Relentless Bombardment - The Final Straw

[OLAS]

This must be a joke - North Korea support independence.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2752137/North-Korea-comes-support-Scottish-independence-start-importing-whisky.html

[mariokempes56]

Ace. Hawick twinned with nom pen..(Cannae be arsed with spelling..)

[Flora MaDonald]

This must be a joke - North Korea support independence.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2752137/North-Korea-comes-support-Scottish-independence-start-importing-whisky.html

At least their media's mair balanced.

[Hessen]

If Aldi and Lidl don't bring out counter statements I'll be astounded. A PR gift handed on a plate.

I shop at Aldi anyway, but if I shopped at Asda I would stop, and let them know why

[saintlyscot]

It will be virtually impossible to counter the Westminster machine from now on in but the real difference will be yessers door stopping family,friends and neighbours and giving them facts and aussaging the fears coming from BT. Every vote counts.

[Bristolhibby]

It will be virtually impossible to counter the Westminster machine from now on in but the real difference will be yessers door stopping family,friends and neighbours and giving them facts and aussaging the fears coming from BT. Every vote counts.

That's all we can do. The full monster is moving into swing, enraged and calling on its minions.

Hold the nerve people and keep fighting the good fight!

J

Edited September 11, 2014 by Bristolhibby

[giblet]

channel 4 reported tonight that Bettertogether are calling this week "shock and awe". Furkers, canny help with the Iraq war references.

[Hessen]

Tomorrow's SUN front page is pro YES, debunking the RBS scare story

[johnnie x]

They did tweet it was hysterical earlier today.

[DaveyDenoon]

Here's a post I wrote for a couple of local Yes sites. Just raging. So angry that I took Chris Harvie's word over Flure's

Yesterday's onslaught on Scotland by the forces of the British State - political, financial, media - was, quite simply, one of the most disgusting spectacles I've ever witnessed. Swaying back and forth between battering Scots and showering us with love, it was an attempt to force those undecided and soft Yes voters into the No camp, and to stop the haemorrhaging of No voters. As someone who was quite sure Yes were on the verge of victory (the polls do not reflect the picture on the ground, and poor internal polling was the reason the Three Stooges graced us with their presence) yesterday had me worried. Some people will buckle under the intense pressure, and I wouldn't view them in any less a light for doing so – we all need to ensure we and our families are looked after. But now is a time for clarity and strength, a time to view these threats for what they are and stand up against the bully. It will be hard. When we see major institutions threatening to leave we see only the worst. In some cases they've threatened it before and nothing happened. Why? Because they don't need to move - you can run a financial services business from anywhere in the world.

And let’s look at the people who are making, or behind, these statements. Politicians, financiers, and media moguls. The very three groups that in the last three years have been embroiled in an expenses scandal, the virtual collapse of the banking system, and the phone tapping scandal. The very people threatening us are the very people we need to be rid of. I don’t want to live in a Scotland controlled by them, by this Cambridge and Oxford-educated boys’ club. They are not like me, and they are not like you. They don’t scrimp and save every month hoping they can make it to the next payday before the money runs out. They don’t wonder where the shoes for their kids feet will come from. They don’t visit food banks because a tin of beans from Tesco is too expensive. They have a lavish lifestyle that most of us can only imagine. They don’t inhabit the same reality as most voters in the referendum. But what Scotland has done is threaten their cosy little lifestyle. In the case of politicians, for example, 59 of them are looking at their P45 (most of us already know what that looks like) – easy to see why they’re fighting like hell to stop us going. For the others it’s about the loss of fringe benefits – the knighthood or free holidays in the Caribbean – or they’re repaying past favours (isn’t that right ‘Sir’ Ian Wood).

But this may backfire on them. Scots don't like to be bullied. And we especially don't like to be bullied by three Cambridge posh boys representing the British establishment. Let's take our country back people and build a new, better one where the gap between rich and poor narrows rather than widens. Where we aren't obsessed with spending £200,000 a day on nuclear weapons we don't even control. Where oil is used for our benefit rather than funding infrastructure vanity projects. Where we don't have troops dying needlessly in illegal wars. Where we never again have to put up with a poll tax or bedroom tax. Where our industries are protected, unlike our steel, coal and shipbuilding ones of days past. Where we control our own destiny. And that final point is the most important, because this is not a fight between Scotland and England, it is not an Alex Salmond vanity project. It is about controlling the destiny of our country and giving us and our kids the opportunity of a better future. More of the same is not enough any more. Grasp this chance people because you will never get it again. Look beyond the cheap threats to the wonderful possibilities. Vote Yes for a better Scotland.

