the scottish independence referendum

"the politics of grievance" is such nonsensical hackneyed drivel, but after previous performances it has become quite clear that she is almost tragically hollow and vacuous - even by a very low bar set by the PLP.

when will they give up the coming together shit

Not a single mention of Northern Ireland in any Brexit discussions: it was all 'England, Wales, Scotland'.

They don't want to think about it tbh.

come together come together come together come together come together come together come together come together come together come together come together come together

Over me.

I voted no last time and now I think just burn it down. Fuck them.

sturgeon's open invitation: "scotland isn't full"

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/nicola-sturgeon-snp-conference-come-to-scotland-independence-brexit-a7637106.html

Paisley in the New York Times, wid ye credit it?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/16/world/europe/scotland-independence-paisley.html

I really like how the photographer / photo editor for that story managed to find something in bright blue in every shot except the skyline

fake blues

Thanks for that article. Paisley can be pretty grim and I don't like having to go there sometimes.

i clicked on the link bcz my that-could-never-happen-ometer is broken and i thought tom was saying ian paisley jr was repping for scottish independence

Everywhere can be pretty grim but pretty lovely too. Lots of my favourite people live there and there's a lot of beautiful buildings in that town.

some very beautiful architecture. suffers even more than most places from the flight of retail from the high street with the proximity of both silverburn and braehead, which can make actually being in paisley town centre seem a little pointless other than to see the sights. some rough schemes, but you can say that about most places in the greater glasgow conurbation

also don't forget the importance of paisley in the history of tort law

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donoghue_v_Stevenson

Scotland breaking up UK is a much bigger deal than UK leaving EU in so many ways. Of course this is all Labour's fault, once again, as was Brexit vote. They've managed to sow seeds of internal division in 2 countries in the space of 10 years, quite an achievement.

I really like how the photographer / photo editor for that story managed to find something in bright blue in every shot except the skyline

Yeah, that is great. The panoramic shot of the whole town reminds me of one of the things I missed most when I moved to London, which was not being able to look up, into distance, and see hills and mountains - sometimes with snow on them.

Central Scotland really has that big sky. My Greek friend is obsessed with Glasgow sky. And yes tom, from my flat I can see hills south and north but I'm right in the city.

Paisley in the New York Times, wid ye credit it?

Morrisons would.

Scotland breaking up UK is a much bigger deal than UK leaving EU in so many ways. Of course this is all Labour's fault, once again, as was Brexit vote. They've managed to sow seeds of internal division in 2 countries in the space of 10 years, quite an achievement.

Quite an achievement to cram so much shite into three short sentences.

Yea, that's absolute nonsense.

Labour is fucked in Scotland but they're not the cause of anything, north of the border. The United Kimgdom is over. Gordon Bown's new suggestions are hilariously awful. It's completely baffling that someone of intelligence (and I think he's smart) would work so hard at wrangling this stupid solution. I've no idea what he likes so much about the uk that justifies his... Jerrymandering isn't the right word. But it's something similar. What's the word?

that was some quality trolling from the noob, hope they've got some strong opinions about music too

Paisley in the New York Times, wid ye credit it?

Morrisons would.
― Heavy Doors (jed_), Tuesday, 21 March 2017 01:07 (eight hours ago)

I was going to make this exact same joke but thought it was too obscure.

It was almost too obscure for me, had to Google to confirm.

I'm certain that photo of the Paisley skyline is taken from Robertson car park, aka the car park in the sky, which is by day a nice place to look at the view beside a childrens play area, and by night is a popular drug-dealing and dogging spot.

is paisley nice

ULSTER SAYS NO

It's better than Renfrew, if nothing else.

as long as cowdenbeath exists other scottish towns will always look better by comparison

As a resident of Renfrew I would like to disagree with Tom's statement there, but I can't.

When I discovered there was a really nice area in Barrhead (Gateside Road), it was like opening a portal into an alternate world.

i do miss that skyline, you can see the campsie fells well from a variety of places around glasgow e.g. from the queens park flagpole.

growing up my grandparents lived in the shadow of the most westerly hill in the campsies - which is in that picture - dumgoyne

the unicode Emoji 5.0 list contains separate flags for England, Scotland and Wales:

http://emojipedia.org/emoji-5.0/

yes

been waiting so long for this moment ;_;

Slippery slope.

feels like there should've at least been a vote or something

The Welsh would only have voted not to have their own Emoji.

No northern Ireland huh

union jack's already in there tbf

Plus the Republic has one, so just stick the two together and, bingo, everybody's happy.

what could possibly go wrong

obligatory #FLEGS youtube:

https://youtu.be/MnH1OkBgTuQ?t=2m35s

The full piece in The Telegraph published only in England!! OUR oil is the only way they can save their economy after a disasterous Brexit!!! Now why would they not have published that in Scotland?! Click to enlarge. pic.twitter.com/DtqhRYqlX5

— 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Patrick_Woodside🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 (@pjwoodside) January 14, 2019

Goodbye EU, and goodbye the United Kingdom.

https://amp.ft.com/content/e4b113f0-5552-11e9-91f9-b6515a54c5b1?segmentid=acee4131-99c2-09d3-a635-873e61754ec6&__twitter_impression=true&fbclid=IwAR1iCni-GMufN_nVaS9fcgARsENMe9SaP73jl1DM103Th9BBKLAVMQt8-cM

c/p?

FT lifehack: search twitter for the headline, click the first link to the story.

https://twitter.com/search?q=Goodbye%20EU%2C%20and%20goodbye%20the%20United%20Kingdom&src=typd

Fair enough - it wasn't massively clear that was the title, though.

while a lot of no voting scots and their love-bombing rUK allies were bloodless FBPEU types there is also a large overlap between the strains of gammonism at play in no and leave, and some demographic overlap (older, rural).

and of course there never would have been a referendum on membership of the eu if scotland had voted yes, as it would have ended with cameron's resignation, and quite probably a victory for ed miliband's labour party. brb going to write a counterfactual history book "ed's lesser britain"