Faslane Sub Base To Be "Sovereign Base Area"

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Re: Faslane Sub Base To Be "Sovereign Base Area"

Post by Clinton Huxley » Thu Jul 11, 2013 12:25 pm

I think the Scots should pay to move it....
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Re: Faslane Sub Base To Be "Sovereign Base Area"

Post by Rum » Thu Jul 11, 2013 12:27 pm

Clinton Huxley wrote:It could put my tax up of we have to build a massive new sub base in Cumbria or somewhere, for starters.
Fuck that for a starter. Its up in Scotland so it it gets attacked England is safe! :tut:

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Re: Faslane Sub Base To Be "Sovereign Base Area"

Post by Clinton Huxley » Thu Jul 11, 2013 12:28 pm

Rum wrote:
Clinton Huxley wrote:It could put my tax up of we have to build a massive new sub base in Cumbria or somewhere, for starters.
Fuck that for a starter. Its up in Scotland so it it gets attacked England is safe! :tut:
Could build it in N. Ireland.
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Post by Rum » Thu Jul 11, 2013 12:33 pm

Excellent!

..and hope it IS attacked!

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Post by Audley Strange » Thu Jul 11, 2013 12:34 pm

We seem to have reached an amicable agreement.
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Post by Rum » Thu Jul 11, 2013 12:38 pm

Audley Strange wrote:Some people really are getting their knickers in a twist about our potential independence, especially those who are not affected by it. Probably just the type of authoritarian scum drunk on the Daily Mail nostalgia myth versions of previous centuries. Like its the last bit of the empire finally telling them to fuck off.

Thing is, their protests always seem to be that of a petulant soon to be divorcee. "Yeah well you can leave but your not taking my Prince C.D.s!!!"

Don't worry if we go, you can keep the Northern Irish.
I think this is where a great many Scots have it wrong. The average Brit does not see Scotland in any way as a possession or in any sort of colonial light. Far from it in fact. Most, including myself, see it as a unique partnership. Nobody I know considers England to have imperial control over Scotland. I genuinely think it will be a loss to both countries if you go your own way. As an aside I also think you will suffer economically, but that's another matter.

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Post by ronmcd » Thu Jul 11, 2013 1:47 pm

Clinton Huxley wrote:I think the Scots should pay to move it....
I have a much better solution. Scrap it (bung it on ebay-for-rogue-states.com) and don't bother building a new deep channel base.

Sorted!

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Post by ronmcd » Thu Jul 11, 2013 1:49 pm

Rum wrote:
Audley Strange wrote:Some people really are getting their knickers in a twist about our potential independence, especially those who are not affected by it. Probably just the type of authoritarian scum drunk on the Daily Mail nostalgia myth versions of previous centuries. Like its the last bit of the empire finally telling them to fuck off.

Thing is, their protests always seem to be that of a petulant soon to be divorcee. "Yeah well you can leave but your not taking my Prince C.D.s!!!"

Don't worry if we go, you can keep the Northern Irish.
I think this is where a great many Scots have it wrong. The average Brit does not see Scotland in any way as a possession or in any sort of colonial light. Far from it in fact. Most, including myself, see it as a unique partnership. Nobody I know considers England to have imperial control over Scotland. I genuinely think it will be a loss to both countries if you go your own way. As an aside I also think you will suffer economically, but that's another matter.
Hmm. On your first point, I agree, the average Brit doesnt see Scotland in any sort of colonial light. But you assume Scots do, and we don't.

I've said it before : independence isn't about anti-British, or anti-English, or anti anything really. It's not about England at all.

It's just about Scotland, and making all decisions here rather than some, as currently.

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Re: Faslane Sub Base To Be "Sovereign Base Area"

Post by Clinton Huxley » Thu Jul 11, 2013 1:54 pm

ronmcd wrote:
Clinton Huxley wrote:I think the Scots should pay to move it....
I have a much better solution. Scrap it (bung it on ebay-for-rogue-states.com) and don't bother building a new deep channel base.

Sorted!
I actually wouldn't disagree with that. It's a pointless thing to have.
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Re: Faslane Sub Base To Be "Sovereign Base Area"

Post by Audley Strange » Thu Jul 11, 2013 2:03 pm

Rum wrote:
Audley Strange wrote:Some people really are getting their knickers in a twist about our potential independence, especially those who are not affected by it. Probably just the type of authoritarian scum drunk on the Daily Mail nostalgia myth versions of previous centuries. Like its the last bit of the empire finally telling them to fuck off.

Thing is, their protests always seem to be that of a petulant soon to be divorcee. "Yeah well you can leave but your not taking my Prince C.D.s!!!"

