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I was wondering about passports and driving licences too.  Will we have to renew both with the issuing authority being Scotland? Will we have to pay for that?  It costs £70 to renew a passport x 2 or 3 members of a family - adds up to a fair bit and driving licences as well!!

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I was wondering about passports and driving licences too.  Will we have to renew both with the issuing authority being Scotland? Will we have to pay for that?  It costs £70 to renew a passport x 2 or 3 members of a family - adds up to a fair bit and driving licences as well!!

 

The document says that driving licences will be accepted but on the matter of passports, I couldn't find anything.

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Passports is covered in the independent Scotland blog yesterday.

 

Chapter 4 of the UK Governments paper covers passport.

 

Irrespective of the vote next Thursday if you are a UK citizen you will still be a UK citizen and can choose to elect for dual nationality and become a Scottish if there is a yes vote in 2016.

 

https://www.shetlink.com/index.php?/topic/7109-independent-scotland/page-6&do=findComment&comment=201515

 

Of course with everything a future Westminister can change the rules but that applies to everything at present anyway.

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Scottish Government answer on passports can be found here:

 

http://www.scotreferendum.com/questions/i-still-have-a-number-of-years-left-of-my-uk-passport-can-i-keep-it-would-i-be-able-to-renew-my-uk-passport/

 

Scottish Government answer on your driving licence can be found here:

 

http://www.scotreferendum.com/questions/will-we-need-to-reapply-for-driving-licences-if-scotland-becomes-independent/

 

There is a question and answer option from the Scottish Government at the following location:

 

http://www.scotreferendum.com

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It may surprise you to know that officially at least NATO is committed to Nuclear Disarmament and that is on their website.

 

http://www.nato.int/cps/en/natolive/topics_50068.htm

 

Only 3 members of NATO actually have nuclear arms.

 

20 NATO members do not host Nuclear weapons and a few do not allow nuclear weapons on their soil ever.

 

http://nwp.ilpi.org/?p=2296

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Guess looking under "travel" was the wrong place to look then but "International Relations and External Affairs"?  WTF?

 

Edit:  But ta for the link.

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All it says is:-

 

"The Scottish Government plans to recognise valid UK passports until they expire. As set out above, the Scottish Government intends to allow dual nationality and would not place any obstacles in the way of individuals holding a Scottish passport alongside a UK passport.

 

Entitlement to UK passports will be a matter for the rest of the UK."

 

So that's the Scottish version.  What does Westminster say about them?  Will other countries recognise a Scottish passport?  Will they recognise a UK passport held by a Scottish National/someone with a Scottish address?

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It may surprise you to know that officially at least NATO is committed to Nuclear Disarmament and that is on their website.

 

http://www.nato.int/cps/en/natolive/topics_50068.htm

 

Only 3 members of NATO actually have nuclear arms.

 

20 NATO members do not host Nuclear weapons and a few do not allow nuclear weapons on their soil ever.

 

http://nwp.ilpi.org/?p=2296

 

That's a laugh. An organisation with the Yanks as a member committing to go nuclear arms free, the nearest they can hope to that is for everyone except the Yanks being nuclear arms free, which would not be a good thing in any size, shape or form.

 

They invented the mushroom cloud, they used it first, its their baby, and they'll die holding it close.

 

It kinda shows that NATO is the elitest, hypocritical club we've always believed they were, if they think anyone is swallowing such tosh though.

 

I dunno what all the fuss over nuclear weapons is anyway, you can't un-invent what has been invented, and regardless if all the known ones were destroyed, some despot somewhere will have a few hidden, or be working feverishly to make ones. Better we all go quickly should some nutter decide to press the button, than yet another protracted turdstorm like past war efforts have been.

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Nuclear weapons have kept us out of major wars since 1945. Note the lessons from history.

Small neutral countries  get stomped on. If there is another major war in Europe small countries will get occupied again.

We are really not many steps from a conflagration, now,  unless Russia decides to ease back.

Makes this Nationalism nonsense pale into insignificance.

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