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  1. If you put a sign on your window saying "DO NOT BANG ON THIS WINDOW" and then wire it up to a siren what exactly do you think is going to happen? I bet his neighbours are delighted with him.
  2. It's actually higher than that - 27.5% in 2015 - but then people born in the UK aren't immigrants, are they?
  3. I can never quite get my head around the driving in the US. When you're on an Interstate in the country then generally people are a lot more restrained and respectful, people generally keep to the speed limit, you don't really get tailgating. Drive through a city on an interstate and it's like whacky races.
  4. Would you believe it was Peter Dow. The "Peter Dow is looking for a girlfriend" website was an absolute classic. Did you see any of the videos on YouTube of kids banging on his window? In all seriousness he should probably be sectioned.
  5. I guess that if you hear often enough that something is a problem then you'll start to believe that it is, even if you've no actual experience in your own life to back that up.
  6. I see that there are reports from Catalonia that the government there has unofficial agreement from 11 EU countries that they will recognise their independence. There is due to be a referendum in September - which will not be binding under the Spanish constitution - but the expectation is that if they win, they will declare UDI. If so, then that will make the "Spain will veto Scotland " argument null and void.
  7. I guess it'll all come down to terms on offer. 18 months left on his contract, will he be offered another one by Celtic once that expires? If not them what are his options. I guess a lot hinges on whether or not he feels he's earned enough and/or achieved enough from football. If his main objective is to play as much as possible then he should stay put, if he wants to make as much money as he can then he should move.
  8. Don't want to piss on your chips but England has almost exactly the same immigrant percentage on that basis. From the 2011 census, 83.64% of the population was English born.
  9. Not suggesting for a minute that Gordon is skint, but remember he did have two years out of the game and not earning between leaving Sunderland and joining Celtic. While I've no doubt he is on a decent salary at Celtic, I doubt he got much - if anything - of a signing on fee. He's 34 now and this would represent a final big pay day. He'll be on a decent wage - in excess of whatever he is on at Celtic - and will get a signing on fee. On the other side - unless Courtois gets injured - then he will be limited to playing League and FA cup games and possibly some of the more straightforwards Champions League games and his International career will be effectively over. A big decision for him, you can see both sides.
  10. The latter I would bet. I'd imagine that in both cases they'd want to be focused on working to raise cash to support any appeal.
  11. I don't think he's that popular with the Leeds support either. They call him Ross McContract.
  12. As a replacement for Begovic to sit on the bench no doubt.
  13. If it was all to do with a lower level of immigration then how do you account for the fact that in Engalnd and Wales some of the larger Leave voting regions have relatively low levels of immigration? Did you read the report or did you just look at the executive summary? From section 5 Between 2002 and 2010 the pattern was broadly one of little or no change in the level of discriminatory attitudes towards people with certain protected characteristics marrying a close relative or being suitable as a primary school teacher. In contrast between 2010 and 2015 there has been a consistent trend towards a reduction in the prevalence of discriminatory attitudes. With barely an exception, fewer people said they would be unhappy about a relative marrying someone who shares certain protected characteristics than was the case in 2010, while the same was true of people's perception of the suitability of specific groups to be a primary school teacher (see Chapters 3 and 4 for full details). In this chapter we consider how this trend might be accounted for.
  14. I understand that Neil Oliver has found fragments of prehistoric Charles and Diana souvenir pottery that he's carbon dated himself and which shows that the UK predates Scotland by at least 5000 years.
  15. It doesn't get to be in the middle ground overnight. Why is it that UKIP are an irrelevance in Scotland and yet are setting the political agenda in England?
  16. Who - in the vast majority - voted No last time anyway. I'm not naive enough to believe that everyone in Scotland is outward looking and welcoming when it comes to immigrants and foreigners but I don't think the circumstances that saw immigration becoming *the* key factor in English politics applies to Scotland for an number of reasons, not least because instead of blaming all our problems on foreigners, we've been blaming the English for centuries ?. In all seriousness, extreme right wing politics has never really had any form of support in Scotland.
  17. I'm not sure that's the case. I think "convinced" unionists and nationalists are probably more hardened and polarised but between those two poles, there still a lot of soft No's - and soft Yes's - who could change their minds. You generally don't see very many people rushing to Twitter to proclaim how undecided they are. Arguably the campaign for IndyRef2 started on 19 September 2014. Interesting that Blair McDougall is floating the idea of fighting IndyRef2 on immigration. I hope they do - while it'll be a very nasty campaign - it'll be the end of them as it will lose them a lot more support than they gain.
  18. What if he doesn't like claret and blue strips?
  19. On what basis do you think it will be overturned? The judge found that Goodwillie and Robertson were unreliable witnesses. The victim, on the contrary he found to be "cogent, persuavise and compelling".
  20. £10 million for Snodgrass is probably a fair bid, but I would have thought his value to Hull would have been been a lot higher in helping to keep him in the league. Selling one of your better players to a relegation rival is a strange one. edit. Didn't realise Burnley were so high up the table so not a direct relegation rival.
  21. The Rough Wooing was in the 16th century and was a war between England and Scotland aimed at forcing a marriage between Mary, Queen of Scots and Henry VIII's son.
  22. It's completely bogus. As has already been pointed out, even if he wanted to move and someone wanted to sign him, they couldn't, it's against the rules. The line about being "flattered" is what 99% of players come out with when asked about interest from another club, it's meaningless.
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