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Scotland's Salmond Resigns After Losing Independence Vote
Another person joins the CEO exodus from yesterday so he too has more time to BTFATH now that BTFD has been made impossible as the market will never D again.
Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond says he intends to stand down, after losing independence vote http://t.co/SBm4yhDZ9T
— BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) September 19, 2014
Per the Guardian, Alex Salmond’s resignation speech concludes:
Scotland can still emerge as a real winner … For me as a leader my time is nearly over but for Scotland the campaign continues and the dream shall never die.
And in other news, France's Sarkozy to return to politics, so net-net, a wash.
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That's a salmon for you. Run like hell to the head of the river and then die.
A Salmon, a Scot and a Jihadist walk into a Bar...
Now these buggers will wait another 300 years having lost a fantastic opportunity.
DEMOCRACY IS TYRANNY FOR THE MINORITY. I'm sick of this 51% to 49% (or in this case 53% to 47%) bullshit.
A "Peaceful Democracy" - A serviceable Puppet State. See also "Democratic Transition."
"Illegitimate" - Against NATO's wishes.
"Looking Forward" - Allowing Criminals to walk free.
As I've learned on this site:
Democracy is 2 butchers and cow voting on what's for dinner.
The rig is in... Never have i seen such desperation and dirty media tricks.
Time to change the song from "Scotland the Brave" to "Scotland the chickenshit"
The ballad of Sir Robin....
"When danger reared its ugly head,
Sir Robin turned his tail and fled!
Brave, brave Sir Robin, Sir Robin ran away!"
Step downs ass, he better be on the first flight out of the country.
"That's a salmon for you. Run like hell to the head of the river and then die."
I don't know if that was applicable or not....
but it was funny.
Hey man, that's true leadership!
. . . . "If I can't be Brussels' bitch, I ain't gonna be anyone's bitch!"
I agree, totally honorable, in America he would be running for President now, they would tell him you can't let all that name recognition go to waste!!
And with his goal in sight, life ends - to start anew.
Salmon Falls - Harry Nilssonhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmiy9REAFhI
Today, the City of London Corporation rules victorious!
To those of you who voted yes --- for Scottish independence --- you have my admiration and deepest respect.
For those who voted no --- you have dishonored and shamed the memory of William Wallace and Constantín mac Áeda.
To pledge fealty --- once again --- to Westminster beggars belief --- but Scottish history is replete with duplicitous behavior --- so it doesn't altogether come as a shock.
Again we are presented with the notion that Scotland is but a land of England, and shall forever remain so!
The Militia Act of 1757 established that the Scots were not to be trusted with weapons --- evidently they will never be trusted with independence either!
middle earth is lost...
...maybe. But the whole "guy in a skirt" thing is starting to make sense.
Doesn't he have to eat his own sporan.
Close, but alas, he did not eat the Salmon of Knowledge...pity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salmon_of_Knowledge
She can't take anymore Capt'n
She's gonna blow
http://youtu.be/oXZa89Hv8Bo
Well, the Haggis is in the fire for sure.
Quitter!
The Japanese have a long tradition of what disgraced leaders are to do to themselves.
Bow deeply, say you're sorry and keep right on doing what they were doing.
Why, what did you think I was going to say?
....that it was a result of bad weather.
Edit: due to IOS 8 auto suggest. Damn thing....
To be followed with an announcement next week that the Queen has doubled his lands, with matching estates in England.
Let the limeys try Prima Nocte.
We'll see that that 47 invert to 74 pronto :P
Your signature or brainz will be on that resignation letter
Sorry for the double post guys, the internet in Thailand is miserable sometimes.
Scotland Smackdown as Silver , Salmon Sinks Too-!
HAd to Do it.
BraveFarts Banzai-!
I do find it interesting that in Dundee which was a 'yes' stronghold that a fire alarm necessitated everyone having to leave the building, not once, not twice, but 3 seperate times.And while the final count for 'yes' still won there, it was with a turnout rate of only 78 percent... much lower than expected:
http://www.eveningtelegraph.co.uk/news/local/dundee/yes-campaign-secures...
Btw, I do realize the link I provided says 2, but under hashtag #dundee, twitter is saying 3 seperate alarms with a subsequent 12 percent drop in expected turnout from 90 percent down to 78...
Scotland gets the Russian nuke flyover for F'n losing. The Queen dances upon cloven hooves.
So her Highness is half reptile half goat then?
Nice.
A bit more visually interesting than our Kenyan Jackmule, but apparently just as expensive and destructive.
