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Originally Posted by Mr Angry
You cannot simply dismiss their opinions Chris. Everyone is entitled to one - whether "trumped" or not.
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We're a long way past opinions, Mr A. This referendum debate is now about the cold, hard facts. Facts (and assertions) can be challenged, tested, found wanting and cast aside. That's what everyone who marks a X on their ballot paper will do in September.
They may cast the other side's views aside based on hard-headed analysis or on gut feeling, but cast it aside they will.
As for me, I've dismissed nothing - I believe the separatist case is lamentable. It is ill-prepared and the white paper doesn't even make the case for a lot of what the SNP has claimed to want for Scotland over many years. I believe their case doesn't stand up to scrutiny and I reject it on that basis. They can keep their opinions. Why shouldn't they - opinions are like anuses. Everyone has one.