Scots to flock south after independence

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Thu Aug 29, 2013 3:05 am

The Scots have been flocking off out of Scotland for years.........so is this something new ?

Sixteen per cent of Scottish voters, the equivalent of 640,000 people, say they would think about moving if Alex Salmond achieves his dream of breaking up the United Kingdom

gmc · Post by **gmc** » Thu Aug 29, 2013 7:33 am

The SNP were originally going to have a third option of greater devolution within the UK most scots would probably have voted for that. It's actually Cameron that is forcing the yes or no vote. It might just backfire on him. The Daily Express in not exactly widely read in scotland and in anti independence. Fair to say they are aiming at their readership rather than the wider puiblic.

Younger people aged 18-34 and Tory voters were the most likely to consider emigrating.

Good riddance, tory voters are a rare species anyway.

flopstock · Post by **flopstock** » Thu Aug 29, 2013 1:14 pm

Perhaps if the kids are moving away, it could become a retirement haven for the elderly.

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Thu Aug 29, 2013 2:21 pm

flopstock;1434947 wrote: Perhaps if the kids are moving away, it could become a retirement haven for the elderly.

It is already.

I have said this before, on here probably, but.....deep breathe......there are a higher percentage of English in Scotland than Scots in England, many elderly.

I am sure gmc tried to find out, or ran some numbers past us to help to prove or disprove my half remembered theory.

It's one of them ideas I am sure I heard but can never prove one way or the other, or when it has been disproved I just don't remember or dismiss the proof......Im like that.

Post by **Oscar Namechange** » Thu Aug 29, 2013 2:24 pm

I think us English should just build a wall right now to keep them up there.

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Thu Aug 29, 2013 2:34 pm

I shall be visiting the place next month.

My son stays in Greenock, never been there, my daughter stays further up in Perthshire.

Post by **Oscar Namechange** » Thu Aug 29, 2013 2:43 pm

Bruv;1434980 wrote: I shall be visiting the place next month.

My son stays in Greenock, never been there, my daughter stays further up in Perthshire.

Errrrrrr hang on.... so am I. Last week of September.

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Thu Aug 29, 2013 2:46 pm

Flying up 17 Sept, and back 1 Oct, one week in Glasgow (sounds fun) the rest up country.

Post by **Oscar Namechange** » Thu Aug 29, 2013 2:49 pm

Bruv;1434982 wrote: Flying up 17 Sept, and back 1 Oct, one week in Glasgow (sounds fun) the rest up country.

We could meet up... track down gmc and give him a good kicking.... I'll hold your coat.

Post by **Betty Boop** » Thu Aug 29, 2013 4:41 pm

oscar;1434983 wrote: We could meet up... track down gmc and give him a good kicking.... I'll hold your coat.

I have visions of it being the other way round, Bruv being the gentleman

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Fri Aug 30, 2013 4:11 am

Betty Boop;1434989 wrote: I have visions of it being the other way round, Bruv being the gentleman

Oh thank you, two of my favourite FG people, don't know who's coat I would hold.

gmc · Post by **gmc** » Sat Aug 31, 2013 2:13 pm

Actually tourists are very welcome. Glasgow itself might surprise you it's very far from being a dump. iI would also suggest you head up past loch lomond through glencoe and up to skye or continue from Kyle of Lochalsh up the coast.

One of my favourite places in Glencoe.

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Half hour walk in to it from the road. Just to clarify you really really can't see it from the road you walk over a hill and there is this big extinct caldera.

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Sat Aug 31, 2013 2:23 pm

I am an old hand, not a tourist

My daughter has lived in Scotland for..........oh dear, well over 15 years, I have spent many summer and several hogmanys.

Have done Mull and Skye, passed through Edinburgh and Glasgow but never spent time in either.

My son stays in Greenock, I tell him it's grenock to wind him up, and this year we will be 'doing' Glasgow and Edinburgh I hope, before going up to Dalguise Perthshire

Post by **Oscar Namechange** » Sat Aug 31, 2013 2:36 pm

I'll have my last salad at Carlisle before I enter.