Alex Salmond: A second Scottish referendum is inevitible

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As the referendum didn't go the direction that the minority in Scotland wanted he feels it is inevitible there will be a second vote. Should Scotland have a second referendum, or a third, or a fourth, until the minority becomes the majority and they get what they want?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-33668002

Personally I feel there should not be a second referendum for at least a generation or two. The vote was had, and the majority wanted to stay in the Union.
 
At first i was glad they voted to stop in and keep it a Union , but its just going on and on .

SNP thought they were going to be the King makers and it fell off a cliff.

Let them have it again and again till they get a Yes , that's what i feel now
 
A generation or two wait till another would seem like a logical solution to me. That way the majority of people voting in it wont have voted in the last one.
 
Frankly I don't care. It's Scotland and I am English. The sweeties always moan, it's part of the culture of being Scottish in my experience not least when it's about the English and how they feel about us. Similar to how we moan about the jocks, leeks and paddies to be fair whether it be battered mars bar eating, cottage burning or drunken thickos. All of it is of course rubbish but that's what we do. Sad that some Scottish people seem to think it's an agenda to do them bad which is preposterous and sad. But as I say I am English and feel comfortable that Scotland will be the weaker without a UK than with England so fill your boots if that's what you want and let's get on with life and ribbing one another I hope with tongues in cheeks.
 
if its just going to be a regular thing then i think its grossly unwise for the government to put any real investment or facilities/infrastructure up there for the hupheval it would cause moving it south of the border.
 
A referendum for the English to go it alone might answer The Scottish Referendum Question once and for all.

To be honest I'm sick and tired of hearing Nicola Sturgeon and Alex Salmond's winging whining voices to such and extent that if they said anything sensible my mind would have already switched off.
 
Should never be one. The old cogger and his supporters should do the world a favour and die, nationalism needs to die and birders need to slowly crumble. Not be put back up.
 
If the SNP get a yes what's the chances of them having a another referendum a few years later to check everyone is still happy with the decision?
 
Belly said:
A referendum for the English to go it alone might answer The Scottish Referendum Question once and for all.

To be honest I'm sick and tired of hearing Nicola Sturgeon and Alex Salmond's winging whining voices to such and extent that if they said anything sensible my mind would have already switched off.
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what would be interesting if the rest of the uk voted to leave scotland, would Scotland as being the one "left behind" inherit all of the uks old treaties/position in europe and the rest of the uk that "left" be the ones having to renegotiate everything,
 
A very slim majority voted to stay in based on what now turns out to be fake promises by the UK Conservatives. So yeah, a second referendum would be inevitable at some point. So he never said it would be an immediate referendum but that it would very much depend on three things.

  1. A failure to deliver on the so-called "vow". (See link below)
    http://thepoliticodaily.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/tory-evel-proposals-break-vow-made-to.html

  2. The possible outcome of the EU referendum. It would not be in Scotland's best interest to leave the EU. The drive to leave the EU is very much an "English" thing.
    http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/..._Britain_wants_to_say_goodbye__says_new_poll/
    http://thepoliticodaily.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/tory-evel-proposals-break-vow-made-to.html
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/new...ts-pledge-to-stop-the-English-leaving-EU.html

  3. "divergent views" over austerity cuts.

Basically, promises were made, promises were (and are) being broken and now the people (Scottish) those promises were made too are getting increasingly unhappy. If you make a promise, then break it, don't get all alarmed and insulted when someone says "**** you".

Please fully star out all swearing. Thank you.
 
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Belly said:
A referendum for the English to go it alone might answer The Scottish Referendum Question once and for all.

To be honest I'm sick and tired of hearing Nicola Sturgeon and Alex Salmond's winging whining voices to such and extent that if they said anything sensible my mind would have already switched off.
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And I'm sure most people are sick and tired of little Englanders who still believe England is a relevant world power. Go ahead and do that, let us know how England gets on by itself as a separate non EU nation. It would be a case of how irrelevant can England become in World powers.
 
ICDP said:
And I'm sure most people are sick and tired of little Englanders who still believe England is a relevant world power. Go ahead and do that, let us know how England gets on by itself as a separate non EU nation. It would be a case of how irrelevant can England become in World powers.
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getting rid of Scotland doesn't mean getting rid of the eu....
 
Belly said:
And who might they be? You're saying MOST, so I assume you can come up with 51% of the world's population, go on name them!
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what's funny is referring to the 5th biggest economy in the world as irrelevant to world events.
 
ICDP said:
Very true is we take UK as a whole, separate the member nations and the English are by far the major supporters or an EU exit.
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The major supporters of the eu ecit are a vocal minority. Even within England.
 
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