Orraloon
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and absolutely everyone signing up to a backbench motion that Darling should be sent to the tower.
I'm sure he would manage to find a loophole that would allow him to flip it to earn some extra cash.
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I think this will sway some voters but not in the way that Miliband hopes. They must think we button up the back. If undecided voters pause to think about the utter drivel that the unionist parties have been peddling in the last few days, the only conclusion is that they hold us in total contempt.
I am getting that feeling as well. Even a few hard NO voters I've spoken too are admitting to be embarrassed about these desperate tactics.
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This could turn into a right humping. I'll take 1-0 right now.
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You're just not keeping up with events. Due to the higher than normal expected turnout, YES voters have to vote on the 18th and NO voters on the 20th. This will also help to keep the separate sides apart as they think there could be trouble at the polling stations. It is despicable that they are not advertising polling day for the YES voters but what else do you expect from the BBC?
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The BoE does not owe money to anybody. (A bit like Scotland in that respect
) It is the UK treasury which has run up the £1.3 trillion debt and it is still rising at a rate of about £4000 per SECOND. In fact the UK treasury OWE £375 billion TO the BoE. We will want our share of that as we part own the BoE. This will be taken into account during the negotiations. -
Away and eat your cereal Mr Neil.
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I just hope folk are not getting too over confident. Loads of work still needs to be done to help persuade folk to get out on the 18th and put their X in that YES box.
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Rumours from where?
Here
Rumour of a one point lead for yes in the latest panelbase
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Or buying one and sending it to BT freepost address!
That would just be a waste. A lot of folk are voting NO based almost entirely on what they read in the papers. What other reason would they have? Reading this version of the Record might just be enough to make them at least think about the alternative.
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Straw poll of 21 senior pupils at football last Friday - 20 Yes - 1 No
Do you pick the team?
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People calling for committed Yes voters NOT to buy the paper tomorrow.
Recalling when Sunday Herald printed their famous front page and folk were buying up multiple copis and stores quickly ran out.
Theory goes that the undecideds need to get it, not committed Yes voters.
What about buying one and sticking it through a No voters letterbox?
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Just been handed 6 WBBs by a guy in the village who called me out of the blue as he'd heard I was YES. This grass-roots movement is truly humbling to be part of.
He was canvasing Galashiels and in the schemes getting 90% Yes !! He reckons our area will be 30% YES which for the area is pretty amazing.
Is that you got one for everybody in the village now then?
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They have changed the rules for the referendum. The polling stations will be open for an extra 2 hours in the morning but only for YES voters. And they will be open for an extra 2 hours at night but only for NO voters. So No voters can stay in the pub till eleven o'clock and still have time to vote on the way home. They drew lots to decide which way round it should be. Seems fair enough to me.
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That includes me, by the way
My apologies to dafties everywhere.
I hope you have learnt your lesson. A lot of older Scottish folk learnt their lesson in 1979 when they told us "Vote NO and we will give you something better". I just hope that the People of Scotland are not daft enough to believe that lie again.
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In all fairness, the second partner in the coalition campaigned explicitly on a promise not to support that particular piece of lunacy.
Well, if they are daft enough to believe what a bunch of Liberals tell them then they are clearly far "too stupid" to have an independent country. Maybe they should ask Germany to look after their affairs for them?
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So he thinks England subsidises Scotland but he doesn't want us to leave while he thinks the UK subsidises much of Europe and therefore wants to leave....I'm confused!
Maybe he wants England to leave Scotland? It might be a wee bit like handing in your notice before you get sacked just to save face?
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So - which is it? Either English students are crucial to the Scottish HE sector, which is why the Scottish govt post-independence will actively discriminate against them in order to secure their financial contribution, or they are a non-factor, in which case they can simply be treated the same as other EU students (who, it cannot be stated strongly enough, are effectively excluded from Scottish HE at the moment). The Scottish government can afford to pay for other EU students' study - or rather, it doesn't pay for them, because they are turned away in almost all cases - and if English students don't make a material contribution to Scottish HE then they can be treated exactly the same.
It doesn't add up.
You lot jist don't get it do you? The People of Scotland are fed up subsidising you lot doon there, we're jist no gonnae dae it ony mair. Whether we can afford to give RUK students free education (and we probably could) is besides the point. We have subsidised you for long enough. It's time you stood an your own two feet. If you continue to vote in governments that insist on charging students £9K a year for their education then hell mend you. Take responsibility for your actions.
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Cracking video. Some of that should be broadcast on TV as one of the political broadcasts. Maybe miss out the MSP fella
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I don't think that's the Galloway attack.
I thought something looked a wee bit strange there. The damage to Galloway's coupon looks fairly superficial considering the numbers blows flying about in that video. I thought either Galloway is one hard faced geezer or the attacker must be a bit of a Jessie.
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We have about 700,000 postal votes. Even if they managed to pochal that result from about 50;50 to say 60:40 that would only be about 140,000 votes which might be enough to swing it. But gerrymandering on that scale would need a concerted effort - somebody would blow the whistle on that one. We just need to work even harder to make sure we get another 140,000 YES votes by legitimate means.
Despite the promising polls this isn't over yet. We need to work even harder in the last 2 weeks.
Don't believe the polls, especially when they start telling you what you want to hear.
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I hear a lot about Postal vote scams but I'm not sure how big an issue it will be. If the postal votes are being counted on the night we will have observers there watching it. How are they going to get away with it? Don't forget a lot of the folk doing the counting will be YES voters as well. I understand the "dead folk do vote" system that certain parties are renowned for but there is only so much they can get away with on that front.
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Why not offer rUK students free tuition as well, but raise the entry requirements so that only the very best can get in? There'd be no issue of English students overwhelming Scottish institutions then, why is what the SG is saying would be the issue (of course, it's not really the issue - it's that they want English students' fee money - which is why the SG policy is bound to fail when challenged in EU courts).
Because if RUK students have to pay £9K a year to study down south or the can study in Scotland for free, loads of them would want to come to study in Scotland. Eventually Scottish universities would be 90% RUK and 10% Scottish students wit not enough places for Scottish students.
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Old folk are thick.
They are no daft enough to walk doon to the polling station in the pissin' rain and a howlin gale when they don't need to.
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They are both very rich and did absolutely fuk all to earn it.