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    • Northcode on These Words Are My Own: “Unionists (colonialists if preferred… same thing) frequently tell us in this place that: “There is no route to independence that…Jul 19, 10:03
    • paul on These Words Are My Own: “Scotland is not a country, it is a colony. It cannot develop outside its colonialists’ interest. The deeds to its…Jul 19, 10:03
    • Captain Caveman on These Words Are My Own: “Bronze medal in theory, but in reality, yes, “first loser”. Ach. Great game of footy tho, and awesome to see…Jul 19, 10:01
    • Aidan on These Words Are My Own: “I never said that geographic separation is the ONLY criteria, but that it is the most restrictive and most important…Jul 19, 09:52
    • Northcode on These Words Are My Own: “Andy Ellis. You’re arguing as if the only question is whether a majority exists. But the issue isn’t whether Scots…Jul 19, 09:42
    • Northcode on These Words Are My Own: “Those examples don’t support your point, AI Dan. Palestine, Tibet, Indigenous nations in the US, and North Cyprus aren’t NSGTs…Jul 19, 09:31
    • Northcode on These Words Are My Own: ““That is absolutely untrue, NSGT status does not rely on any of those things” You’re reducing the UN’s criteria to…Jul 19, 09:25
    • Northcode on These Words Are My Own: ““No amount of obfuscation can hide the fact that any “decolonisation” attempt becomes a slam dunk if the people behind…Jul 19, 09:17
    • diabloandco on These Words Are My Own: “Nah! Gruinard not St Kilda – leave it to its lovely natural inhabitants!Jul 19, 09:08
    • Aidan on These Words Are My Own: “That is why for example, Palestine, Tibet, the Sioux/Navajo regions, North Cyprus etc. have never been NSGT’s.Jul 19, 09:01
    • Hatey McHateface on These Words Are My Own: “Can’t wait until tomorrow, to get some hope in my postcode. I give it a week before normal service will…Jul 19, 09:00
    • Andy Ellis on These Words Are My Own: “I notice Alf that you still don’t deign to answer the questions I posed. One might almost think that’s because…Jul 19, 09:00
    • Aidan on These Words Are My Own: ““The UN’s decolonisation frameworks don’t begin with a majority vote; they begin with an assessment of conditions: historical incorporation (the…Jul 19, 08:58
    • william G Walker on These Words Are My Own: “Wee Done Red! All these inadequates. We need our old Scotland back.Jul 19, 08:55
    • Hatey McHateface on These Words Are My Own: “Perhaps you could clarify, CC. Does that make England First Loser, or Second Loser? 🙂Jul 19, 08:18
    • Hatey McHateface on These Words Are My Own: “Ah Wally, is there a sight so delightful, a sound so musical to the ear, or a scent so alluring,…Jul 19, 08:15
    • Hatey McHateface on These Words Are My Own: ““then relying solely on normal internal electoral mechanisms to remedy it cannot resolve the issue” Naw? You cannot say that…Jul 19, 08:01
    • Northcode on These Words Are My Own: ““God only knows what you think the “laws of decolonization” are, but the UN isn’t going to apply these “laws”…Jul 19, 06:55
    • ScotsCanuck on These Words Are My Own: “Holy Crap !!! … it just could be that she is the architect of her own doom !! … she…Jul 19, 03:28
    • Captain Caveman on These Words Are My Own: “Oh well, England firing six (yes, you heard it right folks SIX) goals against the French – widely fancied as…Jul 19, 01:02
    • Young Lochinvar on A Matter Of Declinature: “HMcH Eh?? No. And your point is exactly, beaching a ship holed badly below the waterline allows repairs then refloating?…Jul 19, 00:57
    • robertkknight on These Words Are My Own: “Nah…save the expense of construction and staffing and just dump the bastards there and let them fend for themselves. I’m…Jul 18, 23:21
    • James on These Words Are My Own: “Oh, wow. You can tell when something ‘gets’ to them eh? They’re not even hiding it now, reams of unionist…Jul 18, 22:29
    • James on These Words Are My Own: “Stupid fucking meaningless interjections is what the Site Prick is programmed to do. All day, every day. Rinse and repeat.Jul 18, 22:16
    • James on These Words Are My Own: ““Once a Tory Prick, always a Tory Prick” ?Jul 18, 22:12
    • James on These Words Are My Own: “The AI site Prick’s mission is to divert, distract and divide. All day, every day; in the hope that the…Jul 18, 22:10
    • James on These Words Are My Own: ““Prick”. [If the helmet fits etc….]Jul 18, 22:02
    • Red on These Words Are My Own: “Nicola Sturgeon. John Swinney. Humza Yousaf. Jamie Hepburn. Alex Salmond gave all these people political careers, despite their horrible inadequacies…Jul 18, 21:53
    • jimburns on These Words Are My Own: “Puzzled me as well. Private Eye points out that the answer might be that as he wasn’t convicted of the…Jul 18, 21:24
    • Tommo on Step One: “Indeed.There is a vague parallel I can offer from here in Wales;some years ago the Bonheddigion (look it up) decided…Jul 18, 21:04
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