From Brexit to coronavirus: Scotland’s changing political landscape - BBC Newsnight
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When Scotland voted no to independence - who would have predicted that just six years later, if a referendum was held again now, polling suggests a ‘Yes vote’ would win out.
Back in 2014, Brexit and the Covid crisis were still a way into the future and Scots voted for certainty and the status quo. That's now in flux.
The UK is out of the EU, against the will of the majority of Scottish voters, who also apparently look kindly on the handling of the pandemic by Scotland's political leadership.
The leader of the labour party travelled to Edinburgh today, and voiced his opposition to another referendum.
The Prime Minister has already made clear he doesn't want to lose the union on his watch and has said another referendum won't be granted.
Can that position hold if the SNP do well in parliamentary elections next year?
Policy Editor Lewis Goodall reports on a familiar constitutional battle now facing its latest twist and turn.
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Do your research... for crying out loud. Scotland was a country from 843 AD - England became a country from 927 AD.
So not a few hundred years ago at the declaration of arbroath.
Not a very great start when you can't even get simple facts correct. I understand its hard for some of the Brittish and English to hear that Scotland was a county longer
The Scottish nation came into being around 400 years before the declaration of Arbroath was written. You’d think our national broadcaster would know that! 🙄
So that was over a thousand years ago. A thousand before that the Italians were here. You forgot to mention them. Did you forget?
they are from England.... not from Scotland...!
@@TroyaE117 and the German, French and Vikings... and Indians etc...
Whoa! There! Whose "National Broadcaster", might that be which you speak about? Almost from the incorporation of a group of Radio Amateurs who registered as a private corporation in The Kingdom of England, under English law as, "The British Broadcasting Corporation", with a view to selling their wares to the public. Let me explain. "Wireless" ,communication, was in its infancy and was driven by "Wireless Amateurs", including Marconi. Now these Amateurs, "Hams", usually built their own rigs. The hobby was mor5e to do with experimenting and building your gear than just talking to each other. So when the more scientific Hams among them were trying to set up business manufacturing "Wireless Sets", (a set of Transmitter & Receiver), there was virtually no market for their wares as Hams built their own "Wireless Sets".
So these more scientific Hams thought up a great idea. The norm was for one Ham to communicate with another Ham and directional aerials helped to boost the signal. However, sometimes there would be a group of Hams in a network and they used non-directional aerials. Their great idea was that to boost the market for their manufactured wares they thought up the idea of transmitting signals of interest to the general public by use of non-directional signals and the word, "Broadcast", joined the English lexicon.
Strangely, although these wares were just a "Broadcast Receiver", the term "Wireless set", stuck even although it was no longer a transmitter Receiver SET. The usual claim is that the first "Broadcast", Station was 2LO, (a Ham Radio call sign for London), the actual first Broadcast station was 2MO for the English Midlands as the station was in an ex WWI army hut outside the Marconi Factory in the English Midlands.
They broadcast news, mucic and weather reports and the ide took off like a rocket. Now in those days the Westminster Government licenced Ham Radio operators and Westminster, never slow to reach into our pockets for our hard earned began issuing Wireless receiving Licences with the licence fee being payment for permission from HM government to receive Wireless signals.
It did not take Westminster long to realise the great potential for this new medium for government propaganda and they gave this new Private enterprise, "BBC", a Royal Charter and an annual grant of taxpayer's money. In short the Government became the still private corporation's paymaster.
That is still what it is today. The licence fees go to Her Majesty's Treasury and The Westminster Treasury makes a grant of taxpayer's money to the BBC - - - THE BBC DOES NOT GET THE LICENCE MONEY AND IT NEVER HAS.
The BBC is directly funded by a grant of taxpayer's money from the treasury by the Westminster Government and Westminster are the piper who have always called the BBCs tune.
But ait! The taxpayer's money to the BBC doesn't just pay for UK broadcasting by the BBC it pays for the Worldwide BBC overseas Service the World's firs and always largest UK propaganda Worldwide service.
Today it is the Westminster governments propaganda against Scottish independence and we Scots are paying for the Westminster funded BBC to campaign against Scottish Independence - - - but get this - The BBC's greatest feat of propaganda is to brainwash the whole World to believe the licence money pays for BBC programmes. It doesn't it goes to HM Treasury and we all pay with our tax money to get government propaganda beamed into our homes.
@@TheAuldBob lol, i am a licensed ham radio amateur, but not from the UK, you forgot to mention, we allready use digital transmitter/recivers too...
The Declaration of Arbroath was NOT the start of the Scottish nation, nor the start of tense relations with England. Terrible first sentence.
That's the way the BBC twist things!
Yeah like Lewis Goodall knows anything about anything
Agreed and sickening how biased the reporter was toward the SNP member he interviewed, very anti snp, trying to make it sound like Scotland is handling the virus just as badly as the UK Govt, which is BS. But respectful of the rest and giving them fair speak without interrupting.
@@johncarney9049 Its the BBC.......BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION.....or in Scotlands language........another Tory right arm.
Nobody else think the interviewer is plain rude?
Incredibly biased and annoying.
If you like polite interviews with politicians, I recomend you watch russian, chinese or north korean TV.
i am German, you have no idea what rude can be look like...!
Oh my... Man, you're so handsome.
Absolutely... Because they know if they loose Scotland too... They will fall like dirty fish.. For having a big mouth
After watching the way our MPs are treated in Westminster when they ask a question is it any wonder we want independence.
Independence to join another union? That’s the crazy part
Scotish people has full right to decide about the future of theirs children, grandchildren and about the future of their own homeland. Thats it, no but, no if. We dont live in middle ages, that about everything must decide Westminster or King or Queen. THIS IS CRAZY and it only shows how ignoranced and low level brexit voters are! Democratic referendum is good only when it fits to them. WILL OF THE PEOPLE, they keep shouting.
@@denisasokolova3800 . So where was your talk of "the will of the people" in 2014?
@Graeme Roberts It isn't a matter of like or dislike. It is about the right to be treated with respect and our MPs are trying to do the job they were elected to do. You would think good manners would be something you could expect in Westminster
@@doreenhollywood7459 . The majority do NOT want another vote. Look outside your separatist SNP bubble. And what do Shetland and Orkney want? Have you noticed? They want nothing to do with your central belt cabal. Say goodbye to the oil reserves then, eh?
At 1:38 the reporter states that Scotland has not done any better than England in combatting Covid. The numbers tell a different story : - Infections / million population, Scotland 4,315, England 5,849; Deaths / million population, Scotland 458, England 658. Scotland's infection rate is 74% of the rate in England and the death rate in Scotland is 70% of the death rate in England. Testing results in Scotland are freely available whereas in England they are not. The First Minister has given numerous press briefings while the Prime Minister and his lackeys south of the border have been notable by their absence.
@@jimmagspanton669It's good practice to read something properly before you damn it.
