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   From: gailleann@teinntreach.net   
      
   mothed out wrote:   
   > On 5 May, 07:17, "allan connochie"  wrote:   
   >> "StormWind"  wrote in message   
   >>   
   >> news:z1R_h.33919$M.15979@news-server.bigpond.net.au...   
   >>   
   >>> The stunning success of the SNP in Alba (Scotland) - now the biggest party   
   >>> in the Scottish Parliament with a mandate to hold a referendum for a free   
   >>> Alba.   
   >> This is the kind of language that grates. Scotland is already free and has   
   >> already the right to decide on her future. There is no oppressor and what   
   >> you mean is that the SNP have a mandate to hold a referendum for an   
   >> 'independent' Scotland. Though of course as yet, unfortunately, they don't   
   >> in reality have such a mandate as they fall well short of controlling the   
   >> Parliament. We can take it that both Margo MacDonald and the two Green MSPs   
   >> would support a referendum but that would only take it up to 50 members -   
   >> against 79 members from three unionist parties who are all opposed to even   
   >> holding any referendum. Hence to have any chance of getting any referendum   
   >> organised they would have to persuade the Lib Dems to support the idea.   
   >>   
   >> Allan   
   >   
   > You should see the bollocks this bloke wrote under the posting name   
   > 'Ciaran'   
   >   
   >   
   Ach, ye did nae cross-post it to yer Sais mates.   
      
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