Why Is Salmond's Allowed To Carry Out A Referendum"?

[anotheoldgit]

Much has been reported regarding the forthcoming referendum on Scotland's independence, but the questions that has not been asked are "why is Salmond's allowed to carry out a referendum"?

Why is the rest of the UK allowing Scotland to breakaway, so easily?

And does this not amount to treason?

(Violation of allegiance toward one's country or sovereign.)

[Zacs-Master]

I don't think you need to be in a Party to be an English Nationalist.

[anotheoldgit]

Zacs-Master

/// I think were just a bit puzzled as to why you put an apostrophe and an 's' after Salmond. Twice. ///

Ah yes the master at the old 'moving the goalposts' tactic.

But if you and others deem it necessary to question me on the overuse of apostrophes, please allow me to explain.

I typed a different set of words when I first constructed my thread, and then edited it, and in the process of copying and pasting I inadvertently forgot to removed some of the unwanted apostrophes.

One has to be so careful especially if your user-name happens to be anotheoldgit.

[mikey4444]

Can we give over about the flipping grammar here please ! Everybody is entitles to make a mistake once in a while.

Address AOG's question, for goodness sake !

[anotheoldgit]

Thank you mikey.

[Aquagility]

Like the cash-strapped parents of a demanding youth, "We don't want to loose you, but we think you ought to go"!

[Baldric]

\\\Everybody is entitles\\\

Mikey's a Meerkat, simples... . . .

[bednobs]

as far as i know, salmond was pushing cameron for more and more benefits for the scottish parliament to be able to exercise, and cameron got fed up and said "have a referendum then" thinking it would shut him up when everyone voted no!

[Zacs-Master]

I did address AOG's post. He seems somewhat reluctant to comment upon those specific threads which point out the rather naive nature of the question. Strange that.

[THECORBYLOON]

ANOTHEOLDGIT, the authority to hold a referendum was transferred by the UK Government to the Scots Parliament using legislation passed by the Westminster Parliament, Section 30 of the Scotland Act 1998.

[janbee]

I am a Scot and very firmly in the NOOOOO camp. The yes people think they're voting for separation and independence but they're not. What they'll end up with is Isolation and Exclusion. As for that Slug Salmond.... grrr!! I would've thought that the referendum was actually illegal, nothing more than an opinion poll.

[mikey4444]

Its not often I come to your rescue AOG but some pedantic people on here would rather moan on and on about a minor grammatical or spelling error, or a type, then address the subject under debate. But I guess you and I have moaned a bit from time to time, so....

[Peter Pedant]

milkey - moaning ? never
whining perhaps

//Stupid question// steg
and some pretty jerky answers too.

well the Oirish did it 1922, er m after 121 y old good old British freedom !

AOG has a point ( well hidden ) - Scotland is the size of two Manchesters (greater area). and can one imagine the leader of Mank city council as a prime minister. Yikes no I cant actually.

and the yes voter - yeah I want my own country and I want to move from the 3rd largest in EU to being outside the EU AND the size of Croatia.
ow - I feel pain when i read the Yes ! propaganda

[THECORBYLOON]

PP if and when any UK city is given its own separate legal system, its own health service and its own tax-Income Tax varying powers, you can compare its Council Leader to the First Minister, until then, you are talking rubbish.

[sevenOP]

/// Its pretty daft but hardly a hanging offence to want to break away from the rest of the UK. ///

"There are some on here that seem to hold an entirely different attitude when it comes to matters in the Ukraine." >aog

Hypocrites and the uninformed blend well, especially on someone else's turf.

[jeffa]

"I would've thought that the referendum was actually illegal"

Despite the fact that it was sanctioned by an act of parliament! Genius!

[DTCwordfan]

Maybe the current Parliaments are illegal ones - in both Westminster and Auld Reekie...We should be told.

[THECORBYLOON]

ANOTHEOLDGIT, I telt you last year that there is an English National Party but neglected to give their address. This is it, from the Electoral Commission's site,

Quires Green 
Willingale 
ONGAR 
Essex 
CM5 0QP 

[Peter Pedant]

// you can compare its Council Leader to the First Minister, until then, you are talking rubbish. //

ish ...

I am referring to people who scramble to the top of the pole in a electorate of 3.5m - not much to look at quite honestly

and it is reasonable to conclude the same type of people would be leading a country of 3.5 m. along with their tax raising powers. I dont see that the increased powers would make them better leaders

[THECORBYLOON]

PP you were comparing the leaders of organisations based on the size of the communities they represented. As their responsibilities and powers are completely different, their required abilities are equally different and your comparison is pointless.

[Gromit]

// the same type of people would be leading a country of 3.5 m //

Scotland's population is 5.3 million.