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| Independence Day 2: Resturgeonce |
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44 | 21.36% |
| ScotPol - Unclustering this gently caress |
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19 | 9.22% |
| Trainspotting 2: Independence is my heroin |
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9 | 4.37% |
| Indyref II: Boris hosed a Dead Country |
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14 | 6.80% |
| ScotPol: Wings over Bullshit |
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8 | 3.88% |
| Independence 2: Cameron Lied, UK Died |
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24 | 11.65% |
| Scotpol IV: I Vow To Flee My Country |
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14 | 6.80% |
| ScotPol - A twice in a generation thread |
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17 | 8.25% |
| ScotPol - Where Everything's hosed Up and the Referendums Don't Matter |
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15 | 7.28% |
| ScotPol Thread: Dependence Referendum Incoming |
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2 | 0.97% |
| Indyref II: The Scottish Insturgeoncy |
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10 | 4.85% |
| ScotPol Thread: Act of European Union |
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5 | 2.43% |
| ScotPol - Like Game of Thrones only we wish we would all die |
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25 | 12.14% |
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Pissflaps posted:A few hours too late it's back up now. What a shame
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Sep 12, 2016 21:46
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Coohoolin posted:For no reason, presumably because Siobhan McFadyen is having a tantrum. It was reinstated earlier today. do you really believe that there was no reason? if this was his first warning from Twitter he doesn't seem to be taking it on board; instead crowing to his followers. which makes me think a permanent ban is inevitable. like Milo Yiannopolous got eventually
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Sep 13, 2016 07:18
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Shocked that people stop supporting redistribution of wealth as soon as it hits their pocket The Fraser of Allander institute report makes grim reading for the Scottish government. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/14/independent-scotland-financial-future-westminster-holyrood-government Any thoughts on how they'll react? Is a u-turn on the rejection of raising the top rate of income tax on the cards yet? Cerv fucked around with this message at 13:03 on Sep 15, 2016 |
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Sep 15, 2016 12:59
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Coohoolin posted:We push hard left Scottish politics to borrow like gently caress and nationalise the oil. could you clarify how much "borrow like gently caress" entails exactly? cos if you're still planning on EU membership you're constrained a bit there
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Oct 12, 2016 22:35
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https://www.theguardian.com/politic...-snp-conference Bill for second indépendance referendum to be published next week. This a good idea which will end well
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Oct 13, 2016 11:51
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Town v gown is very much still a thing up there I take it?
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Oct 15, 2016 10:02
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OwlFancier posted:
(Emphasis added) That's interesting, because nobody's said we should just do minimum pricing and ditch every other part of tackling the alcohol problem. It's just one tool that works on concert with all the other stuff
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Oct 26, 2016 08:54
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Coohoolin posted:Maybe if drinkers are telling you it won't impact their drinking habits, it'll just make the habits have a further negative influence on the rest of their lives... Do you believe that all people saying it won't affect their drinking are accurately predicting the future? Because experience with other similar price rises show that they do impact on consumption for the signifiant bulk.
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Oct 26, 2016 12:07
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Jedit posted:Thank you. Now, what are your thoughts on the study in that list which openly stated minimum unit pricing is a tax on the poor? I think that it's a good thing. Everyone should be paying tax, whether rich or poor. Although the overall burden should be lowered for those less / unable to pay, this can be done elsewhere. E.g adjust the income tax thresholds or reform council tax into something sane
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Oct 26, 2016 15:06
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Coohoolin posted:Scotpol, where universal free university tuition is a regressive subsidy of the upper classes and flat minimum pricing is a progressive empowerment of the working classes.
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Oct 26, 2016 22:16
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Nov 3, 2016 21:37
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Jedit posted:How is this going to help unions? Giving them £250k isn't going to help them reach the strike threshold, and it's not going to stop the reps having to jump through the hoops - unless they use it to hire a temp, I guess. Set up new processes and change existing ones to seal with the new laws. A big issue of meeting the threshold will be having up to date membership lists at every branch, when previously it didn't matter if you took a couple of weeks to process changes, leavers, new enrolments. A one off data cleansing exercise now wouldn't go amiss either.
