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   "allan connochie"  wrote in message   
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   > "Raktizer Omheit"  wrote in message   
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   >> "allan connochie"  wrote in message   
   >> Alan, obviously you know more about Scotland's 20th century political   
   >> history than I do. However, I do know that the Scottish National Party in   
   >> the 1997 Devolution Referendum only gained 28% for its proposal to grant   
   >> Scotland full independence from the United Kingdom.   
   >   
   > Sorry but you've got your facts completely wrong again! That is always a   
   > risk when pronouncing facts about countries on the other side of the   
   > world.   
   > No-one voted for independence in the Devolution Referendum. Independence   
   > was   
   > not an option on the ballot paper - that is why it was called a Devolution   
   > Referendum! The only options were devolution, that is a devolved   
   > parliament   
   > at Holyrood with limited powers, or the status quo. For that reason the   
   > SNP   
   > were reluctant for a while to fully support the YES campaign, however by   
   > the   
   > time of the referendum they were fully on board with the Labour Party and   
   > Liberal Democrats whilst the Conservatives supported the status-quo   
   > option.   
   > The YES campaign received 74.3% of the vote whilst the NO campaign   
   > received   
   > 25.7%.   
   >   
   Alan, my local newspaper in 1997 mislead me. It claimed falsely that full   
   independence was an option. They certainly got that one wrong. The southern   
   Irish, with full independence, must look down on the northern Irish, Scots,   
   and Welsh as pro-English collaborators and cowards, for Rome is further away   
   than London as far as the geographical location of Britain and Ireland is   
   concerned.   
      
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