Seil Chat

I agree, Nick and the opinion polls support this view. There are some dangers though - e.g. the negative chaos of Salmond’s forthcoming revelations, the schism of having a second independence party, the fear factor and myth of UK’s broad financial shoulders in funding Covid countermeasures (even tho...

Och well, maybe not bother........

Why don’t we discuss how the last few years of no chat on here have changed our views on whether Scotland should become an independent country?

Yeah, why not?

OK Herby. The same kinds of arguments relate to most bloggers who want to express strong views without fear or favour and without hassle in this small close community. The result of the identity change will be a transformation from a forum discussing interesting controversial issues to one simply ex...

Herby, how can you possibly justify being the only one on here who isn't out there in the open? And please don't just blame Nick. Lead from the front, please. Moderate like a court judge, name out there. Otherwise it's a joke. OK it's Nick's bat and ba' but it's surely up to you to decide your own r...

Herby, how can you possibly justify being the only one on here who isn't out there in the open? And please don't just blame Nick. Lead from the front, please. Moderate like a court judge, name out there. Otherwise it's a joke. OK it's Nick's bat and ba' but it's surely up to you to decide your own r...

After today's decision about anonymity being henceforth banned on this site, may it rest in peace. Another bad decision but good for Nick's future health.

LS, you really need to learn to make your valued contributions more succinct and less frequent over multiple threads. Currently you're like a scattergun and it's boring and confusing. Too much time on your hands. Bearing in mind that you once were a local school teacher, you should already know the ...

At the risk of upsetting Jimcee, one final post for the night. In LS and PP, we have unearthed 2 old-style Tory dinosaurs who prefer to disregard the OECD's modern assessment of an independent Scotland's wealth and the recorded fact that, in the recent past, Scotland has contributed more to the UK t...

1) Salmond v Darling. You're having a laugh! 'Mauled by a sheep' springs to mind! 2) What bit of 'rUK is 1 well over 1 trillion in debt' do you not get? 3) rUK will be amongst the worst bond investments available to man outside Spain, Greece and Italy, i.e. presently, the UK's borrowing rate is arou...

Interesting, LS, that these wonderful wizards of yours in Whitehall with all that knowledge and experience that so impresses you have run up over a trillion of debt, while Scotland continues to outperform the rest of UK in terms of economic strength per capita. I'm sure that international investors ...

Nonsense, Longshanks. The announcement is based on the fact that it it has already been agreed by both sides that, in the event of a Yes vote prevailing, Scotland will take on its agreed share of the huge, over 1 trillion pound, UK debt (as clearly stated in the White Paper). The announcement thus r...

Jim, you can't really believe that the UK, with its recent record of causing death by ill-judged wars and of its worship of money at any cost, has been 'a force for the good of humanity'?

Fair points, Jim. Unfortunately, this debate was then further sidetracked and splintered by Longshanks starting 3 separate new threads on the very same topic. This was, in my humble opinion, totally unnecessary and unhelpful. Can't we keep the discussion to a single continuous thread? At least some ...

Wise up, Longshanks, (1) You used the word 'England' 12 times in your first post. (2) Pity you don't know the meaning of 'Kingdom'.

Longshanks, it was you whose first entry raised the English schism issue. All I'm saying is that the fact that Scots must go down there to find decent facilities just exemplifies in a trivial way (which you raised) the unfair distribution of wealth within the UK. If Scotland and England were 'living...

The fact that Scots athletes have to go down to England to find decent facilities underlines exactly why Scotland needs the powers to stop the gross inequalities which characterise English governance within both the UK and the former Empire. With independence, we can trade weapons of mass destructio...

C'mon Nick, it's not that serious. And I wasn't arguing, just commenting. Isn't that what Seil Chat is for? Can't anyone disagree with you without upsetting you? And this thread all started with Happy New Year...........................January blues came soon................we appreciate your effort...

Poor first decision, Nick. Seil Chat is dwindling as it is, without you hiding active threads away. Poor Jimcee, spent hours typing and then losing his work into the ether, then you come along and hide his repeated text in a different and obscure sub-forum. Are you trying to discourage Jim and other...