I wrote a Post the other day about Independence for Scotland, and today to my delight there was a report item on Sky News about how English people who were polled support the idea of Independence for Scotland.
56% in England said they thought it was time to break up the Union
41% of Scots were in favour of independence.
If the SNP get a majority in the elections they plan to hold a referendum on the issue.
Will the UK flag look like this in the future?
Of course the level of interest in Scottish independence must raise the issue of the total dissolution of the Act of Union, it becomes irrelevant, and thus does the status of Northern Ireland, which will be hard pushed to exist on its own, so maybe the prospect of a re union with the rest of it’s geographical and cultural island can take place, of course this will have to be done with full consent from all parties, and some sort of federal or Irish act of Union will have to take place perhaps, a new name even…..like the United Island of Ireland?
Published March 14, 2007
in Beer, Scottish and English, Cadets, going ashore, booze, deck and engine room, Scottish, pinch of salt required, From the ship, Singapore, flags and emblems, Shore leave and stating the obvious.
The continuation of Tims cadetship adventure.
The Rangers gang and I made a truce after about 3 months into my first trip, it got boring after a while and we made a deal, they would stop slagging me and stop calling me “Shaymus, Paddy, Mick, and Tim the Tim” if I stopped calling them “orange bastards”. And so an uneasy truce developed. For people who claimed they hated Celtic football club, they knew far more about them than I did, not very difficult I suppose seeing as I only got interested in Celtic as a counter measure. Truth be told I have never seen Celtic play live even though I own plenty football shirts and scarves and the like. I have however seen Rangers play in Cyprus, I was in the opposing Famagusta crowd with a huge tricolour and a bunch of mad Celtic fans who were there to burn Union jacks and generally cause the Rangers fans to go ballistic who in turn got battered by the riot police for burning a Greek flag. Result.
Anyway back to me and big Ewan, who loved drinking mcEwans, we became pals to an extent, I never met him again after that ship. Howver when we were there together we had a liberty in Singapore and a big gang of us got our going ashore clobber on and hit the clubs of Singapore. Ewan was ex-Royal Navy loud and got drunk fast, but stayed on a level of drunkenness close to but never reaching falling down drunk. His mouth was 100 mph non stop, we bumped into a bunch of US Marines in a club, and Ewan was dead set on aggravating them. In fact he wanted to get us killed. We started drinking with the yanks and swopping stories, buying rounds and having a good laugh, Ewan telling yarns about the Royal Navy and US Navy exercises, and how he had a truncheon on gangway watch and his American conterpart had an M-16, “how effective was that, bag of shite” then suddenly he says “What does USMC stand for?” one of the yanks had a tatoo on his muscular forearm, he replied ” Why its UNITED STATES MARINE CORP” in a loud proud voice. Ewan had a strange grin on his face and said “No it means U suck my cock”, all hell broke loose in an instant, there was a melee in the bar, I got a dig in the head and Ewan was on the floor with 3 marines on top of him, he was roaring “U suck my cock” as loud as he could, I thought we were gonners, when the shore patrol MP’s charged in and started clubbing their own men, Americans being beaten by American MP’s. He kept his grin on even though he was close to being beaten to death, how not to act in the presence of the Marine Corp. Some people live close to the edge, Ewan was falling over. We managed to get back to the ship in one piece, and of course big Ewan claimed “we nearly had them, they were lucky the polis arrived”…..eh, not really. The shore patrol would have gladly joined in with their own crowd against us, if they had not strict instructions to keep order, thats why they had to control their own men, luckily for us.
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