dougiedanger

Breakdown here of Yes votes by constituency. Sneck in at number 11.

Brilliant! You couldn't make this up! The comparisons just become clearer and clearer. So what are the SNP going to do before they come to lynch me? Put in my wiondows? Burn copies of Against all Odds in the high street? Paint a St George's Cross on my door? (That, of course, is if I fail to take your standard advice and follow Albert Einstein out of the country.) How you would love for any of this to actually happen. No offence, but you are becoming delusional, no one in the real world gives a flying one what some doddery old gadge is saying on the internet. Godwin's Law was never more aptly proven, well done.

Cheers CB, that's a few more SNP votes confirmed. Sterling work.

By feck, it took ye all day and that is the best ye can come up with. Godwin's Law strikes again lol.

Wowzers.

Crikey, wee Jimmy Krankie has fair let him/herself go.

Ah yes, another straw man--yer anti-Scottish if ye don't vote the SNP, seeing as this is never said by anyone in the SNP, it seems more like a product of a confused mind , unsure of itself, and again, bereft of arguments. Also, on the evidence of this forum, those playing the Nazi card are the real jokers.

On the contrary, it shows how when the desperate and the bereft of ideas resort to calling those who disagree with them Nazis, they have limited debating skills and have effectively lost the argument. So every mention of "Mein Banff," swastikas and other such guff merely confirms how you have lost the argument, and as the bold Dougal says, a few more SNP supporters are confirmed. So, keep up the good work!

Godwin's Law--sound familiar?? There are many corollaries to Godwin's law, some considered more canonical (by being adopted by Godwin himself)[3] than others.[1] For example, there is a tradition in many newsgroups and other Internet discussion forums that once such a comparison is made, the thread is finished and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever debate was in progress.[8] This principle is itself frequently referred to as Godwin's law. Godwin's law applies especially to inappropriate, inordinate, or hyperbolic comparisons of other situations (or one's opponent) with Nazis – often referred to as "playing the Hitler card". The law and its corollaries would not apply to discussions covering known mainstays of Nazi Germany such as genocide, eugenics, or racial superiority, nor, more debatably, to a discussion of othertotalitarian regimes or ideologies[citation needed], if that was the explicit topic of conversation, because a Nazi comparison in those circumstances may be appropriate, in effect committing thefallacist's fallacy, or inferring that an argument containing a fallacy must necessarily come to incorrect conclusions. Whether it applies to humorous use or references to oneself is open to interpretation, because this would not be a fallacious attack against a debate opponent.

You don't say.

Je na sai pa Illiterate in two languages, very impressive.

Je na sai pa Tu ne sais rien.

Tedious obsessive, moi?

It's this appalling arrogance that is leading the break up of the union. So keep it coming.

Ah hated Thither.

Dougal's back!

I've said it before and I'll say it again. As an Englishman living in Scotland for the last 40 years I have never encounted any anglophobia nor do I sense any in the changing political climate. That may, of course, be because I'm just such a nice person But why do folk in the rest of the UK not have the opportunity to vote for the SNP? We have it rammed down out throats that the SNP MPs will be working for improvements in the Westminster system and for progressive policies that will benefit folk throughout the UK. So if the SNP have something positive to offer voters in the rest of the UK, why are they not giving voters elsewhere in the UK the opportunity to vote for it? Voting for the SNP would surely be a good vehicle for those disilluisioned with the UK- wide parties and Westminster system to register a protest vote. Well said from one of the few regular contributors to this thread who is not an SNP supporter who makes positive and constructive comments rather than resorting to to regurgitating illogical and utterly unfounded 'nat bashing'. There is a myth started and perpetuated by those with vested interests including inter alia such unlikely bedfellows as Jim Murphy, Nigel Farage and Boris Johnston that and embraced by the right wing metropolitan press that the referendum debate stirred up hatred of England and the English and bitterly divided families who were riven in two as a result. There is no truth in that whatsoever. Yes the referendum stirred up passion and stimulated political interest and debate and, as is apparent, that has continued through to this General Election but there is no anglophobia and the divorce courts are not overwhelmed with spouses who can no longer stand each other having voted differently nor were the criminal courts burdened with siblings coming to blows. It is perfectly legitimate, on political grounds to dislike the SNP for what they propose or to disagree with any or all of their policies or take issue with their record in government at Holyrood but accusing them of anti English sentiment or being home to hoards of anglophobes is sheer fantasy. There are now literally thousands of SNP members and tens if not hundreds of thousands of those intending to vote SNP next week who were born in England but choose to make their domicile in Scotland. Why on earth would they support a party who's fellow members detest them ? So, can we please put this ridiculous myth to bed. But CB met Willie Bell once in the 60s doon the Bumbers Laney and he pure shoogled his walking stick at him.

What aboot the English members of the SNP or those across the UK who would love to vote for the SNP--are they anglophobes too?

Good spelling... More seriously, a caveat, these are just opinion polls and there is still a week to go during which project fear, which won the day at the referendum, will be ratcheted up more than a notch or two so no room for complacency. Perhaps of even greater interest, I am no good with links, is the poll that shows that the First Minister's approval and trust ratings are far and away greater than every other party leader not just in Scotland but in each and every nation and region of the mainland United Kingdom. Indeed, no room for complacency, though that poll did say that 80% were certain to vote, which is remarkable. And yes, wee nasty sassenach hating Nicky is doing no bad for a small-minded separatist.

SNP up to 54% in the latest IPSOS Mori poll , red tories doon to 20%. Mon the neo-Marxist, sassenach hating, Willie Bell loving, kiltie, hooching, shortbread munching, tail wagging the dog, Jimmy Shand/Calum Kennedy listening, irn bru swigging, bagpiping, Mein Banff reading, sweaty sock separatists!!

What did ye get in yer O Grade(s) and Higher(s) IHE? Musta been pretty spectacular.

Where the feck is it then?

Pedagogical skills still intact CB, a latter-day Mr. Chips.

Didn't go to the HS masel like, but my Dad did and he was one of the most intelligent people I have ever met. Had to get out to work asap to get money into the hoose, while the Aacdemy fops lounged in the common room.

It wasn't all dunderheids at the HS, plenty of gifted students chose to go there for a technical education, normally driven by their parents for practical reasons, the need to bring money into the family. Equally, the Academy was not entirely populated by the razor-sharp minds of the Sneck intelligentsia, as is evidenced on many a thread on CTO.