-2014, 14:11

Replies: 317 Poll: Do the Scots REALLY want Independance? Views: 9,350 Posted By Gordon Booth Re: Do the Scots REALLY want Independance? Ed Miliband must be panicking, even if he wins the next election once he loses the Scottish MPs he's lost his majority- he's out-maybe forever. Alistair Darling will be OK of course, he's a Scottish...

Forum: General Chat 07-09-2014, 13:38

Replies: 317 Poll: Do the Scots REALLY want Independance? Views: 9,350 Posted By Gordon Booth Re: Do the Scots REALLY want Independance? The 'No' campaign, as far as we have seen on this side of the border, has been pathetic, laughable. Darlings performance in the last debate was so weak it was embarrassing. Salmond has been allowed...

Forum: General Chat 04-09-2014, 10:59

Replies: 317 Poll: Do the Scots REALLY want Independance? Views: 9,350 Posted By Gordon Booth Re: Do the Scots REALLY want Independance? Well, it looks like our poll was badly out. The polls show the expected vote is getting more and more balanced, could well be a yes. Personally I would prefer a no vote. For selfish reasons- a yes...

Forum: General Chat 23-02-2014, 12:54

Replies: 317 Poll: Do the Scots REALLY want Independance? Views: 9,350 Posted By Gordon Booth Re: Do the Scots REALLY want Independance? Why not? All the other foreigners do!

Forum: General Chat 13-02-2014, 14:01

Replies: 317 Poll: Do the Scots REALLY want Independance? Views: 9,350 Posted By Gordon Booth Re: Do the Scots REALLY want Independance? So we're finally getting down to the serious decisions. It's time the UK Government told Salmond he can't pick and choose his own terms and leave the rest of the UK to cover the risks of any wild...

Forum: General Chat 07-08-2010, 21:57

Replies: 317 Poll: Do the Scots REALLY want Independance? Views: 9,350 Posted By Gordon Booth Re: Do the Scots REALLY want Independance? Pizzaro and Cortes didn't have to exterminate the Indians-European diseases,smallpox mainly, did it for them.They died like flies. I still put the Yanks among the first to actually organise it in an...

Forum: General Chat 07-08-2010, 21:23

Replies: 317 Poll: Do the Scots REALLY want Independance? Views: 9,350 Posted By Gordon Booth Re: Do the Scots REALLY want Independance? You're right, Guinniss, the film WAS British,made to improve British opinion and sympathy towards American personnel here during the war. But wern't the hostile comments about the British Empire ...

Forum: General Chat 07-08-2010, 21:09

Replies: 317 Poll: Do the Scots REALLY want Independance? Views: 9,350 Posted By Gordon Booth Re: Do the Scots REALLY want Independance? Actually,Guinness, if you check back you'll find the British DIDN'T do it first.The term 'concentration camp' meant just that- to concentrate the Boers in controlled areas. The results were wrong...

Forum: General Chat 07-08-2010, 19:48

Replies: 317 Poll: Do the Scots REALLY want Independance? Views: 9,350 Posted By Gordon Booth Re: Do the Scots REALLY want Independance? DaveinGermany, I've just spent ages one finger typing that lot and find you beat me to it on almost every point.Sorry about that,I'll rest my finger for a bit.

Forum: General Chat 07-08-2010, 19:45

Replies: 317 Poll: Do the Scots REALLY want Independance? Views: 9,350 Posted By Gordon Booth Re: Do the Scots REALLY want Independance? Guinness,however you measure it we were the most benign colonists of that age or any earlier one.Of course we put in the systems for our benefit but they didn't have them before and they had when we...

Forum: General Chat 07-08-2010, 15:42

Replies: 317 Poll: Do the Scots REALLY want Independance? Views: 9,350 Posted By Gordon Booth Re: Do the Scots REALLY want Independance? Still being fair,jaysay,I must check how many of them are in our current con-dem government. I had to put the - in con-dem or I might have been told off.

Forum: General Chat 07-08-2010, 15:09

Replies: 317 Poll: Do the Scots REALLY want Independance? Views: 9,350 Posted By Gordon Booth Re: Do the Scots REALLY want Independance? If the Scots hadn't carried on fighting each other while they were fighting the English it would have been more difficult for us to win. And we were fair! The first king of a United Kingdom WAS a...

Forum: General Chat 07-08-2010, 12:18

Replies: 317 Poll: Do the Scots REALLY want Independance? Views: 9,350 Posted By Gordon Booth Re: Do the Scots REALLY want Independance? MargaretR, oh,COME ON!!Your'e on about the big bad British Empire? When the overall costs/benifits to the UK of its empire were measured the UK actually made a LOSS in financial terms. Who left them...

Forum: General Chat 03-08-2010, 12:32

Replies: 317 Poll: Do the Scots REALLY want Independance? Views: 9,350 Posted By Gordon Booth Re: Do the Scots REALLY want Independance? MargaretR-you ask 'Why not say our slice should equal theirs'? It's part of OUR slice they're eating. Also the country is broke,bust, bankrupt.The pie has just got an awfully lot smaller!We're all...

Forum: General Chat 03-08-2010, 12:07

Replies: 317 Poll: Do the Scots REALLY want Independance? Views: 9,350 Posted By Gordon Booth Re: Do the Scots REALLY want Independance? Neil,thanks for the poll,I must try to find out how to do that. Can I make a suggestion? Is it possible to add to it 'Do the English really want independance?'. Sadly, I think the response may be...

Forum: General Chat 02-08-2010, 20:12

Replies: 317 Poll: Do the Scots REALLY want Independance? Views: 9,350 Posted By Gordon Booth Re: Do the Scots REALLY want Independance? SPUGGIE J. My point was the TOTAL revenues of the oil fields do NOT cover the subsidy.Nowhere near.If as you suggest not all but some of them could be claimed by Scotland the Scots would be in an...

Forum: General Chat 02-08-2010, 20:04

Replies: 317 Poll: Do the Scots REALLY want Independance? Views: 9,350 Posted By Gordon Booth Re: Do the Scots REALLY want Independance? 'Freedom'? How about Fairness? I would actually vote against Scottish Independence, we are one nation and need to stick together in this big wicked world.Also during governments love affair with the...

Forum: General Chat 02-08-2010, 18:57

Replies: 317 Poll: Do the Scots REALLY want Independance? Views: 9,350 Posted By Gordon Booth Re: Do the Scots REALLY want Independance? Sorry, cashman, I don't know how to do that(still in learning mode).But it would be interesting if someone else did.

Forum: General Chat 02-08-2010, 18:48

Replies: 317 Poll: Do the Scots REALLY want Independance? Views: 9,350 Posted By Gordon Booth Do the Scots REALLY want Independance? While the towns of Northern England slowly slide into dereliction and jobs disappear down the deserted mine shafts,suitcases full of our money continue to fly past us, slowing down only as they cross...

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