the Scottish independence issue
Aug 18th 2014, 9:12 pm
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Re: the Scottish independence issue
The queen was visiting Scotland and Alex Salmond stopped by.
HM: Good morning
Mr. Salmond Salmond: Good morning Ma'am, may I have your opinion
HM: Certainly Salmond: When we gain independance, should we call it a Kingdom so I can be a King?
HM: Oh we don't like that
Salmond: How about a Princilality? Then I'd be a Prince?
HM: Lets just call it a country.
HM: Good morning
Mr. Salmond Salmond: Good morning Ma'am, may I have your opinion
HM: Certainly Salmond: When we gain independance, should we call it a Kingdom so I can be a King?
HM: Oh we don't like that
Salmond: How about a Princilality? Then I'd be a Prince?
HM: Lets just call it a country.
Aug 18th 2014, 9:22 pm
#1547
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Re: the Scottish independence issue
Wouldn't he want a new title?
Aug 18th 2014, 9:25 pm
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Re: the Scottish independence issue
The queen was visiting Scotland and Alex Salmond stopped by.
HM: Good morning Mr. Salmond
Salmond: Good morning Ma'am, may I have your opinion
HM: Certainly
Salmond: When we gain independence, should we call it a Kingdom so I can be a King?
HM: Oh we don't like that
Salmond: How about a Princilality? Then I'd be a Prince?
HM: Lets just call it a country.
HM: Good morning Mr. Salmond
Salmond: Good morning Ma'am, may I have your opinion
HM: Certainly
Salmond: When we gain independence, should we call it a Kingdom so I can be a King?
HM: Oh we don't like that
Salmond: How about a Princilality? Then I'd be a Prince?
HM: Lets just call it a country.
Aug 18th 2014, 10:01 pm
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Re: the Scottish independence issue
But there again.....another stop over on the way down here from Scotland.......this time in a place called CARNFORTH - again in Lancashire, and a place made famous apparently because the train station there (which is still fully operational) was the setting for much of the action in a WW2 romantic drama film called "Brief Encounter".
I went into a fairly large supermarket there as I needed to stock up at home but even though this was the "North" in an English perspective there was certainly no sign of any kind of "depression and social deprivation"....it was early Saturday afternoon, again...the store was heaving.... and most of the trolleys people were pushing around were packed to the gunnels with just about everything imaginable...from foodstufs to just about everything else beside.....NORTH
It was almost like being in Waitrose here in CHELTENHAM......SOUTH
I went into a fairly large supermarket there as I needed to stock up at home but even though this was the "North" in an English perspective there was certainly no sign of any kind of "depression and social deprivation"....it was early Saturday afternoon, again...the store was heaving.... and most of the trolleys people were pushing around were packed to the gunnels with just about everything imaginable...from foodstufs to just about everything else beside.....NORTH
It was almost like being in Waitrose here in CHELTENHAM......SOUTH
Aug 19th 2014, 2:26 am
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Re: the Scottish independence issue
But there again.....another stop over on the way down here from Scotland.......this time in a place called CARNFORTH - again in Lancashire, and a place made famous apparently because the train station there (which is still fully operational) was the setting for much of the action in a WW2 romantic drama film called "Brief Encounter".
I went into a fairly large supermarket there as I needed to stock up at home but even though this was the "North" in an English perspective there was certainly no sign of any kind of "depression and social deprivation"....it was early Saturday afternoon, again...the store was heaving.... and most of the trolleys people were pushing around were packed to the gunnels with just about everything imaginable...from foodstufs to just about everything else beside.....NORTH
It was almost like being in Waitrose here in CHELTENHAM......SOUTH
I went into a fairly large supermarket there as I needed to stock up at home but even though this was the "North" in an English perspective there was certainly no sign of any kind of "depression and social deprivation"....it was early Saturday afternoon, again...the store was heaving.... and most of the trolleys people were pushing around were packed to the gunnels with just about everything imaginable...from foodstufs to just about everything else beside.....NORTH
It was almost like being in Waitrose here in CHELTENHAM......SOUTH
I think there are nice, affluent areas up north, and there are crappy run down areas in the South. Its just there may be more of the former down South, and more of the latter up North!
