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    Hidden Benefits

    As I was walking through Edinburgh this morning on my way to "work", looking at some of the statues, parks, etc, I had a thought. In Edinburgh as a city, and Scotland as a whole, there is a lot of unpopulated space.

    If Fishface gets his wish and Scotland goes independant, and they follow up with their promises of a social care paradise, whilst the rest of UK brings in cuts, potentially we can just drive some of the work-shy up north and dump them over the wall. The rest of the UK might actually start to see some realistic cuts in spending.
    Perhaps some of the money saved could be used by the UK government to run adverts around the world, promoting the virtues of benefits of the "Free North", whilst painting the UK as somewhere to come if you want to work hard and succeed.

    Pump enough people in, and eventually Scotland could become somewhere as glorious as India, where it's not unusual to find roads being swept by hand, washing being done in streams, even rocks being chiselled by hand to make kerbstones for the new roads being built as towns and cities expand. With so much being done manually, that should reduce energy costs, and help Salmond to meet some of his goals in that area.

    It's win-win-win, surely?

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    5.2 Million Scots, average annual expenditure on underwear £32. Make kilt wearing compulsory for both sexes and there will be a saving of £166,400,000 of Chinese imports
    "A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims, but accomplices," George Orwell

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      #3
      Lots of empty houses as well...


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        #4
        An independent Scotland will have to join Schengen (and the Euro) as a new member state and introduce border controls.

        So that's all good then...

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          #5
          Originally posted by Ticktock View Post
          we can just drive some of the work-shy up north and dump them over the wall.
          It's not the work shy we need to worry about, it's the fogies. We should be aggressively promoting drinking, smoking and class A drugs to the over 60s.
          While you're waiting, read the free novel we sent you. It's a Spanish story about a guy named 'Manual.'

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            #6
            The statues, parks etc. will be covered in windmills. Selling electricity to the English is the only way an independent Scotland will be able to pay its bills.
            Will work inside IR35. Or for food.

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