Who had the good sense to vote to remain in Great Britain.
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That would be the United Kingdom ;)

thanks ,guess they will just have to settle for those transfer payments from the productive side of the island.

thanks ,guess they will just have to settle for those transfer payments from the productive side of the island.
Oh you mean England will have to settle from the productive side of the island, Scotland, that owns the rights to the gas and oil in the North Sea.

Scotland would have had to face too many issues if separated, healthcare, currency, and passports to name a few.

Glad to here the pound gained momentum. I have investments over there !

Scotland, that owns the rights to the gas and oil in the North Sea.
Not so much on that one ;)

CB please explain on that one.

Well the rights to the fields are NOT owned by Scotland, but the United Kingdom...

I bet they think twice before even allowing another referendum vote on Scottish independence.

Mark Steyn summed it up well.

The Scots are almost everywhere you go – every corner on the planet — anything that’s worth it, doesn’t matter whether you’re talking about banks in Hong Kong or rubber plantations in Malaya or the Canadian Pacific Railway, everywhere you go on the planet was built by Scots. And you go back to contemporary Scotland now, and they’re these pathetic, feeble, passive economic swamp of dependency – parts of Glasgow, male life expectancy…they all sit around eating fried Mars bars all day, and life expectancy is getting down to West African rates in certain wards of Glasgow. So if you’re someone who knows the Scottish diaspora, all that great stuff they did around the planet, and you go back to Scotland, you think, “What the hell happened?” “Well what happened is government. What happened is welfare.”

time for a musical interlude ... More Gilbert and Sullivan
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Yes the scots made a sensible choice, they know which side their bread is buttered on, to separate would have empoverished their economy for little more than the opportunity to fly their own flag. Aye Jimmy, the scots are canny and ken the english well

Religion has raised its ugly head in Scotland once again, with the Masonic Orange Order at its head

Riots in Glasgow after Scottish referendum on independence (http://www.news.com.au/world/europe/riots-in-glasgow-after-scottish-referendum-on-independence/story-fnh81p7g-1227064881509)

Not content with making a mess of Northern Ireland these rotten sectarian anarchists want to tear Scotland apart as well.

Years ago in Scotland I was told it is a matter of religion and I didn't believe it would happen there. Hundreds of years ago the battles between the Scots and the English were as much a matter of religion as they were liberty.

I'm also glad that Scotland voted no by a fairly solid majority. Let's hope that puts an end to this separation nonsense. Canada went through the same thing with Quebec in 1980 and 1995 and we're fed up with it. A yes vote would have caused major economic and national security problems.

I can understand Quebec, with a different language and culture and conquered by the british long ago, a remnant of a lost empire, but Scotland isn't quite the same. The union came about through having a common monarch, It could actually be said that by having a scottish king on the english thrown that scotland conquered england as they had tried to do many times, but the scots have a common language and culture with england for the most part. At 54% you couldn't really call the issue settled for more than a generation and with the close vote in Quebec you couldn't call the issue settled. Britain needs a different structure, a federal structure to give expression to local aspirations while maintaining that overall governance structure. It works well in other parts of the world and might help them deal with that unwieldy parliament in Westminster

Separation is all but certain a settled issue in Quebec despite the close vote in 1995. Both the federal and provincial separatist parties have seen their popularity collapse in recent years and they only have a few elected members, not even enough for official party status. Even if there were another referendum, there are enough immigrants, Liberal and Conservative voters and English speaking people to ensure that the no side would win.