Don't worry if we go, you can keep the Northern Irish.
I think this is where a great many Scots have it wrong. The average Brit does not see Scotland in any way as a possession or in any sort of colonial light. Far from it in fact. Most, including myself, see it as a unique partnership. Nobody I know considers England to have imperial control over Scotland. I genuinely think it will be a loss to both countries if you go your own way. As an aside I also think you will suffer economically, but that's another matter.
Yeah when my dad ditched us, my mother was left without a penny. Due to some stupid bureaucracy and her own ignorance, she never received any money from the state nor from him. It was hard, I had to sacrifice my first university admission (until I hit 23) in order to get a job, but we survived. Took us both decades but now we are both well off and content.

As for your point about Scotland being a possession I was only being facetious, mostly. This unique partnership sounds as hollow as "the special relationship" with the States. A way of making a has been country feel like its still important on the world stage even though its lost everything (again I'n not accusing you of this, hence the description above), but many of us think it's time to split.

And like an ugly divorce, one partner is claiming "you'll never make it without me" and trying to find ways to be vindictive. Metaphorically of course.
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Re: Faslane Sub Base To Be "Sovereign Base Area"

Post by ronmcd » Thu Jul 11, 2013 4:33 pm

Clinton Huxley wrote:
ronmcd wrote:
Clinton Huxley wrote:I think the Scots should pay to move it....
I have a much better solution. Scrap it (bung it on ebay-for-rogue-states.com) and don't bother building a new deep channel base.

Sorted!
I actually wouldn't disagree with that. It's a pointless thing to have.
Yup, and the only thing those nukes are ever going to do is either

a) rot, and have to be disposed of/buried somewhere the UK/US don't care about (probably Coulport, actually)
b) detonate in a massive fuck-up accident. As could happen at any time, as the nukes are regularly transported hundreds of miles across the UK by road between Coulport and somewhere in Berkshire.

With apologies for my insensitivity to those in Canada, at least the MOD don't move them by train.

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Post by MrJonno » Thu Jul 11, 2013 5:42 pm

Just realised if Scotland goes independent all the English can get free/cheap university education there as EU foreigners. That is seriously going to cause problems with the highest university fees in Europe next to a country with the cheapest
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Re: Faslane Sub Base To Be "Sovereign Base Area"

Post by Rum » Thu Jul 11, 2013 6:28 pm

Audley Strange wrote:
Rum wrote:
Audley Strange wrote:Some people really are getting their knickers in a twist about our potential independence, especially those who are not affected by it. Probably just the type of authoritarian scum drunk on the Daily Mail nostalgia myth versions of previous centuries. Like its the last bit of the empire finally telling them to fuck off.

Thing is, their protests always seem to be that of a petulant soon to be divorcee. "Yeah well you can leave but your not taking my Prince C.D.s!!!"

Don't worry if we go, you can keep the Northern Irish.
I think this is where a great many Scots have it wrong. The average Brit does not see Scotland in any way as a possession or in any sort of colonial light. Far from it in fact. Most, including myself, see it as a unique partnership. Nobody I know considers England to have imperial control over Scotland. I genuinely think it will be a loss to both countries if you go your own way. As an aside I also think you will suffer economically, but that's another matter.
Yeah when my dad ditched us, my mother was left without a penny. Due to some stupid bureaucracy and her own ignorance, she never received any money from the state nor from him. It was hard, I had to sacrifice my first university admission (until I hit 23) in order to get a job, but we survived. Took us both decades but now we are both well off and content.

As for your point about Scotland being a possession I was only being facetious, mostly. This unique partnership sounds as hollow as "the special relationship" with the States. A way of making a has been country feel like its still important on the world stage even though its lost everything (again I'n not accusing you of this, hence the description above), but many of us think it's time to split.

And like an ugly divorce, one partner is claiming "you'll never make it without me" and trying to find ways to be vindictive. Metaphorically of course.
Having had a good think about how I really feel about independence and how many ordinary Scots feel about England I have concluded I don't actually give a fuck.

Off you go Scotland and play at Nationalism - if you really want to. My bet is for all the bluster you won't go for it though. As you have said elsewhere many people prefer moaning about their 'chains' rather than doing something about them. If chains indeed they are.

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Re: Faslane Sub Base To Be "Sovereign Base Area"

Post by laklak » Thu Jul 11, 2013 6:32 pm

You Brits were always pretty good at showing up and saying "this is mine now, fuck off".
Yeah well that's just, like, your opinion, man.

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Re: Faslane Sub Base To Be "Sovereign Base Area"

Post by ronmcd » Thu Jul 11, 2013 8:22 pm

Rum wrote: Having had a good think about how I really feel about independence and how many ordinary Scots feel about England I have concluded I don't actually give a fuck.
It's strange, seems to me those people who claim they don't "give a fuck" about the topic are often the ones who seem most riled by the very idea lol.

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