Scotland Thread

[unit731]

I don't live in Scotland so I don't have a vote.

 

No "absentee" mail in vote for those unavailable to vote in person?

[My Penis is hungry]

I'd love to hear the logic behind that statement, but there probably isn't any.

 

<<what will happen to Scotland`s share of the UK national debt,>>

 

 

UK would owe Scotland

[The_Munchmaster]

No "absentee" mail in vote for those unavailable to vote in person?

 

You have to live in Scotland to vote. So other nationalities who live in Scotland can vote but Scots who live outside Scotland can't. OK, I know a Scots couple who don't live in Scotland but have a house there and pay council tax, etc, and their daughter who is in Scotland will be their proxy. But generally speaking you have to live in Scotland to vote.

[The_Munchmaster]

<<what will happen to Scotland`s share of the UK national debt,>>

 

 

UK would owe Scotland

 

No, Scotland will owe the UK.

[unit731]

. But generally speaking you have to live in Scotland to vote.

 

 

No expats can vote? No military stationed overseas can vote?

[radioman]

I'd think military personnel stationed overseas could, if they ordinarily live in Scotland. Expats probably not if they are non-resident. I did though see on TV an interview, think it was around February time, where Billy Connolly stated he could vote but most likely wouldn't. At least he wasn't saying he would on TV with all that would likely prompt. His saying he could though suggests he must live in Scotland even though he indicated at the time he lives in US, hmm.

[The_Munchmaster]

Forth Road Bridge marks 50 years

 

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-29051492

 

The Forth Road Bridge is celebrating 50 years since it was opened by the Queen on 4 September 1964.

 

The bridge, which took six years to build, transformed connections along the entire east coast of the UK.

 

It now carries 25 million vehicles a year, far more than it was ever designed to take.

 

However, the suspension bridge has suffered corrosion to the steel wires that hold it in place and it will soon be replaced by a new crossing.

 

The Queensferry crossing will open in 2016 to take all the general traffic that currently uses the Forth Road Bridge.

 

The 50-year-old suspension bridge will be converted to carry buses, taxis, cyclists and walkers, significantly reducing the load on the ageing structure.

 

Before the bridge opened in 1964, the only way for cars to cross the Forth to and from Fife was by ferry.

 

Seven deaths

 

The ambitious building project, inspired by San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, cost about £16m, a huge amount at the time.

 

During construction, seven men died building what was then Europe's longest suspension bridge.

 

At first it cost half a crown (two shillings and sixpence) to drive across. The tolls were eventually scrapped in 2008.

 

More than 100,000 visitors are expected at a 10-day festival to celebrate the anniversary, which has events taking place in North and South Queensferry and on the road bridge itself.

 

The celebrations culminate on Saturday 13 September when thousands of torch-bearers will form a kilometre-long river of fire on the bridge.

 

There will then be a huge bridge party in South Queensferry with live music headlined by Scottish rockers Big Country and guests Bwani Junction.

[StoneSoup]

'Time to put all the "global cooling deniers" in their places:

Surprise! Glaciers appearing in Scotland

 

Hazards common in arctic and alpine areas but described as "extremely unusual" in the UK during the summer have been found on Ben Nevis.

 

A team of climbers and scientists investigating the mountain's North Face said snowfields remained in many gullies and upper scree slopes.

On these fields, they have come across compacted, dense, ice hard snow call neve.

 

Neve is the first stage in the formation of glaciers, the team said.

 

The team has also encountered sheets of snow weighing hundreds of tonnes and tunnels and fissures known as bergschrunds.

 

The large, deep cracks in the ice are found at the top of glaciers.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-28885119

[My Penis is hungry]

Scotland only built it's Forth Bridge in 1964?

 

Very primitive!

[cavanami]

UK In “Full Panic Modeâ€, Rains Brimstone, Bribes On Scotland As “Yes†To Independence Poll Crosses 50%

 

The usual commentariat until recently was swearing the Yes vote has zero chance

 

http://www.infowars.com/uk-in-full-panic-mode-rains-brimstone-bribes-on-scotland-as-yes-to-independence-poll-crosses-50/

 

 

All pundits who over the past few months have been saying the possibility of Scottish independence as a result of the September 18 ballot, is at best a pipe dream got a rude wake up call overnight, when Scottish YouGov poll for the Sunday Times put the “Yes†(for independence campaign) on top for the first time since polling began, with No below the majority cutoff line for the first time, at 49, when undecided voters are excluded, and even when including undecideds “Yes†is still ahead by two points at 47-45. As the Spectator reports, “in the space of four weeks, “No†has blown a 22-point lead.â€