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Gammons mad in the comments of course
But on the big policy issues of our time, from Europe to migration to human rights and fairness for workers, Labour is more a pale imitation than a genuine alternative.
lmao Sturgeon calling Labour :LIB:s.
She said her last resort was that they'd run in the next general election solely on independence and that the result of that would be a referendum in and of itself.
So that could be their last resort to just unilaterally declare independence, but it's not exactly clear.
Either way, they're going to spend the next 1 and a half years asking slightly less than nicely.
North Sea oil
Thatcher's pet project being taken by an independent Scotland and given to the fucking EU :agony-consuming: :ukkk:
:eu-cool: and all but probably better than :ukkk: for a lot of folks
I think if a referendum is held it's probably almost guaranteed that Yes will win. The problem is actually holding the referendum. Yeah they could just do it unilaterally, but they don't want to end up like Catalonia, so first they're trying to find or invent a legal basis for holding one without Westminster's approval.
and the EU wants access to those resources, primarily North Sea oil. I imagine the SNP has some kind of backdoor deal with the EU to have Scotland as an EU member as soon as an independence referendum is passed.
Ehh, the EU is about as rules obsessed as any other neolib institute. It would still take them years to actually join the EU. But I'm sure some trade agreements would be set up relatively quickly.
Depending on who's in power, Spain will block Scotland attempting to join the EU because they don't want to give Catalonia ideas.
So that could be their last resort to just unilaterally declare independence
Does Scotland have its own Army?
Hoping this leads to Scottish independence but I'm sure they'll find a way to fuck it up. British media is vicious and shameless, it'll be quite a feat if the SNP are able to overcome that
Death to America
Fuck, words can't describe how venomous, gross, and colonial the Beeb's reporting on IndyRef1 was
I never thought I would see another vote so soon - despite being Scottish I live overseas so I couldn't vote and thought the wind was well blown out those particular sails.
I fucking cursed the people who voted against it. Like, it wasn't a vote for the next five years - it was a vote for the next 50, the next 100. Short-sighted shitheads who thought that everything would change the week after, not understanding that it would take years for the final strings to be cut what with banking, military, health, and thousands of other details to be revised and replaced. My parents said the same thing - that they would be long dead before the benefits were seen and that the vote had nothing to do with their generation but everything to do with their generation's grandchildren.
If Scotland leaves the UK and re-joins the EU then that puts pressure on Ireland to reunify in time for the Star Trek prediction of a united Ireland 2024 to work.
Aligning our day-to-day politics with Star Trek canon will become more and more important as the simulation runs low on processing power.
The UK Supreme Court will be asked if the Scottish government can hold a vote without UK consent.
The cool thing about independence is that once you declare it you don't have to listen to what their courts have to say about it, though you may have to defend it.
Gotta hand at least that to the Yankees, they didn't give a fuck what the UK had to say about their independence.
You do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to em
Death to America
1/3rd were loyalists to the UK at the start of the revolutionary war.
The solution back then was tarring and feathering.
I don't get it, they hate the scots for their suboptimal racism, but they will lament the Scots wanting to break off?
Wouldn't this speed up the gammon's quest to be an unofficial U.S state?
Keep the royals in a human zoo with a captive breeding program so they don't lose the tourist dollars.
Nah, reuniting Ireland first. Then Wales. Then Northumbria. Then Cornwall.
This is a date to mobilize for. One struggle one fight, one struggle world wide
Against Terf-Island :ukkk:
