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( , Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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I think we should go for independence and let the rest of this os-called 'country' sink under the e=weight of it's own mediocracy.
( , Wed 14 Mar 2012, 12:51, 2 replies, latest was 12 years ago)
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I need somewhere to have a second home
( , Wed 14 Mar 2012, 12:53, Reply)
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A bit of coastline is nice. Can we loose Essex though?
( , Wed 14 Mar 2012, 12:57, Reply)
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I would have suggested south of th m4 but I wanted Oxfordshire
( , Wed 14 Mar 2012, 13:01, Reply)
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If you make the border the M4, then I wouldn't be in the good bit of the country. I'd have to move back to Guildford before the borders shifted :(
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( , Wed 14 Mar 2012, 13:18, Reply)
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the sooner we can place a huge export duty on everything into London the better for all of us. Except london.
( , Wed 14 Mar 2012, 12:56, Reply)
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I think we'll live without the tartan tea towels and..... um other vital stuff you chaps make.
( , Wed 14 Mar 2012, 12:59, Reply)
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So do I, but I reckon I could make my own, if needs be.
( , Wed 14 Mar 2012, 13:01, Reply)
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( , Wed 14 Mar 2012, 14:03, Reply)
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Myself and Mr. Ape are dividing things up here.
( , Wed 14 Mar 2012, 14:28, Reply)
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You want to play "The area where you live is not self-supporting"? Oh I shall laugh if you guys ever get independence. I've never understood why anyone on this side of the boarder was against it. Last poll I saw, more English were for it than Scotts, which show's you're not all stupid at least.
( , Wed 14 Mar 2012, 14:36, Reply)
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You can't eat money. especially pretend money.
I've no interest in scots independence, i'm not scottish for a start, but the idea that London could be self sufficient is breathtaking in its idiocy, mate. what are you planning to eat and drink?
( , Wed 14 Mar 2012, 14:42, Reply)
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As any fule kno.
( , Wed 14 Mar 2012, 14:47, Reply)
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rather loike scotch independence.
it's=d be interesting to see how much the money would buy though. I reckon if we kept the bet bits of the south, as suggested by APe, we could make it work and probably be better off.
I think we'd do better to kick Scotland out and most of the north, and such, never seen what we gain from hanging on to the shit bits.
( , Wed 14 Mar 2012, 14:49, Reply)
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but mostly what you gain is not having the crushing certainty of the tories in power for the rest of time. you may wish to consider this.
( , Wed 14 Mar 2012, 14:52, Reply)
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I suspect the revenue comes form Oil and I suspect we'd keep that.
( , Wed 14 Mar 2012, 15:03, Reply)
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The oil comes mainly from Scotland. The rest from the English side of the North Sea.
( , Wed 14 Mar 2012, 15:11, Reply)
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fuck it, point less arguement. I'm not running this country, or things'd be run betterer.
( , Wed 14 Mar 2012, 15:14, Reply)
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"Even if all revenue from North Sea oil and gas had come to Scotland, the country would have had a 'persistent deficit'," says Professor Arthur Midwinter, an adviser to the Scottish Executive's finance committee.
( , Wed 14 Mar 2012, 15:16, Reply)
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That if Scotland had gained independence first time around in the 1970s it would now be as wealthy as Norway or Switzerland.
( , Wed 14 Mar 2012, 15:19, Reply)
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rather like scotch independence.
it'd be interesting to see how much the money would buy though. I reckon if we kept the bet bits of the south, as suggested by APe, we could make it work and probably be better off.
I think we'd do better to kick Scotland out and most of the north, and such, never seen what we gain from hanging on to the shit bits.
( , Wed 14 Mar 2012, 14:50, Reply)
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although it could. but I was thinking much more base then that - London has no power generation and nowhere near enough water.
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( , Wed 14 Mar 2012, 13:05, Reply)
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I'm not sure whether the fact that is was in my own family's tartan makes it more or less of a lame touristy thing to do. I shan't be wearing it. It's just nice to have.
( , Wed 14 Mar 2012, 13:02, Reply)
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I settled for a little silver badge with the family motto and crest on it, and some Edinberg Rock, as I was there.
( , Wed 14 Mar 2012, 13:05, Reply)
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Have you ever bought something from TK Maxx?
( , Wed 14 Mar 2012, 13:09, Reply)
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I mean "all of th UK bar London" and specifically how you were planning to import everthing you will need - ie everything - into a landlocked state without being raped for import taxes?
( , Wed 14 Mar 2012, 14:02, Reply)
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I reckon once we stop having to support you lot, we should have a bit spare.
( , Wed 14 Mar 2012, 14:29, Reply)
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what with you not having natural resources or power generating capacity. Or enough water.
( , Wed 14 Mar 2012, 14:31, Reply)
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"about enough to power my telly"
even the planned offshore one in Scotland across one of the most powerful tidal races in the world will barely do a small town
( , Wed 14 Mar 2012, 14:38, Reply)
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Plus London's got quite a number of now underground tributaries in it. Whether the cost vs benefit would make it worth it is probably an entirely different story, one to which I do not know the plot.
( , Wed 14 Mar 2012, 14:44, Reply)
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you maybe right though. although it's much less than you think
( , Wed 14 Mar 2012, 14:54, Reply)
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I was just curious.
( , Wed 14 Mar 2012, 14:59, Reply)
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and take it for free.
not the deep-fried mars bars though. you can keep that kind of crap.
( , Wed 14 Mar 2012, 14:31, Reply)
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good luck drving the water and the electricity down the M1 though.
( , Wed 14 Mar 2012, 14:39, Reply)
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i so can't pull this off. unlike my desperately posh colleague arabella who, in an interview, covered up shocking ignorance about not knowing where birmingham was by drawling:
sweetie, i've never left zone one.
they thought it was funny and she got the job.
( , Wed 14 Mar 2012, 14:54, Reply)
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