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  Proportional Representation vs Electoral Collages

  by Simon in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the craziness of first-past-the-post elections .... we'll no doubt have to now live through the scotts demanding another referendum, because we may take their lands, but we will never take their freedom!

  and so they want to be free of the uk, where they have a disproportionate influence in parliament, and be a little dot that's part of the eu.

  yup, freedom.. but anyway, as it stands right now they have 48 seats after getting 1.2m votes.

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  notsurewheretogo

  Also there were plenty people who voted SNP who do not want to break up the Union.

  Cofty...exactly...25% of the 45% who voted SNP did so to tactically to vote against Brexit and the Tories and independence was not the reason they voted.
  
  
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  Proportional Representation vs Electoral Collages

  by Simon in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the craziness of first-past-the-post elections .... we'll no doubt have to now live through the scotts demanding another referendum, because we may take their lands, but we will never take their freedom!

  and so they want to be free of the uk, where they have a disproportionate influence in parliament, and be a little dot that's part of the eu.

  yup, freedom.. but anyway, as it stands right now they have 48 seats after getting 1.2m votes.

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  notsurewheretogo

  You miss the point.

  More people voted for pro-union parties than an Independent party.

  Surely the majority of voters should be taken into consideration as to Scotland's views as to their future?

  SNP do NOT speak for the majority of Scotland's people as proved on Thursday.

  Just because the pro-union votes were split among parties and the Independence votes were not resulting in seats is irrelevant.

  More people in Scotland voted with parties who favor the union.

  So there is no mandate...there is no majority...there is no huge swing to independence.

  Nothing has changed since 2014.
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  Proportional Representation vs Electoral Collages

  by Simon in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the craziness of first-past-the-post elections .... we'll no doubt have to now live through the scotts demanding another referendum, because we may take their lands, but we will never take their freedom!

  and so they want to be free of the uk, where they have a disproportionate influence in parliament, and be a little dot that's part of the eu.

  yup, freedom.. but anyway, as it stands right now they have 48 seats after getting 1.2m votes.

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  notsurewheretogo

  The latest YouGov survey has Independence at 44% if you are interested.
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  Proportional Representation vs Electoral Collages

  by Simon in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the craziness of first-past-the-post elections .... we'll no doubt have to now live through the scotts demanding another referendum, because we may take their lands, but we will never take their freedom!

  and so they want to be free of the uk, where they have a disproportionate influence in parliament, and be a little dot that's part of the eu.

  yup, freedom.. but anyway, as it stands right now they have 48 seats after getting 1.2m votes.

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  notsurewheretogo

  then support for independence is going to go through the roof.

  Eh? MORE people voted for pro-union parties on Thursday! Independence favour has gone down!

  Just look at some of the recent polls on the matter.
  
  
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  Proportional Representation vs Electoral Collages

  by Simon in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the craziness of first-past-the-post elections .... we'll no doubt have to now live through the scotts demanding another referendum, because we may take their lands, but we will never take their freedom!

  and so they want to be free of the uk, where they have a disproportionate influence in parliament, and be a little dot that's part of the eu.

  yup, freedom.. but anyway, as it stands right now they have 48 seats after getting 1.2m votes.

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  notsurewheretogo

  If elections mean anything then Scotland has a right over its own future, which it has voted for 4 times in three years.

  Slim...we have already done this.

  There are 4 million voters in Scotland. 35% voted SNP. Of the people who did vote 45% voted SNP (1.4 million) yet 54% voted pro-union parties (1.5 million). And of the 45% that did vote SNP 25% of them voted for SNP tactically against Brexit and nothing to do with independence.

  In 2015 49% voted SNP, just after the failed independence in 2014.

  The SNP say Scotland have voted and now must be heard? SNP do not represent Scotland when more people voted for pro-union parties.

  35% of voters voting SNP is not a majority. 45% of votes being for SNP is not a majority. The majority voted for pro-union parties.

  Of the 48 seats won by SNP only 10 were won by 50% of the votes.

  Scotland has no right to another indy referendum because a) nothing has changed since 2014 and b) the majority voted for pro-union parties last week.

  Add in other factors like the SNP's horrendous track record with the powers devolved to it since 2007 and the £10 billion black hole in our finances if we went independent that we need to find its not too hard to see Westminster saying no.

