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Scottish independence referendum

Will Scotland vote for independence? (Not personal opinion on if they should)

  • Yes

    Votes: 5 19.2%

  • No

    Votes: 16 61.5%

  • Don't know

    Votes: 5 19.2%
  • Total voters
    26
  • Poll closed .
ImScotty said:
looks this guy explains more proof that there has been 'fraud' with the vote counting
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The complete inability of large chunks of the yes vote to take defeat with dignity do Scotland a disservice. The international community will look and see the first thing the Yes lot do is accusations of vote rigging, despite the gap being almost 400,000.

- To take that video apart, the first bit I don't have an explanation for although it seems odd, why take 2 from yes and 1 form no and swap them round? Why not simply move one from yes and put it in no? Why even take one out of the no at all? It's absurd.
- The second bit with the no table, those votes had not yet been counted and the Yes campaign have even said so. However the whole "rigged" movement has taken on a mind of its own and isn't listening.
- The last case a guy writes something on 1 sheet of paper. There is NOTHING in that video that is even remotely incriminating. You don't even know that the paper is a ballot paper! It's a perfect case of confirmation bias, see someone writing something on paper and immediately assume that is a ballot paper with a yes on it that has been spoiled despite there being no evidence that that is the case.

Then there is the last minor point, when the counts were read out they also said how many were rejected and for what reasons. If loads of ballots were being ruined, it would come out in that announcement. The whole thing is so absurd it's quite frankly appauling that the Yes voters are seriously contemplating it. The only case of fraud being checked is 10 instances in Glasgow, that was an area that voted yes so it will be pretty embarrassing if the only case of fraud turned out to be by Yes supporters.

I just KNEW the yes lot would not take defeat well, there's too much emotion and hatred driving their campaign to accept defeat. I was wrong in thinking the bad attitude would come form Salmond and not the lunatic yes voters.
 
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Groundhog said:
I don't know about the woman sorting votes at the start, but the table labeled NO was aparently just been used to place all the votes on BEFORE they were sorted. Some SNP account tweeted it
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Short snaps of video presented out of context.

Of the top of my head I can think of the following:

The guy marking the ballot papers is probably initialing it to show it has been counted.

The women moving the papers has realised she has mixed up the count - how many people have started sorting something and raised they've put them on the wrong pile.

Maybe it is as it looks but i'd like a bit more evidence than some guy on YouTube. :)
 
The fact that they wouldn't let any Scots vote who lived South of the border, and tried enlisting the votes of 16yr olds, yet still failed, shows how big the gap could have been.
Hopefully Salmond finds a nice rock to crawl under and we never suffer the sight of him again.
 
Jaysus, that video is infuriating.
I'd love to kick the maker in the nuts.

Two points that I saw on reddit about this video:

This referendum was run by the Scottish government, not Westminster. It would have been far easier for Salmond et al to rig it than Cameron 'n' chums.

If there was even a shred of truth in this then the YES campaign would've been on it like a tramp on chips and it'd be all over the news as a massive story.
 
Salmond has resigned......well I never.

Chapeau to you Salmond, never did I see that coming from you.....very honourable and well done!
 
Cannot believe labour nearly lost that, usless fools had to drag in the big guns at the end to make consessions that will never happen. Its good to see the liberal elite bob their pants hope it happens more in the future.
 
Tallshort said:
Cannot believe labour nearly lost that, usless fools had to drag in the big guns at the end to make consessions that will never happen. Its good to see the liberal elite bob their pants hope it happens more in the future.
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Liberal elite?
>looks at Etonians in Conservatives
 
Globalreasearch is a conspiracy-laden site run by a Holocaust denier.
It makes the Daily Mail look like the pinnacle of truth. GR isn't slanted, it is blatantly wrong and disregards facts.
 
