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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion > UKMT June: Emu was Rod Hull's patsy
 
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Stottie Kyek
Apr 26, 2008

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I'm 1/4 Dutch so I've decided that every four years I am Dutch (coincidentally this is on World Cup years). Also in the MEP elections, in the Netherlands, the various fascist parties' vote share fell from last time, so that's some good at least even if Geert and co aren't gone completely.

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Stottie Kyek
Apr 26, 2008

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Didn't the £250 million include the cost of holding the referendum IIRC?

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Stottie Kyek
Apr 26, 2008

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Endjinneer posted:

Here's my grand sociological experiment proposal:
England, Scotland. Two nations so alike in society, climate, population and problems. Two nations so alike, but leaning opposite ways politically. England predominantly Tory, Scotland predominantly Labour.
I propose that the nations be divided and run independently for a period of fifty years.
England will progress towards a right wing heaven, Scotland a left wing utopia.
At the end of the experiment, whichever political system has done better (against a pre-agreed set of metrics such as GDP, Gross National Happiness, societal inequality) is declared superior. The winning country is obliged to send tanks across the border, liquidate the losing parliament and claim sovereignty over all.
Ireland can be the control group.

I don't know, going by vote share, Scotland does like to vote Tory and for a lot of pretty right-wing parties. The SNP isn't exactly far left. And England is all over the place, regions of England tend to be far more left- or right- wing than others.

I think federalism would be a good shout. Something like Germany or the USA, but without the neo-liberalism I would hope, except in the south-east, which'd end up like our version of Florida. We might even get a Yorkshire assembly then, if they were a state.

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