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David Halliday

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7 years

Britain: We owe nothing! EU: £60bn. Britain: Not a penny! EU: £60bn. Britain: Go whistle! EU: £60bn. Britain: £20bn. EU: £60bn. Britain: £40bn. EU: £60bn. Britain: £50bn. EU: £60bn. Britain: £57bn. EU: Done. Cheers. Now what about Ireland? #NegotiatingIsGREAT

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Britain: We're no oddity. Watch the EU crumble as it follows our lead. Austria: No thanks. Netherlands: Nope. France: You're ok, thanks.

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6 years

I don't think there were fewer racists around when I was younger. It's just that we called them racists and let them know we didn't agree with them instead of inviting them on to Question Time to let them pretend they were just voicing our concerns.

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4 years

Why on earth is "Edinburgh Airport" still called that? As a son, grandson & great-grandson of a Scottish father, grandfather and great-grandfather, I think that "Heathrow Airport (Edinburgh)" would surely have better reflected the truth that we’re all in this together.

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2 years

Schrödinger's Oil. If Scotland opens the barrel, it's empty. If Britain opens it it'll last for 50 years.

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David Halliday

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7 years

I live in Scotland and most of my my adult life has been spent under British Tory governments. The knowledge that ultimately I could rely on "interference from Brussels" has often pretty much been the one thing that allowed me to sleep at night.

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David Halliday

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7 years

Britain's media: Le Pen gains a stunning victory by coming second while Sturgeon looks set for a humiliating defeat by coming first.

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David Halliday

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6 years

I borrowed money in joint names to buy a sports car, golf club membership and a hair transplant. My wife asked me what the hell was going on and I explained that she'd run up a deficit. She'd spent more than she earned. It was perfectly simple.

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6 years

If I'm honest, one of the things I most like about the baby boxes is their symbolism, that they're emblematic of our essential equality, that they highlight how we instinctively want to help the most vulnerable among us, whosever child they are. No wonder Tories hate them.

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7 years

If I'm the vile nationalist how come I keep finding myself on the opposite side of those giving the Nazi salutes?

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7 years

I've had enough of this chaos. I want the stability and certainty of independence.

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8 years

Rangers must be spinning in their grave watching that.

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6 years

"I'm Scottish!" explains Tory MP Ian Richard Peregrine Liddell-Grainger. As if being a posh Scottish arsehole somehow lifts you out of the posh arsehole category. I'd say there's a good case to be made that posh Scottish arseholes are the very worst kind of posh arsehole.

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David Halliday

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5 years

The parent of one of my daughter's school friends stopped speaking to me *and my daughter* in 2014, so angry was she. She said she'd go back to England on a Yes vote. She'd literally storm past us in the street. I met her on Saturday's march. The most astonishing turn-around yet.

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David Halliday

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6 years

Can anyone *imagine* John Swinney behaving as Iain Gray has today? Or Kevin Pringle as Aidan Kerr? The sheer personal nastiness of Scottish Labour, at official and elected level, is one of its defining characteristics.

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David Halliday

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7 years

The Tories, by losing a majority in Britain, won their mandate. The SNP, by winnng a majority in Scotland, lost theirs. Obviously.

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7 years

A Britain that only exists because Scotland is not permitted to vote to leave it is finished.

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David Halliday

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4 years

"I think they're necessary", "We've just got to abide by them", "It's only for two weeks" and "You've just go to get on with it" drinkers in Scotland calmly tell Channel 5 news. The painting by the BBC of a picture of angry opposition to the measures is tendentious, at least.

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7 years

The difference between Ulster and Scottish Unionists is that the Scottish ones aren't smart enough to get anything for us in return.

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7 years

Has Michael Gove ever been to the doctors? If so, he benefited from a university education.

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"If you don't benefit from a uni eduction you shouldn't pay for those who do" says Gove on tuition fees #Marr

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"In truth there is precious little evidence most people in Catalonia want independence" explains @Channel4News . Apart from the fact that a majority of the entire electorate just voted for it while being hit by police, obviously.

