14 Sep 2014 13:31:07
First of all I would like to offer my apologies Ed to you and to all Scots. I was on here a few days ago saying that this is not the place for politics. I apologise profusely for that and the rant I am about to set off on. You were correct in your answer, use any platform available to you to get your message across. This is the biggest decision you will ever make so do the right thing.

I have watched nearly every news report and read almost every article on the referendum. Over the last few days I have become increasingly angry and I am Irish. I have just had the misfortune to come across an article on social media from The Guardian (that champion of free thinking liberalism) penned in support of a "knees up" parade yesterday by the other bastion of equality and liberalism - the Orange Order. Spare me the bull***t!

I have noticed that their recent articles have been poor to say the least, but this one is just plain ignorant. You can't dress a tart up in ladies clothing, slap some make-up on her and pimp her out as some good old fashioned "roll out the barrel" music hall act. Make no bones about it, this is fundamental bigoted anti-Irish, anti-Catholic, racist, homophobic and protestant exclusive establishment that they have chosen to align themselves to.

I saw an interview on C4 News yesterday when a reporter asked one of these knuckle dragging troglodytes what his flag with the words "NO POPERY" emblazoned across it had to do with the Union? His answer was, " Awwww, uhhhh. don't know?" In a split second this summed up the No campaign to me. Institutionalised sheep who will follow the band leader over the edge of a cliff.

If the OO is the the best you can do for a homecoming parade then you may as well hammer up the closing down signs on the front door right away. The best campaign for "YES" has been the dirty tricks and basic underestimation from Westminster. No depths have been low enough for them to plummet and scrape. They have stopped at nothing with their "please don't leave. I'M PREGNANT" campaign.

Every Scot has been given the right to self determination, it is a once in a lifetime opportunity, so take it and run. Every Country should be governed by it's own citizens, not a foreign landlord who does nothing but tax them based on London prices. Every Irishman is watching with a keen eye and praying that you win back your Country. The Empire is a busted flush so don't let them peddle it any other way.

Australia took the leap and have never looked back and I am positive you will have no regrets. Good luck and I sincerely hope that come Thursday a new wave has swept across your Country.

"Let me tell you that I love you, and I think about you all the time. Caledonia you are calling me, and now I'm going home".

Saoirse do na hAlban

{Ed007's Note - No need to apologise, everybody is talking about so it's only fair posters can talk about it on here. There's only one side that has played the religion card and all it done was highlight the centuries old AND current social problems in Scotland. There were peaceful marches and gatherings all over Scotland to help the YES campaign, the most public show of support for the NO campaign was an OO march, I've said it before but if you are basing your vote on your religion or football team you shouldn't be allowed to vote - you're too stupid. Is this video the type of intolerance we want to promote, what did the rest of the world think about yesterday? If it had been a 'NO BLACKS' or 'NO JUDAISM' or 'NO ISLAM' banner there would be a mass outrage from all over the world, why is it acceptable to openly show hatred for Catholicism? Is this an acceptable face of a political movement?
I remember my granny saying 'If you fly with the craws you get shot with the craws'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAoBM8ogmCw

1.) 14 Sep 2014
Abighandofrjeremybeadle

NO have not endorsed the views or the arrangements of the OO….to say that this is the best the NO campaign can come up with re "rallying the populous" is plain ridiculous…

the OO are not representative of a modern day scotland within or out with the Union …

can we at least agree on that …

the O O yesterday did YES a favour, we can also agree on that ….

Ideally the OO would find another way to "celebrate" more modestly and less offensively …we can agree on that too

but what they are celebrating (I think) is a form of freedom from religious oppression and skullduggery…they are no better but for whatever reason they think they rid the UK of an evil ….and they won the battle so they get to write the history (and keep it going)

2.) 14 Sep 2014
14 Sep 2014 16:06:43
Come next Monday ed, are you saying the Stock Market will be unaffected?
Is the stock market not used for neo-political purposes?
Will State Chinese, Russian, Arabic investors look at it as a chance to 1. make money out of Scotland / rUK and 2. further their own state interests?
All the economic stuff should have been discussed and agreed upon before any vote surely?

3.) 14 Sep 2014
It was impossible to talk and agree anything with the no camp. Their completely wrong view is that a yes will bring an economic disaster .

4.) 14 Sep 2014
Am glad someone brought up the Orange Order!

How where they allowed to walk yesterday? AM SERIOUS they need to seek police guidance / approval / chaperon

Why were people not informed of them / this happening!?

10,000 of them really? So why did the NO campaign say NO! thanks surely to align yourself to such only alienates the other side or even aggravates? To the Celtic supporters (in colours) who were maybe coming / going from the East Coast surely they were planced in danger with no "HEADS UP" A could not believe what a was witnessing with them a cannot believe no one else has highlighted this to be honest with you! ATVB

5.) 14 Sep 2014
Am glad someone brought up the Orange Order!