  If Scotland were independent our deficit would be 7% and as the SNP's own Growth Commission report outlined in 2018 it would take decades of tax rises and austerity measures to get it down to 3% just to apply to get into the EU.

  Nothing about independence makes any sense financially. The UK know this as their deficit is 1% and they support Scotland.

  £65 billion is raised in taxes in Scotland but we spend £73 billion. Where would the money come from?

  Then there is the divorce bills...setting up a currency...Foreign Office, bank regulating body, armies, defence etc. Everyone knows a divorce costs you but when you are ten billion down already???

  I say Boris gives the mandate to have it in 2020 because the SNP would crap themselves given the stats indicate if anything independence is less likely than in 2014.

  Then the SNP can get on with their day jobs and sort out the utter mess that our NHS and education system is in.

  I'm a passionate Scot about my country and there is huge issues with independence and huge benefits being in the union.

  I still scratch my head at the reason why we need indyref2 is because we are being pulled out of the EU when we trade 23% with the EU but trade 60% with the UK.

  How can coming of of the EU be bad affecting 23% of our trade but pulling out of the UK affecting 60% of our trade be good?

  We voted in 2014...that should be respected.

  #makesnosense
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  Anthony Morris looking for members with construction skills..Now and after Armageddon

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  here is a screenshot from a youtube video (521 and the circus continues) where anthony morris blasts post-secondary college & university education.

  ''we will not need doctors or lawyers after armageddon.

  so, anthony...what occupations do the society need '' today'' and after armageddon?

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  Er but they need a shit load of lawyers at present though...
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  Prince Andrew & Jeffrey Epstein, WTF

  by Simon in

  1. social
  2. current

  in fact, several "wtf"s, not least - why were you visiting a convicted pedophile after his release from prison, never-mind having any contact with him in the first place when his preoclivities seemed to be an open secret.. and the best he can some up with is "i don't remember"?

  you don't remember?

  there's a fucking photo of you with one of the victims and accessories to the crimes you dumb fuck!.

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  notsurewheretogo

  The BBC interview is astonishing...
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  How it will end for the believers

  by iankiptoo in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  today, many signs have been fulfilled showing that we are in the end times and much has been said in regards to armageddon, tribulation... etc but little in regards to what happens to those who believe and what transitions them to be free and escape from all that to the final destination.

  this is my focus and message is based on that.in creation, there were two trees at the centre of the garden of eden and we are familiar with what happened;man ate from the tree of knowledge of good and evil and then we are familiar with the ramifications afterwards.

  now through jesus christ, the events that will lead to the end for those who believe are in 3 stages1.knowledge will be increased (daniel 12:4)there will be a transition, knowledge will transition from that of the tree of knowledge of good and evil to also include knowledge of the tree of life and this brings with it a transformation that will bring in the second phase2.healingthe knowledge/belief/faith will bring about spiritual transformational healing, also practical knowledge i.e.

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  notsurewheretogo

  What was it like before you were born for you?

  That is how it will be like when you die for you.
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  Did you EVER falsify your report card ?

  by Chook in

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  2. experiences

  every single watchtower soldier lied to god out of fear of the brooklyn popes..

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  notsurewheretogo

  I used to walk a lot...to work etc...would drop a tract somewhere when I left the house...dropped another at the end...counted the time in between.

  3 hours a day easy...never spoke to anyone.
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  Did Jeruselm fall in 587 or 586 BCE?

  by Doug Mason in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i came across this article written in 2004 by an evangelical.. “when did jerusalem fall?”, rodger young, journal of the evangelical society [jets], 47/1 (march 2004), 21-38.. http://www.rcyoung.org/articles/jerusalem.pdf .

  these are the conclusions of the 18-page analysis.

  (1) jerusalem fell in the fourth month (tammuz) of 587 bc.

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  Scholar...care to explain why the WT said it was 606 BCE only to change it to 607 BCE after they found out there was no zero year between 1 BCE and 1CE?

  How could they change the date set in stone in history if it were based on facts? If it were 606 BCE and they realized there was no zero year then they should have changed the date of the end of the prophecy to 1915 CE yet they changed something set in history to ensure 1914 CE.

  Dishonest, you can't change a date in history to your preference unless you are a cult.