What news outlet isn't biased though? like I say I haven't read the article just thought I would post it for others to read and form their own opinion.
BTW I have no problem with people questioning the holocaust because I don't think we should just follow Steven Spielberg's movies as if they are historical fact, not saying I agree with David Irving but people have a right to hear his argument if they choose. But I hear your point Daggs GR should be treated with extreme caution just like FOX, SKY, BBC etc
 
No, I mean, it isn't even on a measurable scale like Guardian, Telegraph, NYT, Mail; The article written aren't blank-wing, they are outright wrong.
I mean, top of the page for linked article is that 'America created Al Qaeda and ISIS'. Also another indicated that the U.S. has created Ebola as a biological weapon.
 
squirrel said:
What news outlet isn't biased though? like I say I haven't read the article just thought I would post it for others to read and form their own opinion.
BTW I have no problem with people questioning the holocaust because I don't think we should just follow Steven Spielberg's movies as if they are historical fact, not saying I agree with David Irving but people have a right to hear his argument if they choose. But I hear your point Daggs GR should be treated with extreme caution just like FOX, SKY, BBC etc
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I am quoting this post for posterity so that no edits can disguise what's been said. Just wow.
 
TRF_Draggs said:
No, I mean, it isn't even on a measurable scale like Guardian, Telegraph, NYT, Mail; The article written aren't blank-wing, they are outright wrong.
I mean, top of the page for linked article is that 'America created Al Qaeda and ISIS'. Also another indicated that the U.S. has created Ebola as a biological weapon.
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Well America created the geopolitical landscape for these groups to breed, so without reading the article I wouldn't say the headline is that controversial
 
ragerancher said:
You went full retard...
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No, he's right there. American intervention in the Middle East had made it politically very shaky and created the levels of chaos and resentment that makes a movement like ISIS very easy to put together.

Of course there are such a huge number of other elements that such a headline is far from the whole truth but, yeah, there's more than a kernel of truth in that.

I'm still marvelling at the other post though.
 
I never said the article was correct just that you cant judge it on the ***le. I find a lot of their articles/essays a bit too long winded to read but I have read some that have interest to me and I find them quite thought provoking and ultimately make me more knowledgeable on some issues. As Christopher Hitchens said ''always read the other side of the argument to be prepared''
and to clarify things Peat im not a holocaust denier because I have never studied the subject intently enough to form a definite opinion, but that doesn't stop me from reading or listening to what a denier has to say on the matter and I don't think it should be illegal for one to have doubts on some of the historical evidence.
 
Peat said:
No, he's right there. American intervention in the Middle East had made it politically very shaky and created the levels of chaos and resentment that makes a movement like ISIS very easy to put together.

Of course there are such a huge number of other elements that such a headline is far from the whole truth but, yeah, there's more than a kernel of truth in that.

I'm still marvelling at the other post though.
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There is a vast difference between saying US policy helped create an environment that allowed these people to rise and directly blaming them for it. The Islamic extremism in that part of the world can't be put down to US policy, it's the people who live there. You then have surrounding states like Iran and Saudi Arabia who happily destabilise the region on a regular basis. Much as I hate to use the analogy, it's like blaming France for the Nazis and thus making France responsible for all that occurred in WW2, it's stupid. Yes their actions led to the German economy being decimated but utimately it was still the Germans electing a militaristic leader and then blindly following him on a path of conquest that caused it. Anyway ISIS sprung up in Syria, a place where the US hasn't intervened.
 
The US have intervened indirectly in Syria, they have been arming rebels through Turkey and Israeli missiles have hit strategic spots belonging to Assad plus some economic sanctions on the Syrians and Iranians who are actually fighting those arsewipes
 
squirrel said:
What news outlet isn't biased though? like I say I haven't read the article just thought I would post it for others to read and form their own opinion.
BTW I have no problem with people questioning the holocaust because I don't think we should just follow Steven Spielberg's movies as if they are historical fact, not saying I agree with David Irving but people have a right to hear his argument if they choose. But I hear your point Daggs GR should be treated with extreme caution just like FOX, SKY, BBC etc
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Are you having a laugh! so at what point did Spielberg get it wrong.
 

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