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Nov 9, 2016 22:30
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Angepain posted:The SNP made a big misjudgement in trying to appeal to people who weren't total racists. Didn't work. Sad! Next time insult some Muslims. Interesting. Most of the thread regulars would say Scotland is less racist but you're saying it's just as racist but the SNP failed to appeal to them.
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Nov 9, 2016 22:37
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quote:“Allowing an anti-choice group to form would be a barrier to freedom, equality and body autonomy for those with uteruses on campus and therefore not only violate existing standing policy, but also act against the interests of a large amount of the student population.” Think this will backfire. If they'd let the society affiliate to the union and get on with it they'd be small and unremarkable. Now they've got an excuse for a load of publicity
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Dec 5, 2016 17:37
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Pissflaps posted:Andy Murray has received a Knighthood and many nationalists are not happy about it. how do they feel about Alexander McEwen's knighthood?
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Dec 31, 2016 11:26
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Can it even be called 'universal' anymore when you've restricted it down to one council area? I'm willing to bet right now that whatever the council comes up with won't even be for everyone in the city, and won't be a basic income you could live off of. UBI will continue to be a pipe dream.
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Jan 3, 2017 15:11
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That's was today's lesson in the Scots cringe
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Jan 25, 2017 19:31
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The SNP are not covering themselves in glory over Scotrail You get the impression that no matter what, there will always be one more excuse for not bringing it under public control. http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/homenews/15071199._Ferry_review_shows_nationalised_rail_service_is_open_to_Scotland_/
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Feb 7, 2017 13:40
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http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/staggers/2017/02/even-tony-blair-thinks-scottish-independence-credible-now a helpful intervention?
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Feb 18, 2017 09:30
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lol in more serious news, the economic state for independence continues to be a worry https://www.ft.com/content/9ca2e846-fe82-11e6-96f8-3700c5664d30 quote:Ahead of the 2014 referendum on Scottish independence, Paul Marsh and Scott Evans of London Business School compiled a Scotsie 100 index of quoted companies domiciled north of the border, and backdated it to 1955. They found that Scottish stocks performed broadly in line with UK stocks until late 2007. Thereafter, they diverged sharply, thanks mainly to the near collapse of RBS. With RBS (and HBOS, before its merger with Lloyds) stripped out, Scotland outperformed the rest of the UK from 1955 to 2014. Scots shares returned 12.9 per cent a year against 12.6 per cent for “rUK” (rest of the UK) stocks.
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Mar 1, 2017 23:43
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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/mar/12/mhairi-black-may-quit-depressing-parliament-after-single-term-as-mp it's not normal to be talking about quitting only 2 years into being an MP is it
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Mar 12, 2017 21:46
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Pissflaps posted:Apparently Sturgeon claimed she thought the CTA could continue as it is, surely that's not possible if Scotland were to insist an a much more open immigration policy than the UK? I doubt that reality would live up to the rhetoric on any radically different immigration policy. It's hot air to energise the base. Much like how talk about tax has never been followed through by the Scottish government using their powers to adopt significantly different income tax bands to the rest of UK.
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Mar 13, 2017 13:42
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forkboy84 posted:We've only had the ability to have significantly different income bands very recently. In 2016. There's been the Scottish Variable Rate before that, which was a change to all bands up or down by 3p, then we were able to change how much the existing bands paid from 2013 or '14, I forget exactly, but the ability to set different bands came in last year. Can hardly say "it's never been follow through" when they've barely had a chance. I stand by my point. They had the opportunity last year and bottled it. Publicly taking a very Tory line of not wanting wealth creators to flee. A lot of consternation in this thread at the time as I recall.
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Mar 13, 2017 13:55
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Pissflaps posted:I wonder if EU citizens will be able to vote this time. I think any significant change to the rules from last time will be immediately attacked as an attempt to rig the vote by whichever side feels they'll be disadvantaged by the change. So no one will think it's worth bothering.