I have not "bodyswerved the news"; I wrote that testing RESULTS are freely available in Scotland and this is not the case in England.
You challenge my death statistics; the figures used are government figures relating to deaths within 28 of a positive test result. These are totals for the two countries which include ALL deaths in the community including care homes, hospitals etc.
At no time did I mention UK figures; I was simply comparing data from Scotland with data from England. All figures quoted were per million of population as stated in my initial comment.
@@jimmagspanton669 Where are you sourcing your data?
Scotland was actually born BEFORE the declaration of Arbroath!!! Also we only made that declaration AFTER England's king Edward (hammerer of the Scots) tried to forcibly take Scotland for his own
Do you not think it might have been the English invasion of Scotland that might’ve sparked the tension and not the Declaration of Arbroath?
Hmmmm 🧐
Oh get over it. How many hundred years ago was that
@Jimmy Mac Most Brits do now a days.
In an independent Scotland the Scottish people would be governed by the government that they vote for and not be governed by the government that another country voted for.
@martin corderoy
Independent Sweden, independent Norway, independent Denmark and independent Republic of Ireland have a lot more powers than Scotland controlled by Westminster.
To suggest otherwise show's how Stupid you are.
Firstly, Scotland takes part in the WM election. Perhaps we should chose our representatives more wisely? I don't think picking people just to go to WM to be anti-English does us any favours.
@Ginger With SNP stripping out the cash and powers from our councils, I think it is fair that the centralising power grabbing SNP administration is now a parish council. Love Scottish Tax Payer.
@Adam I think the point to make here is why vote for racist idiots rather than parties that could try to work constructively with our English neighbours? SNP's/nationalist grievance culture only harms Scotland and seeks to divide where in fact there are many more similarities than differences between the countries and constituent regions that make up the UK. The Devolved Greater Manchester and London mayors don't exactly love Boris either but appreciate the need to work in the current environment for the best of their regions rather than in some non existent fantasy world. Quiet diplomacy rather than constant rage and England bating might actually deliver more for Scotland. Your premise that pro union parties agree with WM on each and ever issue is just false. There is much more free thinking than exists in the automon Blundell/sturgeon controlled SNP.
Groundhog day!
Here is the problem you are talking about Scotlands future and you have a English journalist telling us what is going on. "this people"!?! Seriously?
They also said it is the 700th anniversary of Scotland which is only wrong by 500 years
That's borderline racist. Why can't an English journalist report on Scotland? Next you'll be saying brown people can't be Scottish.
Scotland finds it easier to be part of a bigger group as it has been a junior part of the UK for hundreds of years . England has problems accepting the loss of the British empire. There is an irritation that although Germany lost the war they are now bullying the UK in the form of the EU.
I don’t see this animosity towards Germany and France in scotland as you may encounter in England
Absolute bullshit!. 313 years ago Scotland's ruling elite, only land owning aristocrats were parliamentarians who were made bankrupt by Westminster and illegally sold away the legally sovereign people of Scotland's birthright.
I'm sick of telling Neo-Fascist, Brextremist, Tory & Unionist ignoramuses their own true history so here is a vet short potted history:-
English "Navigation Acts", involved the Kingdom of England in European wars and left England with massive national debts and the English Crown/parliament were on the point of bankruptcy. A London Scot called William Paterson, (in the employ of Sir Robert Harley the English parliament's spymaster), instigated a subscription scheme to bail out the English Crown/parliament.
The money raised was not, though, given to the English crown/parliament it was retained and used to set up a private banking company called, "The Bank of England", because the English Parliament banked with it - they have never owned it.
Next time we see William Paterson he is in Edinburgh instigating the "Darien Expedition", which was heavily subscribed to by the Scottish wealthy landowner/parliamentarians. At the start the English state and the Dutch state together pledged to put up 50% of the funding for Darien but they pulled out after the Scottish had bought the ships, engaged crews and bought some stores. The English/Dutch pull out left the expedition understored and underfunded and doomed.
Not to mention the English crown ordered the Royal Navy and the King's Soldiers, (already at Darien), not to aid the expeditioners. Needless to say the expedition failed but it did not bankrupt the Kingdom of Scotland as is so often claimed and at the time of the union the Kingdom of England had massive National debt and the Kingdom of Scotland no national debt , or very little if any.
Next we find William Patterson and his very good friend, the English author , (employed by Westminster as a political pamphleteer , (and both close friends employed by English Spymaster, Sir Robert Harley), again in Edinburgh working to bribe, threaten with legal bankruptcy, and physical harm to sign the Treaty of Union while the actually legally sovereign people of Scotland were rioting against the treaty in the streets of Scottish towns and cities.
How do we know this? Well Daniel Defoe, the English spy, government pamphleteer and author's letters back to Sir Robert Harley are still extant in the English held archives.
Now above all else the people of Scotland, not those rich landowning parliamentarians were sovereign and against the treaty being signed. Secondly Scotland had indeed had a hard time as there had been 7 years of drought and poor crops but Scotland, the kingdom, had no national debt and the Kingdom of England was on the point of bankruptcy and the evidence for all that is still extant - we can still thus access it.
BTW: I failed to mention there were English Troops massed at the English/Scottish borders and an English Royal Navy Fleet hove to by the mouth of the Forth.
The English claims of Scottish bankruptcy are easily shown as false claims and believe me I have often asked those Englanders making claims about Scottish Bankruptcy to show proofs of their claims - I'm in my mid 80s mow and to date none of them has furnished proofs.
So, there you go - the claims that the Treaty of Union was freely entered into are bogus and the Treaty of Union an illegal act as Robert Burns showed in his song, "Siccna Paircelk o rogues in ae Nation". The Scottish public in Burn's day knew the truth and just like the ludicrous Englander claim that, "England stood alone", it is balderdash.
Yes England stood alone - EXCEPT for The Scots, The Welsh, The Irish, The Free French, Polish and other free Europeans and of course the entire British Empire and Johnny come lately USA who let the allies pay for the USA way out of the great depression before they came to fight what was actually their own corner as Hitler's U-boats were sinking USA shipping in USA waters but the USA people never got to know about that.
@@TheAuldBob I’m well aware of how scotland became part of the United Kingdom and ruled by Westminster. I don’t think it’s bullshit to state that Scots are used to being a smaller part of a bigger thing. Do Scots really feel the 5 million country is an equal partner to 56 million and the might of London? We take rules from London and until recently the EU .
The English have waved the union flag at English events and share the national anthem and use British and English interchangeably. They find it hard to separate Englishness from imperial Britishness .
Scotland is used to working with other countries, Boris and crew not so much.
When Labour is so dead in Scotland that they have to use English MPs ahah
Give it then if they want it. It's only fair
EDM MASTER shut up 🤐
It doesn't make any sense to have different countries on the same small island. Revamping the devolution system is the answer.
@@frankmcnally5993 That's not an argument haha. Why doesn't it make any sense? These countries on this small island have existed for over a thousand years. But it doesn't make sense to you (for some reason) so it shouldn't happen?
Give? Give? That one word sums up the one sidedness of this union.
@@BrokenBackMountains Scotland is so much smaller than England, it was never going to be an equal parity between the two, that's obvious
Exactly 100 years ago Ireland fought and won its freedom, now it’s time for our Scottish brothers and sisters to do the same. 🇮🇪🏴 #CelticFreedom
Preach, brother. 🙌
Shane Brennan We’ve got a special place in Dublin for a Scottish embassy, brother. 😉
Agreed 🏴
What? Use violence to get out of a Union they voluntary joined, benefitted from for most of its 313 years and can now pretty much leave any time they want to through a simple vote? Do you think the English are going to do anything to stop the dissolution of the Union; they literally don't give a f**k if the Scots vote to dissolve the Union.
VaucluseVanguard they don’t have to kill anyone this time. They can vote. Scots may have created the UK but geopolitically it’s been an English-dominated institution. Times are changing.
At this stage I think Scottish independence is inevitable. And the EU will happily welcome the Scots back.
What I don’t understand is why there is no similar movement south of the border? For example the English taxpayer spends more per annum on Northern Ireland than it even gave to Brussels. And at least with the EU payments it got access to a Single Market of over 500 million people.
I think it’s only a matter of time before the true driving force of Brexit, English nationalism, comes to the fore.
@Graeme Roberts you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about, England is responsible with funding virtually all of Wales' social sector. Get out EU bullshitter.
Not to mention the EU wont have you because Spain and France will veto as it legitimises the Basque and Catalan independence movements
Soldiers have given their lives in war for the union - the troubles nepoleonic wars WW1 WW2 Falklands war....the list goes on that's why people want the four countries to be united...in memory of those who fought for it.
I was born in 🏴 and still live in the same country so far, although I will be living in 🏴 within a few months, well before the independence vote. Will campaign for independence and get the country back in the 🇪🇺 again!
Me too.
The question we should be asking is not "if" but "when".
The answer would be, when we tell you you can. You never ask, you take
Close Scotland from UK markets
Oh yea good idea then Scotland turns off your lights... try selling that to your businesses
Say what you want about the BBC but their thumbnails are always cool af
Can't argue with that
remember that theory of the eu members falling like dominoes.
oh the euro is doomed.
yeah. lol.
Funny how having multiple nations using that currency makes it stronger.
How many nations are using the British Pound as its main currency?
A brexeters theory 🙄 but they have been wrong all the way
@@thewingedhussar4188 You mean for a currency that has negative interest rate and negative inflation?
@@WhateverMan35 sounds good to me
@@thewingedhussar4188 You do realise that's a recipe for a failing economy right? You do realise deflation destroys any chance for a company to make money? And negative interest rates makes saving money completely and utterly pointless.
It feels strange watching this while sitting in my flat in Arbroath. "Oh look, that's just outside." "Oh look, that's just around the corner."
Let Scotland go. We the English should be sovereign again! Let Wales go...and reunify NI it with Ireland. The union served its purpose. It’s time to go back to pre 1707. England should control her own affairs as Scotland and Wales should control their affairs. Enough is enough. Break up the union and we can continue to support each other as sovereign countries.
Could be the best thing to ever happen for the average person on these isles, whole thing needs ripped apart, our media the lot, corrupt to the core.
If Scotland got independent it’s not like it could join the Eu because it’s in to much debt and it won’t have an economy because they’ll lose half of there oil so Scollan could not deal with the pandemic
Graeme Roberts you obviously don’t read the news Shetland want to leave Scotland and Orkney is following suit and there’s a chance that Western Isles is going to do the same
Britain same like Yugoslavia,.... Now time ti free Scotland...
Freedom to be ruled by the unelected parliament in Belgium instead of the elected parliament in London?
@87654ba elected MEP's in a much much larger union who can't propose new legislation.. which as it happens is quite important. Its questionable whether scotland even meets the entry criteria for EU entry.
Both are elected but not totally by 🏴, who only elects about 59/650 MPs and elected 6/751 MEPs (before 🇬🇧 quit 🇪🇺).
MPs are granted power from 🇬🇧 (including NI), MEPs from all 🇪🇺 countries.
Also, an indy 🏴 would only be 10/15% ruled by Brussels compared to 🏴🇬🇧 ruled 85/90% by WM.
Hmmm....1 equal voice within 27 voices versus 1 voice in 4 where only 1 voice counts, easy choice really.
Where we can trade with 2077 Million, which includes the new big deals with EU, China, Japan just set up. plus what’s left of UK 67Million and 331Million USA Gov who is dying to get in on - be the best of both worlds
EU is about the right degree of ‘union’ between nations.
A union of practical stuff but retaining sovereignty, a veto and no 1 member has much over 15% of vote, so it’s all by negotiation and compromise.
UK union = total power to an 85% English parliament with no veto for others.
No brainer.
@@SwompMonsta Pretty sure it does.
Head of European Commission in UK says Scotland will start from a "continuing member" entry point after independence.
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MEP and president of @EMInternational Jo Leinen on Scotland: "They are and will be part of EU after independence from Day 1."
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EU's chief Brexit negotiator Guy Verhofstadt appointed to co-ordinate the European Parliaments response, to the UK’s bombshell departure, agrees that independent Scotland would gain automatic entry to the EU.
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Brussels MEPs told Scotland CAN be given special Brexit deal with EU keeping Scotland in the EU were handed a boost today after the European Parliament was told Edinburgh could secure special terms with Brussels.
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Guy Verhofstadt is also supportive of Scotland’s vote to remain in the EU following June’s referendum. “It’s wrong that Scotland might be taken out of EU, when it voted to stay. He says 'We need the Scottish people ... we cannot afford to lose that.
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European Parliament’s chief Brexit negotiator has told The National, Europe “cannot afford to lose” Scotland. We are well aware that a majority of Scots voted to stay within the bloc in last year’s referendum.
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“Europe hasn’t forgotten that a large majority of the Scottish people voted to remain,” Verhofstadt said. “We need the Scottish people and their firm European beliefs.
“Scotland has shaped European civilisation, through iconic figures such as David Hume, Alexander Fleming and Adam Smith and still does so today by being at the forefront of defining and strengthening European values.
We cannot afford to lose that.”
Nice to have neighbours who are helpful, than the abusive stalkers we have right now.
Caledonia has been everything I’ve ever had 🏴
I wish all the best for Scotland. I have never been there or anywhere in Britain or Ireland but I have desire to go to Scotland and Ireland , however I do not have much desire to go to anywhere else in Britain.
@Graeme Roberts England seems to be overcrowded. I ike places with less congestion. I have been all over USA but Miami is biggest city I have been. I never have any desire to go to New York or Chicago etc.
