Robert Durie

Trying to be reasonable. Came for the 2019 election and stayed a while.

[Robert Durie @RaasayRob]

@ron_bod @AdiBeard1987 I know we aren’t Spain but that’s close to “forever”.

[Robert Durie @RaasayRob]

@ron_bod @AdiBeard1987 Sorry to chime in but I thought your point well expressed. For me, if you view - correctly - the UK as one country, it’s hard to see another referendum happening as independence would be bad for us all on this island. Spain has outlawed independence for parts of it.

[Robert Durie @RaasayRob]

@Gallofunky The UK is a single unitary country. Scotland is no more a colony than Yorkshire or Wales. It’s part of the whole. Doesn’t make me any less Scottish or more proud to be Scottish to understand facts.

[Robert Durie @RaasayRob]

@ColonySco It makes me laugh when people say the UK isn’t a country. Because it is. It’s not even a union. It’s a single unitary country - not a federation. One. (As well as four).

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@IrnMoo @jets2411 Not true. The GFA says the gap between referenda is no less than 7 years. The maximum is unlimited. Could have one and then never another.

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@Hyvast @OorAllen Not a unitary state. No currency union. Separate sovereign parliaments and constitutions. Not the same at all.

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@OorAllen @Hyvast Instead of saying I am “cherry picking” why not be specific on my points? The phrases “once in a generation” and “once in a lifetime” were used repeatedly. Countries do not split up as a rule - no unitary country has split in over a century.

[Robert Durie @RaasayRob]

@DavidMcHutchon Very Brexit style position that. I can’t see the quality of my local Chinese being improved by giving Myra from number 13 the job over Wei Lang who speaks the same language as the chef in truth.

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@OorAllen @Hyvast The UK voted because the UK was the member. Should Shetland be independent because they always vote Lib Dem? Sturgeon, Salmond and the SNP said once in a lifetime. Scotland, like the rest of the UK is governed by the UK. Each single person is equal.

[Robert Durie @RaasayRob]

@Hyvast @james_izzard @OorAllen I’m neither. Spend most of my time planting trees.

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@ecossian @paddyb53 London has an economy twice that of us in all of Scotland. You are simply wrong or lying.

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@OorAllen @Hyvast Well yeah. We voted to stay in the UK in a once in a lifetime vote as our “call”. Pleased you see this.

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@joecraw123 @Hyvast Calling them by a foreign name shows nothing but disrespect for the people who live there. But you know this of course. It either matters what people want or it doesn’t.

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@ruth_wishart Genuinely terrible take. You either believe in self determination or you don’t.

[Robert Durie @RaasayRob]

@hanoiisgreat @ruth_wishart Get rid of people expressly against their democratic rights?

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@MargaretMc15665 @ruth_wishart There isn’t. But there are valuable people.

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@EvePeriot24749 @markofbattersea As a Labour supporting Scot even I know most of it isn’t true. Is it conceivable that increased demand for housing caused by millions of extra people and relationship breakdowns might be a factor in the housing crisis?

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You are wrong. It’s 1 unitary country. Count our seats at the UN. We are not a federation. Amazing how many people don’t know this.

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@MattPinner_ Cyclists are annoying but the car entered the cyclist’s side of the road and the accident took place on that cyclist side. The fault was entirely the car for clipping the corner.

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@Hasan368384 Scotland has never been colonised. Stop talking Scotland down.