In reply to a post by RossMcG:

Some people will vote for independance solely to be rid of the royal family (aka waste of tax patyers money)

How much would a presidential system cost?

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In reply to a post by ian72:

I dare say that Alex Salmond has assumed they can continue using UK even if they break away from the union...

An Independent Scotland cannot be prevented from using UK or the .uk TLD.

The definition of (the) UK would have to be revised.

Great Britain

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ALL currently held UK Passports would have to be reworded and re-issued!

Nothing has changed since 1920.

Edited by JimmyBoy (Sat 14-Jun-14 16:02:25)

In reply to a post by JimmyBoy:

An Independent Scotland cannot be prevented from using UK or the .uk TLD.

I think it very unlikely that Nominet will restrict purchase of .uk to UK entities.

Also the .scot domain will go live soon regardless of the outcome of the referendum. Ironically Salmond supports the new domain, even though independence would probably mean they could get a standard two-character country TLD from ICANN as well.

The links are from Scotland to Northern Ireland - still part of the UK.

Ireland does have some small bandwidth links into a coupl eof transatlantic links - but to access those Scottish traffic would need to go via te UK.

It would cost an awful lot less than keeping these people cosseted and fawned over >>

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In reply to a post by Oliver341:

In reply to a post by JimmyBoy:

An Independent Scotland cannot be prevented from using UK or the .uk TLD.

I think it very unlikely that Nominet will restrict purchase of .uk to UK entities.

I like a referendum on that.

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

In reply to a post by RossMcG:

Some people will vote for independance solely to be rid of the royal family (aka waste of tax patyers money)

How much would a presidential system cost?

For me IMHO that's neither here nor there, just getting shot of the royals would be enough. However that will never happen :/

I wonder if England will get a vote for independence, after all they have as much right to break away as everyone else.

In reply to a post by RossMcG:

For me IMHO that's neither here nor there, just getting shot of the royals would be enough. However that will never happen :/

Yeah, seems like Salmond is pretty fond of the Queen. In fact he reckons England should become a republic so that the Queen can become head of state in Scotland.

In reference to www.theguardian.com/politics/wintour-and-watt/2011/may/25/alexsalmo...:

Alex Salmond, the first minister of Scotland, has just given a gushing interview about the Queen in which he raises an intriguing prospect. The SNP leader tells Prospect magazine that an independent Scotland would keep the Queen as head of state while England would be better off as a republic.

We all know what the previous Queen Elizabeth would have done about him.

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

We all know what the previous Queen Elizabeth would have done about him.

............. Invite him to her bed-chamber ??



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