Prince Harry Fighting in Afghanistan?

[TheTreeWiseMen]

Wow...let's all hear it for Dagmar!! That girl knows her history......and current events too.

[skyhuck]

:dito::congrats:

[Andy Collins]

Jeez, wish I could read books!! The girl's good, v good, I just cut a few trees. and live in a council house. I need to get me an edumacation thingummybob.

[David Humphries]

Dagmar for Primeminister!

 

Forget Prime Minister, imagine a union between Dagmar and Prince Harry !!!!!!

We could be talking Masters of the Universe...........

[Andy Collins]

Forget Prime Minister, imagine a union between Dagmar and Prince Harry !!!!!!

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At least the kids would be good looking, going by the gene pool, and of course quite well off, which would then open them up to sneers of derision from some quarters.

[Benji MacNab]

Funny thing is that despite all of the whining that comes from the Scots about having been forced into the Union, history tells us different story.

 

On the death of Elizabeth the First in 1603 there was no legitimate heir to the English throne so James the Sixth of Scotland was asked to take it, he did so becoming James the First of England, or rather just King James at the time. This culminates in the act of Union in 1706/07. So it could be argued that the Scottish lent the English their Kings for a hundred or so years, before taking the throne for themselves. Perhaps it is the English that should feel aggrieved?

 

My own opinion of the Union, for what it's worth, was that it worked best when its constituent parts didn't have to speak to each other, thus avoiding unpleasantness - and to my mind it's no coincidence that the advent of organised Scottish nationalism postdated the advent of mass broadcasting by only a very few short years

 

Oil seems to upset everyone in Scotland... On the time-scales of history, over which things like devolution or independence will be judged, the oil is basically irrelevant... it might be useful as a transitional lubricant, but it isn't the fuel for a future resource dependent economy. But the Scots have seen it (oil revenue)come back to them almost from the day it started coming ashore, in the form of investment and employment opportunities both direct and secondary and the ever rising public services bill, to the British Treasury.

 

Annual public spending on schools, hospitals and other public services is around £1,500 a head more in Scotland than in England – all funded by the British Treasury.

 

Scots now enjoy free personal care for the elderly, free bus and train travel for over 60s, free eye and dental checks, pay no university tuition fees, and get range of life-saving drugs on the NHS that are denied to patients in England. Soon that will extend to free prescriptions for all (in Scotland).

 

I guess that we could all build socialist wonderlands if some else picks up the bill, but if the Scots want to go their own way, they should take the responsibility to fund it. In the event they'll simply change from one subsidiser, England, to the EU and continue to ride the handout gravy train – until it hits the buffer anyway.

 

If just one good thing comes out of Scottish independence, it will be that, having become a nation again, the dreadful dirge 'Flower of Scotland' will automatically become redundant and a new anthem will be required.

 

Given the way things are going on the immigration front it's likely to feature bhangra, balalaikas and gypsy violins.

 

Dagmar,

 

If you have a problem with all us whining Scots then surely the obvious solution is to give both Scotland and England full economic independence?

 

Problem solved.

 

As for the Scots being subsidised by the English, it's a London metropolitan tabloid myth put forward by the likes of Kelvin MacKenzie and other Fleet St reactionary has-beens.

[Andy Collins]

Benji, you aint by any chance George Galloway are you?

[skyhuck]

Benji, you aint by any chance George Galloway are you?

 

[High Scale]

Lets face it, we should not be there, Afghanistan or Iraq.

[Andy Collins]

Oh no... here we go again