The debate on Scottish independence.

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Cameron Insists Scotland 'Better Off In Britain'

Cameron drew on Olympic glory to suggest
breaking up the union would be damaging to Britain

What a strangely warped view of reality this Cameron person actually has.
At the last general election (to the Westminster government), the Conservative party won 1 seat with 16% of the vote and yet formed a government, aided and abetted by the Liberal Democrats (who incidentally won only 11 seats with just 18% of the vote), to govern Scotland from London for the next 5 years. Historically, it has invariably been the case that the government in London does not have popular support north of the border and there is a perceptible growth in the feeling amongst Scottish people that they are not adequately or properly represented in government of the United Kingdom, which perhaps explains the increasing support for the SNP (albeit that they won only 6 seats in 2010) and the Scottish parliament. It could therefore be argued, that Scotland is governed by a coalition which it does not support, subjected to policies it has not endorsed and disregarded by Westminster. In this respect the SNP may have a point which was the essence of what Nicola Sturgeon was arguing on BBC television yesterday.

Nicola Sturgeon. MSP

Let me make something perfectly clear. I am not Scottish and have no connections whatsoever with Scotland. On the subject of Scottish independence, I am totally neutral, but I can see why Cameron and no doubt Milliband (but for different reasons), and numerous other politicians and business leaders are desperate to retain Scotland as an integral part of the United Kingdom. However, for Cameron to state that Scotland is 'better off in Britain' and to couple this with his rather superficial comments like, "Those glorious Olympics last summer reminded us just what we were capable of when we pull together" or, "Britain works well. Why break it?", smacks more of desperation than conviction.
Cameron, along with a number of others on his side of the fence are rattled and it is beginning to show. as he drifts off into some parallel universe where the borders between reality and the wishful thinking of fantasy are very blurred.

Northern Ireland and Brexit. The return of "The Troubles"

Northern Ireland: police attacked in another night of disturbances | Northern Ireland | The Guardian When the "Brexit" debate was still filling our newspapers and our television screens, readers may remember why I had changed my mind since voting to leave at the referendum vote. Apart from the economic arguments, which had become crystal clear after peeling away all the lies and misrepresentations trotted out by Bozo Boris and his "Get Brexit Done" conspirators, there was always the problem of the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Would it be possible to have a border between the European Union and the United Kingdom where people, goods and services could pass freely between the two nations without customs restrictions, tariffs, duties and all the other formalities? Would it be possible to have one part of the United Kingdom treated differently from other parts of the United Kingdom, particularly when Scotland for example had voted overwhe

The Parliamentary Labour Party conspirators are hatching another coup.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/corbyn-labour-leadership-rebel-mps-a7202641.html Labour MPs plan for Corbyn victory and plot how to confront an emboldened leader Even for the "Independent", the number and use of unnamed anonymous "sources" in this article is quite astonishing. However, amongst all the usual speculative delusion, there is one factor which causes concern to anyone who believes in the Labour Party, its principles and in he democratic process of the Labour movement. It is abundantly clear that elements within the Parliamentary Labour Party, are even now, planning another coup in the event that Jeremy Corbyn should emerge as winner in the current ballot. The failed coup of earlier this year, has now descended into a sham leadership election, because the conspirators still fail to accept the democratic decision of the Labour party membership and cling to

Plemont development or return to nature?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-jersey- A date has been set for a public inquiry into plans for Plemont Headland. This exceptional location must be sold to the National trust for Jersey, and returned to nature. Any other outcome involving development of the site, can only demonstrate the extent to which greed and self interest have become endemic in Jersey.

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