We don't need their oil then?

[GastonJ]

The UK will not be getting militarily involved in Iraq, despite Islamist militants gaining control of more of the country, William Hague has said.
The Foreign Secretary said the UK was considering sending humanitarian aid from "our very large" budget.
But militarily "it is for the Iraqi leadership primarily to respond".
Deputy PM Nick Clegg also opposes action, referring to the 2003 war: "I don't think having made one mistake you repeat it by making a second one."
Mr Hague told the BBC: "We're very concerned about the hundreds of thousands of people who have been displaced, and with our very large humanitarian budget we may be in a position to assist with that, and we're looking at that now.
"But we will not be getting involved militarily. We will support the United States in anything that they decide to do, we're in consultation with them. But I stress again it is for the Iraqi leadership primarily to respond to this."

BBC News - UK rules out taking military action in Iraq

Would that be because they are the same group of people that the US and UK have been 'aiding' in Syria perhaps, just headed southwards because they have failed in Syria. Will the US and UK ever learn? Just when you thought the mongers had found a foreign country for the UK's forces to go off and die in for no reason. How unusual, maybe there wasn't enough oil on offer?

[Canker_Canison]

I came up with a solution to this problem last night. A friend said I should email Obama as it's just the sort of thing they'd love to do.

Here goes....

Issue a public notice that you are going to demolish the city in a massive airstrike within 2 weeks.
People will flee, and so will the nut jobs... but not everyone.
So you level the city in a huge airstrike.
Every city the nut jobs try to take over, you demolish in air strikes.
Eventually you'll have displaced a large portion of the population. Clear another city without leveling it, fix it up a little & put a 50 mile exclusion zone around it.
Anyone can enter the exclusion zone from check points but have to be fully searched to ensure no weapons are taken in. The exclusion zone is patrolled by drones & a kill on site policy would be in place.
Innocent people will be safe inside the city & the nut jobs killed or disarmed so they can't cause more trouble.
Plus a lot of the population would be killed in the first airstrikes.
It may be a little draconian. But I feel it will work.

[gmb45]

oil pish, will have run oot in less than 50 years, we should be investing heavily in hydrogen etc powered cars, hmmm no emissions then, they will have to fiitc the emissions tax and go back to road tax.

[GastonJ]

oil pish, will have run oot in less than 50 years, we should be investing heavily in hydrogen etc powered cars, hmmm no emissions then, they will have to fiitc the emissions tax and go back to road tax.

Except that creating hydrogen (he easy way) takes large amounts of water and electricity, wind farms won't cut it for electricity generation to extract hydrogen and people seem to cry at the mere mention of nuclear power. Not in my back yard, but I want my car, so put the nuclear power station in someone else's yard so I can have hydrogen in large amounts and have my car.

The byproduct of using hydrogen is water, they'll charge based on water generation, and then tell you there's a hosepipe ban and charge you extra for water as well. Then they'll also tell you that it's your fault that the country is being flooded. Designed so that you don't win....

[GastonJ]

I came up with a solution to this problem last night. A friend said I should email Obama as it's just the sort of thing they'd love to do.

Here goes....

Issue a public notice that you are going to demolish the city in a massive airstrike within 2 weeks.

The difficulty that the US and UK have is that they're supporting ISIS as the rebels in Syria against someone who they don't like. Those nice rebels have ow decided to move south since they weren't doing much in Syria and are now taking Iraq since the government there is weak. So US and UK have 2 choices

1) Stop supplying Syrian rebels with support, and help Iraq out
2) Keep supplying and watch Iraq go as well as Syria.

However Iran will become involved in Iraq pretty soon anyway, since they don't want ISIS in Iraq either. US and UK won't help Iran so it's all cked up and yes "'we' in the west did it yet again.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend..... until he's not my friend and is then my enemy and my enemy is also my enemy. Couldn't make this up if you tried

[gopher7]

"We will support the USA in anything they decide to do." In other words, if America decides to send the troops back in, so will the UK.

