Significant devolution will happen, that's for sure.
Legolas Send a noteboard - 11/05/2015 09:07:00 PM
View original postThat is the worst explanation I've seen in quite some time for taking or not taking a particular course of action. If riots break out, you arrest people, fire tear gas and restore order. Cameron should tell the SNP he's happy to talk to them about reasonable issues, but that "DevoMax" and another referendum are off the table for the next ten years, and if they don't like it and start destroying property they will be remanded to Her Majesty's care in a penitentiary. If riots get bad, you call out the troops. The US has had riots recently, and although we addressed the underlying issue in a reasonable manner, we had zero tolerance for those who broke the law. The UK should do the same.
Now that he's won the election, Cameron has every incentive to reconciliate and avoid making it about Scotland vs England - especially because then it might end up being about London and the southeast vs the rest of the country instead, even more than it already is. He's smart enough to see that - there are promising signs of not only devolution for Scotland or Wales, but also increased autonomy for Manchester and other cities / regions within England.
David Cameron whoops ass.....
- 08/05/2015 01:33:15 PM
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This time you're not talking nonsense. 
- 08/05/2015 05:36:35 PM
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The UK election system is as much a mystery as is cricket.....
- 08/05/2015 05:44:31 PM
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It's basically the same system as yours, you do realize? For Congress, anyway.
- 08/05/2015 06:32:54 PM
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For Congress, anyway.
- 08/05/2015 06:32:54 PM
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The Scots seem quite suicidal
- 09/05/2015 04:29:31 AM
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Yes - but so do the Eurosceptic English.
- 09/05/2015 09:27:39 AM
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The euro can only survive in one form
- 09/05/2015 05:39:34 PM
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Devaluation isn't exactly what you'd call a long-term solution.
- 09/05/2015 08:38:54 PM
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What fool or fools started the EU?
- 09/05/2015 01:37:27 PM
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Because Europe was doing so well before then, right?
- 09/05/2015 07:51:30 PM
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The Euro would have worked better if there had been fiscal integration.
- 10/05/2015 09:43:43 PM
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Re Scotland:
- 10/05/2015 09:41:43 PM
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So what is the SNP going to do if Cameron tells them (rightly) to sod off about another referendum?
- 11/05/2015 01:45:16 AM
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Not the SNP so much as the people.
- 11/05/2015 02:00:32 PM
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So the mob rules now, does it?
- 11/05/2015 06:04:04 PM
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Significant devolution will happen, that's for sure.
- 11/05/2015 09:07:00 PM
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Why?
- 12/05/2015 07:10:31 AM
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*NM*
Re: It's basically the same system as yours, you do realize? For Congress, anyway.
- 11/05/2015 05:32:55 AM
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For Congress, anyway.
- 11/05/2015 05:32:55 AM
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The US is made up of 50 nations
- 12/05/2015 03:19:25 PM
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Indeed, but with the same two parties everywhere.
- 12/05/2015 06:35:27 PM
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Wisconsin's drinking age
- 13/05/2015 01:09:53 PM
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I know. It's really sad that that's the most reasonable law anywhere in the US...
- 13/05/2015 06:26:09 PM
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The states still can set the drinking age, incidentally. The feds can just withhold some funds.
- 13/05/2015 02:55:51 AM
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They have still gutted the 10th amendment
- 13/05/2015 01:47:53 PM
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I agree they've gutted it. I'm not sure how I feel about it.
- 14/05/2015 07:37:22 AM
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Well your elected senators are not that stellar 
- 14/05/2015 01:38:37 PM
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- 14/05/2015 01:38:37 PM
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They're all right. They're a hell of a lot better than our elected state legislature.
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