2006/10/26
Secession Alert
Telegraph: Is the United Kingdom heading for fragmentation with the secession of Scotland from the Union, even as it prepares to celebrate its 300th anniversary next year? And if it is, should those who make up the vast bulk of its population - the English - give a damn?
The questions arise following a series of astonishing events, beginning 10 days ago when nearly 1,200 delegates packed the new Concert Hall in Perth - the biggest gathering at a political conference that Scotland has seen in recent memory - to hear Alex Salmond, the leader of the Scottish National Party, deliver his keynote address to his annual conference. His strident call for the break-up of the United Kingdom was cheered to the echo by his adoring audience.
Nothing new there, but what was surprising was what happened next. Two days later, Sir Tom Farmer, the founder of the Kwik Fit chain of exhaust and tyre depots, told the world that Scottish independence was "inevitable".
The questions arise following a series of astonishing events, beginning 10 days ago when nearly 1,200 delegates packed the new Concert Hall in Perth - the biggest gathering at a political conference that Scotland has seen in recent memory - to hear Alex Salmond, the leader of the Scottish National Party, deliver his keynote address to his annual conference. His strident call for the break-up of the United Kingdom was cheered to the echo by his adoring audience.
Nothing new there, but what was surprising was what happened next. Two days later, Sir Tom Farmer, the founder of the Kwik Fit chain of exhaust and tyre depots, told the world that Scottish independence was "inevitable".
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Mais estramho que isso foi o artigo
How times have changed: Britons want to be French
By Cahal Milmo
Published: 09 October 2006
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The findings come amid an upsurge of Francophilia in Britain. Britons now own £4.6bn of property in France and have bought some 51,000 homes across the Channel since 2000.
The last French census in 2004 recorded a 50 per cent increase over five years in the number of Britons who live permanently in France to 100,000. About 500,000 Britons spend more than six weeks in France every year.
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Os portugueses (28%) querem ser espanhois.
O que quererá isto dizer?
How times have changed: Britons want to be French
By Cahal Milmo
Published: 09 October 2006
...
The findings come amid an upsurge of Francophilia in Britain. Britons now own £4.6bn of property in France and have bought some 51,000 homes across the Channel since 2000.
The last French census in 2004 recorded a 50 per cent increase over five years in the number of Britons who live permanently in France to 100,000. About 500,000 Britons spend more than six weeks in France every year.
...
Os portugueses (28%) querem ser espanhois.
O que quererá isto dizer?
Não me parece que isso seja relevante em termos de possibiildades reais.
O da secessão pura é maior. Mas a secessão seguida de integração noutro Estado é uma possibilidade.
Para mim será o factor supresa da ordem politica nas proximas decadas.
O da secessão pura é maior. Mas a secessão seguida de integração noutro Estado é uma possibilidade.
Para mim será o factor supresa da ordem politica nas proximas decadas.
Não poderia ser uma reacção à situação péssima de grande parte da população destes países provocada pelo mau comportamento dos politicos nacionais que, na falta de partidos novos em quem votar, levaria a ultrapassar o espirito nacionalista e desejar o governo do país vizinho?
Penso nos ditos votos de "censura" aos partidos existentes quando apareceu um partido novo aqui há uns anos.
Por isto acho que um desejo de secessão, neste momento, se pode enquadrar neste sentimento e não no sentimento tradicional de nacionalismo.
O que me assusta é que estes ambientes de descontentamento geral podem ser aproveitados para implementar regimes muito perigosos.
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Penso nos ditos votos de "censura" aos partidos existentes quando apareceu um partido novo aqui há uns anos.
Por isto acho que um desejo de secessão, neste momento, se pode enquadrar neste sentimento e não no sentimento tradicional de nacionalismo.
O que me assusta é que estes ambientes de descontentamento geral podem ser aproveitados para implementar regimes muito perigosos.
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