I didn't have any charge in my iPod, so I got to overhear a quality conversation on the bus, between two teenage lasses, and a teenage lad sitting across the aisle. Lad started talking to them pretty much as soon as they got on the bus, and they were talking for a good 5 minutes or so. The lad was doing most of the talking, and the two lasses were pretty much just answering what he was saying. Anyway, he started banging on about his girlfriend (that apparently went to the same school as them all), and kept trying to describe her in different ways, asking "do you remember her?". One of the lasses then turned round to him and says "No, and I don't actually remember you either!" - #Awkward
(19 Sep 2014, 6:24 am)Robert Scotland has voted No and our United Kingdom remainsWas just about to post this...
(19 Sep 2014, 6:24 am)Robert Scotland has voted No and our United Kingdom remainsWas just about to post this...
(19 Sep 2014, 6:36 am)marxistafozzski Gutted they voted no?
(19 Sep 2014, 6:36 am)marxistafozzski Gutted they voted no?
(19 Sep 2014, 6:42 am)AdamY Yup.I would have liked to have seen Yes win, just to see how negotiations would have went re: the £, the EU, Trident/Faslane etc...
Of course, even if they voted yes, it would've been highly unlikely that Scotland would be allowed to leave the UK. But I would have liked to see what the result would have been if not under the threat of big businesses leaving the country upon the return of a yes vote. Both sides used hyperbole but I think the 'No' campaign relied far too heavily on the negativity of a doomsday scenario.
(19 Sep 2014, 6:42 am)AdamY Yup.I would have liked to have seen Yes win, just to see how negotiations would have went re: the £, the EU, Trident/Faslane etc...
Of course, even if they voted yes, it would've been highly unlikely that Scotland would be allowed to leave the UK. But I would have liked to see what the result would have been if not under the threat of big businesses leaving the country upon the return of a yes vote. Both sides used hyperbole but I think the 'No' campaign relied far too heavily on the negativity of a doomsday scenario.
(19 Sep 2014, 6:51 am)marxistafozzski I would have liked to have seen Yes win, just to see how negotiations would have went re: the £, the EU, Trident/Faslane etc...
I am now interested in seeing if they can find an answer to the West Lothian Question
(19 Sep 2014, 6:51 am)marxistafozzski I would have liked to have seen Yes win, just to see how negotiations would have went re: the £, the EU, Trident/Faslane etc...
I am now interested in seeing if they can find an answer to the West Lothian Question
(19 Sep 2014, 6:53 am)AdamY More or less the same reason why I would have liked to see Yes vote.Would what the goverment are talking about right now see the UK work along similar lines to the United States, with the home countries being fully devolved(or something along the lines of the 50 U.S states) and Westminster becoming something of a federal government...cant say I understand it enough to be honest...
It would have made for interesting times on both sides of the border.
(19 Sep 2014, 6:53 am)AdamY More or less the same reason why I would have liked to see Yes vote.Would what the goverment are talking about right now see the UK work along similar lines to the United States, with the home countries being fully devolved(or something along the lines of the 50 U.S states) and Westminster becoming something of a federal government...cant say I understand it enough to be honest...
It would have made for interesting times on both sides of the border.
(19 Sep 2014, 7:06 am)Dan I really am quite shocked - I'd have put money on the 'Yes Campaign' winning.
Nevertheless, I am pleased. Change on such a huge scale, with possible downsides, isn't great (at least in my opinion).
(19 Sep 2014, 7:06 am)Dan I really am quite shocked - I'd have put money on the 'Yes Campaign' winning.
Nevertheless, I am pleased. Change on such a huge scale, with possible downsides, isn't great (at least in my opinion).
(19 Sep 2014, 7:23 am)AdamY 55:45 is pretty damn close. If voter turnout was less, it would have been even closer.I was only pointing out that virtually every single poll had it around 51:49 and 52:48...
Maybe I am being cynical (obviously we have no way of knowing which way they voted), but the number of spoiled papers works out not far off the actual difference between the votes on both sides.
Official result. 3,623,344 voted. Yes 1,617,989. No 2,001,926. Rejected ballots 3429.
edit: my early morning stupor obviously can't do maths...
(19 Sep 2014, 8:06 am)Michael Good, it means in a few years time we wouldn't have to hear them bang on about how they want to re-join us!And we could habe smugly flicked 2 fingers at them and told them tp fuck off
Also means Piers Morgan has to fuck off to America!
He said if the vote was "NO" he would go to America!
(19 Sep 2014, 8:06 am)Michael Good, it means in a few years time we wouldn't have to hear them bang on about how they want to re-join us!And we could habe smugly flicked 2 fingers at them and told them tp fuck off
Also means Piers Morgan has to fuck off to America!
He said if the vote was "NO" he would go to America!
(19 Sep 2014, 8:20 am)marxistafozzski And we could habe smugly flicked 2 fingers at them and told them tp fuck off
