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Listed below are comments made by Caledonian54 between Saturday, 31st October 2009 and Monday, 30th November 2009 (10 Hours Ago) .

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Taking it to the max 10:04pm on 30 Nov 2009 #162 "How does the SNP already know that a legally separate Scotland would be admitted to the European Union? So far as we know, neither the EU nor the UK Government has been consulted on their likely terms - or even whether Scotland would be accepted at all?"

Oh dear...

Its all very simple. The treaty of accession was signed on behalf of the United Kingdom - all of it, not just England, including a remote province up north. An independent Scotland means the United Kingdom will no longer exist; therefore either both Scotland and England will continue to be members of the EU as successor states to the former United Kingdom, or both will require to re-apply. If you actually participated in this blog rather than logging on tonight because the Party told you it was your patriotic duty to so, you might understand that.
Talking drink 9:48pm on 26 Nov 2009 #129 "No problem drinkers are going to stop drinking because a unit costs 40p."

Quite true, If someone is intent on getting drunk they will do, regardless of cost, but what the minimum price is intended to do is curb the initial slide before they become "problem drinkers". No-one deliberately sets out to become an alcoholic, its a consequence of too easy access to the stuff. If people have to stop and think about buying it in quantity they might not throw it down their necks with such abandon and then wake up to find they can't do without it at any price.

That's what the minimum price is intended to achieve and that's why every health professional in the country is in favour of it, and why Mr Gray and his bitter and twisted followers are wrong to put spite before common sense
Under pressure 08:34am on 24 Nov 2009 While I normally read the Scotsman's take on affairs with sorrow rather than anger, I have to say that it has redeemed itself with the photo of Mr Murphy on page 22 this morning
All to play for? 07:19am on 16 Nov 2009 In modern spelling it is Ecossais - Scots; however in the 18th century it was spelled Ecossois - as the French Army's Regiment Royal Ecossois, which fought at Culloden
Breaking up the banks 9:58pm on 03 Nov 2009 # 86. At 9:23pm on 03 Nov 2009, derekbarker wrote:

"...Time it flexes like a hawk as it sweeps down and smothers the little moose!."

Still not sure what you're on Derek, but it must be a pretty big hawk, the last moose I saw was about 6 foot tall with antlers to match.

Did you mean a wee moosie? :-)
Breaking up the banks 4:09pm on 03 Nov 2009 #21 "Leaving the gap in sounds, well...fair for a BBC Scotland programme. Do I detect something here?"

Well how else can you convey "startled rabbit in headlights" in a non-visual medium? :-)
It's FMQs, stupid 10:57am on 01 Nov 2009 Just by way of diversion I laughed out loud at a report on the front page of this site, wherein a certain Ms Harman of some standing in the Labour party declares that the party "can't afford to lose Milliband to the EU", but says she can understand why there have been rumours that he might be in line for the projected EU Foreign Minister job because he is a politician of "international standing".

Speak about ROFL, what a pathetic bunch of narcissists
It's FMQs, stupid 7:19pm on 31 Oct 2009 As of 19.01 on this site the Lib-Dems have affirmed their opposition to a referendum:

"The party overwhelmingly rejected Alex Salmond's referendum Bill.

"There was genuine and widespread anger at the rigged question put forward by the SNP.

"The Liberal Democrats are a party that will remain at the heart of the debate on Scotland' constitutional future. But on our terms."

... or to put it another way if the voters can't be trusted to give us the result we want, then we're not playing and we're not allowing them to either.

Liberal?
It's FMQs, stupid 6:39pm on 31 Oct 2009 #277. At 5:45pm on 31 Oct 2009, oldnat wrote:

"If we talked about nothing except food (and poetry), we'd never have another political thread from BT!"

Ah, but that's the point, if he won't give us a blog topic we can get our teeth into we might as well get them into food instead :-)
It's FMQs, stupid 5:43pm on 31 Oct 2009 #272, sounds as bad as putting sugar or syrup (molasses) on porrage instead of dry meal.

First time I was over your way it was British Columbia, where I was introduced to hash browns and to maple syrup by the bucket, but nobody mentioned grits. They were into maple syrup in a big way in Massachuusetts and Quebec too, where I learned the only difference between ketchup and catsup is the spelling, but Texas, ah Texas... learned the difference between bacon and ham, but was very very firmly instructed to avoid grits at all costs. Now chicken fried steak, that was something different and then down by the border, mole (ryhmms with Olay) with my chilli

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