General Discussion
@1263 On the Scottish referendum I am entitled to my opinion and you yours. The vote share in Scotland and the change in circumstances post Brexit anre reason enough to posit that Scottish independence isn't dead in the water. If you're proud of being British then good for you, I guesssed as much and don't have an issue with that, even I differ in my view of British identity. I can stay ...
@trb "Another scottish referendum will happen" ? with less than double figures of SNPs I think you are very wrong there and you just happen to say that without any shred of evidence whatever. Why am i emotive of the British state ? Because i am proud to be british, failings and all, and fed up with the narrative of how britain is so bad due to issues that happened hundreds of years ago and ...
@1263 That's a sweeping generalisation. How do you know what all the Irish 'love to say'? Your definition of genocide is incorrect, it can be destruction of a whole or part of a group or ethnicity. By your definition the Nazi's Final Solutrion and the Holocaust isn't genocide then? Same for what's happening in Gaza. I wasn't actually referring to genocide in Ireland in any case. I was ...
Here is the rub, the irish love to say it was not a famine but genocide which means the destruction of an entire group/ race. For it to be genocide it would have to mean only catholics starved in the famine. Very little coverage is given to the role of the catholic church in the famine and of british efforts to help. The irish love to keep open a grudge backed by the church and republicans. As too ...
@1263 I'm referring to vote share, not the number of seats lost to Labour. And I'm not disagreeing with you that the SNP in government have issues to overcome and they were unlikey to do well in this GE, but another independence referendum will happen. That referendum will differ from the last in that those campaigning against independence won't be able to use the EU argument for staying in the ...
@trb Utter rubbish the electroate in scotland gave the snp a bloody nose because of the incompetence of the goverment in health, education, fraud, wee nippe sweetie allegations, calmac shipbuilding fiasco and total mismanagement and pushing the independence point of view. As swinney the leader of the snp said that if a certain number of scots mps were returned it would be a validation of ...
@1263 You don't need a crystal ball. despite the loss of 30 odd seats the SNP were not that far behind Labour in terms of vote share. This election was about the cost of living crisis and austerity, Scottish independence isn't going to disappear, the Brexit vote was the beginning of the end of the union. The Eu/Brexit bordr issue between Northern Ireland and the Republic and issues in governance ...
@Steve , yes I agree. The problem is that climate change has been communicated in terms of doomsday scenarios which has the effect of making people fearful, focusing on intrinsic needs and not collective endeavour, causing inertia. That and scientific data on a global scale and a magnitude that is often too abstract for people to comprehend and relate to their everyday lives. Plus if it really ...
The problem is climate alarmists have cried wolf too many times. Every decade since the 70s we've only had 10 years to save the planet, yet we are still here living on the coast with the same climate and the same sea level.
@Paul A belief is not the same as fact. So you really contest that 200 years of industrialization has had a negative impact on rising greenhouse gas emissions? And just because somebody has lived by the sea in the Dawlish area all there life and based on their personal observations they say that sea levels haven't changed doesn't make it fact. It also can't be extrapolated and used as ...