How where they allowed to walk yesterday? AM SERIOUS they need to seek police guidance / approval / chaperon

Why were people not informed of them / this happening!?

10,000 of them really? So why did the NO campaign say NO! thanks surely to align yourself to such only alienates the other side or even aggravates? To the Celtic supporters (in colours) who were maybe coming / going from the East Coast surely they were planced in danger with no "HEADS UP" A could not believe what a was witnessing with them a cannot believe no one else has highlighted this to be honest with you! ATVB

6.) 14 Sep 2014
14 Sep 2014 20:12:17
@1 Of course the No Campaign have not pubically endorsed the OO march, nobody in their right mind would be that stupid. They also haven't came out to criticise the actions and chants of the EDL hangers on or the secterian songs of the loyalist sympathisers.

Look I am not trying to focus on one point i.e. religion, it would be wrong to do so for the many reasons covered so comprehensively by other posters. My point is that The Guardian, in support of the 'Better Together' camp have packaged the OO march as some sort of union flag covered celebration of all that is best about Britan. They are clearly grasping at straws. I suggest you go on their page and read the article. It is disgusting.

7.) 14 Sep 2014
14 Sep 2014 21:52:50
I can see clearly now the rain has gone

8.) 14 Sep 2014
Who gave the orange order permission to march? Westminster no, holyrood yes

{Ed007's Note - No, it was Edinburgh City Council and the bill was picked up by the taxpayers i.e you.}

9.) 14 Sep 2014
Jamiebhoy

that march was planned months ago.

It was in the press weeks ago

NO were clear weeks ago that they wanted no connection with it

Jim Murphy was in all the papers saying as much weeks ago

they still marched

but don't highlight their march as a justification that all of NO was in on it, they were not

we will be arguing that black is white next and that green is blue

the OO were always marching, they are pro union

I am undecided (more no than yes to be honest), but no linkage with EDL or BNP or OO or KKK or Opus Dei for that matter or the knights of st columba

just a celtic supporting family man with a company and employees and a profit and loss account and a car and a credit card and a mortgage, carrying 10lbs too much with a gym membership gathering dust and an optimistic view of the future in a yes, no scenario

I don't know what that makes me

{Ed007's Note - Can all your workers afford a car, credit car and mortgage?

10.) 15 Sep 2014
Hi ED

i don't know how to answer that…If I said yes IE they all have a car and a mortgage and a credit card does that make them (a) complicit in others hopelessness (b) guilty of neglect ( c) material bar stewards…

Give me a clue what that makes them/us before I answer ….please

{Ed007's Note - Answered like a true politician. It's a test of your Toryism? ;)

11.) 15 Sep 2014
Paradise a never knew that, A like Jim Murphy btw only 1 of the few who is not a "spent force" politician in the No campaign was very surprised the other night when he was lately replaced by George Galloway

Me to a celtic supporting fan with employees, and ditto the rest but no gym bunny! lol

As a said a started a NO only to end up a YES but never had you down Ed as a NO been reading that Lee Rigby stuff and you tubing it for last few hoors captivating stuff

I have a genuine FEAR paradise that as the rest of the UK now looks for there slice of Independence/demographic preference call it what you like that we plump for a NO only to be the Last 1 standing with nothing left in 35 years having said that a don't think the welsh have much to rely on and they want it too now!

Lets hope for once we are "ahead of the curve" ATVB JB7

12.) 15 Sep 2014
15 Sep 2014 07:58:29
Paradise since your moving over to the right side :) I guess I would be happy to assist with your weight loss. I am not taking the p***. I have been researching the food industry for a couple of years and I personally have lost 15kg without dieting! I also have a huge wealth of knowledge regarding health issues and nourishment. Anyway just a thought. If you are of a mind maybe Ed can help with getting our private emails exchanged. Group hug over.

13.) 15 Sep 2014
Sopotcelt….like watching INDY food programmes too. watched FED UP the other night…intriguing stuff….

Hug a hoodie …. this moving over to the other side feels right ;)

