Scottish Dictatorship

[joggerjayne]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-29277527

In his "sod you lot, I'm off" speech, Alex Salmond says ...

"For me as leader my time is nearly over, but for Scotland the campaign continues and the dream shall never die"

The campaign continues ??

Until the minority ... have imposed their will upon the majority ...

Mmmm ...

Places where that has happened in recent history ... thinks, thinks ...

South Africa under Apartheid?

Are we going to have dealings with a party whose line is ...

The majority have spoken. But, frankly, we don't care about the majority.

If the SNP have any sort of power in Scotland, they rule as a party who have expressed contempt for the wishes of the majority.

That is only ever a bad thing.

[baza]

got to agree jj.

[mushroom25]

yeh but the electorate was tricked - allegedly.

[joggerjayne]

Oh yeah, I forgot about the tricked thing.

[baza]

perhaps they will get another vote then another vote until the right result is reached.

[douglas9401]

A political movement exists to get what they want via the ballot box, Jayne.
That's why there's a change of those in power on a regular basis.
We're not about to have necklace killings and racially motivated murders here in Caledonia, just more pressure for change.
It's called life in a civilised democratic country.

[Butterbun]

School ground flounce? "You didn't let me win so I'm not playing anymore"

[baza]

play by my rules or I will take my ball away.

[youngmafbog]

Bit like the EU. Vote until you give the 'right' answer.

[joggerjayne]

Pressure for change is generally from a small group, representing the underlying will of the majority, against a ruling elite who are reluctant to agree to the change.

Here, it is the opposite. It is the ruling elite, refusing to accept the will of the majority. Refusing to acknowledge the wishes of the very people who put them in power.

[douglas9401]

"School ground flounce? "You didn't let me win so I'm not playing anymore"

"play by my rules or I will take my ball away."

Or, he did the decent thing having had a wee slap from the electorate and, rather than wait to be dismissed by his party, left on his own terms instead of teary-eyed after destroying British industry, militarising the police and kicking the *** of a few rowdy Argentinians to please the retired colonels in their clubs.

It's all open to interpretation.

[Wharton]

I'm not a member of the SNP. My main reason for voting YES was that it promised to get rid of the hideous Trident submarines which despoil my country.

[mushroom25]

//kicking the *** of a few rowdy Argentinians to please the retired colonels in their clubs. //

so you'd have left the falklanders to rot, would you?

[joggerjayne]

Can you see them, Wharton?

Aren't they under water?

[joggerjayne]

Now now ... no tiffs on my thread, if you please.

No ... wait for it ... "Argy bargy" lol

[roopower]

Quebec have been trying for years! How much do these referendums (referenda) cost, I wonder.

[Johnamill]

That is one of the most silliest posts I've ever read on here! You simply give up because this time we only got 45% of the vote?

Cast your mind back to last general election - the top party was the Tories with only 36.1% of the vote - the majority of the UK didn't vote for them but they are in power! As they are in the minority, do they just give up and go home? No, of course they don't!

The SNP had about 45% of the vote in the last Scottish parliament elections, giving them more of a mandate than the Tories certainly have nationwide! What the SNP now have to do is improve their handling of running Scotland in such a way that convinces more of Scotland to vote for them in the future.....by democratic means! If support grows, as it has been doing, then fine, if not, then they reappraise their policies - just like every political party who lose out in an election do!

I'm still chuckling at the silliness of this post!!!

[Wharton]

An elderly lady near Helensburgh watches them come and go and has a blackboard upon which she marks "3 at sea" or "All 4 at base" etc for all to see. You've never been to Faslane, have you?

[boxtops]

JJ - the will of the majority? No it wasn't - the majority didn't want to break out of the UK. How can you say that the majority wanted to do so? they clearly didn't!

[joggerjayne]

I think that's what I was saying, boxy.

Yours,
Confused.
E Sussex

[boxtops]

If that's what you meant, it's not what I read :-)