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What a strangely worded and confusing report.

3 hours ago, sandyf said:

Fortunately opinions mean very little. Like other attempts by a UK PM to promote their opinion, this could well end up in the courts.

Seems to be fashionable these days, I must admit.

3 hours ago, RuamRudy said:

So maybe you know the answer to the question that I have posed many times on these threads, but never received a satisfactory reply - if Scotland is a drain on England's resources, why would a country that happily allows ex servicemen to live and die on the streets, hang on to an ungrateful and unsupportive people who do nothing but agitate against them?

If you want a satisfactory reply, ask a satisfactory question.

3 hours ago, sandyf said:

Everything that does not sit well with the brexiteer will always be project fear or fake news.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-poll-remain-eu-boris-johnson-leave-bmg-poll-a9279996.html

 

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/scottish-independence-rally-glasgow-nicola-sturgeon-snp-a9279676.html

Sandy, I did not say this was fake but I am saying that it is the type of threat that is typical of the EU.  

Your added links refer to Scottish independence, not these EU threats.

56 minutes ago, kingdong said:

Isn,t that an eu tactic? Keep having elections until people get sick of them?

Similar to the EU but in this case it's the SNP calling for another referendum hoping to get the result they think that Scotland wants - a la Barroso - Olé, Olé, Olé.

If that means you are also several hundred miles away from where you normally live, better check that immigration there will do your visa there, anyway. As far as I know it has to be done at the IO closest to your registered address. 

4 hours ago, MaxYakov said:

 

BBC News (hopefully, real) Iran says its military "unintentionally" shot down a Ukrainian passenger jet, killing all 176 people on board, Iran's state TV reports.

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-51073621

 

"In a tweet on Saturday, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif suggested "US adventurism" was partly to blame for the downing of the Ukrainian jet."

 

Another fabulous quote:

 

"It apologized and said it would upgrade its systems to prevent future tragedies."

 

And Iran wants nuclear weapons? I won't state the obvious except to say that what Iran really needs is a regime change, a real "systems upgrade".

 

 

 

And they are still lying with this (from the same BBC story):

The military said the jet turned towards a sensitive site belonging to Iran's Revolutionary Guards and was then mistaken for a hostile aircraft.

Such rubbish. The 737 was climbing on runway heading, as is normal, when it was hit. Systems upgrades don't count for anything if there is a nutter with the trigger.

1 hour ago, Rookiescot said:

Why would Scotland no longer be a country if it joins the EU?

Because a provincial carve-up of Europe has always been a long-term aim of the EEC/EU.   

1 hour ago, Rookiescot said:

Not the case at all and it has been pointed out to you many times.

The BoE controls Sterling interest rates, printing, supply and everything else. Stay up there on Planet Dream if you like.

18 hours ago, Rookiescot said:

Scotland is a country not a region.

 

It will be if you get into the EU.

On 1/8/2020 at 11:13 AM, samran said:

The Rule Britannia mentality leads them their I guess.

 

Funny reading the objections from some of the brexiters to the continued use of sterling in Scotland.

 

These are the same people promising a unicorn for everyone: amongst other fairytale promises - a  substantive FTAs negotiated and concluded with the EU in the next 11 months and a borderless island of Ireland with customs checks done virtually by yet to be invented technology.

 

But yet when it comes to the not unheard of practice of a sovereign state using someone else’s currency, all of a sudden it is way too hard...

Too hard if you want to hook up with the EU anyway.

On 1/8/2020 at 10:07 AM, RuamRudy said:

How do you suppose they might stop Scotland from using the UK pound? Will rUK currency bailiffs go into every Scottish home and confiscate any unauthorised notes? 

You can use them but you won't control them. So, if you use them then forget joining the EU.

On 1/7/2020 at 11:06 PM, Rookiescot said:

Oh dear god. Its a fiat currency. Go google it.

It's a fiat currency as is any other paper money but is controlled by the Bank of England, which also regulates and allows the issue of banknotes by commercial banks in Scotland and Northern Ireland.

On 1/7/2020 at 9:09 PM, CG1 Blue said:

If Scotland voted to leave the UK, I don't think it would be up to the people in Scotland whether they want to keep using the GBP. I believe that decision would be for the UK government to make. 

I'd like to think the UK would be reasonable and allow an independent Scotland to keep using GBP, at least for a transition period. But during that period you would have the UK dictating fiscal policy, so it would be a currency union. 

I don't think that the EU would allow that, eh?

On 1/7/2020 at 8:27 PM, jayboy said:

I can assure you the currency issue is a matter of major concern among financially literate SNP supporters, of which I can see you are not one.

 

 

I don't think there are many anyway.

6 hours ago, digger70 said:

Are you for real? Sure, get you're place full off them you will find out quick that you get sick and and may die from their urine and excrement on you're food and everything.

The rat-au-vin is to die for as well.

1 hour ago, CNXexpat said:

In the US dogs attacked a driving police car.

 

good game

56 minutes ago, Chazar said:

Just  paid 65k  baht, Air  France  Thailand  to the UK Business  class a350  lie  flat beds etc departing May to  july

Please tell if that was through an agent or the airline direct?

7 hours ago, Katipo said:

Hmmm, I flew a LH Airbus BKK-FRA-BKK back in Nov. I am not sure what the news is here. During peak season there are normally 2 flights a day, one using a 777-200er and the other a A380. It's been like this for years.

Not news really. LH changed to an A380 from the A340 for the high season before Christmas.

Other news is that Luftwaffe don't have any 777 variants in their fleet.