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Post by LeFromage Thu 18 Sep 2014, 21:34

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Dello wrote:Bookies think it's nailed on for the NOs. 1/6 and shortening.

Weird. Seems to go against the perceived momentum.

No exit polls coming because everyone was too tight to pay for one. We'll only know when we know.

In the end, you don't get any more conservative than a wee Scot. "No" was always gonna prevail, IMHO.

Twitter hugely Yes-centric. 75:25 split at least.

Record turn out, massive number of first time voters (including 16 and 17 year olds). I think the youth will decide it.
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Post by skully Thu 18 Sep 2014, 21:35

But what % of the Scot population have Twitter? 30%?
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Post by LeFromage Thu 18 Sep 2014, 23:04

YouGov pollsters - the supposed word in opinion polls - give it to the Nos 54:46 based on repolling their respondents after the official polls close.

Does that mean anything? Time will tell.

In the betting, No is offering 1/16.
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Post by LeFromage Thu 18 Sep 2014, 23:10

YouGov president (president! Get over yourself, man) Peter Kellner announces that he's "99% certain" of a No win.

He's going to have one eggy face if he's wrong...
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Post by LeFromage Thu 18 Sep 2014, 23:20

Shame I'm not a gambler. 7/1 for Yes still seems a decent punt.
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Post by Big Dog Thu 18 Sep 2014, 23:41

So when are the Taffs going to launch their independence bid?
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Post by LeFromage Thu 18 Sep 2014, 23:59

Big Dog wrote:So when are the Taffs going to launch their independence bid?

No real appetite for it in Wales.

It'd take them a decade even to put together a basic infrastructure to govern.
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Post by Bradman Fri 19 Sep 2014, 05:55

Looks like it's all over red rover for the yes'. 54-46. And Australia doesn't need 75% to change it just needs a majority of votes in a majority of states. Though admittedly most referendums would be 75% overall. Even some unsuccessful ones were probably 75%. Shame about the medieval states.
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Post by taipan Fri 19 Sep 2014, 06:26

So Mel Gibson died for nothing.
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Post by skully Fri 19 Sep 2014, 06:48

Dello wrote:
skully wrote:
Dello wrote:Bookies think it's nailed on for the NOs. 1/6 and shortening.

Weird. Seems to go against the perceived momentum.

No exit polls coming because everyone was too tight to pay for one. We'll only know when we know.

In the end, you don't get any more conservative than a wee Scot. "No" was always gonna prevail, IMHO.

Twitter hugely Yes-centric. 75:25 split at least.

Record turn out, massive number of first time voters (including 16 and 17 year olds). I think the youth will decide it.

"No" did shit in. WTF would the Twitterverse know? Cool
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Post by Brass Monkey Fri 19 Sep 2014, 07:48

Dello is waaaay off the pulse of today's Britain. He's like Vicky Pollard in high heels.
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Post by LeFromage Fri 19 Sep 2014, 07:55

Just keeping up my unblemished record of never knowingly being right about anything.

Couldn't tip shit out of a bucket.
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Post by Brass Monkey Fri 19 Sep 2014, 09:23

Nah, you did alright with the bollockless Indians, didn't you? I think that maybe you're just in touch with foreigners. Maybe you should be a consul or some such, rather than a millionaire.
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Post by lardbucket Fri 19 Sep 2014, 14:50

So Scotland's escape bid fails, and the UK remains the United Kingdom rather than the Untied Kingdom. It would have been interesting to see what GB might have been called without Scotland, too ... Little Britain?

Once again the noisy Titterverse shows itself to be composed mainly of chattering Chardonnay socialists busily patting each other on the back, but totally unrepresentative of the general population. It's just like the Q&A audience here in Ozland, and the Q&A twitter stream in particular.

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Post by Brass Monkey Fri 19 Sep 2014, 15:24

Let's face it, colonial outposts don't want to be rid of the motherland. I'm sure plenty of countries want back in if we'd let them. It's just the way we are. Loved by all.
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Post by G.Wood Fri 19 Sep 2014, 15:45

I loved you when you were haughtily losing 5 - 0
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Post by Brass Monkey Fri 19 Sep 2014, 15:54

That was back when Cook wasn't quite a qunt... ahh, good times. Giles Clarke, eh? Typifies the haughty British qunt. I would love to thrash him with a pool ball in a sock. I reckon I even prefer David Cameron, who typifies the haughty British qunt, to Clarke. That's really saying something.
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Post by Basil Fri 19 Sep 2014, 23:56

Please God we don't end up with an English Parliament - we need another layer of government like we need a hole in the head.
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Post by Bradman Sat 20 Sep 2014, 00:13

English votes for English issues apparently. You may get your hole in the head.
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Post by Basil Sat 20 Sep 2014, 00:18

Bradman wrote:English votes for English issues apparently.  You may get your hole in the head.

We can achieve that through the existing H of C - no need for a separate assembly full of career politicians trying to justify their existence.
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Post by Bradman Sat 20 Sep 2014, 00:23

Don't see how it would work without some seperate rep body, for England at least.
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Post by skully Sat 20 Sep 2014, 04:13

lardbucket wrote:So Scotland's escape bid fails, and the UK remains the United Kingdom rather than the Untied Kingdom. It would have been interesting to see what GB might have been called without Scotland, too ... Little Britain?

Once again the noisy Titterverse shows itself to be composed mainly of chattering Chardonnay socialists busily patting each other on the back, but totally unrepresentative of the general population.  It's just like the Q&A audience here in Ozland, and the Q&A twitter stream in particular.

I gave up watching Q&A because I just couldn't cop the continued filtered stream of unabashed Pinko love tweets blurbing across the bottom of the screen. Aunty's bias these days is just pathetic. And Tony Jones is a dickhead.
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Post by horace Sat 20 Sep 2014, 05:52

cmon S...am certain the abc (centre rightists) would love to publish your views
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Post by lardbucket Sat 20 Sep 2014, 06:23

Oh, I wrote Titterverse when I meant to write Twitterverse. Freudian error.

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Post by skully Sat 20 Sep 2014, 06:38

h, the ABC is left of even the dickhead Greens these days.
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