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I don't think they did suffer more, they just seem to give it more significance - perhaps because the distance from the Southern seat of power afforded land grabbers a little more licence in their brutality.Hermit wrote: ↑Wed Aug 21, 2019 12:02 pmI'm not sure if the small Scottish landholders and peons suffered any more of those than their English counterparts.Brian Peacock wrote: ↑Wed Aug 21, 2019 11:42 amI think the enclosures and clearances played a significant role in forming the Scots psyche, expressed as a casual loathing of the English rhat is still quite prevalent in many aspects of popular and political culture.
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The loathing if the Brits as mentioned above is an odd thing. It I casual, almost part of the psyche and actual culture and yet for all that as an English person who goes there often it is rare to encounter it directly - and of course millions of each live over the opposing borders, get on perfectly fine and without tension or stress.
It would probably be wise to choose the pubs you went into in Central Glasgow on a Saturday night if you were English mind you.
It would probably be wise to choose the pubs you went into in Central Glasgow on a Saturday night if you were English mind you.
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Some people are looking to the future.
Scottish firm confirms talks on ferry service to the Netherlands
Scottish firm confirms talks on ferry service to the Netherlands
My question why Eemshaven? It is pretty remote with limited infrastructure.A Scottish marine services company is considering launching a ferry service between Rosyth near Edinburgh and the Groningen port of Eemshaven, the company has confirmed to DutchNews.nl. ‘Yes we are looking the project,’ TEC Offshore David Kellas said. ‘We are doing everything we can to make it happen.’ According to local broadcaster RTV Noord, the ferry service would focus on freight traffic, although passengers and cars would also be carried. The service would use ferries from the Stena Line freight group and is slated to start at the end of October.
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It looks like those calling for independence are gaining support, while the 2014 "No" voters have about the same amount.
http://whatscotlandthinks.org/
You might want to hurry that Brexit along eh? Or just call it off --surely it will be called off? Don't the majority want it to be called off?
http://whatscotlandthinks.org/
You might want to hurry that Brexit along eh? Or just call it off --surely it will be called off? Don't the majority want it to be called off?
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Won’t happen. Parliament could not be seen to ignore the result of the referendum. If another was held and the vote was similar - say 48- 52 the other way - the country would be just as dividedSean Hayden wrote: ↑Wed Aug 21, 2019 5:20 pmIt looks like those calling for independence are gaining support, while the 2014 "No" voters have about the same amount.
http://whatscotlandthinks.org/
You might want to hurry that Brexit along eh? Or just call it off --surely it will be called off? Don't the majority want it to be called off?
Only two possible outcomes now to my way of thinking. A ‘deal’ which excludes or sets aside the border issue in Ireland (not favoured by Europe) but which align enough rules to make the leaving process less chaotic, or ‘crashing’ out which will lead to short therm chaos as systems and rules no longer dovetail.
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A deal is not on the cards especially after the visit with Merkel who once again apparently had to explain to Cloth Ears that the UK had a deal that would not be reopened by the EU.
It is shifting the blame game. He thinks and most of the Brexiteers will think as they are told that the EU is responsible for not opening the May deal therefore it is responsible for the ensuing long term mess that will occur.
He is off to Macron just to hear a repeat tomorrow. Once again pure ignorance is displayed by the Blond Scrotum as he thinks that Germany and France run the EU. Sorry Cloth Ears there happens to be 25 others who have as much say. Democracy for him is something he will never understand.
It is not short term Rum. It will be years especially if the Orange Scrotum forces the UK to accept his trade deal.
It is shifting the blame game. He thinks and most of the Brexiteers will think as they are told that the EU is responsible for not opening the May deal therefore it is responsible for the ensuing long term mess that will occur.
He is off to Macron just to hear a repeat tomorrow. Once again pure ignorance is displayed by the Blond Scrotum as he thinks that Germany and France run the EU. Sorry Cloth Ears there happens to be 25 others who have as much say. Democracy for him is something he will never understand.
It is not short term Rum. It will be years especially if the Orange Scrotum forces the UK to accept his trade deal.
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Well Macron told him already and Merkel as put Blond "Cloth Ears" Scrotum on the spot.
Merkel gives Johnson 30 days to find solution to avoid no-deal Brexit
"You want a solution, then find it and you have 30 days". That is quite plain and simple surely even for Blond "Cloth Ears" Scrotum.
Merkel gives Johnson 30 days to find solution to avoid no-deal Brexit
In other words:Macron rules out renegotiating Brexit deal, as French see no deal ‘most likely outcome’
Angela Merkel has challenged Boris Johnson to come up with a solution to avert a no-deal Brexit “in the next 30 days”, putting responsibility for stopping the UK crashing out of the EU firmly at the British prime minister’s door.
After weeks of diplomatic tension, the German chancellor used her first face-to-face meeting with her UK counterpart on Wednesday to emphasise that Britain still has the power to resolve the crisis, suggesting that the backstop was “a placeholder that will no longer be necessary” if a solution to the impasse over the Irish border can be found.
But her tentative olive branch was set against a backdrop of pessimism in France ahead of Johnson’s trip there on Thursday, with officials warning that Paris now views a no-deal Brexit as “the most likely outcome” and president Emmanuel Macron emphasising that a renegotiation at this point “is not an option”.
Saying that changes to the political declaration could yet provide a way forward, Merkel added an agreement could take two years “but maybe we can find that solution in the next 30 days”.
"You want a solution, then find it and you have 30 days". That is quite plain and simple surely even for Blond "Cloth Ears" Scrotum.
