The most hilarious bit of Tory government propaganda ever?

[Buzzer]

Don't count on it - the break-up of the Union will radicalise all of the UK. The visible example of better social policies being practised next to England will lead to greater demands for them to be introduced here.

Are you sure? If the English and Welsh are happy to put up with paying for prescription charges and university tuition fees at present, I doubt much will change that that if and when the Scots leave the Union.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

None of it as funny as when Thatcher tried to bribe the electorate by letting folks buy their council house at a knock-down price. Voters in Scotland said Cheers Maggie, bought their council house at a knock-down price, and still the Tories all lost their deposits

 

[somerset]

The visible example of better social policies being practised next to England will lead to greater demands for them to be introduced here.

Not once the cost of his pipe-dream starts to dawn on everyone.....

 

[Philzo-93]

13. 200 bottles of Buckfast

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* Sorry couldn't find a lego jock swigging a bottle

Found one http://minifigs.me/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P10602341.jpg

 

[London Irish]

Are you sure? If the English and Welsh are happy to put up with paying for prescription charges and university tuition fees at present, I doubt much will change that that if and when the Scots leave the Union.

"Happy"?

Put a poll up on NSC about all of us being "happy" to pay huge medical and university charges, and the outcome will be a Burke approval rating I reckon.

What I think you meant was sullen, browbeaten acceptance - which could change if somebody, somewhere fights back.

 

[somerset]

Put a poll up on NSC about all of us being "happy" to pay huge medical and university charges, .........

.... If you structure the question well enough, you can achieve any result you desire, Robert Mugabe and kim Il Jong are specialists at that type of persuasion.

 

[Buzzer]

"Happy"?

Put a poll up on NSC about all of us being "happy" to pay huge medical and university charges, and the outcome will be a Burke approval rating I reckon.

What I think you meant was sullen, browbeaten acceptance - which could change if somebody, somewhere fights back.

It was a figure of speech (as well you know).....if the English and Welsh are prepared to accept prescription charges and university fees .....

I do like this idea of "somebody, somewhere" fighting back though. It's not going to be the Tories or Labour - both seem to like the idea of the respective charges. They each raised both quite willingly. It won't be the Lib Dems - they are going to get annihilated at the polls and besides, they lied about not supporting tuition fees.

Who else is there? Are you suggesting that a hitherto unknown social democratic party will sweep to power when the English see how Alex Salmond manages an independent Scotland? Blimey!

 

[London Irish]

Yes, Labour can move left or right depending on the pressure exerted on it from below. A Scottish Labour Party in a permanent centre left majority with the Nats could very well influence their southern colleagues, won't be automatic of course but to assume that the pre-Union break-up politics will endure unchanged is also very static thinking. Politics is always fluid.

 

[Buzzer]

Good luck with that in a country where Labour had to abandon left-wing policies, sell its soul and disown the unions in order to get elected.

 

[somerset]

Yes, Labour can move left or right depending on the pressure exerted on it from below. A Scottish Labour Party in a permanent centre left majority with the Nats could very well influence their southern colleagues, won't be automatic of course but to assume that the pre-Union break-up politics will endure unchanged is also very static thinking. Politics is always fluid.

England and probably Wales and NI will remain unchanged politically and socially,....... there will be some economic adjustments of course, but nothing too dramatic.

To say that we will be affected, nay radicalised, by the social changes proposed by Alex S and that Rab C Nesbitt's wife, is ignoring the fact that we have existed alongside our other 'socially and politically extreme' neighbours for hundreds of years without adjusting too much.