what about the Flemish?? they don'tt speak Dutch of French.. well they can but Flemish is a language in it's own right

part of the problem is that, at the moment, horrible,racist,bigoted arseholes from UKIP(euro-sceptics and SEVERELY right wing) are getting shitloads of airtime and have been for a while.
Twice now when their leader Nigel Farage came to Edinburgh here in Scotland ...lol.. we have protested this racist pricks presence and he ran off.. once with a police escort... no violence or anything like that...... just a large volume of people who don't fig his racist, bigoted VERY FAR right shit.
Scotland , in my guess will become independent after the referendum in September due nto all the utter bullshit and hideeous shit the conservatives are doing such as privatising the NHS by the back door and treating the poor, the sick and disabled like criminals and getting their rags such as the daily mail to run campaigns slamming the poor, and such like.
For example they like to say that people are scrounging on benefits and are defrauding the DWP.. when in fact only 0.7% of the entire DWP budget is sucked up by fraud and half of that is.. INTERNAL!.. meanwhile sick and disabled people are being declared fit for work while terminally ill.. being penalised for having an extra bedroom when they need one for their carer/medical care/children.. it's a fucking disgrace.
luckily in Scotland we have protected universal free education,healthcare,prescriptions etc and the money is ring-fenced to protect the NHS in particular.
Scotland is pro-eu however we won't go for the euro.... not yet anyway due to the shenanigans going on atm. however should all go well and it's a YES vote in september then Scotland would remain in the EU and the EU will appreciate that as we have the largest oil and gas reserves in Europe.. not just the north sea but also off the west of Orkney and the west coast but also off Rockall (whichever Whitehall minion annexed that lump of rock saying it was in Scottish water did scotland a huge favour..LOL).. we are also a world leader in renewables too and everyone loves our whisky! mind you even without the oil/gas Standard and Poor(credit agency which downgraded the UK's AAA rating) would give an independent Scotland a tyriple A rating... much grooviness... roll on the vote!

How to you account for the economical benefits?. Do you think Schiphol would be a a an attractive airport if there would still be bordercontrols in the EU? How about your harbors?

Schipol is a major international hub with many transatlantic flights starting and finishing there, it'd be huge even outwith the EU ,as for ports.... the Netherlands has always been a huge maritime trader.. so i imagine that would be the same

seems to have worked just fine for them for decades..

that high of $1.60 was due to Khadaffi trading his oil in euros..... ;)

The BBC also makes ASSLOADS of money from commercial ventures and selling their programming and licensing overseas. They actually do have a mandate under their public service obligation to produce certain types of programming.

nice one :P

he brings a bit of Malcom Tucker from The Thick of it to the role.... imagine the potential lines such as....

"What the fuck is this omnishambles? a defensive line? IT'S A CLUSTERFUCK OF GARGANTUAN PROPORTIONS!.. now sort it out before i stretch out your fuckign scrotum and use it as a trampoline you dog wanking fuck stick!"

i know it won't happen* but it's a lovely thought!

*he said as much in an interview

it's not so much pedantry but one of my pet niggles... people using "then" instead of "than" and vice versa and "could care less" instead of couldn't care less" twinned with "could give a shit" instead of couldn't give a shit"
we all have our niggles and that's one of them
now as for your main point if there was mass civil unrest, what do you think the armed forces would be called in to do? (hint : it's not join in with the civil unrest)

have them

You also should consider that if the military really did hate the Prime Minister, the oath does make for a very good excuse to not listen to him, if forced to make a choice. Even if they usually could care less about it.

you never mentioned any survey, not at all.
you haev never had any military experience have you? Colchester Military Corrective Training Centre were the words that sprang to mind with regards to your statement.
And BTW it's "Couldn't care less".. which indicates that you don't care less. if you COULD care less then that says you do actually give a shit.

A lot of people in the UK actually like the monarchy, including lots of people in the army who technically swear allegiance to *her*.

the armed services don't get a choice, it's not a matter of fact that they "like" the queen, it's a matter of fact that the oath says that they swear "allegiance to her majesty the queen, her heirs and successors and the officers set above me"
i know as i once took that oath as a member of The Parachute Regiment and to be quite frank none of us gave two flying fucks about the queen or her heirs and successors.
If you had actually read the links you'll see she and the plug lugged Charles have actually used the veto on several occasions.

