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• Greg. Tingey commented on Speaking of book covers ...
  guthrie @ 51 Original article Right here See for yourself!...
• Charlie Stross commented on Speaking of book covers ...
  It would be a divorce, So remind me again how the Czech republic shafted Slovakia? There are plenty of precedents for "no-fault" divorces between nations. ... But what I'm actually hoping for is that a "yes" vote gives Salmond the ammo he needs to walk it back from full on independence to devo max. Devo max was explicitly ruled off the ballot by Cameron -- possibly a good thing from his point of view, because before that happened it was going to win outright over the other two options (full independence, or status quo). Devo max is popular in Scotland....
• guthrie commented on Speaking of book covers ...
  SHeesh, I hope you didn't take that article seriously. Just in the first sentences, he omits to mention that fiddling statistics is carried out by private operations too, and that the drive to fiddle stats comes from the managerialism imported from the private sector... And charter schools in the USA get to dump all the pupils who they think will lower test results, so of course they get better grades. And the 48% spending peak is not 48% spent on booze and fags for indigent losers, but because of bailing out the banks and trying to keep the economy going;...
• Ian S commented on Speaking of book covers ...
  But Charlie, you seem to be missing why devo max was ruled out - Cameron didn't want it. As far as he's concerned he either wants the independence push totally rejected; or he wants to push scotland out, and the Labour MPs, in such a way that scotland collapses, and have to come crawling back. If the independence vote is yes, Cameron will move to kick out scotland as fast as possible, and with terms imposed that makes a mess of any hope of success. The SNP won't have control of any of that. Personally I think the only reason...
• Greg. Tingey commented on Speaking of book covers ...
  Regarding an in/out EU referendum - & remembering that I, too used to regard anti-EU people as delusional - but now I've joined them ... See this article Health warning: Hannan is right-wing tory Euro MP. BUT - look at the list of objections he lists to the EU, never mind the one that has got him exited in the article. FYI, the reason I have joined the "out" camp? This bit, from Hanna's list: ...the way that multi-nationals and NGOs and all manner of corporate interests are privileged over consumers. It’s not the pettifogging rules ... Basically, the warning...