Take it from me, as someone from the North of England now moved up to Scotland. Scotland is way better
Most of England is still lovely rural green fields. Stay away from London, Birmingham etc and you'll have a great time
Cool story bro.
Freedom 🏴
@terence francis Not having a perpetual English Tory government.
@@ULYSSES-31 But you want French/ german masters in Brussels 😂😂😂
@@ULYSSES-31 exactly..
@@bigafrojames Still peddling that old canard.
If you's like gaming content sub, it would be cool...
courage à tout les élèves au cned qui sont entrain de mettre leur âme dans cette compréhension orale on est ensemble :,)
toujours plus plaisant qu'enseignement scientifique..
Of course just prior to Blair and his devolution of Scotland's parliament he redefined the Scottish shorelines so it cut off the oil and placed it back on the English shoreline. Cheeky.
Dam Brooks that will be rectified after independence
@@tankthepitbull520 so the SNP can give it away to Brussels? This is why Norway refuses to join the EU
@@nifralo2752
The people in an independent Scotland would have a choice of joining EFTA with Norway, Lichtenstein, Switzerland and Iceland. Or they may choose to join the EU.
In an independent Scotland the Scottish people would be governed by the government that they vote for and not be governed by the government that another country voted for.
With Westminster there is no choice for Scotland, the only choice is do whatever the 533 English MPs vote for.
The day after the 2014 Scottish independence referendum David Cameron announced EVEL (English votes for English Laws) at Westminster he was frightened that the 59 Scottish MPs would out vote the 533 English MPs. The English MPs brought in EVEL and created a second class of none English MP at Westminster.
The powers that independent countries such as Holland, Sweden and the Republic of Ireland etc. have in the EU are lots more than Scotland controlled by Westminster.
They can even vote to leave the EU if they want to. Unlike Scotland in the UK where an English MP Boris Johnson that the Scottish people did not vote for and his nonelected puppet master Dominic Cummings gets to block the Scottish people's right of self-determination.
@@tankthepitbull520 that sadly we will have to wait and see on, I am not so trusting in the English side of that agreement.
Yep but that makes no difference on Scotlands independence. Maritime law puts all the borders of the sea back to their rightful owners. Policial manoeuvring has no standing in law.
I live in England and have no desire to keep a nation within a union against the will of the people but aren’t there parallels with Brexit here. For many years we’ve had people complaining that “we didn’t vote for a no deal scenario” or that whatever deal was on the table “wasn’t Brexit enough’. Would it not be sensible to negotiate the terms of independence & then put that to the Scottish people? Just asking.
@Graeme Roberts OK, but what would the reason be to give a good deal after the vote? Perhaps if the U.K. government had adopted this approach with Brexit at least the voting public would have known what it was actually voting for.
@Graeme Roberts OK, I get it that your view is to leave the U.K. no matter what but my understanding is currently the polls suggest a 55/45 split in favour of leave. That still leaves a considerable minority who may not share your view. Whilst it may be true that an independent Scotland could sell its water & electricity to England & Wales (I’m not sure if there are any cables & pipes running to NI) that would be down to negotiating a price. I don’t see why you believe that an independent Scotland would be debt free; surely Scotland would be liable for around 10% of the U.K. debt at the time independence was gained? Anyway, I return to my previously posed (& ignored) question - what would the reason be to give a good deal after the vote?
@Graeme Roberts And they won't after independence. Love Scottish Tax Payer
Cheers boris lol 🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴
#freescotland #indyref2
Yes, thank you Boris🏴🏴🏴🏴
@Michael McCullagh I am sober
FREEDOM
Freedom from what? Freedom to what?
@@TroyaE117 ua-cam.com/video/S3ubag7dtn4/v-deo.html
@@sabercat2178 ?
No
Follow your destiny Scotland.....we in Ireland are still doing so after 900 years.
Was that before after we loaned you billions to keep you afloat!
The plantation of Ulster and glorious revolution was England AND Scotland mate...you fcuking don't even know your own countries history?
As a Scot, I appreciate the sentiment. Don't worry about these three miserable pricks ^
I think the discussion would be better informed if we stopped talking about independence (who is getting independence from whom here) and instead talk about dissolution. Most Scots now seem to actively want to dissolve the Union, most English simply don't care either way. I don't get the need for the acrimony. In the end, the referendum in 2014 was a pretty close run thing and I accept that it would have been closer still if it was not for the EU effectively saying Scotland could not dissolve the Union and join the... er ...Union. The forces pulling the UK apart have little to do with Brexit and we should see Brexit as a symptom and not a cause of the dissolution of the Union. If the Scots wish to bring the Union to an end, let them do so honourably and proudly. Say you want to dissolve it, acknowledge it was good for both nations for 300 years (or just ignore the issue) and move on. There is no need to say its ending is all the fault of the English. The logic of that would be if England had treated the Scots 'fairly' they would want to stay in the Union; but most Scots don't want to stay. My problem with the SNP (as a political party and not Scottish patriotism) is that it is a grievance driven party. It sees insult sleight when there is none and seeks to create a false historical and contemporary narrative of English perfidy, because like all nationalist parties it needs division and to create a sense of 'other'. Sturgeon is no different to Farage. All polling and research indicates while the English would be sad to see the Union dissolved, they have no desire to force the Scots to stay in it. No government in Westminster would seriously consider forcing Scotland to remain in the Union against its will. The SNP 'chip on shoulder' politics will just make the inevitable dissolution negotiations harder when they have to be held in the next few years. The best thing would be a dissolution referendum with a clear proposal, followed by a Scottish general election with independent Scottish political parties not associated with the Anglo the centric Labour, Conservatives and LibDems etc representing the Scottish political spectrum. That would hopefully bring to power a non-grievance driven party to negotiate an amicable separation. Scotland would do well NOT to include the EU in that in any way. Doing so will just create unnecessary antagonism. Scotland will join the EU I have no doubt, but involving a foreign power to dissolve what had been a mutually agreeable union for most of its history would be wrong. This settlement will be nothing like the Good Friday agreement and neither side needs foreign powers as guarantors.
I think the only problem is that there is no way one could feasibly trust the UK government to negotiate in good faith. Just look at the last week
I understand that sentiment, which is why as a Brexiteer, I thought this was a poor decision. I would prefer the Union to endure, but I believe that argument is lost. What I don’t want to do is have a remainer like bleating go on for years and end up, as we are, with bad faith negotiation. I believe the UK was on the moral high ground and negotiating with the EU in good faith (even if occasionally unrealistically). We should not have conceded the high ground and Johnson showed poor judgement in doing so.
