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I don't know how old you are, and I don't want to be patronising but seriously this is pretty basic stuff, so I will spell it out simply for you. For about 10 years the SNP advocated joining the Euro......Salmond was certain it was part of the strategy for independence...

Well not quite Margret, the polls the SNP commissioned in the run up to the referendum indicated only 7% of Scots wanted to join the euro, as a consequence the SNP abandoned a long held policy for independence........to abandon the pound. No doubt this very small group in Scotland share a...

Yes, me too, my general approach to posting is never to be more smug and supercilious than you, so I certainly couldn't have been banned for that as you are still posting on that basis.......

Indeed it was, however if the SNP had felt that binning off the pound for the euro was a vote winner then they would have evidently employed that policy in the referendum debate. They didn't and the currency issue remained a difficult area for the Yes camp to credibly overcome, because those...

The future is already here, who got to vote on the expansion of the EU to Poland, Bulgaria, Romania and the Baltic states? We never got a vote then, so why do you think will we get one on Turkey? The evidence indicates we won't.........that's not a prophecy.

I am ignoring the polls, but how can I be ignoring the results of vote? The result of the vote was No. You can pretend it was Yes but trust me the evidence was very clearly No. If the vote was No, then ii don't need a scientific algorithm to confirm that the majority of scots did not want...

No that's not right. No one has voted for what the EU has become.........and it certainly isn't controlled by the European Parliament. This is by design, the electorate is deliberately remote from the executive power. This is why the EU has grown to 28 states and will soon push out its...

I don't doubt you.........but removed from the thread I have been, and the Brussels one.........not had the courtesy of being told why.

No, I don't care about polls..........we know where obsessing about polls got the Labour Party last year. The results of the actual independence referendum were unequivocal, the scots wanted the pound not the euro. They didn't want independence from the rest of the U.K. They didn't buy the...

Not quite my little kartoffelkloesse. The World Trade Organisation said such subsidies were illegal. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10463761 To some extent of course, as an old socialist I have no truck with state subsidies per se, however it's the f***ing EU that made them illegal, so their whole...

The SNP have since accepted that during the referendum campaign they exaggerated how much money Scotland could earn from oil (by over 13 times) and that was before the current price crash. The SNP would also have to explain to the Scots why joining the euro is now the best option, given that it...

Well, to some extent you have a point, Having read your post I did Google "Airbus EU subsidy" and bless my soul what did I find? https://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/dispu_e/cases_e/ds316_e.htm If Airbus is going to leave the UK they will certainly not be getting the money from the EU as they...