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SLG
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| Pip Pip wrote: | | I honestly doubt that you're going to achive the Break-Up of Britain by provoking the likes of Herald letter writers to making 'nationalistic' comments. |
Thanks for being so honest! I'm also doubtful. I do think that letters pages in general, where the editors are even handed, do tell us something of the general mood.
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Blackleaf
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| Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2006 6:27 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | Calls for Old Firm to move to the English Premiership "where they
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That's a good idead. Celtic and Rangers would then be playing the likes of Chelsea, Arsenal, Manchester United, Liverpool and Newcastle United rather than the likes of Motherwell, Kilmarnock, Livingston and Dunfermline. |
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Blackleaf
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| Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2006 6:31 pm Post subject: |
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| If you like, we could destroy Scotland (maybe use it as a giant English landfill site, or just fence it off by putting a big fence across the England/Scotland border) then the 4 million inhabitants of Scotland could come and live in England. With a land area twice the size of Scotland and a population of about 51 million, we would hardly notice the 4 million Scots taken up residence here. The North West of England alone has a population of almost 7 million. |
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azzuri
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Why would the 5 million inhabitants of Scotland want to move to one of the most densely populated 'urban' nations in the world. In England there are 383 people per sq. kilometre. The comparitive figure in Scotland is only 65.
To give you some idea as to just how densely populated England is, here are some other countries' figures:
France - 106 people per sq. km
USA - 27 people per sq. km
Australia - 2 people per sq. km
Why would you want even more of your rapidly decreasing green areas covered in housing and your motorways even more congested?
No thanks, yeuch. I'm happy living somewhere where there is some wide open spaces and some fresh air to breathe
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delescluze
Finding Ma' Way
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Another 'departure lounge elitist' in Tom Nairn's phrase. He has signed up to the old Imperial idea where Scots were excellent in the engine room and happy to be condescended to by Old Etonians for their sterling Calvinist qualities. It wad gar ye boak.
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Pip Pip
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| Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2006 10:55 pm Post subject: |
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| rs_azzuri wrote: | | why so patronising Pip Pip? I hardly think that SLG is suggesting that an organised letter writing campaign to The Herald is going to achieve the break up of the UK. |
Didn't meant to patronise - sorry if that's how it seemed. |
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Pip Pip
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| Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2006 11:12 pm Post subject: Re: Scottish Born Harvard Professor Calls for "Liquidat |
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| sandmountainslim wrote: | Compatriots,
I have saw traitors before but this fellow takes the cake! |
That's the other thing. Niall Ferguson was being satirical. See also A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift. To call him a traitor shows a very un-British sense of humour. It's also a little bit un-nerving from someone signing hisself the grand high wizard, or whatever, of Scotwatch International. |
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Pip Pip
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| Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2006 11:18 pm Post subject: |
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| rs_azzuri wrote: | | Why would the 5 million inhabitants of Scotland want to move to one of the most densely populated 'urban' nations in the world. In England there are 383 people per sq. kilometre. The comparitive figure in Scotland is only 65. |
I think that was meant to be satirical as well.
Are you Nats all really [unfair national stereotype=]Germans[/unfair national stereotype] or what? Maybe there is a distinct British sense of humour, and you are all immune. |
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azzuri
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| Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2006 11:32 pm Post subject: |
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My post was a reply in Blackleaf's attempt to antagonise by posting that. He's clearly on the wind up, two can play that game!
Sandmountainslim is from Alabama btw, and I don't know his exact politics.
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Pip Pip
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| rs_azzuri wrote: | My post was a reply in Blackleaf's attempt to antagonise by posting that. He's clearly on the wind up, two can play that game!
Sandmountainslim is from Alabama btw, and I don't know his exact politics. |
I'm sure you're not really German. 
I hope Sandmountainslim can appreciate my "British" sense of humour. But I do worry about "Scotwatch" - it's a bit too close to "Settlerwatch" or "Redwatch" which are definitely NOT funny. |
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azzuri
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I'm not too sure of ScotWatch myself - but each to their own I suppose. I'm not looking to blow myself up anytime soon!
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Aventinian
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...um, good for you.  |
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Blackleaf
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How "crowded" England is means nothing, because England is the most urbanised country in the world, not including city-states such as Singapore. That means, as a percentage of population, there are less people in England's countryside than any other nation - everyone is crowded up in our towns and cities giving us more countryside to enjoy. That figure that shows how crowded England is is just an illusion - a larger percentage of England's land area is made up of countryside than Holland, Belgium, Germany, France and Italy.
So the figures show we are crowded, but the fact is that we aren't as crowded as everyone believes. If our population was more evenly spread, there would be much less countryside, but because the people of England are clumped together in big cities there is a lot more countryside. |
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azzuri
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maybe you should get out of England more and see what REAL countryside looks like.
Why don't you come to Scotland on holiday and spend some of your hard-earned wages up here?
Loch Lomond is lovely in summer! 
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SLG
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| Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2006 8:10 pm Post subject: |
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| Blackleaf wrote: | | How "crowded" England is means nothing, because England is the most urbanised country in the world, not including city-states such as Singapore. That means, as a percentage of population, there are less people in England's countryside than any other nation - everyone is crowded up in our towns and cities giving us more countryside to enjoy. That figure that shows how crowded England is is just an illusion - a larger percentage of England's land area is made up of countryside than Holland, Belgium, Germany, France and Italy. |
Blackleaf, can you share with us these figures regarding the proportion of countryside in England compared with other European nations? |
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