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You're not doing very well Bairnypops, are you?

Who reported her? It wasn't the Scottish Resistance by any chance?

Party in running down another party shocker.

Aye, Macron will thrash her. Opinion polls always overstate her popularity. It'll be closer this time, but there'll still be a big gap. 55/45 IMO.

Rehman certainly isn't alone in having switched from Yes to No.

Sorry buddy but my crystal ball is broken

Very true, and unpredictable seismic events can change things. No one saw the following coming: -Corbyn becoming Labour leader. -The huge rise of the SNP after the 2014 referendum defeat. -COVID. -Ukraine. -Trump getting in. There will be more of these types of things in the years to come, all with the ability to change the dynamic in a huge way.

Not sure where you got that from, but I think this data is for the same poll, and in the 16-24 category it only shows 37 yes voters to 30 no voters. https://docs.cdn.yougov.com/0e05zst5xb/TheseIslands_Scotland_Results_220401.pdf As you can see, Yes actually does better and is at it’s peak in the 25-49 category. The younger you go from there, the more support for separation peters off. No undoubtedly has the old vote though. Hands down! 16-17 year olds voted No in 2014, something the Nats did not expect.

The youth over there appear to be gravitating toward common sense, whereas over here we still have an obsession with talking up and obsessing over perceived racism. it’ll change here eventually though. Gen Z gives me hope.

You'll get hand-wringing, but it won't like that that. It'll be the same type of bizarre hysteria you had from the anti-Trumpers who had us believing he was about to take us all into Nuclear War. Then, as things turned out, he was the most peaceful President in living memory.

Latest opinion polling showing Macron 53 Le Pen 47. Opinion polling has been generous to her in the past, so you'll probably end up with a Scottish Nationalist 2014 situation where people thought Yes had a big chance, but they actually finished 11% behind. Hope I'm wrong though. Le Pen will get 40% at the very most IMO, which would still be way up on last time. The youth will change things in France over the next few decades.

I think Jessica needs a wee lie down.

I certainly wasn’t saying that, as you well know. The notion that banning a song changes it’s fundamental nature is ridiculous.

That’s not what I’m saying at all. I suspect you’re being deliberately obtuse. Or Cathy Newman has hacked your account

I'm saying that if you apply the same standards as many supporters of provincial Scottish Clubs do to the songs Rangers fans sing, then it must be Anglophobic. As for the Grant Adam screenshot, I'll remind you of what I said previously: "I don't think the police banning something is an accurate barometer of whether a song is moral, immoral, sectarian, anglophobic, offensive, racist or anything else. It simply means it's banned."

"A nation state is a political unit where the state and nation are congruent." State - "A state is a centralized political organization that imposes and enforces rules over a population within a territory." (Applies to the UK) Nation - "A nation is a community of people formed on the basis of a combination of shared features such as language, history, ethnicity, culture and/or territory." (Applies to the UK). Damn, those pesky definitions!

I don't think the police banning something is an accurate barometer of whether a song is moral, immoral, sectarian, anglophobic, offensive, racist or anything else. It simply means it's banned. We're able to tell the nature of a song simply by analysing the words, just like you did with the Ballad of JDS. I hate to disappoint, but I didn't label UEFA, the English FA, Rangers, Celtic and Police Scotland as 'Nats and supporters of provincial Scottish Fitba Clubs'

All we require of you is to digest and reflect upon the points at hand without being smarmy or sarcastic, act in good faith and be humble. Go into every exchange with the attitude that you might be able to learn something. Snide isn't the way forward. It gets us nowhere.

I'm afraid that link is incorrect. The UK is a nation state, going by the very definition of the term.

Many thanks for the thorough reply, LGH. If we use the same logic that many Nats and supporters of provincial Scottish Fitba' Clubs (not something I'd recommend) apply to the songs Rangers fans sing, then we can attribute Anglophobia to this song, simply because it mentions 'the English'. If you're going to attribute importance of context and meaning to songs such as this one, then you need to do it across the board, including to the ones at Ibrox.

Neither is the UK. Disagree there bud. The UK is a nation state.

Can't remember our European neighbours being involved in the Brexit referendum. The EU was never a nation.

Read Div’s sticky mate. I won’t be responding or reacting to your abuse and I urge others not to either. This is my last post to you.

Day Of The Lords proves Kincardine’s point entirely

Because I was informing people that Anglophobia isn’t acceptable in this day and age, and giving examples of it.