Scotland...banana republic without the bananas

[MAGA MAN]

The US is a banana republic too.

[moon]

The US is a banana republic too.

Half of it.

[MAGA MAN]

Half of it.

Used to be. After 2020 its 100%.

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what is a stramash?...

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/di...glish/stramash

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'Nothing but falsehoods!' SNP savaged after study pours cold water on independence dream

THE push for Scottish independence is riddled with "falsehoods" with the SNP hell-bent on "sacrificing everything on the altar of breaking up the UK", Michelle Ballantyne, leader of the Reform Party Scotland, has claimed.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/polit...brexit-news-eu

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[Micawber]

Nobody cares. Fuck off

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Stick that in your Jock strap, McMoonshi'ite!!


A Savanta ComRes poll found 54 per cent would vote No if Ms Sturgeon achieves her ambition of triggering another referendum.

The research for the Scotsman also suggest the SNP is set to lose two seats in crucial elections next week - leaving it four seats short of a majority.

Ms Sturgeon has made calling a fresh ballot on separation as early as this year the key plank of her manifesto.

She has insisted that a big SNP win provide a mandate for another contest, even though the last vote in 2014 was billed as 'once in a generation'.

However, after riding high for months, a slew of recent polls have shown backing for dividing the UK has been slipping, as Ms Sturgeon's civil war with Alex Salmond rages.

Meanwhile, NatWest inflicted another setback on Ms Sturgeon by confirming it will have to move its headquarters to England if Scotland does break away.

And a think-tank has found higher spending north of the border has not succeeded in driving up standards.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ce-slides.html

[Walt]

The Scottish goal is to be a Nordic Country. They are even giving out free boxes of baby goods to babies, like some of the Nordic Countries do.

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The call for Scottish independence will be a constant pain in English asses until it's achieved. They didn't vote for Brexit, nor for Bozo Johnson.

[NiftyNiblick]

I bought some very nice Scottish Tartan headcovers for my driver and fairway woods.
[I hate the tacky manufacturer's logo ones that come with the clubs. No class.]

Based on their quality and workmanship, I can personally vouch for the Scots.

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Reality is beginning to sink in. The necessity of having a hard border, visas and banks like the Royal Bank of Scotland saying they'll move their HQ to London has concentrated minds wonderfully.

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Reality is beginning to sink in. The necessity of having a hard border, visas and banks like the Royal Bank of Scotland saying they'll move their HQ to London has concentrated minds wonderfully.

Silly old fucker. RBS is British government owned.


Haw, haw....................................haw

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RBS HQ would move from Edinburgh to London in event of Scottish independence, says bank chief. Moonshi'ite is full of shite yet again!!

The Royal Bank of Scotland has said that it would move its headquarters from Edinburgh down to London in the event that the country voted to leave the UK, says the boss of its parent company.

The chief executive of the NatWest Group, Alison Rose, said that the bank’s balance sheet was too large for an “independent Scottish economy” while noting that the issue of an independent Scotland was one for the Scots to decide themselves.

The NatWest Group’s CEO told the Herald newspaper: “We have been very clear, and it is recognised by senior nationalists, that in the event that there was independence in Scotland, our balance sheet would be too big for an independent Scottish economy, and we would move our registered headquarters... to London.”

Ms Rose’s announcement was met with concern as Tory finance spokesman Murdo Fraser warned that the news “starkly confirms the very real consequences for Scottish jobs and business if Nicola Sturgeon ever gets her way.”

Mr Fraser insisted that any loss of the Royal Bank of Scotland’s headquarters in Edinburgh would be “devastating” for the country.

Meanwhile, Chief executive of the pro-UK Scotland in Union campaign group, Pamela Nash, was of a similar opinion calling any potential loss of the RBS HQ in Edinburgh a “hammer blow for the country’s reputation as a place to invest and work.”

She added: “As a new and smaller economy, a separate Scotland would be at greater risk of shocks, and we would be gambling with people’s livelihoods by scrapping the pound and building a border with England.”

Ms Nash went on to highlight the fragility of the economy, particularly during the Covid recovery period before calling for the SNP to drop its “obsession with a divisive and reckless referendum.”

This is not the first time that RBS has threatened to leave Edinburgh and move its headquarters south of the border. In 2014, prior to the last Scottish referendum, the bank said that it had drawn up plans to move its head office out of Scotland in the event of Scottish independence.

RBS was founded in Edinburgh in 1727 and has been in the city ever since. The bank did not have an office in London until 1874, over one hundred years later.

The news comes just days before Scots head to the polls for the Holyrood election on 6 May, with SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon pusing for yet another referendum should her party secure a majority of seats.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknew...ef/ar-BB1gbsa0

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ANDREW NEIL: Censorship, bullying, threats of jail... how Nicola Sturgeon's storm troops turned Scotland into a banana republic without the bananas.

These are dark, even dangerous days in Scotland. The stramash between the country's two most famous politicians, Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon, has resulted in vital public documents being censored or banned, important information being suppressed, the media cajoled and cowed, the legal system brought into disrepute, the Scottish Parliament neutered and even bloggers being threatened with jail.

So many have just switched off. But that is a mistake because what is happening in Scotland is a clear and present danger to democratic accountability, the impartial rule of law and a free Press – an integral part of these islands.

So let us stand back from the mind-boggling detail and consider the enormity of what is happening.

The relentless twists and turns in the Salmond-Sturgeon saga make it hard to follow, not just in the rest of the UK, to which Scotland is increasingly another country, but even north of the border +8
The relentless twists and turns in the Salmond-Sturgeon saga make it hard to follow, not just in the rest of the UK, to which Scotland is increasingly another country, but even north of the border


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/a...-republic.html

Anyone interested in how crazy Scotland will become just needs to look at how crazy Canada is.