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Originally Posted by Norwegian wood
I am not trying to insult anyone, although you seem to be attempting to say that the whole World is wrong in his or her stereotype of Scotch people for some reason.
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Everyone in the entire world? Care to back this up with some evidence?
Anyway back to the point: - The Scotch have always had their snouts in the English trough, and their grasping hands in her pockets: since they attempted to build an Empire to match the English one – remember the failed “Darian Empire” since then they have always been dependant on English Hand-outs and the English aren't likely to forget how successful Scotch PM's sold them out to Europe whilst still scavenging from the England pockets.[/quote]
The Darien expedition was hardly an empire. No doubt you think that other small European nations that tried to make overseas colonies were only attempted to copy their larger neighbours.
As for Gordon Brown, I don't see what that has to do with anything. I'm a 'Scotch' and I didn't vote for him - so much for your stereotypes.
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Don’t forget it was a Scottish PM that sent England into an illegal war whilst he pretended to be English.
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And yet more Scots were anti-war at the beginning. Odd.
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What lucky discovery or ingenuity was needed to reach these high standards?
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The Scotch have the highest rate of illiteracy in Europe – even behind Ireland.
The Scotch have the highest rates of pre-foetal alcoholism in the World.
They are the only Western Country this Century that has had a known case of Bubonic plague.
They have the highest rates of infant drug and solvent dependency in Western Europe.
They have a higher rate of the human form of sheep Pox than Wales and New Zealand.
They have MORE people living below the poverty line than Albania (per head of population) yet have MORE OBESE children (per head of population) than America.
The Scotch have the lowest life expectancy in Europe and the third lowest when alcoholical dementia is taken out of the equation:
They have the highest rate of Arteriosclerosis in the Free World.
Scotch women give birth to the highest rates of pre-natal/(foetal) drug dependency infants in the World.
It is the ONLY Country in the World that EU health workers have advised ALL pregnant mothers against breast-feeding their offspring.
The Scotch have the third highest rates of Syphilis, Gonorrhoea, HIV and Clymadia in the EU behind France and Belgium.
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Can you please provide your sources? Thanks.
Not to mention that I do not know of a single Scottish, Canadian, Norwegian (guess how I knew you can't speak proper Norwegian?), Danish or English person that suffers from any of the ailments you mentioned above. These people are my friends and family and all live near me.
You can quote statistics and make stereotypes all you want, the fact is, it has absolutely nothing to do with me and nothing against my arguments.
I have never once made the argument that Scotland was a utopia, so this is entirely irrelevant.
It also shows your failure to understand logic, when you reply to my points by making unrelated points. Perhaps you should reply to what I wrote?
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I have never understood this 'Scottish Oil' argument - the only claim the Scots have is that of an accident of geography.
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I've never made any such claim.
Perhaps you should argue against me? Or do you find that too difficult? It is so obvious that you are a collectivist - and no I am not being insulting, I am deducing this from what I see in your posts. Stereotyping and such are typical leftist and communitarian things to do.
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It is not a resource that they have discovered, developed or manufactured either - it was us Norwegians and English who found it and got it out of the ground, certainly it was vital to the English and British economy in the 70's but
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When did I disagree?
I also think you will find that the Dutch did most of the work, but anywho...
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England has been vital to the Scots economy for three hundred years.
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I don't doubt this one bit. A small nation like Scotland most certainly will rely on a larger neighbour for its economy. Simply economic my friend.
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The union was brought about by the failure of the arrogant Darian project, which bankrupted Scotland and England had to bail them out.
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I think you need to read up on your history.
Also, you make it sound as if the English are a bunch of spineless mugs that will bend over to any Scottish demand. I'm sure many of them will find this deeply insulting.
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Not that this matters now of course, but for sure if the Scotch become independent then their profligacy with English handouts and public funds will have to be ended and the begging bowl moved to the EU.
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I hope the subsidies are ended and not replaced. They harm the Scottish economy and the people that live within Scotland.