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Thousands sign up for Dutch Brexit beach party on 31 October 'to watch Britain as it closes itself off'
'It will be a nice goodbye to a good friend who is going on an exciting adventure, but is perhaps not too bright'
The wine will be French, the beer will be German and the music will be a band playing Vera Lynn's wartime classic We’ll Meet Again.
Thousands of people have signed up for a Brexit Day beach party in a Dutch village which looks across the North Sea.
Revellers will be able to, quite literally, wave to the UK as it leaves the EU on 31 October.
“It will be a nice goodbye to a good friend who is going on an exciting adventure, but is perhaps not too bright,” party organiser Ron Toekook told the Netherlands-based news agency ANP.
More than 7,000 people on Facebook had already signed up to partake in the celebration in the coastal village of Wijk aan Zee near Amsterdam at the time of writing. Another 52,000 had expressed an interest.
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Fareweel to a' our Scottish fame
Fareweel our ancient glory
Fareweel even to the Scottish name
Sae famed in martial story
Now Sark rins o'er the Solway sands
And Tweed rins to the ocean
To mark whare England's province stands
Such a parcel of rogues in a nation
What force or guile could not subdue
Thro' many warlike ages
Is wrought now by cowards few
For hireling traitor's wages
The English steel we could disdain
Secure in valor's station
But English gold has been our bane
Such a parcel of rogues in a nation
O would 'ere I had seen the day
That treason thus could sell us
My auld grey head had lain in clay
Wi' Bruce and loyal Wallace
But pith and power thill my last hour
I'll mak this declaration
We're bought and sold for English gold
Such a parcel of rogues in a nation
Fareweel our ancient glory
Fareweel even to the Scottish name
Sae famed in martial story
Now Sark rins o'er the Solway sands
And Tweed rins to the ocean
To mark whare England's province stands
Such a parcel of rogues in a nation
What force or guile could not subdue
Thro' many warlike ages
Is wrought now by cowards few
For hireling traitor's wages
The English steel we could disdain
Secure in valor's station
But English gold has been our bane
Such a parcel of rogues in a nation
O would 'ere I had seen the day
That treason thus could sell us
My auld grey head had lain in clay
Wi' Bruce and loyal Wallace
But pith and power thill my last hour
I'll mak this declaration
We're bought and sold for English gold
Such a parcel of rogues in a nation
Nurse, where the fuck's my cardigan?
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Your recourse to insult, name calling, smearing and your underestimation of some very bright people, however one might disagree with them undermine your argument.Scot Dutchy wrote: ↑Wed Aug 21, 2019 8:08 pmA deal is not on the cards especially after the visit with Merkel who once again apparently had to explain to Cloth Ears that the UK had a deal that would not be reopened by the EU.
It is shifting the blame game. He thinks and most of the Brexiteers will think as they are told that the EU is responsible for not opening the May deal therefore it is responsible for the ensuing long term mess that will occur.
He is off to Macron just to hear a repeat tomorrow. Once again pure ignorance is displayed by the Blond Scrotum as he thinks that Germany and France run the EU. Sorry Cloth Ears there happens to be 25 others who have as much say. Democracy for him is something he will never understand.
It is not short term Rum. It will be years especially if the Orange Scrotum forces the UK to accept his trade deal.
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Not to mention the CDU/CSU thing.
Worst of all, Munich was the Petri dish hosting a particularly vile social and political virus from Austria. It is noteworthy too that half of Hitler's principal henchmen were born in Bavaria. The contrast between its stunningly beautiful landscape and the people who inhabit it has to be seen to be believed.
Little known fact: Bavaria has engineered the 1990 reunification of Germany for the sole purpose of being able to say: "Bavarians are not the worst Germans. Just look at the Saxons!" It didn't work because the creatures of Saxony have always been regarded as mere zoological curiosities - living proof that evolution can result in biological dead-ends or actual regression.
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Who do you think I was insulting? There is only one Boris Blond "Cloth Ears" Scrotum Johnson. There was no intention of any personal insults to anyone else. My apologies if anyone thought there was.Rum wrote: ↑Wed Aug 21, 2019 9:09 pmYour recourse to insult, name calling, smearing and your underestimation of some very bright people, however one might disagree with them undermine your argument.Scot Dutchy wrote: ↑Wed Aug 21, 2019 8:08 pmA deal is not on the cards especially after the visit with Merkel who once again apparently had to explain to Cloth Ears that the UK had a deal that would not be reopened by the EU.
It is shifting the blame game. He thinks and most of the Brexiteers will think as they are told that the EU is responsible for not opening the May deal therefore it is responsible for the ensuing long term mess that will occur.
He is off to Macron just to hear a repeat tomorrow. Once again pure ignorance is displayed by the Blond Scrotum as he thinks that Germany and France run the EU. Sorry Cloth Ears there happens to be 25 others who have as much say. Democracy for him is something he will never understand.
It is not short term Rum. It will be years especially if the Orange Scrotum forces the UK to accept his trade deal.
Johnson's political naivety is hardly seen in modern politics.
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Boris?
I fart in his general direction...
I fart in his general direction...
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I get that people will say you can't ignore the vote and preserve democracy. But that's wrong. It has been known since people first started talking about democracy that a sure way to lose it is to get leaders who pander to the public. It's just a fact that a good government, even elected, must not only deliver unpopular news, but be willing to act in unpopular ways.
If they can't then you're well and truly fucked.
If they can't then you're well and truly fucked.
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