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Scottish Independence Campaign Battles Over BBC Weather Forecast
00_NOP writes "The political battle over Scotland's independence ballot — to take place in September this year — has now moved on to how the BBC project the UK on their national weather forecast. The BBC use a projection based on the view of Britain from geostationary weather satellites and so there is naturally some foreshortening at the northern end of Britain (Scotland, in other words). But nationalist campaigners say this means Scottish viewers are constantly being shown a distorted image of their country which makes it look smaller and hence (in their view) less able to support independence. In response others have suggested that the nationalists are truly 'flat earthers.'"
you refer to the previous government, of course. (yes, I know they call themselves Labour, but just look at their policies to see how they're true children of Thatcher. The Tories are actually more in touch with the common man!)
anyway, the only people who want independence are the Scottish national party, and even they want everything to be just as it was before only with Alex Salmond declared King of Scotland.
If you want to harp on about economic policy only affecting the South East, then you're quite right - after all, who was it that had to bail out Royal Bank of Scotland and Halifax Bank of Scotland? Those economic policies that allowed those banks to fuck up really benefited London and the rest of the UK.
Personally, I think its right that Scotland gets independence for moral reasons - all those Scottish MPs (who are either Labour ot SNP) get to vote on things that only matter in the rest of the UK, so you guys gets to tell us what to do without any for of reciprocity. - so getting rid of those useless MPs would actually be beneficial for the rest of the UK, morally.
Hey, but you could then have Gordon Brown back as PM of Scotland! Still sure you want independence :-)