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Listed below are comments made by PatrickHenry76 between Tuesday, 29th April 2008 and Friday, 2nd May 2008.

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Making new friends 2:55pm on 02 May 2008 Thank you for this balanced and enlightening item, Mr Taylor.

What a decent fair-minded chap you are.
Fuelling talks 10:35pm on 29 Apr 2008 I really despair when I encounter incivility, as one does so often from intemperate unionists who find to their horror that others simply will not accept their point of view.

Brigadierjohn, your very selective and rather insulting emotional response to the thoughtful autonomist contributions indicates that you should perhaps try reading more carefully what others write before attempting to respond to it.

You have apparently failed to grasp the main point which was being made, which is essentially that with independence a whole range of options are available to a government which under devolution are simply not available. Selective localized nationalization, as practised by the present UK government, is but one example of this.

The question of whether or not nationalization should be exercised in the case under discussion is a different matter and indeed is academic if one assumes that the UK government, which is the only government in the UK which may take anything into public ownership, is not interested in exercising that option in this instance.

A few autonomists may favour the exercise of such an option in some circumstances. Most do not, so far as I am aware. Unionists, of course, differ on a whole range of issues.

For guidance on the policies that an independent Scottish government would be likely to put into effect a visit to the Scottish National Party's admirable website (www.snp.org) should prove instructive.

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