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6 years

Shopkeeper: Will you be watching the wedding then? Me: Hahahaha! Shopkeeper: Hahahaha! Couple behind me in the queue: Hahahaha! #EdinburghTenMinutesAgo #TrueStory

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David Halliday

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7 years

Getting Tory governments we didn't vote for is something I grew up with. Paying our proportionate share of £1bn for the pleasure is new.

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David Halliday

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6 years

Hahahaha! Bonkers couldn't make it up! You want to leave one union just to join another? Why would you want to leave one union where your wishes are angrily brushed aside as divisive grievances just to join another where they'll be treated with respect? Give me one good reason.

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5 years

Dominic Grieve in the Commons a few minutes ago: "And we are failing also to assess the realities of devolution and the fact that, with four nations making up the United Kingdom, there are now four identities which we have essentially disrespected."

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David Halliday

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8 years

The idea that Scotland could have its own currency is preposterous. Name me one other country in the world that has its own currency.

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David Halliday

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6 years

OK I'll bite. If you use the powers of the nation state to create a nasty, insular, impoverished country that is hostile to foreigners, and I want the powers of a nation state to leave and join a broader union of nations then yes, my nationalism *is* better than your nationalism.

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6 years

"This will be a huge story in Scotland. This will be all over the radio and television". Andrew Pearce makes the schoolboy error of assuming Scotland has normal broadcast media.

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6 years

The Commons erupts in pantomime guffaws when Ian Blackford says the SNP has been at the forefront of the campaign to scrap the £65 charge for EU citizens' settled status applications. But every one of them in Scotland will know it's true. They've seen which party has their back.

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David Halliday

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7 years

What's it come to when SNP supporters are rooting for a Labour win in England more strongly than many Scottish Labour activists?

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6 years

The not zoomers Scotland in Union are filming the #AUOBDundee march on Saturday to disprove inflated numbers claims. Now that they've rumbled us, it's more important than ever, once you've finished, to remember to sneak back to the beginning and do it again like we all always do.

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David Halliday

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7 years

Hi @bbcradio4 . It wasn't "the Scottish National Party" that expected forewarning of Article 50 notification. It was the Scottish Government.

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David Halliday

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6 years

2014: Strongest devolved parliament in the world. Respected. Equal. Permanent. Enshrined in law to remove all doubt. 2018: Hahahahahahahahahahaha!

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5 years

Last night, the Conservatives won a majority of 78, their biggest since Margaret Thatcher in 1987. If every single one of Scotland's voters had voted Labour, the majority would have been cut to 72, their biggest since Margaret Thatcher in 1987.

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7 years

Before graphene was isolated from graphite in 2004, most scientists believed that the skin of a Scottish political journalist was the thinnest substance that could exist, at least under the laws of physics as we know them.

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7 years

Foreigners trying to interfere in our elections by telling us the truth about stuff. I don't want foreign truth. I want proper British lies.

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David Halliday

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4 years

The only people who should get a vote in an independence referendum are those who will live with the result. Those people, all of those people and nobody else.

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David Halliday

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4 years

Can you imagine the leader of any other political party *not* condemning a death threat made against one of their MPs and *not* - loudly, publicly, instantly, repeatedly if need be - voicing support and solidarity?

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David Halliday

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7 years

BREAKING Putin shocks the international community by blocking a planned democratic vote in the breakaway region of hang on not Putin.

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David Halliday

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8 years

2014: "You can be Scottish, British *and* European. You don't have to choose." 2016: "Turns out you do actually, but we've chosen for you."

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David Halliday

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7 years

If only there were some major SNP figures, recently freed from constituency duty, who could work with others to develop a new Yes campaign.

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David Halliday

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6 years

Yes yes ok ok the Nats have carefully and cleverly implemented their opposition to fracking in just the right way so as to make it effective yet minimise the risks of legal challenge by the industry but they're doing it deliberately.

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David Halliday

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6 years

I don't want to live in a country that chooses the route of divisive, grievance-filled nationalism which is why I support Scottish independence.

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David Halliday

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4 years

The case for the union now appears to be that Britain can print or borrow money. Unfortunately for the British nationalists, so can every other country on earth. So *has* every other country on earth. So could Scotland.

