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culduthel

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  1. Thanks very much for taking the time to reply to my request Mantis. As you say in your other post a patient and mature level of response.
  2. Thanks for that Charles. Can anyone have a go at the five main reasons for the yes campaign? Briefly and to the point, thanks.
  3. Thanks for that link Alex. Had a read of it. Briefly what do you think are the top five compelling reasons for the yes campaign and independence. Or alternatively someone else like Charles could briefly state the top five compelling reasons for staying part of Britain. Many Kiwis ask me to summarise/explain the main arguments of both sides of the referendum question as they cannot find them clearly articulated anywhere. I have to tell them I can't find them clearly articulated anywhere either. It seems to most Kiwis that I meet that the whole referendum question suffers from poor quality debate and presentation of ideas.
  4. The Press here in New Zealand are reporting that the independence campaign in Scotland looks increasingly like a dead duck with the Yes vote polling around 20% and the No vote polling around 70% with the remaining 10% undecided. They state that a large proportion of the No vote are younger people. The Yes vote being made up of largely disaffected older people. There are also reports that indicate that if the Yes campaign were somehow successful then the Orkney and the Shetland Islands and possibly in the Inner and Outer Hebrides would cede from Scotland back to Britain and take most of the North Sea Oil and Whisky with them. Is this true and is it possible?
  5. I remember as clear as day what happened on hearing about JFK. I was in Inverness, ten years old lying on our lounge room floor watching the TV and the news came on. Must have been around 6pm or 7pm in the evening. My Mum and Dad were getting ready to go out to a dinner and dance ( Dad in black tie and my Mum in full length evening dress - that was a pretty common way of dressing in Inverness in those days for events at the Caledonian Ballroom etc. etc.) There was a dramatic introduction stating that President Kennedy had been killed by an assassin's bullet. I immediately ran through to my parents bedroom to tell them that President Kennedy had been shot dead. My Mother told me not to talk nonsense and refused to believe me. I insisted that they come through and listen to the news themselves if they didn't believe me. They did and I have never seen such fear in my Father's and Mother's faces as on that night. They had both lived through the second world war and both had parents who had lived through the first world war. There immediate talk turned to the threat of another war. Given Kennedy's assassination happened not long after the Cuban Missile crisis you can understand why they reacted that way. The next morning my parents told me that the dancing part of the Dinner and Dance was cancelled out of respect for President Kennedy. People just had the dinner instead and then talked endlessly about the assassination and the prospects of war before going home early. I also remember my mother telling me that President Kennedy was an extremely popular President amongst the British people at the time and that this was a very, very bad day for the world and we all needed to pray for peace. Very, very heavy times indeed.
  6. Have been saying this for years on this forum, that they need to set up a North Atlantic Group for the World Cup. Need to get Greenland into FIFA first. I reckon if they made the top two in the group qualifiers, then Scotland would have a real chance of qualifying for the World Cup and European Championships in the future. Mind you I can see us struggling at times against Iceland and the Faroes. Bring it on I say.
  7. A big well done and congratulations to England for qualifying for the World Cup in Brazil. The only British team in it this time around. They have achieved something that the Scottish team has failed to achieve for a long, long time now. So England deserve our applause for carrying the British Flag and British hopes to Brazil next year. Gives us something to follow and support. Hope they get a group with Brazil or Germany or Spain in it. Will make for great viewing. I reckon they will get through the group stages and get to the semis but doubt they will get past there. Would be great if they won it though.
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