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Published Date: 09 May 2009
SOME 70 per cent of Britons believe devolution has been good for Scotland, a new poll suggested yesterday.
The survey was carried out in England, Wales and Scotland to mark the tenth anniversary of elections to the Scottish Parliament. It showed 31 per cent of people in England and Wales believed Scotland received too much money from the UK, compared with 3 per cent in Scotland.




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  • Last Updated: 08 May 2009 9:34 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Related Topics: Devolution
 
1

famous 15,

Edinburgh 09/05/2009 02:11:58
Sure devolution is good and it is a live process, Independence,more than ever, is the ideal.
2

Jimmy Le Pie,

09/05/2009 03:06:48
Of course devolution is good for Scotland.

Independence will be even better!!!

Bring it on!!!
3

Gdgy,

dndy 09/05/2009 08:28:07
If independence is the "ideal" why is the SNP not bursting a gut to move it forward?
Seems to me that the majority of Scots don't want it!
4

TWC,

exLabour 09/05/2009 08:45:49
3 Gdgy,dndy

That would be silly when they are so much better than the opposition. The Nats have time on their side and the SLAB party are in self destruct mode.

It would be politically naive to call the referendum too early, he has the other parties trying to guess how little Fiscal Autonomy they can get away with.

If they were truly pro Scotland they could easily out bid the Nats with full autonomy.
5

Darien,

09/05/2009 11:35:08
#TWC: "If they were truly pro Scotland"

Absolutely correct - All 'Scots' British Unionists (aka British Nationalists) are by implication anti-Scottish. Their raison-detre depends entirely on Scotland continuing as a non-recognised nation (i.e. a mere regional area within a nation). As far as all other recognised nations and supra-national organisations (EU, UN, Arctic Council etc ect) are concerned, Scotland does not exist. If the country is not recognised by other countries, it might as well not exist.

The only remedy that can be used to ensure Scotland (or any nation for that matter) exists as a nation is independence. 'Scots' British Nationalists are most definitely anti-Scottish; these people abhor the very existence of a Scottish nation as to do so would mean the end of their beloved 'British' (i.e. UKofGB&NI) nation.
6

Mr. Lachie Todd,

Edinburgh 09/05/2009 12:20:29
Devolved government, like the very Act of
Union itself, is now the accepted constitutional status quo, not only in Scotland, but also in Northern Ireland and Wales.

There is no other alternative to maintaining the constitutional integrity of this unitary state, and any future attempt to amend, restrict, or indeed, abolish the Scotland Act, Government of Wales Act and St. Andrews Agreement legislation, and recall powers to an antediluvian Westminster can only have one inevitable outcome!
7

Masterpiece,

09/05/2009 14:46:21
The more I travel round Scotland the more I see just how Angliscised Scottish people are becoming; few young people have anything to show or say that they are Scottish other than I'm not English or I'm not British.
Is this really the country we want to have?

Why not call Scotland, Englandshire or North Britain again as this is what we are quickly becoming? All the tartan and kilts simply make us look like Harry Lauder.
8

livilion,

livingston 26/05/2009 23:32:05

#7 Masterpiece

Cor blimy guv'na, us Almondvale morris dancers resent you calling us Angliscised.


Now with your world-wise ways, perhaps you might explain what Angliscised is?
I'm sure my friends and family south of the border would appreciate your enlightening them.
What about Americanised, Ausified or Europeanised aswell, most wee Kylies & Brooklyns haven't the first idea?

'Scotland for the Scots', 'One nation, one people, one leader', got a familiar ring to it from somewhere, or was that your intention?
9

Charley,

you rope 29/06/2009 00:10:57
7 - more anglicised? Americanised is more like it! My niece talks in an ameri-stralian-cockney accent..its called 'global media'. Get used to it! Scary.....
10

JCA REID,

Annan 01/07/2009 11:44:38
All that devolution has delivered is another layer of bureaucracy with excellent remuneration for the "chattering" classes. [Nice little earners & loads of stuff written off to "expenses"]. Nothing is really solved or done about Scotland's problems. Think about it.....even a faceless, non-elected Brussels bureaucrat has more say over our Land & Waters.


 

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