Brexit

If we are surprised by anything at Salzburg you have not been paying attention.

The intensity of your shock or anger is a mere register of your lack of knowledge and understanding.

UK will be treated as Third Country as it departs EU, and Chequers unacceptable and not viable.

All Tory spin of recent weeks is how well Chequers has been received, then this over the top snarling statement which will win over nobody. Utter stupidity following on from complete self delusion. Disastrous.
Michael R

The timely and stark warnings of the economic dangers ahead given by the IMF, the Governor of the Bank of England and the IFS must not be ignored no matter how much they are dismissed by Boris Johnson and his merry band of dangerous imperialists and Little Englanders who offer nothing by the way of alternatives other than a dream of a great deal of jam tomorrow ! Let sanity prevail and kick into touch the already divided and terminally hapless Tory Party .

I don’t see quite why it’s “incumbent” on Scotland to get behind May’s Chequers proposals when we know they are unworkable, are opposed by prominent Brexiters in the cabinet, and Scotland voted against Brexit in the first place.

So my farming friends, yesterday @NicolaSturgeon announces a £200 000 fund to boost sales of Scotch lamb, while the U.K. Gov hurtle is toward a Brexit scenario that keeps us out of our biggest market and courts huge agri exporting countries for trade deals. Who do you trust ?

DR Liam Fox

BREAKING NEWS: following ongoing UK government effort, Taiwan is preparing to open its market to British pork for the first time. The agreement is expected to be worth more than £50m to British farmers over the next 5 years
is Shaw Retweeted Dr Liam Fox MP


This is a lie. The deal was negotiated by the EU, and the UK will not benefit after the 29th March 2019.

The EU has funded €43bn (£35.4bn) of investment into the UK over the past 8 years. Funding recipients include regeneration schemes, social housing, university investment, skills and infrastructure, many in areas that voted to leave the EU and hit the hardest by Tory austerity.

Brexiters have had 45 years to come up with a coherent plan for Brexit. Yet here we are, 8 months away from leaving the EU, and still there is no workable plan. And that’s why we are heading towards a no-deal Brexit - because any Brexit deal isn’t as good as the current deal.

Tragic to realise that the BBC is not as impartial as I thought it to be.

When Zimbabwe vote rigging is better covered than brexit vote rigging there's a problem.

The Brit Nat / Unionist parties have spent 50 years now reinforcing idea Scotland can’t survive economically as an independent country while sitting on a report showing an independent Scotland would be so rich it would be embarrassing. You really shouldn't believe single thing they say! Fake news Lochinvar ??Cum oan !

No deal Brexit ‘the only one I know how to achieve’, admits Liam Fox
The disgraced former defence secretary Liam Fox famously said a post-Brexit trade deal would be the “easiest in human history”. He’s now saying a no-deal Brexit is the most likely. So what changed? According to the man himself: I… err… may not have looked into this whole Brexit thing before the referendum.

MONDAY MORN
Latest Twitter / Jack Dash Brexit Poll for Scotland : 68 % REMAIN and 32%*
LEAVE

Another Brexit Bonus !!!!

"Australian meat industry leaders are heavily lobbying their govt to put pressure on Britain to accept products currently banned under EU law after Brexit.
..meat products suggested for export to the UK are hormone-treated beef and “burnt goat heads"

Seems the Brit Nats have opted out in answering the pointed questions re the Dark Money and the Taurags ! Think young Lochinvar has retired to his wee But and Ben in Cumbernauld ! Will just keep posting and keep you up to date unlike the Beeb ! x

Rees - Mogg

Hypocrite personified:
1. "I am a Catholic & do not believe in birth control" - company sells abortion pills.
2. #Brexit will be great for the UK - moves finances to Dublin.
3. 2011 - there must be 2 referendums on leaving the EU.
2018 - #Brexit is the "will of the people"

You've got to laugh; France, England's mortal enemy for hundreds of years, the reason the English dissolved their parliament to be the UK parliament in a union with hated Scotland, has Theresa May go begging to the French president to help her get a deal, any deal, out of the EU.

The Conservatives have been accused of “economic murder” for austerity policies which a new study suggests have caused 120,000 deaths.
The paper found that there were 45,000 more deaths in the first four years of Tory-led efficiencies than would have been expected if funding had stayed at pre-election levels.

On this trajectory that could rise to nearly 200,000 excess deaths by the end of 2020, even with the extra funding that has been earmarked for public sector services this year.

After 30 years of denial, the UK Treasury finally admitted that Scots had subsidised the UK by £27 billion (or £5,400 per Scot). Even before the oil boom, Scotland contributed much more to the UK economy than its other partners. This was kept top secret.

Just read that Michel Barnier has delivered the proverbial kick up the you know what to the diminishing band of Brit Nat Brexiteers with his powerful press release trashing the Chesters soft Brexit plan.He said the biggest risk caused by Brexit was in Ireland with the need to avoid a hard Border between North and South.

Carole AH Trust this appeases your thirst for Scottish and indeed English history . Many of the facts contained therein have been “ BBCd” from official sources but I have included these and others in my monthly Blog .


1.Two Unions

There were in fact two Unions , the Union of the Crowns in 1603 and the Union of the Parliaments in 1707. The former occurred when Elizabeth 1 died childless and was succeeded by James Vl of Scotland (a second cousin ) who became James 1 of the United Kingdoms of Scotland and England . Both countries continued to have their own Parliaments and separate legal systems .

