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Scottish Independence

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    #152
    getz
    Registered Users Posts: 5,255 ✭✭✭getz


    oscarBravo wrote: »
    ...leading to Scotland invading the Shetlands and taking the oil by force.

    Remind me again why self-determination of arbitrary groups of people is better than large groups of people forming constructive political unions?
    scotland dosent have a army so they will send in the glasgow yobs,who will be pelted by smelly fish and offal,the british goverment will with draw its ambassador and ban the sale of whisky,


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    #153
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    Deedsie wrote: »
    Aggressive colonialism and the scars that exist all over the world as a result of it.

    you could argue the opposite. the EU has created the longest period of peace in europe since roman times.


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    #154
    Hookey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 217 ✭✭Hookey


    Fratton Fred wrote: »
    you could argue the opposite. the EU has created the longest period of peace in europe since roman times.

    Tell that to a Bosnian.


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    #155
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    Hookey wrote: »
    Tell that to a Bosnian.

    OK, I should have said general peace. the Balkans conflicts were relatively minor compared to WWII or the Napoleonic wars.


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    #156
    oscarBravo
    Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 28,804 Mod ✭✭✭✭oscarBravo


    Hookey wrote: »
    Tell that to a Bosnian.
    Bosnia's in the EU?


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    #157
    Deedsie
    Registered Users Posts: 5,272 ✭✭✭Deedsie


    Fratton Fred wrote: »
    you could argue the opposite. the EU has created the longest period of peace in europe since roman times.

    A free market economy is not the same thing as a country like the colonists France, UK, USA... Hasnt been much peace in Ireland from 1971 - 1998. Our first 27 years in the EU.


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    #158
    Hookey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 217 ✭✭Hookey


    oscarBravo wrote: »
    Bosnia's in the EU?

    "you could argue the opposite. the EU has created the longest period of peace in europe since roman times."

    Last time I looked, Bosnia was definitely in Europe.


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    #159
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    Deedsie wrote: »
    A free market economy is not the same thing as a country like the colonists France, UK, USA... Hasnt been much peace in Ireland from 1971 - 1998. Our first 27 years in the EU.

    The EU is a political union and one that includes pretty much all of the major colonialists of the last 500 years. Colonialism is dead, it has nothing to do with Scottish Independance.

    Ireland has had an internal conflict and whilst bloody and painful for those involved, rarely involved people from outside of the UK or Ireland and in the grand scheme of things (ie compared to WWI, WWII or the Franco-Prussian war) was fairly minor.


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