Scottish Defence Force?
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Edith Bloody Bowman will be first in the deportation trebuchet if she is south of the border when/if the Scottish have a huge collective brain fart.
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If you think that Culloden was a battle between the English and the Scots, you couldn't be more wrong. It was the end of an uprising (during which more Scots had been in the British Army than on the Jacobite side) whose aim was to displace the bunch of northern Europeans who occupied the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland over the previous five and a half decades with a family who had lived in France/Italy over the same period.
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Aye, or possibly folk who felt the lesser of the available evils was not with a family who left Scotland for London in 1603 with barely a backward glance: and who had repeatedly shown since that they cared nothing for the country, seeing it only as a convenient and, in parts, gullible stepping stone en route to their real prize, the recapture of the English crown.
Aye, or possibly folk who felt the lesser of the available evils was not with a family who left Scotland for London in 1603 with barely a backward glance: and who had repeatedly shown since that they cared nothing for the country, seeing it only as a convenient and, in parts, gullible stepping stone en route to their real prize, the recapture of the English crown.
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What do Scotland need defence forces for?
They need coastal forces for air sea rescue and protection of oil rigs, fisheries etc.. Some National Guard type unit for internal security/emergencies.
What else?
I don't see that they will want to throw their weight around internationally. When the Russian 'Bears' buzz Scotland's air space they can simply ignore them. Why would the Russians really want to overfly Scotland? It's pointless.
They could make some pretty big financial savings in this area.
They need coastal forces for air sea rescue and protection of oil rigs, fisheries etc.. Some National Guard type unit for internal security/emergencies.
What else?
I don't see that they will want to throw their weight around internationally. When the Russian 'Bears' buzz Scotland's air space they can simply ignore them. Why would the Russians really want to overfly Scotland? It's pointless.
They could make some pretty big financial savings in this area.
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Should Scotland stay or leave, the shores of the British Isles (what else would they be called) would need protection, in the interest of all inhabitants. Surely any rump UK Government wouldn't leave those vulnerable areas to the North in the hands of a weaker (Northern) neighbour? As an English inhabitant, I would certainly hope this would be so. TOTALLY DAFT
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No, can't even raise a smile about it all.
A split of the union, I can't but even raise a smile- we are talking the end of Britain here.
Listening tonight to the boring drawl of Conservative MPs like North Somerset's current self serving daddies-boy spastic, I wouldn't call the Scots for wanting to leave. Deeply regrettable and was probably wholly avoidable, thanks to Conservative Party politics (a pox on them all).
Listening tonight to the boring drawl of Conservative MPs like North Somerset's current self serving daddies-boy spastic, I wouldn't call the Scots for wanting to leave. Deeply regrettable and was probably wholly avoidable, thanks to Conservative Party politics (a pox on them all).
They could make some pretty big financial savings in this area
All of this will, of course, be irrelevant in the event of a NO vote.
All of this will, of course, be irrelevant in the event of a NO vote.
Not really as it is rumoured Mr Salmond will ask for another vote in five years time thereby causing more uncertainty and financial loss to the people of Scotland! Just try selling a house in Scotland and you will know what is really happening to the Scottish econemy!
Not really as it is rumoured Mr Salmond will ask for another vote in five years time thereby causing more uncertainty and financial loss to the people of Scotland! Just try selling a house in Scotland and you will know what is really happening to the Scottish econemy!
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"the British Isles (what else would they be called)"
The Irish Republic favours the term The Atlantic Isles. Some on the left now use this term in when covering Northern Ireland issues and pre Union history!
The Irish Republic favours the term The Atlantic Isles. Some on the left now use this term in when covering Northern Ireland issues and pre Union history!