Should the UK devolve?

We should devolve

  • Yes

    Votes: 5 35.7%
  • No

    Votes: 7 50.0%
  • I read the Daily Mail and am therefore ineligible to vote

    Votes: 2 14.3%

  • Total voters
    14
  • Poll closed .
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EddieM

Should we split up?

Personally I'd love to see, the Welsh the Scots and in particular the Northern Irish leave the UK. And the best of luck to em!!
 
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If we split up wil we be allowed to go on "pillaging and plundering" sortees??
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Will the Scots who live in England get a vote on this? bearing in mind i think there are more live south of the boarder than in the "DREEK" bleak frozen wastelands of the barren north.

I took a German girlfriend up there for a holiday in my young and carefree youth, going through Glen Coe she said; its very nice here BUT this valley is the same as the last one we drove through and no doubt the next one will be the same, hills, heather and water, well actually she said it in German!!
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In this 'split up', will the Scots get to keep 'their' oil and will all tax from said Scottish oil go to Scotland? Will the likes of the Welsh Guards, Scots Guards, Royal Irish Regiment, et al be disbanded from the 'British' Army and sent back to their respective countries?
 
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We've had all the oil so let them go.
 
Output is dropping by some 6% a year and that has seen large companies move out of Aberdeen but there are still 10's of millions to be made (as opposed to the 100's of millions that were once available), so smaller companies are moving into Aberdeen to tap into that. You are correct though Joe, the major oil fields are very much in decline. Technology is always looking and providing new ways to get at reserves that we were once unable to tap into though (the cost of research and development is high though). I wish they'd spend as much money on technology to provide alternative forms of energy! But, there is STILL a lot of money out in those oil fields... perhaps we should put of the full 'split' until we've sucked them dry?
 
But that's the whole problem - there IS no alternative to oil, and it has to be cheap oil at that - or capitalism collapses (as we are seeing).
 
Unless and until we get out of the EU - either the U.K. as a single entity or the constituent countries of England, Wales, Scotland & Northern Ireland individually - it's not going to make a whole lot of difference, since the majority of legislation passed in this country now is already due to EU orders, and the EU is continually seeking to expand its powers to the detriment of national sovereignty of the member countries.

Scotland, for example, could become completely independent from the rest of the U.K., but if it's still trapped within the dictatorship of the EU, little will change since it will still be bound by all the EU bureaucracy and regulations, which are only going to get more and more restrictive with time.

And what does the Daily Mail have to do with it?
 
Next time the Royal Bank of Scotland goes bust, the Bank of England won't have to bale it out.
 
I voted no, only because we are better as a unit, rather than a series of small ineffectual countries. as far as I am aware scotland gets more of our taxes per head than we do.
if we did devolve we wouldnt have to put up with professional whinging scotsmen like alec salmond. and also can we get rid of all the scots that live in england who are forever telling us what a fantastic country it is, if its so great go and live there.
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also can we get rid of all the scots that live in england who are forever telling us what a fantastic country it is
If it ever did come to the U.K. being dissolved as a union and England and Scotland becoming independent, I think it's extremely unlikely that anything like that would ever happen. There would almost certainly be a free movement agreement as happened for British & Irish citizens with the creation of the Irish Free State in 1921.

Besides, not to over-emphasize the point, but if the newly independent Scotland and England were both to remain trapped within the EU, the EU regulations about free movement would be applicable anyway.
 
but surely under the current EC rules, the Scots (for example) charge English students more than overseas ones at their universities?
 
I'm not certain of the details, but isn't that for anyone who is not already resident in Scotland, rather than not being Scots per se?

Either way, it's just one example which shows what an inconsistent mess it all is.
 
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