@Adam So you are voting for a party that is completely damaging Scotland? You want to be associated with all the negativity, the continual grievance manufacturing? SNP has no positive (underpinned) vision for Scotland. Like SNP you seem to be cutting of your nose to spite your face. Love Scottish Tax Payer
The 4 countries of the UK have different leaders and different policies. Surely that should be the sign that they don't have the same interests any more
🔵Tories,Brexit&coronavirus
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Only successful thing is girl band
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Borris will not agree to another vote on independence,
That's the bigger problem re that issue
Bojo the clown has no legitimacy in Scotland, as hes not elected here and his party is a minority party , 6 westminster seats out of 59.
@Graeme Roberts I'm with you on that ,
I am not for self harming. I am.
Meanwhile in Sweden...
Only partly true. It is Brexit itself and post Brexit Tory actions and Tory responses to SNP in the Commons ( and wider feelings not confined to Westminster & London ) that have caused the idea of Union with rest of the UK ( numbers-wise England ) to be de-valued in certain quarters in Scotland ( as reflected in polls showing boost to Scottish independence from UK ). Brexit is likely to deliver the opposite of the practical "advantages" it's advocates promised in 2016 Referendum ( other than formally & technically quitting as a member of the EU, which is now a "done deal ).
This comment section proves one thing. There are a lot of unionists who have an opinion on a matter they know fuck all about.
Free Scotland 🏴
😭😭🖐🏼🖐🏼🖐🏼🖐🏼🖐🏼🖐🏼😭
lets see how both countries/gov now handle the second wave !
Rest in peace England aka Relax.
Dom where's your hand
coucou les gens du cned en spé llcer amc ;)
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Much as the left-leaning Biased B-road casting Corporation might like it, there are still enough folk North of Carlisle who'd probably prefer not to devalue their assets, pension pot, etc by around 30% overnight, which would be the consequence of an independent Scotland trying to borrow on the International Market for the purpose of setting up its own currency, let alone the cost of the necessary infrastructures required to be an Independent State, plus the small matter of where the capital reserves for a Scottish Central Bank might from - the IMF? Remind me - how's that all still going down in Greece, Portugal, etc?
Swapping 'Tory' austerity for SNP turbocharged Austerity doesn't seem to most numerate Scots to be a great idea, much less the idea of being 'in dependence' of an increasingly bereft EU, whose largesse it can Ill afford, much less we being able to qualify for membership, given our parlous economic state. Austerity? Vote for it, and you'll find out what it really means, it'll make the past 12 years seem like 'we never had it so good'. Don't believe the BBC hype, do the reckoning for yourself.
Just have a think...
Maybe ask Katie the kitty keeper, you'll get naething of substance from their in-house International bankster, the Penguin o' Portree - just more waffle and bluster.
Freedom for European Scotland!!!
Please do it. We’ll see how the SNP does when they can’t give out money and social programs to the Scottish people, due to the lack of subsidy from the UK government (AKA England)
If the UK is so strong economically without Scotland, why are they resisting them leaving so much??
OK, so let me get this right. A government that hates paying out benefits to it's people. Want's to take apart every socialist institution we have and privatise them. And you expect me to believe they are subsidising an entire country? If that were true in 2014 they wouldn't have just been encouraging us "scroungers" to walk out the union, they would have put a boot up our backsides and sent us packing. I mean, what possible reasons could they have for keeping us? Is it our wealth? Or resources? No it must be our bloody charm. Ya walloper!
@@wastelander138 Couldn't of said it better than that 👏 👌 🏴
Graeme Roberts Scotland is in debt to England you silly tit😂😂
Graeme Roberts look up Scotland’s debt you silly twat
We need a Scottish Alliance party.
@Graeme Roberts Not true if all the other parties votes were combined it would be 55-45 split. The devolution voting system splits the unionist vote.
Still hanging in there I see. I do not get it: why not just leave?
I'm English and wondering the same
There is now a solid majority for independence and all of the last 8 polls in Scotland have shown this. The most important single factor in the fact that Scotland is not yet independent is that that English abomination Johnson has said that we cannot have Indyref2. The short answer is that the English are preventing us from leaving.
@@minsapint8007 *English politicians, everyday English people certainly aren't trying to stop you
All polls this year show the Scottish people want Independence
12/4/20 Opinium found that 54 per cent of people would vote Yes
25/5/20 YouGov found that 54 per cent of people would vote Yes
4/6/20 Opinium found that 54 per cent of people would vote Yes
21/6/20 Panelbase found that 54 per cent of people would vote Yes
12/8/20 YouGov found that 53 per cent of people would vote Yes
19/8/20 Savanta ComRes found that 54 per cent of people would vote Yes
19/8/20 Panelbase found that 55 per cent of people would vote Yes
02/9/20 Panelbase found that 63 per cent of people would vote Yes
7/9/20 Survation found that 53 per cent of people would vote Yes
20/9/20 HeraldScotland found that 72 per cent of people would vote Yes
22/9/20 IpsosMORI found that 60 per cent of people would vote Yes
26/9/20 Glasgow Herald found that 68 per cent of people would vote Yes
11/10/20 Survation found that 64 per cent of people would vote Yes
14/10/20 IpsosMORI found that 58 per cent of people would vote Yes
30/10/20 JL Partners found that 56 per cent of people would vote Yes
6/11/20 Survation found that 54 per cent of people would vote Yes
16/11/20 Panelbase found that 56 per cent of people would vote Yes
How do you know mi5 won't turn up the dirty tricks
Wretched serfs of Kentigerns putrid graciousness
We should not forget European solidarity with all countries that want to remain free. Thats what the EU is ! A group of smaller countries that want to keep their freedom under the growing chineese influence. (And the falling US star)
sturgeon queen of scotts
A Scottish monarch made the act of union to have peace between England & Scotland.
Yes, but that's like saying the English Tories and the Scottish Tories voted for the Act of Union.
Brexit has complicated the whole Union arguments.
It’s cause scotland want to bum lick the eu
Jimmy Mac nah your want Britain ass out your face so u can sniff the eu bum mate 🤣🤣
CANZUK will reverse this.
the attack on devolution... ever mention it? no? surprised it is not?
Let's think about this. The UK left the EU so it could be completely independent and not be governed by the European courts and parliament. Scotland what's to be independent so as not to be governed by the English courts and parliament...but they won't to join the EU ending up being governed by the European courts and parliament. I'll let you nationalists think about that....
SNP are what the ppl in Scotland keep electing to lead them and will never elect a tory gov that goes against all that is Scottish tbh the union does not work for any country except England tbh
SNP minority government?
