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Hullohhhhhhh! Welcome to the trews...
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Because Trews, in a way, is a bit [br]of a scottish word, isnt it?
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i think it means trousers[br]to scottish people doesnt it?
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The Trews is the news[br]if the news were true,
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subscribe here to get the trews every day
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beamed directly into the middle [br]of your consciousness
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where itll sprout like a glorious flower of scotland.
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today we're talking about scottish independence,
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power, and democracy.
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lets have a look though before i start piping up,
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at what david cameron's got to say,
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a man whose face immediately inspires love,[br]deep within me.
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[cameron] Independence would not be [br]a trial separation.
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It would be a painful divorce.
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[laughing] what emotive piece [br]of language there to use.
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What i dont like when politicians are doing[br]emotive rhetoric,
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is how they try and do some acting?
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like, hes now trying to do the face
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of a person
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"i better do a face that id do if[br]i was going through a painful divorce"
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[cameron] And as prime minister, i have to tell you[br]what that would mean.
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It would mean we no longer share [br]the same currency.
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It would mean the armed forces we've [br]built up together over centuries
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being split up forever.
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Money, violence.
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Thats his first things he's gone in with.
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"Right, well, you cant have [br]the queen on your money,
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we wont let you back us up [br]in our needless conflicts
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when we're fellating the americans [br]and the corporations within them!"
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Oh... good!
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[cameraon] It would mean the automatic [br]support that you currently get
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from british embassies when youre [br]traveling around the world,
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that would come to an end.
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"OH NO!!! i love it when i go down the embassy,
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when youve lost your passport or somethin like that,
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that terrible quagmire!
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thats what youre offering up??
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Right. Military, money, embassies??
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They got to embassies a bit too quick.
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"If you think that im going to let you borrow [br]my lawnmower, you can forget it!
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Swingball(?) Fuck off, [br]thats MY swingball(?) now!"
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[cameron] It would mean over half of scottish[br]mortgages suddenly from one day to the next,
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being provided by banks in a foreign country.
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Can you imagine that??
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A foreigner??
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It could be a black person!
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we dont know what colour this person is,[br]or what their accent is!
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Theyve got their hands in your mortgage!
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Not like those trustworthy, city of london[br]plutocrat snides
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that we have to bail out to the tune of billions [br]every time they mug us off.
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[cameron] This is what would happen.
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An end to the things that we share together.
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And the people of scotland must know these facts[br]before they make this once and for all decision.
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And to warn of the consequences [br]is not to scare-monger.
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When someone says "this isnt a scare monger",[br]after theyve said things like
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"you wont have any money!
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your mortgage is going to [br]be controlled by a man called Abdul!",
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that IS scare mongering, that's why he's had to say[br]"this isnt scare mongering".
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[cameron] I say all this because i dont want the people of scotland to be sold a dream
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that disappears.
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If i was scottish, i think [br]where have you been, you c__t?
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It's like, he's just suddenly shown up,
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going on about how much [br]hes into everything in scotland...
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"your mortgage, your mortgage [br]is going to turn into seaweed!"
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"there are going to be pigs [br]loose in your garden!"
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like, where have you been?[br]where have you been?
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we've been here, always.
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[cameron] Because i would be heartbroken
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if this family of nations that we've put together
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and that we've done such amazing things together,
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if this family of nations was torn apart.
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Now hes using emotional language.
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Its interesting isnt it?
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"heartbreak", and "family", and "divorce".
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Because what they know is that the Yes campaign
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galvanizes people on a nationalistic[br]tribal level.
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scottish people have got their culture, and their folk heroes, and their myths, and their identities.
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How can we get past that?
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Fear, a very base...
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"youre gonna lose your money!"[br]
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"your children! your children! [br]theyll all fall over!"
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"theres all broken glass on the pavement!!!"
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And then, like, ideas that are deep in our psyche [br]about family, about evoking them,
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and heartbreak, love, and emotion.
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But these people, like david cameron, [br]like george osborne,
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they dont understand emotion in the way we do
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because they are institutionalized deeply in privilege[br]for their entire lives,
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theyre not people such as we understand them.
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these are tools of corporate apparatus,[br]tools of state apparatus,
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the reason scottish people are so galvanized [br]and excited by this election
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is because as ive long said, democracy[br]is typically meaningless.
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here, for once, is a referendum where[br]the outcome will affect peoples lives,
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and people are interested.
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theyre not apathetic.
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That lie ends with the excitement[br]around this referendum.
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[cameron] Sometimes because its an election,[br]because its a ballot,
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i think people can feel as if [br]its a bit like a general election.
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That you make a decision and 5 years later[br]you can make another decision.
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If you're fed up with the effing tories,[br]give them a kick,
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and then maybe we'll think again...
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Dont try and be normal, mate.
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Dont try to...
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"fed up the effing tories,
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and that pie-faced, moon-faced, [br]toffee-nosed, privileged,
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tool of the cruel and corporate David Ca... [br]hang onna minute!
