What happens ?....Scottish Independence.

[Leman]

Bear in mind that it took hundreds of years for our democracy to develop. It's not something that you can just drop on another culture that is not used to it. Look at Egypt - Muslim Brotherhood voted in - we don't like that result - uprising and throw them out.

[Hertsblue]

When I look at the mess that has been made in places like Afganistan and Iraq, by trying to give them democracy. I do wonder if they were not better when ruled by a Dictator or the Taliban.

Yes we might not agree with thier laws,or the oppression of women or some parts of the population, but less peple seemed to end up dead on a daily basis.

They do not seem to be ready for democracy and would probably be better off under an autocracy.

There is no such thing as a benevolent dictatorship. Acton was right; "power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely".

[Orcs]

There is no such thing as a benevolent dictatorship. Acton was right; "power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely".

No I fully agree.  Its just thatvwhen you see headlines like "90 killed by car bomb"  on an almost daily basis I sometimes think that a corrupt leadership would end up with less people dead and living in fear.

[Leman]

Well less people dead maybe. Not sure about the second part of the sentence.

[Hertsblue]

Reminds me of the comment that the east end of London was a safer, more peaceful place when the Krays held sway. Possibly, but at what price?

[Leman]

Having a coffee table nailed to your head apparently. Just in the middle of watching the Whitechapel series on the Krays, on On Demand.

[Techno]

I thought that was the Piranha brothers ?
"Dinsdale, Dinsdale !"
Cheers - Spiny Norman.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Who let the hedgehog in ??

IanS

[Ace of Spades]

Guess the question is who'll pick him up and puts him outside again...

[Techno]

Tempt it outside with a bowl of cat food.
Cheers - Phil

[DanJ]

Tempt it outside with a bowl of cat food

Isn't that what Alex Salmon is trying?

[Leman]

Is Alex Salmon what the cat is hoping to find in the bowl?

[FierceKitty]

It seems appropriate that an Alexander should be a salmon, if he is to be a fish.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Try this for a quote - "All 20th and 21st Century history is Bismarks fault". So Scottish independence must be.....

IanS

[Ithoriel]

The First Minister is Salmond not Salmon .... though the Deputy First Minister is a Sturgeon