Yeah, don't get me wrong, I know it's not everyone in the YES camp. Quite frankly I'm finding myself becoming more and more sympathetic with the YES campaign recently, but I was appalled when I saw the bile J.K. Rowling was getting over Twitter for having the sheer nerve of having an opinion - yes I know she's an English woman living in Scotland, but still. I can't, I live in England, and the English are not getting a say. I suppose that I could look into seeing if I can claim an overseas vote, but I don't know anything about doing that.
Once national identity has been established we can set up nice little camps in the Northumberland hills. Each morning at seven o'clock the doors open - of the prison huts, and the Scots - the prisoners, they race, and are given a sporting chance, on foot toward the border home or away, not all rules have as yet been established. Meanwhile, we English, in our hunting pink and with hounds we catch the stragglers for sport, and hound nutrition.
Oh, very funny @matwoolf! But we'll see who's laughing if Scotland votes Yes, then dumps the Tories and Trident too, all in one swell foop! We'll still have our niggles and spats this side of the border, and we won't make Utopia overnight, but we won't have a bedroom tax, or 'austerity' that ravages the poor, elderly and disabled either, and we'll still have an NHS that isn't in private hands—for a start. It's not about wearing kilts and skirmishing at the border, it's about looking after our citizens and actually getting what we vote for.
However @Lewdog, the Edinburgh 'dunlop roll' takes place annually on the royal mile during the second week of August.
And as for JK Rowling, she's often praised the UK benefits system that supported her back when she was a single mom and trying to make ends meet and raise her daughter on her own. Well, she's just donated one million to a bunch who have already voted to dismantle that system. The next budding author who finds herself in straitened circumstances will be busy working for no pay at some charity shop so she doesn't lose her benefits. She won't have time to be sitting in a cafe writing a best-seller. While JK Rowling and everybody else has a right to their opinion, they don't have a right for that opinion to go unchallenged. While I would never resort to name-calling, and I still admire her for lots of things, she needs her eyes opened on this one, in MY opinion.
Yeah, JK Rowling can be a massive idiot and hypocrite. I could be the first to admit that really. Hell, I often jump at the chance to say it.
Awww ...cut her some slack. She's only a Muggle, doing her best to Understand How The Universe Works.
Omigod. I just saw the Team Scotland uniform for the Commonwealth Games. The No camp is right ...we're not ready for independence. In fact, we shouldn't be let out of the house... http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/commonwealth-games/team-scotland-unveil-unique-new-3820073
The Commonwealth Games fiasco moves up another notch... enhanced by @matwoolf's entertaining mix of Geordie and god knows what... Fiction writers take note. You couldn't make this up.
Perhaps the hat slid down and covered them? That is her wot designed the thing in the photo ...the one in the rags and the hat. This is seriously surreal. They look like they just crawled out of bed, wearing bad nightwear, still clutching their blankets. The looks on their faces says it all. They know they can't win now.
It really does look like bad nightwear, worn by someone who would the old highland joke of the Gillie convincing the English lord that a Haggis was a shy, three legged animal was actually a fact.
That's a new Commonwealth Games category, btw. The 10,000 metre Pudding Race ...won by the Mad Hatter, in uniform... I'm grasping at straws here, but at least when Scotland is independent and we can enter the Eurovision Song Contest in our own right, we'll have the costumes ready...
Yes, I have decided to back your campaign. @jannert, if you provide me with email contact I shall furnish one million pounds to your Shetland account. But promise me this, agent. Once you have divided the union you shall return to the Americas - and here spread your Chicago fire: bring chaos, eliminate unity, set state against state, cowboy against indian, mail man versus paper boy, dogs against the babies, cats on granny's face. Are you with me J?
Not a chance, with FATCA on my ass... are you trying to get rid of me? Oh, wait, if Scotland votes Yes, you WILL be rid of me!
Does the NHS in Scotland then become separate to the NHS in the rest of the UK? I haven't followed any of this to be honest, most English people i have spoken to about it couldn't care less, i am personally not bothered if Scotland stay or go. I dont know what all the fuss is about. For the most part i found most other nationalities in the UK refer to themselves as either Welsh, Scottish or Irish rather than British, much to my annoyance i have been corrected a few times when stating im English. They dont bother why should we? The only issue i have is concerning money, sounds superficial but if a country is going to be separate then they should be exactly that, separate tax system, separate healthcare, separate benefits, separate currency etc etc. @cazann34 oppression talk is just silly. No one is oppressing you. Nonsense talk.