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I'M david cameron!!!"
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[cameron] If scotland voted No to separation,
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the rest of the united kingdom would say yes[br]to further devolution.
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It's been good in the campaign that we've [br]been able to say more about that,
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and i think thats a positive.
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"No" doesnt mean no change.
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[reporter] But it all looks terribly last minute[br]in terms of the timetable and the detail.
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You were the prime minister [br]who agreed the referendum,
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but also kept DevoMax off the ballot paper.
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Im glad they kept DevoMax off the ballot paper.
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Sounds like a drink full of aspartame.
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[in kind of west coast american accent] DevoMax,[br]why not try DevoMax?
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It's a meaningless compromise!"
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Theyre trying to pull you into the bureaucracy[br]all the time.
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Can scotland be independent and keep sterling?
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hows scotland gonna defend itself?
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how much north sea oil revenue [br]can independent scotland extract?
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Devolution of the NHS.
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Currency union.
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EU!
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Really though, this is about, [br]well you know what this is about,
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this is about peoples emotions, and peoples[br]sense of connection to land;
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and their sense of having some authority [br]and ownership of their lives.
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Feelings that we dont get anymore
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because we know that politics is abstracted from us,
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and interacts in some [br]aloof ethereal world of high finance.
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with us, theyre just like "oh yes, a billion, [br]its going to cost a billion to save the NHS,
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we aint got it im afraid.
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Theres been a financial collapse! [br]We need 700 billion to save the city!
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Here you go!!!"
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I... wh... do... whaaat?
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So like now when people get an opportunity[br]to interact and engage
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with something they feel affects them,
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theyre interested and theyre impassioned,
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and i would say that [br]we dont only want devolution for scotland,
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we want further devolution,
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devolution right down to the city level.
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an independent manchester.[br]an independent newcastle.
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an independent london.[br]independence everywhere.
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so we're all engaged, we're all controlling our [br]own authorities, our municipal authorities,
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our own utilities and facilities,
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because what theyve got...
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when theyre talking about power,
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"we're more powerful together!"
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Who's power?
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who gets to use that power?
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does the NHS get to use that power?
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do unemployed people get to[br]use that power?
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do homeless people[br]get to use that power?
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who's power is it?
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people like david cameron's, [br]RICH peoples power.
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[cameron] I feel passionately about [br]our united kingdom.
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i desperately want our country[sic] to stay together.
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i very much hope that scotland will vote "No",
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and that will trigger further devolution.
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but im a democrat.
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"im a democrat! i like democracy! where [br]rich people vote about rich people stuff,
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and then we do rich people things!
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THIS kind of democracy, where ordinary [br]people vote? I dont like this very much!!"
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Democracy, in a democracy, you wouldnt have[br]the leaders of all 3 parties all going up,
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& even Farage [UK Independence Party leader], all 4 of them going up there together to say exactly the same thing.
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Theres your democracy.
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theres your choice.
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they all believe the same thing.
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the y all work for the same people.
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for scotland, i hope its better.
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i hope alex salmond and the government[br]that you get in an independent scotland
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is better,
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and that the power goes to the people,
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not to the corporations that the[br]politicians work for.
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[cameron] I want our united kingdom [br]to stay together.
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i believe we're stronger, safer, better off.
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i think YOURE stronger, safer, better off.
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[cameron] In this dangerous world of [br]instability and problems and threats,
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the most recent of which [br]we can see from Syria and Iraq.
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WHAT???
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What? ISIS?
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"Like... we've spoken to ISIS, [br]they said if scotland go independent,
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theyre gonna go over there and lop heads off[br]left and bloody right!"
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[reporter] do you wish that you personally perhaps[br]and the union campaign,
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had made more effort earlier on?
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[cameron] Well i believe i fought this campaign[br]very hard,
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this is something like my [br]11th major intervention into this campaign.
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"IM INTERVENING! IN THE CAMPAIGN!"
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[singing] "This is the campaign! [br]It's going quite badly!"
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What this is, is people sense [br]a little bit of autonomy,
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people sense a little bit of democracy,
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and people are impassioned [br]and people are interested.
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i think, give people more democracy,[br]give people something worth voting for,
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and everyone will vote for it,[br]including me.
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[cameron] It is a campaign of all of [br]those parties and people and trade unions
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and voluntary bodies and charities,
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and people who have nothing to do with politics
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who want scotland to stay part [br]of our family of nations
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and those who want us to leave.
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Well just decide for yourselves, eh?
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if i had any opportunity to vote[br]and fuck them lot off?
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id vote for it.
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i hope one day all of us get an opportunity
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to vote for a new kind of politics...
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im not saying thats what scotland are getting,
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but im saying that the feeling, the euphoria,
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the excitement, the unity,
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among scottish people,
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is precisely because it does feel like theres a point.
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and that exposes the flaw in our democracy,
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that it IS meaningless,
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and they DO serve absent corporate bodies,
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not the population theyre elected to serve.
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That is some trews!