Scottex...it
Alexit
The union that came into being in 1707 (and in many ways effectively in 1603), was as much, if not more, a Scottish invention as an English one. It gave Scotland a share in an emerging empire they would not have got alone. The Scots proved to be remarkably good imperialists, slavers and colonists and Scotland did very well out of the arrangement. With the end of the Empire, Scotland has no real use for the union and so its no coincidence that as the Empire drew to a close in the 50's (when over half of Scottish MPs were Tory), Scottish nationalism took off. The unwillingness of the major parties to adopt some form of PR and the Thatcher/Major and Blair/Brown years where Scotland was too often ignore killed the union. The Cameron/May/Johnson years are just the death rattle. The thing is, most English people have tired of the moral grandstanding of Ulster Unionist, Irish, Welsh and Scots nationalists and in particular their characterization of English nationalism as some from of neo-fascism, and their conceited self-delusion that the likes of Sturgeon have provided much better government than that seen in England (they seem to have had their eyes closed for 13 years). The English are increasingly happy to see the union Scotland wanted in 1707 dissolve. Polling indicates a majority of English no longer mind if the Scots, Irish or Welsh vote to leave. And many - perhaps not a majority yet - would be happy to see a hard boarder along the Tweed. The SNP attitude may just make that a reality.
The whole of the 'UK has to be broken up into its constituent parts.
English nationalism = bad. Scottish, Welsh, Irish nationalism = good. Would love to see the Scots go, we could use the money we chuck at them to fufill the economic potential of northern England again.
@@4thzone697 English nationalism destroyed the 'uk' with its brexit and imposing it on others against their majority. Now ukgov has to be disbanded from governing in Scotland anymore, not elected here, and the uk has to be broken up into its constituent countries.
@Graeme Roberts That is the kind of sheer ill informed nationalist nonsense the English have had enough of and why an increasing number not only don't care about the Union, but would be happy to see a hard border. The first real had border sine the Romans left 1,550 years ago.
@@ScottishRoss27 You are missing the whole point of the Union. In the union we agreed to do thigs as a single nation. Scotland no longer wants to do that, which is fair enough. But lets not blame this on English nationalism, it is more an issue of the Scots no longer seeing any benefit for them in the Union. There is nothing wrong in that, so why change this into a blame game. No one is to blame.
Come on, Scotland. Cut the apron strings. You don't owe anyone your country, and the English will never see you as equal partners in their union.
It won't be easy, it might take a long time to recover, but you'll get there eventually. If Ireland could do it a century ago, you have no excuse.
The Scots aren't equal because they're population is 10 times smaller🤔
@@silverhost9782 Why do English nationalists always have such poor spelling? Such a strong correlation would suggest that the two things are connected.
It's probably not that you're all dyslexic; that would be a stretch. No, I'd say you all just didn't pay enough attention in school.
@@gavinhillick I mean, technically that's a grammar mistake, not spelling. But yeah, my error. Well done arguing against what I said...
@@silverhost9782 I said the English don't see the Scots as equals and you commented in agreement. Why would I argue with you when you just proved me right?
@@gavinhillick Ah, I see. Some Scots like to act as of they've been unfairly treated, or that power is balanced against them. It's refreshing to see a Scottish nationalist who just doesn't like the union, with no BS reasons attached.
I am not going to write like I am a politician or go on about the pros & cons. What I will say is that we had a vote...... The vote was NO end off!! The Scottish people Voted!! but this constant effort from sturgeon and her party to breakup the union is disrespectful to the Scottish people and it's embarrassing for a first minister to act in this way. She keeps going on about independence but since being in power has destroyed our educational system our care homes are horrendous, care home staff can't cope and are under paid just like our NHS just like the teachers our mental health staff openly addmitt how poor the Scottish government funds are, infrastructure is a complete joke!! Also if SNP had gotten there wish Scotland right now would be in a bad bad way!!! no furlow scheme that was the UK government that done that not SNP, she hasn't got the interests of the Scottish people at heart only her personal vendetta towards England.... Tired of hearing it. Take Scotland forwards not backwards!!! Hope everyone in the UK have a great Christmas and happy New year also please STAY SAFE let's hope for a much better 2021 🙏👍🎅🎅🎅
First, Scotland is not recognised as a sovereign nation by the rest of the world so leaving the UK is nothing like the UK leaving the EU. Second, to become a sovereign nation, Scotland needs either a rich sponsor (as with other recent new sovereign nations) or a credit rating to borrow money. The EU would be very reluctant to be a sponsor as Spain would vote against it because of Catalonia. If someone persuaded Spain to accept it, and the EU did sponsor Scotland it would have to impose the Euro and set Scotland's fiscal policy from Brussels. If Scotland went completely independent without the EU, where would it get its credit rating from so it could borrow money? The UK is in debt along with 20+ other EU states so anyone thinking it can take a share of UK reserves without taking a share of the UK debt is simply not understanding how the financing of governments is achieved in the world. At that point the rest of the world will view it as "Who wants to risk their money on the SNP's political experiment with no proof of the SNP's ability to run an economy?". Current Scottish companies will move headquarters to UK and Edinburgh's financial services will crumble - why would people from outside Scotland leave their money in what would then be a foreign country?
The SNP dream referendum addresses none of these points, and pretends they won't be a problem.
Sigh. Spain is on record saying they have no objection if Scotland gains independence by constitutional means. That argument was debunked in 2014. As for sovereignty. The people are sovereign in Scotland and every nation has the right to self determination. I suppose you were saying the Baltic States weren't sovereign in 1991, eh?
What is it with people that they act as if Scotland is the first country to ever leave a union. Norway, The Baltic States, Ireland. The list is quite long.
Please don't leave Scotland we love you as a brother
@Graeme Roberts I just love Scotland though as a Brit I've been there and lived there and the people are really nice that's why I don't want them to leave and because it will make everyone poorer especially the poor Scottish England and Scotland for life 🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
@Graeme Roberts and why do you want to leave?
@Graeme Roberts may I ask
@Graeme Roberts OK I am really tired so I am going to make this short there has really been no real changes except in the government but that is there problem and it is a bit mean to say you don't trust the people in England you might as well not trust the people in Wales because they pretty much vote the same 🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🇯🇪🇯🇪🇯🇪🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
@Graeme Roberts you do no Germany pretty much controls the EU that's why France Greece and Poland wants to leave. OK so you want to leave the UK because Scotland is apparently being controlled England and then you will join the EU (they won't let you in because of Spain and Catalonia because everyone has to agree to let you in and Spain won't same with France because Britain and France are best friends) to be controlled by the 4 riech
seven nation army
Brexit, Covid, and something unrelated that the scottish people have already voted no to.
@Graeme Roberts Too bad you only get to have another vote if the english say you can, and they've already said no :)
@Graeme Roberts who's voted for indyref2? Have I missed something?
Or have you?
@Graeme Roberts maybe you should realise that for many of us a vote for SNP doesn't necessarily mean a vote for independence.
@Graeme Roberts interesting you're making up 'facts' to suit your own narrative.
Hard to argue with a cult
@Graeme Roberts Polls, polls..
Anyway, I admire your fervour. Take care
Wrexham is offended Nicola!
Labour should get a woman leader in Scotland. Ladies clearly are better received by Scots
Will Boris amass a northern Fyrd at the border, and crosses the tweed at Coldstream. That would be a real rubicon moment. 😂
Scotland 🏴 free and independent 🏴 ! Time to act soon.
