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Sadly, McVey, she'd get such a rattle her teeth would fall oot.Originally Posted by Mason89
Kezia's bird Gilruth, unfortunately I am the wrong ***, but I'm sure she could be converted.
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This will help. They can make all their notes on this.
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From today's Scottish Review's erm... review of 2018/hopes for 2019:
Keith Aitken:
1. To précis a year is to confront an immediate dilemma: public memoir, or personal? For example, the nightmare year of 2016 (EU referendum, Trump, a pandemic of dead entertainers) was also a year of joy in my family, with the arrival of our first grandchild. However, 2018 resolves all too homogenously. The year of Britain's Brexit degradation was also the year we upped-sticks to France to pre-empt, and escape, Brexit Britain. So public and personal perceptions were indivisible in 2018. I've been distracted from the pleasures of embracing a new culture by despair at the pratfalls of the old one. To observe the British government's negotiating performance from elsewhere in the EU was consistently entertaining and often hilarious, yet always tinged with melancholy. It's been like watching a drunk trying to get out of a revolving door. French acquaintances, I notice, feel that same bemused pity. Far from crowing at Britain's humiliation, they keep politely quiet, aside from assuring us that they know this wasn't Scotland's doing. Still, it's forestalled any homesickness. When a second gorgeous granddaughter appeared in June, it was in a country that's never seemed further away.
2. A third granddaughter having been ruled out by the co-proprietors of the first two, I look elsewhere for beacons of hope in 2019. It's not easy. No matter how many wheels fall off Brexit, its apologists still think that a dislike of foreigners justifies maiming your own country for decades to come. Yet every action has a reaction. Perhaps the inevitable backlash to the current politics of petulance will begin in 2019. If so, I have two hopes. The first is that the public agenda returns at least partly to the hands of grown-ups. This means infusing a public debate that prizes ignorance, bluster and prejudice, with such forgotten qualities as evidence, experience, learning and reason. It also means curbing the infantilisation of society: the documentaries scripted like 'Blue Peter' assignments; the 'adult' fiction infested by comic-book superheroes and fairy tales; inanimate objects given Christian names; a generation still playing on skateboards in its 30s, an NHS that uses the word 'poo' in its bowel cancer literature. Second, however weary Scots (like everyone else) are of constitutional politics, I hope all the talk of rule-makers versus rule-takers finally rings some bells closer to home. Big hopes, for sure. But smaller won't cut it.
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Im proud of the Scottish people who had enough insight to vote remain .
There's no doubt in my mind that the opt out lot were fooled by MSM and the ever London government run BBC jumping in and helping out .
Or even the racists amongst us were blinded by hate and driven to get out.
Any Scot wanting out of Europe needs educated on how good Europe is for Scotland .
Surely Scotland first .
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Im proud of the Scottish people who had enough insight to vote remain .
There's no doubt in my mind that the opt out lot were fooled by MSM and the ever London government run BBC jumping in and helping out .
Or even the racists amongst us were blinded by hate and driven to get out.
Any Scot wanting out of Europe needs educated on how good Europe is for Scotland .
Surely Scotland first .
https://www.euromovescotland.org.uk/benefits/
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Explain this Buc, why do the SNP object to Scotland being run from London but are absolutely desperate for Scotland to be run from Brussels?
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EU makes up 11% of Scottish laws
Westminster (England) makes 81% of Scottish laws and we Scotland only make up 8% of our own laws . This what Westminster tells us is the most powerful devolved parliament in the world.
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Those numbers will depend on how many laws are passed each year, which is highly variable. Still doesn't answer my question.
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Because Brussles will treat us as a full member of the European Union as opposed to Westminster treating us as a vassal state.
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Indeed some folk put the union ahead of their own country irrespective of what's around the corner .and we all know it. Really saddens me.
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