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7 years

"The low turnout delegitimises the result" argues the state that sealed polling places, arrested organisers, assaulted voters and stole full ballot boxes.

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David Halliday

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4 years

A 54% to 46% lead is marginal whilst a 55% to 45% victory is decisive, for reasons that are so obvious I needn't go into them.

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David Halliday

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4 years

The BBC in Scotland seems terribly worried there'd be confusion in Scotland if our Covid-19 guidelines differed from Britain's. Perhaps they could have some sort of Scottish news at breakfast time, allowing them to clearly explain the position to us? Like a national broadcaster.

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7 years

Another election that Ruth Davidson has won stunningly by losing heavily. Brilliant tactician. Future PM?

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6 years

Scotland is going to face a tough ten years economically whatever happens. Let's choose the option that enables us to create something in return for that price.

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David Halliday

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7 years

In 2016 the SNP sought a mandate for a referendum, and won. In 2017 the No More Referendums Party sought to overturn that mandate, and lost.

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David Halliday

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4 years

Northern Ireland can have a referendum every seven years but Scotland can have one only every 41 years. It's this kind of clear, unassailable logic that means our precious 1000 year union will endure forever.

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David Halliday

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8 years

Watch how Britain treats our interests and wishes over the coming two years. Then imagine how they'll do so, forever, if we vote No.

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David Halliday

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7 years

I went to my Tory councillor with worries about my child's schooling and he shouted "NO MORE REFERENDUMS!", which was a weight off my mind.

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David Halliday

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6 years

The case for independence in a nutshell.

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6 years

"Even if we'd had 100 hours of debate, the situation wouldn't have changed," says Scottish Secretary David Mundell about Withdrawal Bill on #GMS

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David Halliday

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7 years

If you met someone who wouldn't stop going on about how strong and stable they were, you'd pretty quickly assess them as neither.

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David Halliday

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4 years

If writing a guest post for the Wings Over Scotland website is incompatible with membership of the SNP then what about writing a guest column for the Daily Mail newspaper?

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7 years

I'm trying to think of a name you could use to describe a politician who goes on about the end of a bell.

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7 years

To the Irish astounded at the poorly-informed, dismissive, self-serving, tendentious, passive-aggressive reporting of their affairs by Britain's media and the ease with which their readership is provoked to righteous fury: welcome to our world.

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7 years

if you were a 2014 No voter who was voting for a decent, left-of-centre future, in Britain and Europe, you've some thinking to do, surely.

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David Halliday

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5 years

Don't try to perusade foreigners they'll be welcomed in your country, like some kind of peak nationalist. Tell them to fuck off and go home, like a proper internationalist.

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7 years

The abolition of the Scottish Parliament will seem absolutely unthinkable, right up to the point that it happens.

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7 years

Twitter is 24 hour news. The BBC is twenty minutes of news, repeated for 24 hours.

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7 years

If you want to find out what today's Scottish Labour press release says, buy a paper. If you want to find out if it's true, read Wings.

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David Halliday

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6 years

This is just going to go on, to keep happening. Whatever the outcome now, Britain's future is of never-ending, destabilising, distracting fighting over Europe. Scotland needs the stability and certainty offered by independence. We could be a normal country.

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David Halliday

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6 years

I have submitted an urgent question to the Queen about the Nats using taxpayers' money trying to make Scotland look good in order to attract potential visitors, immigrants and investors when they should just stick to the day job of ensuring that everyone thinks Scotland is shite.

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6 years

Why on earth is BP planning to extract hundreds of millions of barrels of oil from west of Shertland over the next 40 years? Don't they know that the price of oil goes up and down?

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David Halliday

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7 years

Trawling the world, looking for despots who'll buy our bombs. What a country. What a future.

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7 years

Theresa May to visit Saudi Arabia in post-Brexit trade push, but will she discuss human rights?

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David Halliday

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4 years

It's cunning politics from Johnson. The Tories are nothing if not attuned to what we're all secretly thinking. Who among us will not have thought, as night after night we watched news of tens of thousands ending their lives alone, "Why doesn't he buy more aircraft carriers?"