Stirling District, where William Wallace allegedly beat the Brits, and battle featured in "Braveheart"
Stirling Bridgers voted NO at 60 to 40 YES.
Reminds me of the Shelter in Place Boston pussies on EXact Same day Colonists fought the Brits, April 1775.
Fuck London, DC and Tel Aviv
Once the Scots get what they voted for, they will want him back.
Personally he is one of the few Scots I can abide. England really truly needs its independence from the stinkhole quagmire known as Great Britain.
The Scottish vote that demonstrates the lure nae, the addiction of the Dole, the rot in the character of the 55% of their people, being now
This I would sacrifice my opinions however well-informed they are, for the rest of my life.
Actually, I think that he has shown himslef to be a true statesman who accepted fulll responsibility for his failture. However, the seed has been sown. There WILL be another referendum, eventually, especially if the English, as they historiically usually do when it comes to the Scots, WELSH on on their promises (e.g. the 1979 promise). Also, over 70% of the very young voted Yes while over 70% of the old farts voted for English vassaldom-linked pensions. (English really means British as they are over 80% of the population of the UK and have all the money and power) If the English economy collapses after the financial sector loses grasp of the hypothecation and rehopethication going on (and trillions in derivatives), Scotland may lose fear of being under the friendly English boot.
You can have referenda until hell freezes over but it will not change. The United KIngdom does not permit independence through voting......only through armed struggle.
Ireland was never granted independence - it had to seize it.
India was refused Home Rule through the actuions of Churchill in 1935 - he would have stopped it in 1947 if he had been in power.
It is Force that frees people from British Power - there is no peaceful means of doing so
Sad sad day for my country.
Borrow that recipe book from your Irish cousin across the way...and get cooking, lad.
That'll get your spirits up.
What matters is the Jewish community will feel safer in a Scotland that remains part of the United Kingdom.
http://bit.ly/1txqeJJ
I do wonder why there was no exit polling. But since one can't be "anti-Israel" - no matter what Israel does - naturally, the referendum should not have even been held until Scotland's Jews - disproportionately wealthy, organized, and represented in the UK government, had had their say.
Jews are irrelevant in Scotland - the issue is London and its role as Imperial Capital - Capital as in MONEY not geography.
The Votes appear to have been rigged Putin-style
http://www.jaxobserver.com/2014/09/19/scotland-vote-rigging-possible-as-...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbJif7vISQg
This is a dry run for the 2017 EU Referendum in the UK and shows how far they will go to rig votes.
The UK system works on paper ballots. Each ballot bears a number. The number tallies with the Voter List. The ballot is marked with a cross in pencil.
They know who is likely to vote, they know which way someone will vote, they are able to vote for them.
There is no legitimacy to elections in Britain and the system has been rigged for years
A little admitted-to fact in the British voting system is that - given each ballot paper has a unique number on it as you say - when a person arrives to vote and gives his name, the apparatchik records the person's name and ballot paper number in a ledger.
This means that voting is not a secret process even though every single politician will tell you it is. They are lying. Why does this matter? Because the ledgers are supposedly locked away for N years but you can bet your last dollar that MI5 and Met Police have access to them to see how a person voted. Particularly important to them if there was a radical candidate on the ballot paper and a terror or revolutionary person under suspicion.
.... bacause it's required protect da people from da evil terrorists.
not a scot but a scotch.
not a dram but a polish nazi vodka shot.
yeee fuckin dunderheaded medicated numbskulls
every scotch man is the walking dead
none of you have really lived.
listen up scum
you are slaves to the
empire of the city of london.
expect another rabbi cum load
in yer saggy scotch fucking rectums.
freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
dumbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb
I don't think its impossible that the Demos would chose to dismantle the welfare-warfare leviathan, that keeps recepients passive and entertained.
But its pretty dam unlikely. Even the Greeks hang on to their kleptocracy.
http://www.jaxobserver.com/2014/09/19/scotland-vote-rigging-possible-as-...
Ballot Rigging.......this could lead to Civil War
Re the papers on the table.
Not long after it was aired 'Yes Dundee' tweeted this.
'To clarify, ballot papers have not yet been sorted into Yes/No and are just resting on table where No will go once sorted. No need to worry.'
I know it won't stop the 'OMG fixored' theories abounding though.
At least Salmond's punishment for leading this uprising won't be as severe as Wallace's.