2. The Darien Scheme


In 1632 Scotland lost Nova Scotia – her only colony – as a result of the English war against France. England’s Dutch wars subsequently compromised valuable trading privileges upon which Scottish merchants had previously relied. Scottish overseas trading activity was further hampered by the Navigation Act, which cut Scottish ships out of international trade by forbidding the import of goods into England or her colonies unless carried in English ships or ships from the goods’ country of origin.
Beginning in 1651, the goal of the Act was to force colonial development into lines favourable to England, and stop direct colonial trade with the Netherlands, France, Scotland and Spain. This law was enacted despite the Union of Crowns, and effectively meant that Scots merchants were boycotted for trade in England and all her colonies. To make matters worse two powerful English trading companies – the East India Company and the Royal African Company – claimed monopolies on the rich trades with the East Indies and Africa and jealously guarded these territories.
This situation gave rise to the reasoning behind the Darien Scheme – access to trade. The architect of Darien was a man called William Paterson, who would the following year be instrumental in the foundation of the Bank of England. He devised a plan aimed at bringing financial prosperity to Scotland, proposing in 1693 that the Scottish Parliament should grant a Scottish monopoly on overseas trade to a trading company, enabling it to harness the lucrative and relatively available Far Eastern market in the same manner as the English had achieved with Africa and the Indies. Key to the plan was the establishment of a Scottish colony in Central America, at a place called Darien (now part of Panama), so that goods could be transferred from the Pacific to the Atlantic without having to make the long and perilous journey around Cape Horn or the Cape of Good Hope. Instead, goods would be transported to the colony at Darien, on the Atlantic side of the Isthmus of Panama, and carried across to a port on the Pacific side, where ships with exchange cargoes from the East Indies and Asia would be waiting.In 1695 the Bank Of Scotland was established and the Company Of Scotland was born, with its capital intended to be £600,000 raised by public subscription, of which half was to come from within Scotland and the rest from elsewhere. Investors in England, Amsterdam and Hamburg quickly raised their share, but the East India Company – fearing that their monopoly would be broken – used their influence on the king and English Parliament to persuade them to act against the venture.
The English government of King William III – anxious to be on good terms with Spain – didn’t need much persuading, as the proposed Scottish colony would be located on land the Spain had its own designs on. England was at war with France and hence didn’t want to offend the Spanish, who claimed the territory as part of New Granada. The East India Company threatened legal action on the grounds that the Scots had no authority from the king to raise funds outside the English realm, and obliged the promoters to refund subscriptions to the Hamburg investors, with English investors also quickly withdrawing their money.
This left no source of finance but Scotland itself, yet so fierce was the resentment at the duplicity of the king and English Parliament that Scots resolved to raise all the capital alone. Thousands of Scots put their own money into the enterprise alongside money from the nobles, and the Company raised just under £400,000 in a few weeks, with investments from every level of society and totalling roughly a fifth of the wealth of Scotland. This was an enormous sum for the time, amounting to about half the country’s available capital, despite it being a fully private venture.The first fleet (Saint Andrew, Caledonia, Unicorn, Dolphin, and Endeavour) set sail from the east coast port of Leith so as to avoid observation by English warships, which they feared would capture or sink the traders. The plan was to make the journey around the north coast of Scotland, with the settlers below deck to hide the intent of the voyage. At a time when the total Scottish population amounted to only about one million, the amount of manpower committed to the venture was every bit as staggering as the financial commitment.
The settlers christened their new home “New Caledonia”.
There they built Fort St Andrew and began to erect the huts of what they hoped would become their permanent town, New Edinburgh. They cleared land for farming, but successful agriculture proved difficult. The local indigenous people proved unwilling to buy the combs and other trinkets offered by the colonists, and no fleets of merchant ships arrived to use the trade route.
The lack of trade was not an accident, as the English colonies in the West Indies and North America had been forbidden to communicate with the Darien colonists or offer them any help or assistance, by order of William and his government in London. By the onset of summer the following year, the climate, disease and hunger had led to a large number of deaths in the colony. The settlement had intended that many of the settlers would be dispersed across the continent ferrying goods from coast to coast, not all holed up in one place. The confined living conditions combined with poor hygiene and little food led to an epidemic of dysentery. Eventually the mortality rate rose to ten settlers a day.
After eight months the colony was abandoned and the settlers began the journey back to Scotland. One ship, desperate for aid, arrived at the Jamaican city of Port Royal but was refused assistance in response to the king’s standing orders not to help the settlers. Dejected and betrayed by their own monarch, the settlers continued onwards with only 300 of the original 1,200 settlers returning on a single ship to Scotland. It was a disastrous gamble which failed and nearly bankrupted the Country . England was a bout to embark on tjhThe settlers christened their new home “New Caledonia”.
There they built Fort St Andrew and began to erect the huts of what they hoped would become their permanent town, New Edinburgh. They cleared land for farming, but successful agriculture proved difficult. The local indigenous people proved unwilling to buy the combs and other trinkets offered by the colonists, and no fleets of merchant ships arrived to use the trade route.
The lack of trade was not an accident, as the English colonies in the West Indies and North America had been forbidden to communicate with the Darien colonists or offer them any help or assistance, by order of William and his government in London. By the onset of summer the following year, the climate, disease and hunger had led to a large number of deaths in the colony. The settlement had intended that many of the settlers would be dispersed across the continent ferrying goods from coast to coast, not all holed up in one place. The confined living conditions combined with poor hygiene and little food led to an epidemic of dysentery. Eventually the mortality rate rose to ten settlers a day.
After eight months the colony was abandoned and the settlers began the journey back to Scotland. One ship, desperate for aid, arrived at the Jamaican city of Port Royal but was refused assistance in response to the king’s standing orders not to help the settlers. Dejected and betrayed by their own monarch, the settlers continued onwards with only 300 of the original 1,200 settlers returning on a single ship to Scotland . Darien nearly bankrupted Scotland and weakened her hand internationally and with England . They (England ) were about to embark on the War of the Spanish Succession and required Scotland as an ally . A union of Parliaments and an amalgamation between the two was important .