Scottish Referendum

[scooping]

Who's paying for the cost of the Scottish referendum on independence?

[Hopkirk]

You

[anneasquith]

the engelishman

[scooping]

Cheers. Might just remember to leave just a fiver in the bank that day the bill comes in. Think that's probably generous.

[Wharton]

If every English man, woman & child donated £5 I reckon that would amount to about £300,000,000, a drop in the ocean compared to what has been stolen from Scotland through oil and gas revenues by Westminster.

[jim360]

Stolen? Puh-lease...

[anneasquith]

anyway, I think it's james bond ( the best one ) who is paying for it .

[Wharton]

Ok - pur-loined.

[Baldric]

They can take our Oil, ^^^ but they will never take our freedom!!

[jomifl]

If Scotland hadn't been a part of the UK when the oil rights were negotiated I doubt Scotland would have ended up with anything.

[scooping]

Don't want to take their freedom. Please - enjoy.

[emmie]

this matter isn't just recent, so how much has it cost up till now,

[jomifl]

Anne, would that be the archetypal english role stolen by a Scotsman? :o)

[Baldric]

Be interesting to see how they cope in the wild,
Happy to set them free now!

[anneasquith]

yes jom it is, because they couldn't find a decent English actor to play the role,

[jim360]

I don't think it costs much more than about £13-15 million so while the taxpayers are paying for it all it's no more than 40p-50p per person.

[2sp_]

I think it would be funded by ALL British tax payers, not just the English.

[emmie]

QI

It was not until the penultimate novel, You Only Live Twice, that Fleming gave Bond a sense of family background. The book was the first to be written after the release of Dr. No in cinemas and Sean Connery's depiction of Bond affected Fleming's interpretation of the character, to give Bond both a sense of humour and Scottish antecedents that were not present in the previous stories. In a fictional obituary, purportedly published in The Times, Bond's parents were given as Andrew Bond, from the village of Glencoe, Scotland, and Monique Delacroix, from the canton of Vaud, Switzerland.
Fleming did not provide Bond's date of birth, but John Pearson's fictional biography of Bond, James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007, gives Bond a birth date on 11 November 1920, while a study by John Griswold puts the date at 11 November 1921.

[scooping]

So who is paying for it? The British taxpayers, the Scottish 'parliament', pressure groups, the Parties?

[emmie]

all of us presumably -

[anneasquith]

pressure groups ?