Comments by "John Brereton" (@johnbrereton5229) on "Tousi TV"
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@judewarner1536
I have answered your question continuously, and I will answer your latest ones as well.
1/ You can always find people in the past who have held all sorts of opinions. However, in a democracy it's the opinions of the majority that count.
2nd/ the SNP are supposed to be politicians and when politicians agree to abide by rules they can't then change those rules when the result wasn't the one they hoped for.
3/ SNP support is falling so they don't even represent the majority opinion.
4/ In Spain when the Catonians wanted a Referendum on independence it was refused by the Spanish government. The Catolonian Parliament held one anyway and they voted to Leave. The Spanish government then refused to accept the result and hunted down the officials who organised it and jailed them. How different to the way we do things in Britain.
5/ The reason Indepence Referendums are held so far apart it because the political and economic fallout takes decades or more to repair, so it's never a situation to be taken lightly. Especially when the country you want to separate from is so close in so many ways, by cultural, Kinship, economically and historically.
There are over 1million Scots living in England alone and many many more who have Scottish ancestry. So a change of Government is no where as much of a change as separating your self from not only your kith and kin, but also your largest trading partner.
6/ However, I believe in Democracy and if the Scots really wanted to leave and not just the SNP , I certainly wouldn't stop them. Though which ever way the vote went, there would still be around 50% of Scots who hated the result.
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@judewarner1536
1/ what recent plebecite is this that you are referring to ?
2/ we were taken into the EU illegally by Tory PM Edward Heath in 1972 breaking both his word and our Constitution. We then had to wait 50 years for a vote. In Britian the electorate are the Sovereign power, no PM could refuse to act on their stated opinion.
3/ Yes it is, and in 2014 their opinion was to remain in the UK, so why do you not respect their opinion ?
4/ No, what happened in Biafra, the famine ?
5/ Scots didn't vote to remain in the EU?
If you are referring to the Brexit Referendum every single vote counted equaly from all over the UK and the over 1million Scots Brexit votes pushed Brexit over the line .
5/ It's based on the observation of countries that have been devided from their former partners. Ireland joined the EU at the same time as the UK and there flourishing GDP is down to their low business tax rate, which has attracted many huge multinationals to locate there. Nevertheless, it's not as rosy as it seems. First the EU is forcing Ireland to harmonise their rates, will these multinationals remain ?
Also Irelands GDP is very deceptive as it's all based on the income of these multinationals and though it does provide good jobs for a few, it also inflates property prices making them too expensive for the average Irish citizen.
If these companies were to leave , ireland would be back were it started as prosperity there is an illusion.
6/ the leave vote did not seperate anyone from any thing. Europe is still where it was and we are free to visit it anytime we want to. My own wife is French and often visits her family there. We also travel to many countries in Europe, those in, and those outside the EU dictatorship. Brexit hasn't separated us from our largest trading partner, our largest trading country is the US. However, since Brexit UK trade with the EU is now larger than at at anytime we were members.
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