Vive l'Écosse libre.
yes?
@@silverhost9782 absolutely yes
This again... 😴😴😴😴
It's natural for Nations to be Independent and sovereign it's the Wold's most popular and effective means of government, Should Scotland be an independent nation Yes of course.
Government is Edinburgh, or Brussels ?
Maybe it is a good idea to let Scotland, NI, Wales, and Ireland become one country since they are all Celtic groups.
About as good an idea as every Germanic country joining together, or every Latin one, or Slavic.
I'm joking of course. That's an idiotic idea.
@@gavinhillick It is not idiotic at all. It has been tried before.
Let's unite the anglosphere while we're at it then yeah? Since we're in lala land and all
@@melvinbeck5047 So what? Lots of idiotic things have been tried before. An idea doesn't stop being idiotic just because some idiot manages to carry it out. Jesus Christ.
@@silverhost9782 I think CANZUK is a wonderful opportunity and the UK should really focus on that. I am not so sure about the Canadians, but the Kiwi's and the other Aussies are a good opportunity for the British.
If Brexit finally happens and thus United Kingdom leaves the EU, they should leave it for good. (Continue here)
When British meant freedom, they meant Brexit. It's happening. We now all know what Brexit will be. But we have to admit one thing that would protect their freedom (and potentially all the Brexit's theoretical benefits) if done, and that is: After Brexit, United Kingdom should never return to the EU again, ever.
Why? Because of two reasons:
- Firstly, how most Brits wanted to leave EU. This is evident in the votes on June 23rd, 2016, where the majority of the votes chose to leave the EU. Which only confirms that the British wanted UK to leave EU, which formed Brexit of nowadays.
- Secondly, Brexit is believed to have only several all-considerable upsides and thus claimed by many Brits to utterly lacks a real downside. This is only theoretical, however many Brits (especially the Brexitter and virtually all pro-Brexit guys) have supported these theoretical benefits and even claims that Brexit would be among the best things happened to the UK, without ruling the risks and possible consequences.
Yeah, this is more like it. If UK leaves, they should leave for good.
uống nhiều nước quá bị lâu Bác a . hoa đon tiền điện
Braveheart
The is big thing in england for scotish independance. Let the English have a vote and we give you independence . 6 million scots we not miss you . The north of England get more funding teesside will take the sub and tyne and tees will do the shipbuilding.
There you go. That word give. How arrogant! It isn't your gift to give.
@joe caterman Scotland puts in more than it gets back.
Agree, we should get to vote on their membership as much as the other way round🏴
@@silverhost9782 Like the Europeans got to vote on Brexit...Oh, they didn't 😂😂😂😂😂🏴
@@BrokenBackMountains Maybe they should have then eh
The United Kingdom cannot force a future on the people of Scotland of which they have rejected time and time again without their consent. An Independence referendum lets us bypass this we will have two options 1. To vote for the Union meaning we must accept everything they have voted for such as Brexit, tory governments (future ones too) and any other thing we are outvoted on again we can not complain as it would be our own choice or 2. We finally vote for our independence, we finally take control of everything about Scotland, our political voices are not only heard for once but they are registered, in my eyes there is no one better to run Scotland than the people who live and work here every single day of their lives, we can do this Scotland We are Strong Enough Rich Enough and Smart Enough soar alba🏴
2014??? Scotland elects a larger per capita quota of MPs to WM. I am ashamed to say that unfortunately the SNP MPs are a waste of space and do not properly represent Scotland. Just grievance mongers. Nothing to contribute other than nastiness. Love Scottish Tax Payer.
London didn't vote for Brexit or Tories, neither did Manchester. So why aren't you arguing for them to become independent countries? Democracy means respecting the result, even when you don't get the result you wanted. Not throwing your toys out of the pram and walking out of the room.
TLG this is a very poor counter argument, London is a city Scotland is a country you can’t compare a city (in which the country it belongs to voted to leave) with an actual country especially when every single constituency voted remain in the EU in Scotland, the Uk government should have made compromises but they just showed all of us up here how little we are thought of in this union, the disrespect and contempt west minister has from Scotland
James Green KT shows that a union between someone with a small population and a large population will never work to be fair, the only way we can have proper democratic representation for Scotland is by being an independent nation otherwise forget having a political opinion because your voice won’t matter
Oswald Dorin Scotland (ps it isn’t all about military I don’t understand why English people think it is and who is going to invade Scotland, Russia? China?😂)
Shouldn't Douglas Ross have been made to stand down by now? When asked what he would do if he was PM for a day he said he would introduce a law which would be racist. For that matter forget standing down, couldn't he be sued for that?
I suppose if he is going to be the Scottish Conservative leader, as I am pro independence a bad leader in Scottish Conservatives could be viewed as a good thing.
The united kingdom has had 7 Scottish prime ministers,
Prove its always been dictatorship from England.
@@ScottishRoss27 what prove
@@snowyowel7961 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Results_of_the_2016_United_Kingdom_European_Union_membership_referendum#Scotland
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_that_have_gained_independence_from_the_United_Kingdom
@@snowyowel7961 UK has to be completely disbanded into its constituent nations. I want back our oil and gas, our share of the armed forces, bbc, Our bank account in the uk central bank, our share of its gold reserves, and the taxes Westminster steals.
@@snowyowel7961 The Anglo-Scottish border runs for 96 miles between Marshall Meadows Bay on the east coast and the Solway Firth in the west and is the boundary of the two separate law jurisdictions.
Canada Border Crossing Toll Charge Into Canada is $4.25 CA
Free Alba! 🏴
The Lord God protects them who live by his will. Where to live by God’s will, a man must always put others before self. We must not worship and pray in the way of religions, including that of the Pope and Christianity; because religions are all led by the many blind guides and false prophets who are misleading us. As adult men, we must each live by the true teaching of Immanuel (called Jesus) - Here follows a summary of his true teaching…
“God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.” - (Jesus, at John 4: 24) -
“In truth I tell you, anyone who gives heed to what I say and puts his trust in him who sent me, has hold of eternal life and does not come up for judgement, but has already passed from death to life.” - (John 5: 24) -
“Beware of false prophets, men who come to you dressed up as sheep while underneath they are savage wolves. You will recognize them by the fruits they bear.” - (at Matthew 7: 15-16) -
“Any plant that is not of my heavenly Father’s planting will be rooted up. Leave them alone; they are blind guides, and if one blind man guides another they will both fall into the ditch.” - (Matthew 15: 13-14) -
“Do not call any man on earth ‘father’; for you have one Father and he is in heaven. Nor must you be called ‘teacher’; you have one Teacher, the Messiah.” - (Matthew 23: 9-10) -
“I am the light of the world. No follower of mine shall wander in the dark; he shall have the light of life.” - (Jesus, at John 8: 12) -
“Take care that no one misleads you: For many will come claiming my name…”
- (Matthew 24: 4) -
“Many false prophets will arise, and will mislead many; and as lawlessness spreads, men’s love for one another will grow cold. But the man who holds out to the end will be saved. And this gospel of the Kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the earth as a testimony to all nations; and then the end will come.” - (Matthew 24: 11-14) -
“You shall know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” - (John 8: 32) -
“When you pray, go into a room by yourself, and shut the door. Pray to your Father who is there in the secret place; and your Father who sees what is secret will reward you.
