Salmond issuing independence call

[Win2Win Racing]

SNP leader Alex Salmond will issue an independence rallying call, as he addresses his party's first conference since its landslide election win.

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[scoobydoo]

The UK is doomed...never again will I feel able to support Andy Murray in his semi-final Wimbledon defeats. :biggrin: The only thing I am bothered about is in England...it will be a Tory government... forever...thanks Scotland! :mad:

[Win2Win]

It won't happen in this decade, if Salmond could be :ass2 doing basic maths on the Scottish economy it'd go bankrupt quickly if it had independence now. They wouldn't get any support from the EU as they wouldn't be in it, they'd have to qualify which takes years, and they are running out of the main resource they have oil/gas.

[barneymather]

I'm a Scot and am not alone in disliking Alex Salmond intensely. Apart from his insufferable pomposity, he always looks to me like one half of Tweedledee and Tweedledum, and his darts player's belly must mean his wife rolls him to the breakfast table when he gets up in the morning. Salmond's crew are just another bunch of ultra-PC buffoons, albeit with an overdeveloped sense of nationalism.

I doubt most Scots support the SNP, however there ain't much choice around and Salmond and co. are cashing in on the apathy. Labour are paying the price of taking Scottish voters for granted for many decades, the Lib-Dems win the odd seat but you couldn't trust them to run a tea stall never mind a country and are basically a crowd of lily-livered hippies, and Maggie Thatcher's brand of 'If it's not hurting, it isn't working' politics in the 1980s ensured the Tories will remain a toxic brand in Scotland, Wales, and the north of England for the next 100 years or so. :rolleyes: