Scottish Independence (1 Viewer)

[nooleen]

did you hear about the farmer who thought he had 197 cattle? when he rounded them up it turned out he had 200

 

[Unknown Convict]

I was rounding down

"there's some corner of a foreign field. That is for ever England"

 

[therealjohnny]

did you hear about the farmer who thought he had 197 cattle? when he rounded them up it turned out he had 200

I had to log especially to like this

 

[Lili Marlene]

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What is the official Thumped position on this?

there's a christian one like this that my born again(-ish) friend passive aggressively posted on facebook recently. It's not nearly as clever as that one though.

 

[Unicron]

What is the official Thumped position on this?

I think it's good that they're given the opportunity to decide, as I'm neither Scottish nor an emigrant to there I've no particular preference to how they vote. Their business.

Both sides seem to be seriously fudging the issues. Many no campaigners are painting a disastrous fallout to it passing whereas the yes side are just going it'll be fine on issues like EU membership (can't imagine Spain being amenable to just letting a brand new splitter country into the club as it would set a precedent they wouldn't be crazy about re: Catalunya and The Basque country) and the currency.

I unfollowed yer man from Mogwai when he started telling lies about Ireland and currency union post Independence.

 

[Lili Marlene]

I unfollowed yer man from Mogwai when he started telling lies about Ireland and currency union post Independence.

what's all this then?

 

[Unicron]

what's all this then?

He said that we kept the pound until the 70's, and wasn't happy to be corrected.

 

[washingcattle]

He said that we kept the pound until the 70's, and wasn't happy to be corrected.

Didn't we have a 1 for 1 lin to the British pound up until the 70's though ? I think I remember my auld fella saying that when thy went to Blackpool in 1971 they couldn't believe the price of things because they thought 1 for 1 meant everything would be the same price. Actually can't remember if that meant it was more expensive in Ireland though. Anyway let me google it.

 

[pete]

Irish pound - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

1978 parity ended

 

[washingcattle]

Irish pound - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

1978 parity ended

Parity that was the word I was looking for.

Me articulate, me write for this website sometimes!!!!

 

[Unicron]

Didn't we have a 1 for 1 lin to the British pound up until the 70's though ? I think I remember my auld fella saying that when thy went to Blackpool in 1971 they couldn't believe the price of things because they thought 1 for 1 meant everything would be the same price. Actually can't remember if that meant it was more expensive in Ireland though. Anyway let me google it.

An Irish pound pegged to Sterling is not the same as keeping the pound.

 

[washingcattle]

An Irish pound pegged to Sterling is not the same as keeping the pound.

Yeah but didn't we accept the british pound as well ?

 

[Unicron]

Yeah but didn't we accept the british pound as well ?

For buying and selling stuff? It'd be entirely at the whim of a shopkeeper whether they'd choose to accept it or not.

 

[Lili Marlene]

Those Series B banknotes ruled

Series B Banknotes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

definitely never saw a 50 as a kid, might have gotten a glimpse of a 20

 

[washingcattle]

For buying and selling stuff? It'd be entirely at the whim of a shopkeeper whether they'd choose to accept it or not.

Yeah but I think they generally did. When I was a lad nearly all the coppers and 50ps you'd get were english. Like everyone went "It's grand, they're the same shape like, Fuck it."

 

[washingcattle]

Those Series B banknotes ruled

Series B Banknotes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

definitely never saw a 50 as a kid, might have gotten a glimpse of a 20

Yeah I was just thinking that there, £20 !!! Fucking hell that'd be the whole weeks shopping right there.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

might have gotten a glimpse of a 20

The famous 'Blue Drinking Voucher'

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

.... issues like EU membership (can't imagine Spain being amenable to just letting a brand new splitter country into the club as it would set a precedent they wouldn't be crazy about re: Catalunya and The Basque country)...

I'm not so sure it would set a precedent, in the Scottish case the secession (if it happens) will be one that is allowed and (grudgingly) endorsed by the central government. Spain has no intention of letting either region secede and, if either region or both decided to go it alone they would likely end up keeping company with South Ossetia, Nagorno Karabakh etc- Russia and some of its client states may (or may not) recognise them but aside from that it would be a lonely existence. In such a case they would likely end up rejoining Spain after a few years of penury.
The Spanish refusal to recognise Kosovo is probably more pertinent as Yugoslavia/Serbia refused to allow Kosovo secede and it took NATO intervention to convince them otherwise.

 

[ann post]

I'm only supporting scottish independence if they take a big chunk off the top of england while they are at it, partition style.

 

[Unicron]

Spain has no intention of letting either region secede and,

Not in 2014 they don't but if at some point in the future they grudgingly gave those regions the opportunity to decide ...