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Charlie Stross commented on
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Greg, I note with interest a recent opinion poll that found support for Scottish independent was stronger in England than in Scotland. This is read up north as "now the oil is running dry they want to get rid of us", and it's not going down well. My guess is that right now the only thing that would make Scotland vote for full independence would be David Cameron ordering a snap referendum from Westminster with the vocal intention of doing so to spike the SNP's wheels. (In five years time things may be different, of course.) What I think will...
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Greg. Tingey commented on
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Time for my own opinion on this. As people may realise, I think that the outbreak of WWI, resulting in the clock-stopping/suspension of the Government of Ireland Act, 1914 was an unmitigated disaster - especially after the insanities there of 1916. What we really need is a con-federal United Kingdom of GB (ALL the countries) with separate local parliaments, and the current one at Westminster being responsible for foreign and defence policy, and co-ordination for internal cross-border issues, especially transport and health, and some taxes. Almost everything else would be "locally" governed. But, I don't think this is likely to...
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Charlie Stross commented on
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Greg: What we really need is a con-federal United Kingdom of GB (ALL the countries) with separate local parliaments, and the current one at Westminster being responsible for foreign and defence policy, and co-ordination for internal cross-border issues, especially transport and health, and some taxes. Almost everything else would be "locally" governed. I'd vote for that....
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Charlie Stross commented on
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HBOS is a pantomime horse. Nutshell version: Halifax Bank (formerly the Halifax Building Society, a staid bricks-n-mortar mutual society, until they floated on the stock market and went whoopee! and started buying up bad paper) got into difficulties in 2007. Bad difficulties. After Northern Rock Bank (another ex-building society) went bust and had to be nationalized, the government had a brain-wave: why not get a staid, sober-sided institution to buy the semi-derelict and turn it around? So the Bank of Scotland was nudged into buying up Halifax. They stuck an "H" in front, but it was very clear that the...
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Charlie Stross commented on
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"Rule 34" will be published in the USA by Ace as a hardback (SRP $24; probably discounted to $16 in places like Amazon.com), and in the UK by Orbit as a trade paperback (SRP: £16, probably discounted to £13 on Amazon.co.uk)....
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