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Edit, stupid caching. Didn't see the updated thread.
Poll: The GD Referendum – Scottish Independence
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He had no choice really. At least he was man enough to step aside without a big fuss.
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Yesterday morning, he has the real possibility of being the Prime Minister of Scotland. Just a day later, he's jobless.
Funny how the world turns sometimes.
Funny how the world turns sometimes.
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Milliband should be looking over his shoulder after refusing to sign up to the promised extra devo powers for Scotland. Qulle surprise.
Glasgow's Labour Council will be terrified of what may come next after last night's #Yes win there.
Glasgow's Labour Council will be terrified of what may come next after last night's #Yes win there.
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If that isn't the SNP trying to secure the next term by putting people off of Labour, then I'm a monkeys uncle.
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Labour are not refusing new Scottish powers, but a change to England's status.
Exactly, it isn't the promised Scottish powers he's questioning, its the process of deciding the wider power changes to balance those new powers in the rest of the UK, particularly England.
How long will you carry on playing the victim?
Miliband doesn't want devolution for England.
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I'm not so sure. I've canvassed for GE campaigns before - hard work. I've been absolutely shattered by the end. That's just in my local area, and only for 8 weeks at a time. Salmond went from a General Election in 2010, straight in to a Scottish election in 2011, then the 2 year Independence campaign. That's five years of near constant campaigning while trying to be First Minister of Scotland and the leader of the SNP. He must be absolutely shattered.
Throw in the moral defeat of coming so close to victory (despite nobody initially believing 'Yes Scotland' had a cat in hell's chance) and I can't imagine he has much left in the tank.
Rest works wonders. Just look at the 2010 vs 2014 transformation of Gordon Brown.
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Lol, think about that for just 1 second.
The Queen, giving a knighthood to someone who is trying to split her country in half?
500 years ago he would've been locked up in the Tower of London for treason! Lol
Granted he has come far from where he was but "almost doing it" is just that, almost. He failed.
Hilarious. A man without a plan or anything concrete beyond his vision. A man who's only recourse to difficult questions was to cry scaremongering and bullying. A man who had the audacity to accuse Scots voting No of not being patriotic or scottish. A man who could not give a straight, honest answer to anything. A man who put his ego and place in history before that of his country. I could go on, but I won't. A knighthood would be an utter disgrace.
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He still wanted the Queen to be Head of State of an independent Scotland. The crown isn't allowed to be political so it must acknowledge Salmond's services to Scotland imo.
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Its possible exhaustion was the deciding factor, but I don't think so. He must have known his physical and emotional state before the day, and he must have at least reconciled himself with the possibility of a 'No'. I am pretty sure he'd have made up his mind what he was going to do before today. I would have.
Of course this all conjecture on my part, but it just seems a bit strange to me is all.