[Saltire]

LOL GMB, well ok, Scotland will be happy to take its oil & Gas Revenue and let England have none for the next 50 years (and/or "our own" revenue) while you guys sit and wonder about how long it will last, LOL, we dont even need it to get by, but its a simple bonus for Scotland, thats all, and its about time we had all that revenue to ourselves, same as with all the other revenues generated in Scotland too, just couple of examples are Tourism and Whiskey, thats just two things, we should have the right to keep all revenues generated in Scotland spent in and for Scotland, not funneled down to London like it always has been, YES Scotland Vote is the only way we can do that, London left us with no choice, ohh and we wont have to pay for that stupid London parliament and house of lords either, 650 members in westminster, 800 in house of Lords, all wasting a fortune of our money and yours too, no need for them at all..........dont forget how much money we will gain too by getting rid of the Nuke's up here, England will have to store its weapons of mass distruction in its own back yard .

Ohh I forgot, you guys can get stuck right into severely making your land highly Toxic with Fracking, there ya go, you got a bonus, , Not !

[GastonJ]

LOL GMB, well ok, Scotland will be happy to take its oil & Gas Revenue and let England have none for the next 50 years (and/or "our own" revenue)

and come begging back in 50 years time when Alex has spent all the money on hotels, wining and dining the likes of Rupert Murdoch. Good luck with that.

[PremierD]

you may be in here in 50 years Gas ... me 'n salty will be worm food not giving a flying **** ....

[GastonJ]

Unlikely I'll be here either tbh. I have no beef either way with whatever Scotland decides really (long as I can get Mrs GJ deported back up north as an illegal over stayer in England). I doubt any of the politicians are telling much of the truth and Alex even less than Dave - I can't believe I just wrote that. Alex will lose face if you guys don't vote for it (what else is his party but a bunch of socialists (rich ones at that) if you don't all vote yes?, however I personally think that he's not thought it through and he's making it up as he's going along - and doing that very badly. It's Scotland that will pay the price at the end of the day.

Hopefully those of you who can vote will see through the wool and do what's best for Scotland, the people that exist now and those to come after you

[Saltire]

LOL gas, that is total rubbish what you say mate, this has nothing to do with Alex Salmond or any political party for that matter, its a simple yes or no vote, thats all.

Also, the english government have backed the scots into a corner that we are fighting to get out of, not with the public of england, the english governments that are always forced on us every time there is a uk general election, did the scots "ever" vote for a tory government, no never, and look at what we have forced onto us from london constantly, why do you think there is only 1 tory msp in the scottish parliment ? think about it mate, we have never had the choice to make it different (the words "we are living in a dictatorship" comes to mind), read what a dictatorship means in a good dictionary, you will see that we are living in one, us scots I mean, the english people voted for who rules though, so they dont live in a dictatorship, they seem happy to be ruled like that, we'r not.

We get whatever London force on us and there is only so much of that people can take before they turn round and bite back.

As for crying to get back with london in 50 years, LOL, that would never ever happen, we would be the first ever country to even attempt such a thing if we did, so that is why we all know there will be no way back which is brilliant, and I gaurantee that London is going to be so humpped without its little cash machine (Scotland) that we would never even dream about going back into a union with a broken country, no chance.

Looks to me that you quite obviously dont even have the slightest Idea of what is going on up here mate with the way you talk (I could be wrong though), I do though, most Scots that actually take time to read a wee bit of Politics etc also know, sadly a lot dont though, they prefer to watch the Biased broadcast corp (bbc), or Stv/itv etc to get their news, doing that just fills their heads with Anti Indy Garbage, its very well known that nearly all tv channels broadcasting in scotland are all Anti Indy, paid by the London Government to do so, it is really annoying when you actually get more honest news about your own country from places like Russia, Al Jazeera and other places, the London government stops at nothing !!!! But, most educated scots have grown a thick skin over the past couple of years to deal with this, we are not stupid, we can see straight through the Tories and all London Governments, its sad that a lot of English people cant see whats happening on their own patch

[Snowy79]

I'm pretty sure the oil revenue from Iraq is no where near the money spent on so called saving the country which doesn't go down too well with the conspiracy theorists. As for Scotlands oil and wealth. Everything we make revenue from is an actual physical thing. England is predominately financed by the banks which in reality are now great big servers in the sky which can be run from anywhere in the World. There's more chance of the banks running out before the oil does then see who is up the creek.

[smirnoff_rules]

should of nuked the place 15 years ago ,,, shot hole ,

[super jumbe]

No USA boots on ground, chicken

[Meat-Head]

should of nuked the place 15 years ago ,,, shot hole ,

Second that, woundt have people coming in saying "I don't want to pay anything". "I have no money" "in my country it would be 1/3 of that price" " too deer I'm just a taxi driver"