Aug 19th 2014, 5:04 pm
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Re: the Scottish independence issue
Oy! In the North, men are men and women are strong!
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Aug 19th 2014, 8:58 pm
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Re: the Scottish independence issue
That line drawn between the estuaries of the Severn and the Humber just has to be the much quoted "North/South Divide" in England.
I sort of saw that for myself not all that long ago.....driving back to Cheltenham from Edinburgh I made a detour so as to enable me to visit a friend in Manchester.
I stopped off at a small(ish) town in Lancashire called Bacup It was a Saturday and it really did look quite a depressing and depressed place, quite run down in parts and it seemed as if a number of shops had closed down and out of business...and others were charity shops. Many of the people walking around looked quite depressing as well - quite scruffy and down at heel so to speak. All in all quite a cheerless little place, and the cloudy, dull weather did not help much either......NORTH
I sort of saw that for myself not all that long ago.....driving back to Cheltenham from Edinburgh I made a detour so as to enable me to visit a friend in Manchester.
I stopped off at a small(ish) town in Lancashire called Bacup It was a Saturday and it really did look quite a depressing and depressed place, quite run down in parts and it seemed as if a number of shops had closed down and out of business...and others were charity shops. Many of the people walking around looked quite depressing as well - quite scruffy and down at heel so to speak. All in all quite a cheerless little place, and the cloudy, dull weather did not help much either......NORTH
Had you gone 5 miles one way, you would have been in Rawtenstall, a different prospect altogether, 5 miles the other, Todmorden, birthplace of two Nobel prize winners, and 3 miles the other side of THAT Hebden Bridge, one of the most bohemian towns in the world allegedly.
You unfortunately hit Bacup first...
Similarly, there are depressed areas around Winchester
Aug 20th 2014, 1:00 am
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Re: the Scottish independence issue
The queen was visiting Scotland and Alex Salmond stopped by.
HM: Good morning Mr. Salmond
Salmond: Good morning Ma'am, may I have your opinion
HM: Certainly
Salmond: When we gain independence, should we call it a Kingdom so I can be a King?
HM: Oh we don't like that
Salmond: How about a Princilality? Then I'd be a Prince?
HM: Lets just call it a country.
HM: Good morning Mr. Salmond
Salmond: Good morning Ma'am, may I have your opinion
HM: Certainly
Salmond: When we gain independence, should we call it a Kingdom so I can be a King?
HM: Oh we don't like that
Salmond: How about a Princilality? Then I'd be a Prince?
HM: Lets just call it a country.
Aug 20th 2014, 1:03 am
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Re: the Scottish independence issue
But there again.....another stop over on the way down here from Scotland.......this time in a place called CARNFORTH - again in Lancashire, and a place made famous apparently because the train station there (which is still fully operational) was the setting for much of the action in a WW2 romantic drama film called "Brief Encounter".
I went into a fairly large supermarket there as I needed to stock up at home but even though this was the "North" in an English perspective there was certainly no sign of any kind of "depression and social deprivation"....it was early Saturday afternoon, again...the store was heaving.... and most of the trolleys people were pushing around were packed to the gunnels with just about everything imaginable...from foodstufs to just about everything else beside.....NORTH
It was almost like being in Waitrose here in CHELTENHAM......SOUTH
I went into a fairly large supermarket there as I needed to stock up at home but even though this was the "North" in an English perspective there was certainly no sign of any kind of "depression and social deprivation"....it was early Saturday afternoon, again...the store was heaving.... and most of the trolleys people were pushing around were packed to the gunnels with just about everything imaginable...from foodstufs to just about everything else beside.....NORTH
It was almost like being in Waitrose here in CHELTENHAM......SOUTH
Aug 20th 2014, 1:40 pm
#1556
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Re: the Scottish independence issue
....... Maybe there should be a referendum on giving the population of the UK freedom from the British government?
Aug 20th 2014, 2:11 pm
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Aug 22nd 2014, 10:40 am
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Re: the Scottish independence issue
Soon...
Aug 22nd 2014, 12:13 pm
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