In your prayers do not go babbling on like the heathen, who imagine that the more they say the more likely they are to be heard.
Do not imitate them. Your Father knows what your needs are before you ask him.
This is how you should pray:
Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name,
Your kingdom come; your will be done, on earth as in heaven,
Give us each day our daily bread,
Forgive us the wrong we have done, as we have forgiven those who have wronged us.
And do not bring us to the test, but save us from the evil one.
For yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory, for ever.
Amen.
For if you forgive others the wrongs they have done, your heavenly Father will also forgive you; but if you do not forgive others, then the wrongs you have done will not be forgiven by your Father.” - (Matthew 6: 6-15) -
“Pass no judgement, and you will not be judged. For as you judge others, so you will yourselves be judged, and whatever measure you deal out to others will be dealt back to you.” - (Matthew 7: 1-2) -
“Truly I tell you; if anyone obeys my teaching he shall never know what it is to die.” - (John 8: 51) -
“Is there a man among you who will offer his son a stone if he asks for bread or a snake when he asks for fish? If you then, bad as you are, know how to give your children what is good for them, how much more will your heavenly Father give good things to those who ask him!
Always treat others as you would like them to treat you: that is the Law and the Prophets.
Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life and only a few find it.- (Matthew 7: 9-14) -
“I am the gate; anyone who comes into the fold through me shall be safe. He shall go in and out and shall find pasturage.
The thief comes only to steal, to kill, to destroy; I have come that men may have life, and may have it in all its fullness.” - (John 10: 9-10) -
“I am the resurrection and I am life. If a man has faith in me, even though he dies, he shall come to life; and no one who is alive and has faith shall ever die.” - (John 11: 25-26) -
“I have not come to judge the world, but to save the world” - (John 12: 47) -
“Whoever then will acknowledge me before men, I will acknowledge him before my Father in heaven; and whoever disowns me before men, I will disown him before my Father in heaven.” - (Matthew 10: 32-34) -
“I am the way; I am the truth and I am life; no one comes to the Father except by me. If you knew me you would know my Father too.” - (John 14: 6-7) -
“The disciples came and asked Jesus, ‘Who, then, is the greatest in the kingdom of Heaven?’ He called a little child to him, and placed the child among them. And he said: ‘Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of Heaven. Therefore, whoever takes the lowly position of this child is the greatest in the kingdom of Heaven. And whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me.
If anyone causes one of these little ones-those who believe in me-to stumble, It would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.
Woe to the world because of the things that cause people to stumble! Such things must come, but woe to the person through whom they come!’” - (Matthew 18: 1-7) -
“Though many are called, few are chosen.” - (Matthew 22: 14) -
“An expert in the law, [a leading religious Pharisee] tested him with this question: ‘Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?’ He answered, ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind. That is the greatest commandment. It comes first. The second is like it: Love your neighbour as yourself.
Everything in the Law and the Prophets hangs on these two commandments.’” - (Matthew 22: 35-40) -
“There is no greater love than this, that a man should lay down his life for his friends.” - (John 15: 13) -
“One of the criminals who hung there also mocked and taunted him: ‘Aren’t you the Messiah? Save yourself, and us!’ But the other criminal rebuked him. ‘Have you no fear of God? You are under the same sentence as he. For us it is plain justice; we are paying the price for our misdeeds; but this man has done nothing wrong.’ And he said, ‘Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.’ He answered, “I tell you this: today you shall be with me in Paradise.’” - (Luke 23: 39-43) -
“For it is my Father’s will that everyone who looks upon the Son and puts his faith in him shall possess eternal life; and I will raise him up on the last day” - (John 6: 40) -
Yours always, in true Spirit and in our one given prayer, 2gointruth, Friday the 18th of September, 2020: - (Matthew 5:14-16) - Where every minute (of both day and night) can be a new beginning for any one of us. Let it always be you.
The disintegration of the UK is imminent due to a number of 'perfect-storm' factors in play. It was inevitable really. I mean, can you think of anything that was particularly united about it from its inception?
Having said this, how can any small nation thrive in the modern global landscape and still maintain its autonomy and identity? Isn't it ironic that, just like a millennium ago, Scotland's replacement landlord will be a Dane: Anders Holch Povlsen is currently Scotland's biggest private landowner, already owning 1000 square kilometers!
Lots of Lies Shame on You
Red shoes
Take back control !
Is Angus Robertson OK? Does he have somewhere to stay at night?!
Why does everyone from opposition ministers to mainstream media to the English Public always go on about once in a generation but never mention that n 2014 the Better together camp said “the only way to safeguard EU membership status was a vote to remain in the Union”
Amazing that that seems to be forgotten about.
Now look where we are..
I don't get you the better together side lost, so what relevance is their commitments? It'd be like me saying i was expecting more wealth distribution this year from Corbyn even though Boris won lol
da wei what don’t you get?
the no to independence vote/better together won in 2014, and it was based on the scaremongering to Scottish people that a vote to leave the United Kingdom was a vote to lose our EU membership. Fast forward to 2016 and boom, Scotland gets hauled out of the EU.. some pledge from the better together camp.. so what I’m saying is the once in a generation bullshite doesn’t cut it. Circumstances have changed and the people of Scotland being sovereign should decide not Doris and not the Tories in Westminster
Micro agressions and what isn't said by Nicola when given the chance.
Independence for the home land scree the pommi English
It's POMI not pommi.
I think the scots love the union,....but the european- just a bit more. 😎
When they are independent I will move to Scotland any single area in Scotland is better than in England inc economy.People have a higher standard of life.
The UK is finished. Hit the accelerator Scotland and reclaim your sovereignty.
Torta Queso yes. Then hand that sovereignty over to the eu.
JimBeam If the Scottish people want to join the EU that’s up to them. England have interfered in the sovereignty of other nations for way too long.
Torta Queso Scotland already had a referendum in 2014 and voted to remain part of the uk. Anyway, more scots voted for unionist parties than the snp. More scots voted for Brexit than the snp.
SNP think Scotland are monaco. Please go get your independence 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂
@Graeme Roberts seen you comment multiple times. You dont know what you're on about
@Graeme Roberts where are these records?
I wish you Scots would stay but i dont blame you one bit for wanting to leave. Id leave if i could
I want them to leave, they're tiring🏴 we're better without