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David Halliday

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6 years

Just *imagine* how the BBC would have sneered and sniggered at a foreign leader behaving like May. Perhaps only Yeltsin, and even then only at his most pissed, ever looked so ridiculous or less statesperson-like. And at a time of national semi-disaster? It was grotesque.

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6 years

Independence would be a crazy leap in the dark. Far better to take advantage of the stability, certainty and calm level-headedness that Britain's electorate, economy and political institutions will provide over the coming decades.

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7 years

A politician who just lost lost an election strutting around in military uniform claiming to represent the will of the nation is fine.

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6 years

This Scot living through Brexit says thank God for the internet, Twitter and the Irish media.

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6 years

I don't think I've ever been genuinely scared of living in a country where I could not ultimately look to the EU to guarantee my rights as a citizen. Not until now.

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5 years

"Yes we voted to do what Scotland doesn't want, but we did so as one United Kingdom" isn't an argument *against* independence. It's the argument *for* independence.

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David Halliday

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8 years

Hi there @ReutersUK . I've got some lovely photos of Scotland which are not of dunken, aggressive, half-naked natives. DM me if interested.

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Poll shows support for Scottish independence rising - Herald Scotland

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David Halliday

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Spain's hostility to Gibraltar's democratic will is vile. Spain's hostility to Catalonia's democratic will is fine. I saw it on the BBC.

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David Halliday

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8 years

Hi @TheEconomist . I've several photos of Scotland that are not of snarling, half-naked, flag-waving natives. DM me.

Britain is sliding towards Scoxit

The decision to leave the EU appears to strengthen the case for Scottish independence. In fact, it weakens it

www.economist.com

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David Halliday

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5 years

Just back from dinner and a drink with one of my most unionist of friends - a thoughtful but very certain 2014 No voter. Out the blue she said she was thinking of voting SNP and Yes and she could hardly believe it. She said if she was, there must be many, many others who are too.

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David Halliday

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7 years

The electoral system in Scotland can appear complicated but essentially the highest placed unionist loser is the winner if the BBC agrees.

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Sturgeon: "Holyood's consent is needed." Scottish media: "Hahahahaha!" Scottish unionists: "Hahahahaha!" Theresa May: "Actually,...."

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For Britain, the worst bit of the EU is that it makes it just like every other country. For Scotland, that's the best bit.

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David Halliday

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8 years

When the Scottish Tory vote collapsed to 24% in 1987, who could have imagined that a mere 30 years later it would have rebounded to 22%?

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David Halliday

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What kind of national leader travels to meet other national leaders at times of national crisis in order to identify common ground and make plans for how best to see the nation through that crisis? Is that really the kind of behaviour we want from a national leader?

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Essentially Richard Leonard is saying that Scotland should be forced to remain in Britain against its will, if that's what it takes. Is that not quite the development?

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The SNP's on the brink of civil war. I read it in the Herald and saw it on the BBC so it must be true.

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David Halliday

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7 years

The polls show quite clearly that the people of Scotland don't want a Labour or Tory government. No more divisive elections.

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It's not the legislation on gender recognition that has split the SNP. It's the way that anybody who disagreed was told, from the very top, they were a right-wing bigot who should get out the party. No political party can be a no-debate cult unless you count the Greens of course.

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Imagine how fearlessly a strong contingent of Scots Tory MPs would stand up for Scotland against a Tory British government. Exactly.

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David Halliday

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7 years

Readers laughing at journalists don't threaten the freedom of the press. They may threaten the self-regard of journalists. But that's a different thing.

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David Halliday

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4 years

"Is £40m enough?" the BBC asks hospitality industry figures, leadingly and repeatedly. "Shouldn't the Scottish Government have the borrowing powers of devolved and state governments across the globe, so that it can give you more?" the BBC asks hospitality industry figures never.

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David Halliday

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If the powers being grabbed by Britain are so unimportant, why is it going to all this trouble? Why does it want them and what does it fear Scotland could prevent if it had them?

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The 23% have spoken: no more referendums.

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