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Braveheart's Blog: May 2012

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Monday, 28 May 2012. Will there now be a referendum in 2014? Yesterday, 27th May, at lunch time, the BBC Scotland's Economics Editor Douglas Fraser published this critique. Of the "yes" campaign's known positions on a number of vitally important matters in an "independent" Scotland. It was not at all reassuring for Nationalists: a number of their claims on the economy and on green issues were seen to be flaky or at least under challenge. Last night the BBC ran one of its occasional series of "Big Debate".

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Braveheart's Blog: Why not publish the advice?

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Wednesday, 12 September 2012. Why not publish the advice? The SNP claims that an "independent" Scotland would automatically accede to membership of the EU. You would think that they would have taken legal advice on the possibility of this being so, any legal or constitutional problems or obstacles in the way of immediate accession identified by this advice and any arguments for or against that they have thought of, heard of, or have been advised might apply. Legal advice if approriate? So there's the ans...

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Braveheart's Blog: October 2012

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Wednesday, 17 October 2012. Wonderland Two: the benefits of the union. A couple of days ago I came across the image below on the Better Together website, showing that Scotland gets more back from the UK than it contributes in taxation. Scotland gets a full £10 billion a year more from Westminster than we delivere in taxation. The SNP has just published what it apparently thinks. So: Scotland gets 20% more in spending than we pay in tax. and that's a reason to break up the union. What would they prefer?

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Braveheart's Blog: March 2012

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Tuesday, 27 March 2012. Not altogether wicked, merely unteachable. Two weeks ago I quoted from George Orwell's 1941 essay, Notes on Nationalism. He skewered so much of Nationalist attitude and stupidity, he got them so bang to rights, that it could have been written yesterday. From The Lion and the Unicorn. The bit that hits home is ". They are not wicked, or not altogether wicked; they are merely unteachable.". Absolutely true. Bullseye. On the money. The Lion and the Unicorn. Monday, 26 March 2012.

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Braveheart's Blog: August 2012

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Wednesday, 29 August 2012. Nat lack of ambition. No 99 and counting. I've had a wee summer break. Last week, after Alex Salmond's speech on the brave new world of Tartan TV. In which the bold First Minister made this vaulting claim. The First Minister said in a speech at the Edinburgh International Television Festival that a new public sector broadcaster would be modelled on Ireland's RTE station if his Government wins the 2014 referendum. I tweeted this;. So, for once, it's nice to see I beat him to the...

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Braveheart's Blog: The Return of the Tartan Tories

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Saturday, 5 October 2013. The Return of the Tartan Tories. I've been away, seduced by the speed and ease of Twitter. Twitter is great for immediacy and sloganising, but some things need a bit longer and more space to expand into, so I have returned for a one-off gig*.so.if there's anyone still out there. I found this informative little flowchart which seems to show the contradictions in the SNP position on tax, and it does it quite humorously IMO. Not very well is my judgement. What's yours? What does ha...

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Braveheart's Blog: June 2012

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Saturday, 30 June 2012. A storm in a canteen tea-cup. I was in the audience at a BBC radio question time show last year. The usual ritual of political back and forth ensued, but one member of the audience, a member of the Pensioners Party, made what I thought was an acute observation. He accused the Nationalists of "stealing our flag". Wave the flag, then you are "one of us". But is it important? I have no time for flag waving. It's a substitute for thought, IMO: this is who we are and if you don't j...

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Braveheart's Blog: 500,000, 50,000, 5,000...whut!?

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Monday, 24 September 2012. 500,000, 50,000, 5,000.whut! Masses fail to appear at Nationalist rally. The problem was compounded by the fact that our chosen hotel was only a few hundred yards from the Meadows, where the invading army was scheduled to bivouac before taking over the town centre. And the route of the march was close to the walk we hoped to take to one of our planned exhibitions. But we saw nothing and we heard nothing. Two hours later we emerged and headed past Waverley Station where we glimp...

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Braveheart's Blog: February 2012

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Wednesday, 29 February 2012. Young guns, havin' some fun. It's only just over two years, August 2009, since media gunslinger Wild Jim Murdoch spread fear among the citizens of Media City like a loose gun in a bar-room brawl. Jim rode intotown from his old man's BIG M ranch all tooled up and ready to deliver the annual McTaggart lecture,. To fire off some warning shots at the BBC and to warn the Corporation that he and his daddy were gunnin' fer it. Monday, 27 February 2012. Headline in today's Herald:.