They should still add the Welsh dragonâŚ
I prefer the previous one.
So sad. As a scot who voted YES i suggest we should have a new flag. A white cross on a white background.
So happy the Scotch voted to stay English.
I have no opinion on the vote, but am curious to know what the queen is doing to celebrate.
They voted to stay British, not English.
I was always under the impression that she drank tea with her pinkie finger sticking out.
I stand corrected.
I find it interesting that the BBC reports this vote as a large margin. 2mil to 1.6 mil does not seem like a large margin. 200k votes out of 3.6mil is 5-6% margin. I donât know what the turn out was like, but Iâd not be surprised if over 200k had stayed home. I think the UK and the BBC would be better served by owning up to the numbers and acting in a way that would prevent another vote some day.
The Quebec separation referendum in 1995 was 50.58% against, 49.42% for. That was a close vote.
Thatâs the spirit!
I feel bad for the folks who wanted to leave Britain, and I hope this was at least a wake up call for the British government.
Did you have that in your back pocket, or did you just do it?
Anyway, at least we can go back to more classically Scottish headlines:
Salmond likely to be replaced by Sturgeon
Pfft. The BBC will do what itâs Lizard Overlords* say.
*Not Actual Lizards (probably).
There were tons from the 2012 Olympics â just searched.
This one was from here (unattributed): HyperVocal | The 20 Best âUnimpressed Queen Elizabethâ Meme Pics
If it had passed, I would have used this one:
The final vote was 1,617,989 yes, 2,001,926 No, a margin of 383937. The turnout was 84.6%, brought down by the low turnout in Glasgow (75%), and Dundee (78.8%),
Letâs suppose that voters in Glasgow turned out as eagerly as those in East Dunbartshireâ91%.
Glasgow: total votes 364126, franchise 485,000. If 91% had voted. that would have 441350 votes. Letâs say that instead of being evenly divided, the 120874 extra votes were all Ayeâs.
And Dundee: total votes 93500, franchise 118654, 91 rate would imply 107975 votes, and 14475 extra votes for the yes side.
so, if voters in independence minded areas got an extra 135349 votes, the election would still have gone to âbetter togetherâ.
Still, the better together folks did not secure a majority of the 4.28 million persons who were technically eligible to vote. However. if we assume an overall turnout of 91 percent, (3.89 million votes) and all of those extra people had voted âYesâ, the Nos would still have carried the day
Shouldnât she be holding up two fingers on each hand?
Canât find it back, but IIRC the previous independence referendum only had about 25% in favor. They doubled their numbers. Another 20 years, itâll be 100% in favor!
Only if sheâs taunting the French.
