University of Glasgow blether thread

Personally, I'm 90% sure devo-max will be approved and full blown independence won't. But since devo-max will prove that Scotland is perfectly capable of handling its finances on its own, complete independence will follow in a few years. I think the main reason why Cameron's so terrified about the referendum is devo-max, not independence and that's why he's talking all the nonsense about a single question referendum (which wouldn't include questions on devo-max).

I was in a rush earlier so my earlier post had to be as to the point as possible...

I'd venture that Cameron isn't terrified by the prospect of a referendum. At most I would say he is mildly irritated by it. It will offend his unionist tendencies, but it's a win-win: a 'no' vote is the triumph of unionism, hurrah, a 'yes' vote sees 40/50 Labour constituencies disappear...

Devo-max is fiscal independence without monetary independence- how has that panned out in the Eurozone?

Those 40/50 seats form an unimpressive 3% of the Parliament and when they go they'll take with them virtually all of Britain's oil reserves.



It's certainly a better that no fiscal independence at all which automatically implies no possibility of ever gaining monetary independence, isn't it?

Cool. I was considering Toronto as well but I can't seem to work out what law courses are available to me...

I'd be doing just a semester as there's some good/essential for advocacy courses in 1st semester over here.

Could you link to the WordPress?

I was wanting to look at Copenhagen but the site was down when I did

Luckily showing financial commitment isn't an issue for me.

Language wise I know that everyone in my classes will speak good English as they courses are taught in English, fear is that as soon as they leave the class do they revert to native and would that possible pose issues for me socially...

Also most courses, understandably, appear to be geared towards EU /intl public law whereas I'm into private law :/

My other friend's out in copenhagen at the moment and she seems to be finding it ok language-wise, we don't realise (or I didn't, certainly) how good continental Europeans are at speaking English! Plus Europe = erasmus grant (plus not having to justify ridiculous sums of money before you're even allowed to go...)

You have until February for Erasmus applications.

You only need to show financial commitment for non-erasmus places, there's grants and stuff available for Erasmus.

You can always apply and pull out later if money is an issue. I'm ok, you?

Just got my offer today , so so happy. I cant wait

Those 40/50 seats form an unimpressive 3% of the Parliament and when they go they'll take with them virtually all of Britain's oil reserves.



It's certainly a better that no fiscal independence at all which automatically implies no possibility of ever gaining monetary independence, isn't it?

the question you've got to ask yourself if you are scottish and pro-unionist is if Scotland can't survive on it's own (ie, is being propped up currently by the rest of the UK), what benefit is there to keeping them and not just cutting them off?

Because decisions like this should be rooted in principle and it's abhorrent to divide up a country on the basis that you will have more money if you draw the borders a certain way.

As much as I reject nationalism on the grounds that I am an individual without any sentimental attachment to a clump of earth and the only independence that matters is individual freedom, I also believe redistribution of wealth is a force for good.