Grant Simpson

UK based civil engineer and businessman. Son, Brother, Husband, Father and Friend.

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@KennyFarq Wait till they realise there isn’t going to be a referendum.

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@djhenshall I can give you 67M reasons for not breaking up our country. You would need to explain why it is necessary to unilaterally wash our hands of the reciprocal responsibilities we currently have for 61M of those reasons.

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@KennyFarq And a clear path to civil war of some kind.

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@SteveAshman2 It’s in her gift to make a case to the UK Govt for such but nothing else. That case has has to be sufficiently compelling with evidence that (1) a consistent, unarguable majority of us want a referendum and (2) the proposal is demonstrably in the interests of UK citizens.

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Can't help think that Sturgeon has lost her touch and misreads the room. With everything else happening in the world just now, this kind of needless uncertainty is absolutely the last thing ordinary people need. Dividing people when we should be looking out for each other.

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@KeithRSteele Quite a good presenter but pretty empty when it comes to thinking about actual policy. Overall I think she’s just pretty dull and overrated simply because of the colleagues you have to compare her to in Holyrood. She’s leaving a pitiful legacy though, wonder if she realises?

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@KeithRSteele The more I’ve thought about it this week, the more I think her actions are a desperate, final throw of the dice. It is probably sinking in that her career has been for nothing.

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@lesley_storm Remember we tried that with Darien and it bust people like you and I.

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@JamesMacEachern You might as well say the same for Edinburgh and Glasgow. Its just a choice of who you want to see as your own and who you want to pool and share responsibility/ opportunity with. Your preference is narrower than the one we have been born into and you want to reduce. I don’t.

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@livvyjohn Thankfully I’m really busy so only glance in occasionally. I can see how you could lose weeks here!!!

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Blimey, one tweet and I could have filled an Olympic sized swimming pool with the spittle flecks flying at me! 😂

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@JamesMacEachern “Scotland” doesn’t have interests. Neither does the UK in the sense I mean. Individuals have interests and those vary from house to house, street to street, town to town across Scotland or anywhere else for that matter. You presume your interests are the same as everyone else.

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@amoffa50 I look out for my family, friends, neighbours, colleagues and others in need, as best I’m able and when I see they need it. Don’t you?

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@qosfc1919 You don’t think people in Britain look out for each other?

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@JamesMacEachern Your version of Scotland perhaps, I certainly don’t support that. Mine is a much broader, cooperative, friendly and open one where the people here are generous, responsible and see the 67M in Great Britain as our own.

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@Journojulz Yet we want back into the EU so we can get cheap labour again, keep trade wages down and discourage our own from entering respectable and rewarding careers. Also, I don’t buy that govt decides bit. Society should look after their own without expecting the state to do it.

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@KeithWBooth We did that. It was unpleasant. It left us more divided in Scotland than ever before and it was unnecessary (in many’s view). Can you understand we don’t want to go through unnecessary unpleasantness when poll after poll shows the appetites remain broadly as before?

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@Journojulz The UK is more than just whichever persons sit in the House of Commons. It’s about how the 67M of us rub along individually, collectively and a society full of clubs, groups, families, friends & colleagues together across Great Britain. The politicians of the day are by the by.

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@Stephen12410883 I tweet for a few days every few months when the moment takes me. Obsessed?

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@proscot4indy Given the SNP have said leaving the UK was vital, every year for over 80 now, regardless of who formed the UK govt, your argument doesn’t hold. Looking at that context, it’s impossible to avoid a conclusion that Anglophobia drives many of your fellow supporters (maybe not you).