Confirmed speaking dates at the moment are
26 August St Andrews
28 August Insch
29 August Dundee
30 August Cupar, Fife
I will post details of times and venues shortly – these are all evening events. I am still open to invitations on dates around these, and indeed any daytime events. Don’t mind dashing all over the place. A number are in the pipeline already. Contact me using the button at top of page.
Have been rather unwell the last couple of days, so please forgive lack of regular posts. BBC Hardtalk interview with Anders Fogh Rasmussen of NATO made me feel much worse. Totally incapable of acknowledging the disasters NATO and NATO members have inflicted on the world since the collapse of the Soviet Union – and the BBC totally incapable of serious questioning on the point.
Market is always crashing – its not a one way street or we would all be wealthy beyond our dreams. Market will be interesting to watch before the vote though to see if it factors a yes vote in and if so how.
Is there an index of listed of Scottish companies?
CanSpeccy: I am English. I was being a little ironic. OK, a lot.
1- for an emigrant to Canada, you seem to be far too preoccupied with UK.
2- Scotland was stolen from the Scots, and it is about time the Scots were left to be the owners of their own domain, and stopped being tenants on the land that is rightly theirs.
3- What has “break up of UK” has to do with you?
4- “genocide” your o so emotive, and shrill screams masks the reality that you may not be so “white”, in fact I question yet again your ancestry, and I reiterate until such a time that you have not posted your genetic markers on your “blog” you have no right to call yourself “white”! Interlopers the likes of you are a plenty, causing the shit storm out there, for their own nefarious purposes.
Couldn’t believe my ears, when on the STV news at 6pm, Professor Ronald MacDonald claimed that Scottish Independence would cause the stockmarket to CRASH …this is dangerous scaremongering at its worst.
Oh, I don’t think so. One could think up much scarier nonsense. For example, that Scotch independence will lead to a bloodbath, as MJ’s Zionist Paisleyites launch a violent revanchist movement. Or many other paranoid fantasies.
The thing is, though, what good reasons are their for Scotch independence as opposed to a sensible program for UK-wide devolution of powers? As an independent country, Scotland will have about as much independence and freedom of action in the international sphere as Latvia or Lithuania, and certainly less than Poland, a country seemingly totally in the grip of MJ’s Zionist globalist imperialists.
Another question that those on both sides of the debate should consider is what means, if any, exist to rid the UK or its component independent parts of the globalist imperialist and money-power incubus, that owns the so-called democratic process to insure that you have a choice of two or three parties but only one policy.
“Scotland was stolen from the Scots”
LOL.
Maybe, instead of that little numerical test, posters should be required to answer simply history questions. It would eliminate some of the rubbish posted here.
Craig (and possibly others)
“Whether you consider me a Scot or not is of no interest to me. I consider myself a Scot and that is what matters. I shall certainly be entitled to a Scottish passport post independence.”
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I note the first two sentences and have no comments but the third sentence has aroused my curiosity.
Has the SNP pronounced on the criteria for Scottish citizenship and, therefore, passports? Can you or anyone enlighten me – referral to an authorised source would do.
For new births, will lex solis or lex sanguinis or a combination of the two apply? For those already alive, will it be sufficient to acquire citizenship – as is already the case with Ireland, for example – to prove that a parent or even grand parent – was “Scottish” (however being “Scottish” is defined)?
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Following on from that: if you are sure that you will be considered “Scottish” despite having been born in England and having lived for most of your life in England and elsewhere, shouldn’t you be entitled to vote in the forthcoming referendum? If not, why not?
@Fedup
“genocide” your o so emotive, and shrill screams masks the reality that you may not be so “white”
What has my color got to do with the fact that the indigenous people of England are being displaced by immigrants.
The advocates of genocide seem to hate being identified as such. I wonder why?
But if you really want to know, I am pink with green stripes — and proud of it.
@Fool.
Re your comment 7.33pm.
Markets crashing that may well be the case but, Professor MacDonald is inciting economic panic before the vote has taken place, they’re could and possibly will be a drop in certain share prices, but to say on a prime time news programme, that Scottish independence will cause the stock market to CRASH!!!!!, is nothing more than irresponsible.
