ToonBairn Posted September 19, 2014 Share Posted September 19, 2014 It bothers me when people say this. He has Scotlands best interests at heart and has only ever wanted to give us the powers we deserve. The man is a wonderful politician that Scotland should be proud of. Maybe one day you'll realise that. According to the majority of Scottish people, he clearly doesn't have the countries best interests at heart. I acknowledge he's a good politician but I will never acknowledge his policies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1320Lichtie Posted September 19, 2014 Share Posted September 19, 2014 Well done you, although it was a pain in the backside that everytime someone put a Facebook post up that was in anyway related to the referendum there would be at least 4 replies that were guaranteed to be from you! As you say though, very good to see the interest in it from the younger generation Can't say I never tried!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wee Bully Posted September 19, 2014 Share Posted September 19, 2014 like i said many times ad hominem attacks. How many times in your 22 posts since you joined the forum at 10.28 this morning have you said this? Or was it one of your other alias's? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supras Posted September 19, 2014 Share Posted September 19, 2014 nd jst started saying stupid things like the english cnt stop us using the pound, even though they obviously could b/c they control the interest rates...derp. it doesn't technically stop us using it, The crux of the matter. derp. derp. derp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Banterous Posted September 19, 2014 Share Posted September 19, 2014 How many times in your 22 posts since you joined the forum at 10.28 this morning have you said this? Or was it one of your other alias's? Tbf I did use it but I was quoting Graham's Hierarchy of Disagreement while the poster was quoting me because he's stupid enough to believe I'm innovative. Self-deprecation can be used to insult sometimes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milhouse Posted September 19, 2014 Share Posted September 19, 2014 together weith england we british became the most influential nation on earth and lead the way for modern western society. on its own scotland is nothing, jst a pointless isolated state on the fringes of northern europe which wud struggle economically and politically. Dear God in heaven still this imperialistic crap. Still giving it Rule Britannia. Total dinosaur. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemmy Posted September 19, 2014 Share Posted September 19, 2014 He has failed, the snp has failed, why back failure ? No the No Voters failed, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkoRaj Posted September 19, 2014 Share Posted September 19, 2014 It's fucking desperate if Banterous is having to argue with trolls. On a thread about alex salmond! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Banterous Posted September 19, 2014 Share Posted September 19, 2014 It's fucking desperate if Banterous is having to argue with trolls. On a thread about alex salmond! There are stupid people everywhere Mark.....thankfully not too many though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hillonearth Posted September 19, 2014 Share Posted September 19, 2014 Salmond chucking it live on TV right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoversMad Posted September 19, 2014 Share Posted September 19, 2014 Salmond chucking it live on TV right now.yep, to stand down in November Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Co.Down Hibee Posted September 19, 2014 Share Posted September 19, 2014 To be fair there really isn't anywhere left for him to go now as leader of the SNP, fair play to him for getting to this point as nobody in there right mind would have seen this when he took over the party. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMMjag Posted September 19, 2014 Share Posted September 19, 2014 Scottish Labour will be doing cartwheels, he has utterly owned them at Holyrood for the last decade. Not that they have any talent at all within their own party to take advantage of the situation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Houghmagandy Posted September 19, 2014 Share Posted September 19, 2014 Dear God in heaven still this imperialistic crap. Still giving it Rule Britannia. Total dinosaur. what people don't understand is that the imperailist age bound scotland nd england way more than jst cos we took colonies etc. all of our modern political ideas wer forgd in that period. the age of enlightnment and all that when we escaped feudalism and finally began to look at the world more rationally. This is why England nd Scotland hav extremely similar political cultures cos together we pioneered 'liberalism'. adam smith is an obvious example of this. Our shared history is much more relevent to our current cultural understandings than our separate histories. this isn't about rule britannia and all that nationalistic crap, its about our political and social understandings in the modern era. they were all shaped together and in union with England, not apart from it. All of the thing we take for granted like democracy and protection of private property and 'liberty' and all of the things that we want to try and uphold were fought for when in union with England. This is what gives us a british identity cos our forefather fought for those things together. we r virtually culturally the same as the english excepting our accents and the fact that more of them vote conservative. nd yes voters think that if we had our own independent country tht all the probs we have with westminster wudnt just repeat themselves with whatever new thing wud be made? i doubt it. only difference is tht we'd be more fucked financially. Id you'd rather identify with the history when englnd nd scot were apart then your just identifying with a bunch of feudal lords like wallace who we have way less in common with today than the english of the enlightenment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliche Guevara Posted September 19, 2014 Share Posted September 19, 2014 Aye, that'll be quite a quick resignation though. Knew it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lex Posted September 19, 2014 Share Posted September 19, 2014 He would have known his time was up as soon as he won that majority in 2011. That majority forced him into a fight he will have known he could never win. In many ways, he's a victim of his own success. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Rider Posted September 19, 2014 Share Posted September 19, 2014 Salmond is a giant amongst his peers. A true Scottish hero. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gastropod Posted September 19, 2014 Share Posted September 19, 2014 love or hate the guy ,you have to admire his fearlessness when taking on the best of the "establishment ".. nae c**t wid hae the nads to do that on here ......( unless pished ) .... total pressure ....... respect.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted September 20, 2014 Share Posted September 20, 2014 Every other political party in Scotland would have absolutely loved to have had a leader of Salmond's calibre. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowmore Posted September 20, 2014 Share Posted September 20, 2014 what people don't understand is that the imperailist age bound scotland nd england way more than jst cos we took colonies etc. all of our modern political ideas wer forgd in that period. the age of enlightnment and all that when we escaped feudalism and finally began to look at the world more rationally. This is why England nd Scotland hav extremely similar political cultures cos together we pioneered 'liberalism'. adam smith is an obvious example of this. Our shared history is much more relevent to our current cultural understandings than our separate histories. this isn't about rule britannia and all that nationalistic crap, its about our political and social understandings in the modern era. they were all shaped together and in union with England, not apart from it. All of the thing we take for granted like democracy and protection of private property and 'liberty' and all of the things that we want to try and uphold were fought for when in union with England. This is what gives us a british identity cos our forefather fought for those things together. we r virtually culturally the same as the english excepting our accents and the fact that more of them vote conservative. nd yes voters think that if we had our own independent country tht all the probs we have with westminster wudnt just repeat themselves with whatever new thing wud be made? i doubt it. only difference is tht we'd be more fucked financially. Id you'd rather identify with the history when englnd nd scot were apart then your just identifying with a bunch of feudal lords like wallace who we have way less in common with today than the english of the enlightenment. Great post. The modern era has seen a move towards a more inclusive union of the European countries to stave off the cycle of war. The Schuman Declaration had an eye upon the success of our union here in the UK. History should teach of the inherent dangers of nationalism. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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