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Mar 14, 2017 00:13
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Vitamin P posted:Dumb question, do the SNP at Westminster get any kind of formal influence over the terms of brexit, or is it just May and the Davis Department clubhouse doing literally everything? there are 2 SNP members on Benn's Exiting the EU Committee (out of 21)
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Mar 14, 2017 12:03
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https://www.ft.com/content/e248b414-0a37-11e7-ac5a-903b21361b43quote:Scotland could abandon currency union with UK, says Alex Salmond better late than never I suppose
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Mar 17, 2017 10:59
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Mar 17, 2017 12:27
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In Sturgeon's speech today she offered an "open invitation" for anyone in the rest of the UK "if you are as appalled as we are at the path this Westminster government is taking, come and join us". are there any thread regulars, perhaps living in England and pissed off about Hard Brexit, who might consider this? it would seem to be taking a big gamble with the course of your life.
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Mar 18, 2017 19:29
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JFairfax posted:lol leaving England to pursue work or academic interests is not taking a big gamble with your life. The gamble is doing it specifically to be in an EU member independent state. Most likely you'll end up in neither. Hundreds of thousands aren't doing that. It wasn't even a thing a year ago. And yes I did mean to post that in the UK thread. Oops
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Mar 19, 2017 10:35
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"we met here on our first date…" presumably they met at the station before heading to the proper venue for the date. it's convenient.
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Mar 21, 2017 10:29
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Coohoolin posted:https://athousandflowers.net/2017/03/20/fash-for-indy-leading-far-right-figure-says-he-will-be-backing-scottish-independence-100/ he's never heard of the likes of Hugh McDiarmid? or the SNP's unfortunate history with WW2?
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Mar 21, 2017 10:35
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/30/scots-back-sturgeon-brexit-polls Prof Curtice thinks that although support for the EU is broad in Scotland, it's also quite shallow. So Scots want the same outcome from Brexit as the rest of the UK. Doesn't bode well for Sturgeon's chances. Based on this survey http://www.natcen.ac.uk/news-media/...or-brexit-deal/
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Mar 30, 2017 12:39
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Pissflaps posted:So now that Sturgeon has formally asked for a referendum and, formally been told no, will she hold attempt to hold one anyway, engineer a Scottish general election or declare UDI? i think she knew all along that May's government would almost certainly say no. it's posturing to rile up the base over another Westminster snub to Scotland.
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Mar 31, 2017 18:00
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are they actually checking party membership or is this just a misjudged marketing ploy?
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Apr 11, 2017 12:53
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Coohoolin posted:I don't know but if you waltzed in covered in Tory stickers I don't know how much of a discount you might get. on another note, there's a pair of articles about the ugly side of the yes / no campaigns that make for depressing reading http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/devolution/2017/04/extreme-scottish-nationalists-hunting-lapdogs-and-traitors http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/devolution/2017/04/extreme-scottish-unionists-how-hard-right-has-muscled-independence
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Apr 11, 2017 15:05
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Pissflaps posted:Coohoolin said you get a discount for being in a 'pro indy party' so surely being in Labour wouldn't get you a discount even if you personally are pro independence? can't find any mention of the discount offer on their website, their facebook is a dead link, and their twitter account has been suspended. which is as much effort as i'm putting in to finding out. on the other hand, their website does boast on several pages about having "prosecco[sic] on tap", so I'm contacting the food standards agency about the PDO violation
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Apr 11, 2017 16:22
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Coohoolin posted:Wow those two things sure sound exactly as bad as each other. small comfort to the victims don't you think?
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Apr 11, 2017 16:24
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Coohoolin posted:That's how you spell prosecco though? If it's not in a bottle, it's not Prosecco. For the same reason that you can't, for example, call any whisky "Scotch". God only knows what they're actually serving. Coohoolin posted:The victims of an egging or the victims of racial and homophobic abuse?
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neillrfc1690nosurrender@hotmail.co.uk I wonder if he uses that one on job applications
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