@MJ
I am English. I was being a little ironic. OK, a lot.
Ah, I should have grasped that, I suppose. But it seemed a plausible belief, given the context.
Clearly you are not “white” and as such you have no right to talk about the “white’s problems” to be more clear the white peoples problems are none of your business.
As an emigrant to Canada you have no room to talk about other immigrants, after all you are sitting there in Inuit lands and wax lyrical about “immigrants” ………
I put this to you again you are an interloper stirring hatred and disharmony for your own nefarious purposes.
City wide-boys not buying other city wide-boys’ dodgy shares, other’s caught holding armfuls of worthless junk, a result! Without their bonuses for hurt-free risk-taking, some might have to let a couple of Ferraris go –sign me up for some of that fun. If they’re no longer gambling with other people’s money, what’s not to like, it seems like a good thing, a bonus for all. If you see Sid, slap him, tell him Babylon is down fifty points and falling.
@R of S
but to say on a prime time news programme, that Scottish independence will cause the stock market to CRASH!!!!!, is nothing more than irresponsible.
Oh come’n. Don’t you read anything. There are folks predicting a stock market crash every day of the week. If such comments had the slightest effect you’d be able to pick-up shares in Rolls Royce or BP for pennies right now.
What’s remarkable is the this Professor MacDonald is so lacking in imagination that he cannot come up with a better scare story. To help him out, here are some better ideas:
1. England, in a fit of nationalistic resentment, will impose vicious economic sanctions on an independent Scotland including bans on the import of Scotch lamb, cabbages, oats, and people.
2. An independent Scotland will be required by NATO to send a Highland Regiment to Poland in preparation for early action against Russia.
3. In England, there will be a Nazi coupe engineered by Fuck-the-EU Nuland and Nick Griffin will launch a genocidal campaign aimed at driving all the Scots in England back to Scotland.
And another two questions on the “nuts and bolts”.
The first is on the civil service.
An independent Scotland will be responsible for all functions of government and not only for those which have already been devolved and for which civil service structures already exist in Edinburgh; accordingly, administrative structures will need to be created for govt functions such as foreign and overseas development policy, many of the functions currently exercised by the Treasury for the UK as a whole, Revenue and Customs and so on.
On the assumption that most of the civil servants (whether “Scottish” or not) currently administering the govt departments in question in Whitehall would not, for a variety of reasons, wish to transfer to the new Scottish administrative structures and move from London to Scotland, would this mean that an independent Scotland bee hiring lots of new civil servants? Has any quantification of likely needs and costs been done by the SNP or anyone else?
The second question concerns civil servants and language, and is based on the assumption that Scottish Gaelic will be the second official language of Scotland (cf. the the republic of Ireland).
Will the civil servants servicing the new purely “national” functions of an independent Scotland – eg, the Scottish Foreign Office, the Scottish “Treasury” – be required to be able to operate in Scottish Gaelic as well as in English (again,cf.the Republic of Ireland and also Canada)? Will civil servants exercising functions which have both a national and local dimension – eg, social services,, education) be likewise be required to be able to operate in both Scottish Gaelic and English?
I could imagine that
@Fedup: you again you are an interloper stirring hatred and disharmony for your own nefarious purposes.
Yes. Global takeover by the pink and greens, that is our nefarious goal.
But we are for human diversity, hence our insistence on a homeland for every race. Scotland for the Scotch, England for the English, Canada for the indigenous peoples — although Canada, being 30 times the size of the UK, should, after resolving the claims of the indigenous peoples, still have room for its 35 million immigrants.
@Canspeccy.
Re your comment 7.40pm
What good reason is there for Scottish independence, well for one,it will remove one layer of needless and very expense government, namely Westminster.
We will also remove Trident from Scotland with independence, which is earmarked to be replaced by the an upgraded version costing around £100 billion pounds, of which I think Scotland share is close to £700 million pounds.
Independence will allow monies raised in Scotland to stay in Scotland, and who better to decide who, and where to spend the monies, than the Scottish people themselves.
There are many other reason why Scots want independence but I won’t go into them all, as for your claim Scotland won’t truly be independent I agree, with regards to trade and commerce, no country is truly independent.