you having a laugh?? this is the 21st century! why the hell should an accident of birth dictate your station in life or the influence you have over affairs of state???
As it happens the queen and prince Charles DO have a fair bit of say and have actually VERY much influenced things and can VETO bills and acts of parliament and have done so on various occasions
check these :-
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jan/14/secret-papers-royals-veto-bills
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2262613/Queen-Prince-Charles-given-39-chances-veto-legislation-dont-want-law.html
and to be quite frank FUCK THAT.
they also cost the tax payer a fortune but the main point being... why the fuck should some unelected bunch have the right to veto democratically proposed and approved acts and bills just because of an accident of birth.???
value for money my aching ass , it's an affront to democracy and this idiocy has no place in the 21st century... not at all

isn't it hilarious how NON MASONS like to think they know more about Freemasonry than people to actually ARE masons? it's fucking brilliantly amusing!
the only secrets in Freemasonry are the "means of recognition", which are.. handshakes, passwords, certain stances and certain signs along with certain parts of the ritual.. and that's it.
ALL UGLE blue lodges have the same regalia and all Grand lodge of Scotland Blue lodges... have their own design and there is absolutely NOTHING secret about that. In Scotland we find it hilarious as it's all the same and thus once you have visited one English lodge you have pretty much seem them ALL as it's all the same ,same same. In Scotland there is something quite funky about seeing the little differences in the ritual in each lodge.
It's patently obvious you think you are an expert but let me tell you, you are far from it..... all i can smell is conspiracy theory craptastica. EVERY Grand lodge , such as Scotland and England is a separate and distinct authority. there is no world governing body, to be quite frank i could NEVER see any Grand lodge giving up it's "Sovereignty" as it were to any other body.
Much like in america, each state has it's own Grand Lodge and i guarantee you that there would be no Grand lodge there that would cede it's authority to another states lodge or come under another lodge.... there are exception and oddities such as those lodges set up there under the auspices of the Grand lodge of Scotland or the UGLE. those however i would say with certainty are a minuscule exception.
But hey... you MUST know better than me, i've only been a mason for 22 years and been to lodges all over Scotland,England, Colorado,NJ,NY,Malta,Portugal,Germany and Sweden and I patently know nothing eh?
You make me laugh a lot to be quite frank... there is a vast difference between what you think you know and what actually IS.
P.S. you might want to work on what reality actually is,and facts and truth. Oh and paranoia . Also note for someone with dyslexia i do quite well thanks very much ;)

LOL.. you do realise that Scottish and English Freemasonry are also separate and distinct?. Both have their own Grand Grand Lodge.
Scottish Lodges have a humorously and healthy laugh at English lodges as ALL the regalia is the same everywhere as is the ritual. whereas in Scotland each lodge has it's own regalia design and version of the ritual. In Scotland the 4th(Mark) Degree is done in the blue Lodge, in England it's a separate appendant lodge organisation. In Scotland there is no Oath to The Queen/King.. in England there most certainly is.
Then we get to the varius orders and such other than the blue lodge such as the royal arch and so on.. In Scotland the degrees are worked differently and fully. Not so much in England when they do Scottish Rite rituals(as opposed to York Rite) whereby the English are, in many cases, conferred degrees instead of actually going through the ritual... this due to the "jacobite flavour" of them.. this was not to Hanoverian tastes way back when and thus it was changed there.
It always makes me laugh my balls off when some tin foil hat merchant comes up with more nonsense about Freemasonry and this is one such occasion..... You see in Scotland we didn't have the big bad problems that the Grand Lodge of England had with the police in Freemasonry and the allegation and actual corruption for which London flying squad became very famous in the 70's and 80's.
Thus in answer to your silliness... there NEVER will be a single UK police force, not EVER and this is mostly due to the guarantees set up in the acxt of the union which guarantees the continuation of the Scottish legal system and with that Scottish police only within Scotland, albeit recently for the likes of the G8 of a few years ago, reinforcements were drafted in from England for that. Those guys who came up left a bad taste and earned a terrible reputation due to the way they treated people and spoke to people which is what actually kicked off the trouble(it was specifically the Manchester police verbally and in a couple of cases physically being abusive to locals and attempting to "kettle" people. In Scotland there is a very and i mean VERY different approach to policing even when i comes to protests etc. As was made abundantly clear when i was helping to blockade Faslane naval base, the home of the UK trident missiles), the police were calm, polite, humorous and it all went off in gentile fashion. I got arrested along with 44 others and we were all treated very respectfully by the police, unlike how that generally goes in England as i know from experience.
Also with the referendum on Scottish independence next year and there only needing to be a 5% swing in the vote to attain an Yes vote then this further reinforces the no chance factor of a UK police force.
to sum up.. you talk pants and know bugger all about Freemasonry and the major...MAJOR differences between the Scottish and English Fraternities..... yeah.. plural.. are they are different organisations.
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