Probably the best thing I have seen written since the start of the entire debate.

Duly stolen, unashamedly plagiarised and plastered on my Facebook - hope you don't mind!

Top marks sir.

[exile]

I can't stand anymore of it.....the media are worse than Pravda!

At least people knew Pravda was conning them

[giblet]

Robinsons report on the 10pm news tonight was a new low. Sick to my stomach. These bastards are working together

[exile]

Robinsons report on the 10pm news tonight was a new low. Sick to my stomach. These bastards are working together

It was low

[Redz]

Robinsons report on the 10pm news tonight was a new low. Sick to my stomach. These bastards are working together

He stopped short (just) of sticking his Tongue out smugly towards the camara.

To say that AS didn't answer his question is just a lie.

Suggesting (and that's all it is) that 4 'Scottish' banks are to move south with the loss of jobs when the opposite has been proven is beyond belief.

How the fuk do these kunts sleep at night.

[johnnie x]

He stopped short (just) of sticking his Tongue out smugly towards the camara.

To say that AS didn't answer his question is just a lie.

Suggesting (and that's all it is) that 4 'Scottish' banks are to move south with the loss of jobs when the opposite has been proven is beyond belief.

How the fuk do these kunts sleep at night.

On a fancy bed paid for by your licence fee and patronage from their ruling elite pals.

All part of the same problem, they will promote wars, cover up child abuse as long as it suits their agenda.

[redstevie007]

Tomorrow's SUN front page is pro YES, debunking the RBS scare story

Edited September 11, 2014 by redstevie007

[Wine bibber]

On a fancy bed paid for by your licence fee and patronage from their ruling elite pals.

All part of the same problem, they will promote wars, cover up child abuse as long as it suits their agenda.

Your right Johnnie.

Instead of their war celebration lets change history crap they should have a 2 minutes silence for all the thousands of children that have been raped .abused ignored .incarcerated and killed in that country with the full support of the Westminster politicians ,police and social services and celebratory abusers,not to mention the children's torture headquarters that was broadcasting house.

We will remember them

[giblet]

thought today was a bit quiet. About to hear about telecommunications companies saying cost of mobile phones, telephone calls etc going to go up in indy Scotland. Coming out almost at same time as new poll from ICM who have changed their methodology from online to a poll on landline numbers. Shock and awe.

[Lamia]

I shop at Aldi anyway, but if I shopped at Asda I would stop, and let them know why

We can also still shop in Tesco

[thplinth]

This referendum feels like the political equivalent of David versus Goliath.

Edited September 12, 2014 by thplinth

[giblet]

That ICM poll is actually bloody good for YES, sets us up for over the weekend campaigning, a feeling that we have wethered the first huge attacks from NO and still in the game. Starting to feel like Rocky saying "hit me again, hit me again, is that all you got?" Ding, Ding.

[Dave78]

That ICM poll is actually bloody good for YES, sets us up for over the weekend campaigning, a feeling that we have wethered the first huge attacks from NO and still in the game. Starting to feel like Rocky saying "hit me again, hit me again, is that all you got?" Ding, Ding.

Again spot on giblet. I've taken a lot of heart from this latest poll.

[Hessen]

Oil and Gas companies to leave London after a YES vote, moving their HQs to the country that owns the oil, creating many new jobs in Scotland

Okay, I made it up, but it could happen, which is how the BBC has been covering the campaign

as a matter of interest here is a list of oil and gas companies with their HQs in London

http ://www.subsea.org/company/allbycity.asp?qcity=London

[deecie]

That's not a very good list.

It missed out people like Shell, BP and my employer.

I doubt any of it would be true anyway, as all of the London based people I've worked with use London as a base for more exotic places like the Middle East and West Africa. Doubt many of them have a lot to do with the North Sea.

If anything, they'd be more likely to move to the UAE than Scotland.

This isn't very good scaremongering though.

[Auld_Reekie]

Oil and Gas companies to leave London after a YES vote, moving their HQs to the country that owns the oil, creating many new jobs in Scotland

Okay, I made it up, but it could happen, which is how the BBC has been covering the campaign

as a matter of interest here is a list of oil and gas companies with their HQs in London

http ://www.subsea.org/company/allbycity.asp?qcity=London

You made it up but it's a reasonable prediction. Many companies position their headquarters close to where their business is taxed and regulated so that they are more able to lobby and leverage government on legislation that affects them.

Contrary to what we're being subjected to in the media, I think Scotland will see a mini boom as businesses open Scottish based headquarters and base themselves closer to the Scottish Government.