The UK under successive governments has amassed an astonishing amount of debt to the sum of £1.3 trillon pounds, and incredible amount, Scotland has a wealth of natural resources including oil, all other oil producing countries have invested in a future fund by selling a small amount of oil/gas and storing it in a fund, except the UK, under Westminster, who after 40 years of mismanaging Scotland’s wealth, have nothing in a fund, which would have been handy post the 2008 crash.
No Scots will be far better off managing their own resources, and all other affairs to boot.
Ii I come across him, I will hospitalise that bastard and that is no threat but a solemn promise.
Non of the banksters issuing money based on their debtors have so far been squeezed whilst the rest of the world has paid through the nose for their gambling addictions.
The notion of physicists devising algorithms and quantum modelling the “markets” has translated into supercomputers trading worthless junk over and again in nanoseconds, resulting in casino rules in Vegas to appear fair, and judicial returns on the capital deployed by the punters!
@CanSpeccy.
Re your comment 8.01
What vivid imagination you have, speculation is one thing, inciting panic in a country about to take a major step with regards to independence is another,you don’t take into account that Professor MacDonald’s comment isn’t aimed at big business, they’re shrewd enough to know whats what, no the comment is aimed at the voting masses, to instil fear.
You seem to have missed the whole point of the statement.
At last you are owning up to the intent for “global domination”, albeit in a tangential and obscure (make it sound ridiculous clause) fashion.
Cease and desist from splattering your emotive unconscious drivel for the sake of creating “race riots” for your own ends; “global domination”.
Funny how it is not diversity when you and the likes of you are bigging it up there in Canada. Further, you seem to magnanimously decide how Indigenous Canadians should be dividing their lands? (global domination begins at home).
@R of S:
…Scottish independence, … will remove one layer of needless and very expense government, namely Westminster.
And replace it with a parallel government of equal complexity, if not greater (see Habby, above) and comparable cost.
We will also remove Trident from Scotland
Good luck with that, lad. You think Scotland separated from England will somehow achieve independence of NATO, the US Empire, or the money power?
… which is earmarked to be replaced by the an upgraded version costing around £100 billion pounds, of which I think Scotland share is close to £700 million pounds.
Wow, just zero point 7 percent of the total cost and you bitch about it!
The UK under successive governments has amassed an astonishing amount of debt to the sum of £1.3 trillon pounds, and incredible amount
Not incredible at all. I can certainly cred it. It’s typical for a European state, although much lower than Ireland or Greece or some other EU trivialities.
But in any case, it’s as much your debt, lad, as that of any other citizen of the UK, and as such you’ll have your share of it. And of course it was all put to good use. Maternity hospitals to service the immigrant majorities of London, Leicester, Luton, etc. and to educate the little dears according to their Muslim or other culture, etc., not to mention all the other infrastructure that an expansion of UK population through mass immigration, under the direction of Scotch prime ministers, has necessitated: roads, universities, water systems, sewage treatment, etc., etc.
No, all that borrowed money was well spent.
Scotland has a wealth of natural resources including oil…
Nearly all gone. Sorry.
@ Fedup:
Re: Global takeover by the pink and greens, that is our nefarious goal.
At last you are owning up to the intent for “global domination”
Ha! I’m getting it at last. This entire blog is an exercise in far-fetched irony.
Very good. And good luck with the extra 35 million immigrants. Just hope you can speak Urdu, Hausa, Igbo, or whatever is destined to become the common currency of England.
CanSpeccy:
“But it seemed a plausible belief, given the context”
It wouldn’t be all that ironic otherwise. I take it you’re N American.
An Oil-Fund, it wouldn’t have been handy after the 2008 crash, any oil-fund is not, repeat not for bailing out irresponsible crooked bankers, creating money out of thin air then lending it at interest to wannabee Rachmanite Landlords of the box-room conversion, an oil fund prevents excessive currency outflows for overseas speculation and by keeping money tight, counters inflation and keeps our export prices lower for buyers, which are the conditions productive manufacture needs, whilst using the fund to finance profitable industrial and social development, and encourage domestic self-sufficiency. All that was necessary then in 2008 was to protect deposits and jail the thieves, Iceland done the right thing. Westminster has done possibly the worst, bailed them out, gave them their (our) next stake for the inevitable next coming bubble to burst. The last Labour Prime Minister who understood ecomomics was Harold Wilson and the Last Tory one was Harold MacMillan. Heath and Thatcher were idiot clowns, economic innumerates but Gordon Brown was in way over his head helping Marion White present STV’s What’s Your Problem.
