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Old 28th Jul 2012, 14:19
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Originally Posted by Finningley Boy
the Alex Salmonds of this world make self embarrassing silly begger gestures like this, it's to segregate themselves from the rest of the UK, in particular England, in some spurious hope that the rest of the world will suddenly recognise Scotland in the same way they do China, or something.
It's true; the only thing worse than a Scottish Nationalist is indeed a British Nationalist.

Shall we cancel the next Commonwealth Games for fear of Scotland being seen to stand on the world stage in its own right? Oh no, wait, England will be there also, so I guess that makes it OK.
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