14.) 15 Sep 2014
15 Sep 2014 18:46:54
In take iodine every day I am careful not take too much. It speeds up the metabolism ( to normal levels) and protects all gladular tissue. i'm not talking baws but it does protect them. It also stops fluoride and nasty isotopes getting into my body.
I Cut out ALL sugar.I Cut ALL Gluten.
Common myth salt is bad. Truth. Salt is good but I go for Himalayan or sea salt. Those have over 80 minerals which are good for you. My BP dropped when I started using salt!
If anyone reading is a veggie apologies. I tried it for 9 months on ethical grounds but has joint pain and other issues due to protein deficiency.
I eat steaks 5 a week. I Grill don't fry. I don't use ANY vegetable oils including the hallowed OO;thats olive oil and its not orange.
I eat at least 5 eggs a day. Soft boiled or poached. It maintains the collagen. Essential for your brain and skin and cartiledge.
Use butter if you need to fry. I
also eat butter. As much as I want and salted too. I avoid all margarines like the plague.
I eat 5 times a day. A bit like a Hobbit really.
First breakfast. Porridge gluten free with raisins and banana.
Second breakfast. 3 soft boiled eggs and rice cake
Lunch. 200gram steak. I prefer sirloin or rump.
Dinner. Some veggie conconction the missus knocks up.
Supper. Light salad.
I don't drink or smoke as a rule but have the odd beer on holiday.
Weekends the same but no steak and may have chicken. Free range or organic.
I take milti vits and supplements. Essential as the soil is depleted and most (like 90% cannot supply the over 100 minerals and vitamins we need) I also only eat organic if possible its not always possible.
Some may think wow that's expensive but think about it.
No snacks chocolate crisps or any processed shoit. No booze no cigarettes. I don't snack. Snacks cost a fortune. So it means eating well is possibly close to or the same expenditure for a smoker who enjoys a drink and is silly enough to gamble on the horses. Oh I don't gamble and I am sure it helps my digestion.
There we are folks. Just my experience but I am the same weight now that I was 20 years ago and am fit as a fiddle. Long may it continue. God willing.

15.) 15 Sep 2014
15 Sep 2014 19:37:43
I forgot to say. No carbonated drinks. They ruin your digestive system and prevent you from extracting whatever goodness is in the food. I eat eggs with my steak and drink plenty water and T without milk and sugar. I live on the Holy Isle and shave my head. No the last bit is me joking. I think. :)

16.) 16 Sep 2014
@sopotcelt.
I eat a bag of sugar a week, no salt on anything, ever! Lots of pepper. Take cod liver oil and garlic when I'm not too hungover to forget. Bananas and tomatoes. Enough chocolate in a week to make your eyes bleed. A handful of walnuts a day for cholesterol. Lots of tea, milk and 2 sugars. 1 coffee a day, several beers, usually some red wine, whiskey or vodka depending on mood. A glass of water before bed. Smoke too much! More hair on my head than the average girl. Nice balance of red meat, fish and good chicken. Antibiotics included probably, still the same weight I was 20 years ago, work my ass off and fit as a fiddle. Maybe joking about the last bit.

17.) 16 Sep 2014
16 Sep 2014 07:27:11
Sugar is a poison. It destroys your liver and if you are serious. Lookout diabetes coming like a train through a tunnel. Remember the stages of disease. Diabetes, heart disease, cancer. Not always but often.
Salt is required for proper cell function. Salt. The good stuff has pottasium and sodium. Wthout one or the other your cells cannot metabolise and won't efficiently absorb and expend energy in the way they are designed to.
Pepper can give you heartburn.
Bananas good but not too many. Tomatoes have their drawbacks but fair enough. They are in chinese medicine cold and acidic. You want to generally maintain your body as alkali. Cancers cannot grow in a slightly alkali environment. that's a fact not psuedo science. Btw sugar. Guess what. Acidic.
Milk well most adults are lactose intolerant they just don't know it. Just like Gluten. Most people are intolerant to some degree. Some worse than others.
Coffee as far as I know is fine. Just keep it below 4 or 5 cups. that's cups not mugs.
Walnuts. Great stuff very good for you
Alcohol. Incidious and creeping poison.Nobody can function properly if acohol is part of their lifestyle.
Smoking. Disaster halth wise but in my opinion overall better than drinking. Tats how strongly I feel about the dangers of alcohol! But its my opinion only.
Red meat, does that include pork? Avoid pork products of every kind.
Antibiotics are avoided by eating organically.
Check out colloidal silver. Natural antibiotic it has side effects but is worth considering. Needless to say I use it.
Did you know the real potential for life span could be thirty forty or more than the nonsense 70 years we all are told. I am not joking about the last bit.

18.) 16 Sep 2014
16 Sep 2014 08:07:32
Oops forgot about the CLO. Essential fatty acids are just that ESSENTIAL. Omega 3 and 6 definitely in CLO. Omega 9 is also one you need (oleic acid) a bit od a debate going on over this one but I say it should be in. So you need omega 3 (ALA) and omega 6 linoleic acid and 9. Still you are doing well taking the CLO. Wthout these your brain is deprived of essential nutrients to function properly. You can generally only get them from fish or fish supplements. Also from flaxseed and borage seeds.

19.) 16 Sep 2014
16 Sep 2014 08:50:33
Garlic also filled with awesomeness. It should be eaten everyday. Right now I have to get on with MY work.

20.) 16 Sep 2014
Thanks spoor let, I'll take that on board. Omega 3.6.9 I take. Beet root juice (yuk)in the morning. Cheers