Yes, but if you really want to counter ” Dutch disease” you need to invest outside your currency area (as far as I know the Norwegian Fund is forbidden to invest in Norway for just that reason).
Far from gone Canspeccy
http://www.businessforscotland.co.uk/clair-ridge-and-scotlands-new-oil-boom/
New field , new technology and you are using old argument dissed by the Mc Crone Report
Get up to date son
@CanSpeccy.
Re your comment 8.29pm
Why would Scotland replace Westminster with a government of equally complexity, we won’t Scotland doesn’t have an upper house like Westminster’s House of Lords with over 800 Lords who receive £300 quid a day just to show up and fall asleep on the red benches, tell me how much does that come to per year?. China’s parliament aside Westminster is the most top heavy government in the world, I’m afraid you haven’t done your homework, have you.
Speaking of homework Scotland voted to remain in NATO, do pay attention, as for Trident, it already being touted that Devenport in England will be Trident’s new home in the future. Scotland needs Faslane for its own navy so Trident WILL have to go.
As for your other remarks I can think of many other more important things to spend £700 million pounds on than WMD’s.
As for the £1.3 trillion pounds being as much Scotland’s debt as the Westminster’s wrong again we didn’t choose what to spend the monies on, like illegal wars in Iraq or Afghanistan, nor Trident or Polaris missiles, nor nuclear submarines, we, Scotland, just handed over the cash, and received a block grant back which was ALWAYS smaller than the cash we handed over.
You don’t seem to have grasp of UK politics, I take it you’re not from these islands? as for the oil, if you’d bothered to do your home work, again, you know the Clair Ridge field is coming online in 2016, why else would David Cameron covertly fly to Shetland to speak to BP?.the oilfield holds over 640 million barrels of oil, don’t believe me?.
Here you go knock yourself out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxZlMLmbgQ4&feature=youtu.be
@Tom.
Re your comment 8.38
I agree, I didn’t propose that an oil fund should be used to bail out fatcat bankers,but it should be used to help those further down the chain, who’ve no golden parachute, the poor the sick the needy and those who need it most, not those who caused it.
Also I agree Iceland did the right thing by jailing the bankers and letting the failed banks go under.
@R of S
As for the £1.3 trillion pounds being as much Scotland’s debt as the Westminster’s wrong again we didn’t choose what to spend the monies on, like illegal wars in Iraq or Afghanistan, nor Trident or Polaris missiles, nor nuclear submarines…
All the crimes of New Labor were perpetrated under the leadership of the Scotch bastards Blair and Brown. As for not choosing what to spend the money on, you think the English had a choice? Don’t be daft. If it hadn’t been for all those stupid Scotch votes for New Labor there never would have been a Phony Blair government with its war crimes and it’s genocidal immigration policy.
So don’t think, laddy, that you can just walk away and leave the debt to someone else to pay. You’l be on the hook for it as long as the English.
Scotch oil bonanza:
New field , new technology…
LOL. Hope springs eternal.
Why do you think oil shares are slipping while oil prices are still over $100 dollars? Its because the new tech costs a fortune with the result that yields per dollar invested are falling. Exxon is said to be spending $700 million on one well in the Russian Arctic. So yes, Scotland’s oil is inexhaustible, but as one Arab said, the oil age will not end because we run out of oil any more than the stone age ended because we ran out of stones, which is to say the Scotch oil boom is over.
“…why else would David Cameron covertly fly to Shetland to speak to BP?.”
He didn’t, it was in all the papers.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/scottish-independence/10985129/David-Cameron-becomes-first-prime-minister-to-visit-Shetland-in-34-years.html
It was Salmond who went there in secret and in disguise.
I take it you’re N American.
My passport says I’m British and, according to Habbabkuk’s sanguinity test, I’m Scotch too — a remote relation of Hardy, the first Scotch King.