Voters receive a poll card from the returning officer at their local authority with details of their allocated polling place. They are not required to show the poll card (unless they are an anonymous elector[53][54]) or any other form of identification at the polling place in order to vote, except in Northern Ireland, where one piece of photographic ID must be presented at the polling station - a NI Electoral Identity Card, a photographic NI or GB driving licence, a United Kingdom or other EU passport, a Translink 60+ SmartPass, a Translink Senior SmartPass, a Translink Blind Person's SmartPass or a Translink War Disabled SmartPass.[55]
Having verified and marked off the voter's name and address on the list of electors, the presiding officer or poll clerk issues the ballot paper, calling out the voter's name, elector number and polling district reference,[56][57] unless the voter is an anonymous elector, in which case only his/her elector number is called out.[54] All ballot papers contain both an official mark (e.g. a watermark or perforation) and a unique identifying number; any papers issued without both these features (even if it is the presiding officer/poll clerk's mistake) will be invalid and rejected at the count. On a separate list (called the corresponding number list) the presiding officer or poll clerk writes the voter's elector number next to the unique identifying number of the ballot paper issued. However the secrecy of the vote is usually maintained, as at the close of the poll this list linking voters to their ballot paper numbers is sealed inside a packet which may only be opened by the order of a court in the event that the election result is challenged. The ballot paper is folded and then handed to the voter.
The voter marks the ballot papers in the privacy of a voting booth. If the ballot paper has been spoilt, the presiding officer/poll clerk can issue a new one after the old ballot paper is cancelled. Before placing the ballot papers in the ballot box, the voter has (in theory) to show the presiding officer or the poll clerk the official mark and the unique identifying number printed on the reverse of the ballot papers.
If a voter requests a ballot paper but someone has already voted in their name, or they are listed as having requested a postal vote, they can only cast a tendered ballot. After marking the tendered ballot in private, the voter must not place it in the ballot box. Instead, it must be returned to the Presiding Officer who will endorse it with the voter's name, elector number and polling district reference, before placing it in a special envelope. The voter's name and elector number is then written down in the 'List of Tendered Votes'. Although tendered ballots are not included at the count, they serve as a formal record that a voter has tried, but has been unable, to cast a vote and is evidence of a voter's concern about the conduct of an election. If a voter wants to make a complaint, marking a tendered ballot is the first step in pursuing the complaints procedure.[58] Wikipedia
And the banksters win again.
Sign are that the referendum was rigged .
no kidding!
530 wolves are butt raping 470 lambs. Long live democracy.
Who going to file the lawsuit?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=et9kE4YHwdw
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-09-18/live-feed-scotland-results-star...
From Jamie D's Twitter page: Scotland updates if FB page
Ireland: You guys sort it out? x
England: Yes. :-)
Scotland: Not really.
Wales: This is awkward.
US: LOL
What this vote shows is that 55 percent of scotland's people are spineless. Anyone who voted no and dare fly the Scottish flag should have the flag shoved up their ass. They are traitors to their country. To you EU loving Nazi's go suck the queens dick. The EU is evil. How a person can be born in a country in EUROPE and yet put the EU before the country of their birth is traitorous and pathetic. Europe is so fucked full of spineless pukes that wont fight for their freedom. A continent that has a few patriots but mostly cowards who have allowed Muslims to take over their country without a fight. Your grandchildren will despise you for what you did. At least your in the US most of us here will fight when the time comes. You Europeans will gladly surrender to your beloved EU. Bunch of nanny state loving losers.i don't want to see another remark on zh again about how evil the US is. You cocksuckers have given your freedom and civil liberties away so you can be taken care of and don't have to think for yourselfs and do the hard work necessary to save your democracies. That's the major difference between the United states and Europe, most of us Americans love our country.
Blame it on the Scottish contingent of the Labour Party... Gordon Brown et al who are deeply tied into the UK status quo. All the pensioners and dole recipients are scared that their payments might be cut The young and the confident voted to secede, which speaks to the longevity of this movement. Austerity will come to Scotland as well as England and the NO supporters will lose all their free "shit" anyway.
man this website has gone from zerohedge to infowars pretty rapidly based on some of these commentors... it was more like the ineligable wanted to secede. 16 year olds are NOT qualified on any rational basis to input their ballots on this. notice 18-50 were almost split down the middle. it was basically city people vs the rest of scotland on this. the city of glasgow who has hated the english for so long were the primary pushers of this whole nonsensical charade.
Where is the nonsense in wanting your country to be free from someone else to tell you how high to jump. I'll bet you're one of those Nanny Nazi supporters supporters of the EU. People like you disgust me, Spineless sheeple.