This is NOT a serious attempt at provincial independence and self government so do not amass your armies at our borders and detain us as subversives.
Saturday, August 30, 2014
Canterbury nation value...
A panel of experts has valued Canterbury at four trillion and eight hundred and thirty two billion dollars [$4,832,000,000,000] or $8,537,102 per Cantabrian.
Friday, August 29, 2014
Timeline to Scotland independence...
20th century[edit]
Year | Date | Event |
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1929 | The Church of Scotland and the United Free Church of Scotland unite. | |
1934 | Scottish National Party founded. | |
1938 | The Empire Exhibition, Scotland 1938 is held at Bellahouston Park, Glasgow. | |
1941 | The Clydebank Blitz (13–15 March). | |
1943 | Creation of the North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board to bring electricity to all parts of the Highlands and Islands. | |
1945 | First Scottish Nationalist MP is elected. | |
1947 | Nationalisation of the railways – the Scottish Region of British Railways is created. | |
The first Edinburgh International Festival is held. | ||
1950 | The Stone of Destiny is removed from Westminster Abbey. | |
1957 | Scottish Television starts broadcasting. | |
1968 | The General Assembly of the Church of Scotland permits the ordination of women as ministers. | |
1975 | Local government reorganisation (replacing Counties and Burghs for administrative purposes with Regions and Districts). | |
1978 | Launch of BBC Radio Scotland. | |
1979 | Referendum to create a Scottish Assembly fails to meet the required majority. | |
1988 | Terrorists blow up Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie with the loss of 270 lives, including 11 residents of the town. | |
1994 | Local government reorganisation (replacing the Regions and Districts with single-tier councils). | |
1996 | The Stone of Destiny is permanently returned to Scotland, to be housed in Edinburgh Castle. | |
1997 | Newly elected Labour UK Government under the leadership of Scots-born Prime Minister Tony Blair legislates for a referendum on a devolved Scottish Parliament which is passed by a large majority. | |
1999 | A Scottish Parliament sits for the first time in 272 years. Donald Dewar of the Scottish Labour Party elected as First Minister and formsScottish Executive in coalition with the Scottish Liberal Democrats. |
21st century[edit]
Year | Date | Event |
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2004 | October 9 | Opening of the new Scottish Parliament Building. |
2007 | The Scottish National Party become the largest party in the Scottish Parliament and forms a minority government. | |
2011 | The Scottish National Party under Alex Salmond gain an overall majority of the Scottish Parliament. | |
2014 | Scotland is set to have a referendum on national independence. |
Tuesday, August 26, 2014
Monday, August 25, 2014
Final TV showdown in Scotland's independence debate looms before vote..
EDINBURGH (Reuters) - Scotland's future will be debated in a final TV showdown on Monday just weeks before a historic independence referendum with the pro-breakaway camp, behind in the polls, looking for a game-changing performance from its leader.
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Sunday, August 24, 2014
Saturday, August 23, 2014
Men fight for liberty and win it with...
Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.
D.H. LawrenceMonday, August 18, 2014
Saturday, August 9, 2014
Your Majesty, please grant us a new Magna Carta...
Noting the grievous loss of liberty suffered by hunts and hounds forbidden to chase foxes, we plead that they should be allowed to pursue pests of a different kind. These include: cold-callers; people who eat in the street and leave a trail of greasy litter behind them; dog owners who never scoop poop; mobile-phone users who insist on inflicting their half of any conversation on everyone in a 50-yard radius; motorway drivers whose car appears to have a magnetic attraction to one’s rear bumper; blind-drunk revellers in public places, and sundry other undesirables too numerous to mention. Set the dogs on them all!
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Friday, August 8, 2014
23 days to independence...
February 23[edit]
In Simferopol, on February 23, 2014 a pro-Euromaidan rally was held in support of the new Ukrainian authorities. The protesters also demanded the resignation of the Crimean parliament; attendees waved Ukrainian, Tatar and European Union flags.
Meanwhile in Sevastopol, tens of thousands protested against the new authorities and voted to establish a parallel administration and civil defense squads created with the support of Russian Night Wolves bikers.[clarification needed] Same were created on 22 February in Simferopol, where about 5,000 had joined such squads. Protesters waved Russian flags and chanted "Putin is our president" and claimed they would refuse to pay further taxes to the state. Russian military convoys were also alleged to be seen in the area. In Kerch, pro-Russian protesters attempted to remove the Ukrainian flag from atop city hall and replace it with the flag of Russia. Over 200 attended waving flags of Russia, orange-and-black St. George and the Russian Unity party. Mayor Oleh Osadchy attempted to disperse the crowd and police eventually arrived to keep the protesters at bay. Osadchy said: "This is the territory of Ukraine, Crimea. Here's a flag of Crimea" but was accused of treason and a fight ensued over the flagpole.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014
Europe’s fragmented future...
The specter of secession is haunting Europe. Since 2000 there have been three successful separations from existing states — by Montenegro, Kosovo and Crimea — and at the moment, several other regions are attempting to secede and create independent states. In March, Crimea first seceded from Ukraine and then voted, in a referendum, to rejoin the Russian Federation. At the same time, in an informal online referendum, voters of the Veneto region in northern Italy overwhelmingly favored independence and the restoration of the old Venetian republic. In September, the citizens of Scotland will vote in an independence referendum, and the government of the Spanish region of Catalonia plans to hold a referendum of the same kind two months later — despite a ruling by the Constitutional Court of Spain that such a referendum would be illegal (a similar referendum in the Basque region in 2008 was thwarted by the Spanish government).
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