Scottish Independence And "british Summertime"

[Daisybellemay]

It seems to me that we have always had to kowtow to the Scots in many areas. This "bride" is certainly high-maintenance....
No-one (as far as I am aware) has mooted the effect on "British Summertime".
If the Scots achieve independence, does this mean we can choose to change the clocks to suit ourselves (yippee!)?

[Colmc54]

The 'people who now live in Scotland', is their more appropriate description as so many 'Scots' who live elsewhere in the UK and indeed all over the world have effectively been given 'the finger' by the National Socialist politicians of the SNP.

As the debate predictably becomes more and more acrimonious, mainly as a result of the hyperbolic rhetoric of the National Socialists in Scotland, the uncertainty concerning our UK recovery from the economic crisis will become more fragile.

The SNP in their choice of language make the debate into a kind of emotional not factual decision. Their main argument is that people who vote Conservative live in England and they are apparently so repugnant to the people in Scotland that they have to break away.

The 'fish people' Salmond and Sturgeon went through a phase when they couldn't actually finish a sentence without a heavily burred reference to the 'Tories', the presence of which in government at this particular time is the ONLY reason why they have jeopardize the economic future of the UK by calling for their referendum at this time.

I'd love to know what, if anything, they care about, beyond their solipsistic obsession with their anachronistic parochial delusions, in a transformed world set to turn all of Europe into an economic and intellectual backwater.

[petal54]

so,England is still at war with Scotland,400 + years on.united by a land join only?

[Colmc54]

Well petal54 For most of my life the SNP have been on the fringes of UK politics and so no to the idea of 'war' for the last 400 years. It was when the Blair government set in train the events that led to a referendum on the setting up of a Scottish assembly with devolved powers that led to an SNP revival.

It must be that, as nothing other than the Scottish parliament has really changed that much in my lifetime to warrant a move to full independence. In fact at present it is the people living in England who are the poor relations in terms of welfare expenditure per capita, university tuition fess, prescription charges, and home care for the elderly.