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Tartan Tory
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Aventinian
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Sounds like he's rather clutching at straws since the Home Office told him where to go with his citizenship application!
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Dave Coull
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Shagpile
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| Aventinian wrote: | | Sounds like he's rather clutching at straws since the Home Office told him where to go with his citizenship application! |
Exactly my thoughts Aventinian. However, there's no reason why he could not apply for a Scottish Passport sometime in th near future, which might be a first step; depending on the constitution an independent Scotland..... who knows.
I would be inclined to vote for a republic. Yet I'd also be happy with a monarchy. It would entirely depend on the type of republic I would be asked to consider. |
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Stevie
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Crackers.
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Cruachan
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My personal hopes are independence for Scotland in my lifetime, a Scottish Republic in my children's lifetime.
I think we could do a lot better than Mr Al F. 
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magister ludi
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| I can understand why he feels disinclined to be a supporter of the monarchy and so his pro-republican stance is consistent and credible. With regard to his presidential aspirations, I suspect a psychological overlay of a delusional nature, which goes beyond optimistic aspiration, in that he underestimates the challenges his candidature would present to contemporary thinking about the progress and development of representative systems of government in Scotland, and indeed in the wider geo-political environment in which those options might operate. |
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Aventinian
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| magister ludi wrote: | | I can understand why he feels disinclined to be a supporter of the monarchy and so his pro-republican stance is consistent and credible. |
I suspect it's largely based on his barmy belief that his son (and, according to him, future daughter in law) was murdered by the Royal Family. I'd hardly call that credible. |
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magister ludi
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| Aventinian wrote: |
I suspect it's largely based on his barmy belief that his son (and, according to him, future daughter in law) was murdered by the Royal Family. |
I don't disagree, nor do I have any quibble with the word "barmy", but GIVEN that HE believes it his, support for a president as head of state is credible.
Sorry, perhaps my sentence construction attributed "credible" to what we can agree to call the "barmy belief" rather than his "republican stance". |
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Shagpile
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| Aventinian wrote: | | magister ludi wrote: | | I can understand why he feels disinclined to be a supporter of the monarchy and so his pro-republican stance is consistent and credible. |
I suspect it's largely based on his barmy belief that his son (and, according to him, future daughter in law) was murdered by the Royal Family. I'd hardly call that credible. |
Well, even the beeb did credible 'conspiracy theories' on that. Which witesses were excused attendance? Did the press report anything of that final inquest with anything other than contempt or bias? I'm sure you have links to contradict that Aventinian...... I'm just left bewildered by it all.
Dead men can't testify after all. Hmmmm.
I'm sure there's a sound explination in all that. Funny that the key benificiaries in Diana's death were the British State and the blood line of hereditary to the throne. |
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Shagpile
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| magister ludi wrote: | I don't disagree, nor do I have any quibble with the word "barmy", but GIVEN that HE believes it his, support for a president as head of state is credible.
Sorry, perhaps my sentence construction attributed "credible" to what we can agree to call the "barmy belief" rather than his "republican stance". |
Perfectly amplified. I don't disagree with your former. For me..... the jury's still out on the latter.
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