Personally, I heartily dislike the GB, with their 'Stars on 45' up-tempo chants accompanied by a truly feckin awful drum-banging by a (hopefully) totally inebriated erse hole, but that banner and their comments about DRoss and the Tories were spot on.
comment by Tully1 (U20686)
posted 9 minutes ago
comment by Gingernuts (U2992)
posted 19 minutes ago
comment by Zico 🏴 (U21900)
posted 35 minutes ago
comment by Gingernuts (U2992)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by Zico 🏴 (U21900)
posted 3 minutes ago
Sturgeon had to go, the £37 billion pound track and trace fiasco, the billion pound PPE fiasco, the lying, the sleaze, the parties during covid while people were dying..
oh wait...
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It was only a matter of time before the “whitabootery” comment arrived.
Surprised it took this long to be honest.
But now we’re at it, the Scottish government under Sturgeon performed just as appallingly, if not worse than Westminster. The difference is scale.
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No chance mate.
The Tories in the last five years, have stooped to record lows. All those billions lost and that was even before they put that idiot Truss at the helm.
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As I’m saying, it’s just a matter of scale
And you can’t go round castigating others while your own party and self are mired in scandals and cover ups. That’s just a race to the bottom
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"You can't go around castigating others while your own party are mired in scandals and cover ups" Why not? You do it ALL the time for fecks sake?
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You actually were the only person I know, and a I know a few Tories, that liked Liz Truss's budget. So, yes, I think we can talk about your Tory Party's multiple scandals, cover-up, scams, corruption, ineptitude and all round feck-ups of the economy and what that now means for ordinary people.
comment by Call Sign (U3627)
posted 4 hours, 46 minutes ago
comment by Lauders - 55 time predictor champion (U9757)
posted 1 hour, 26 minutes ago
great guy*
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Nobody is biting
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Very disappointed.
comment by Tully1 (U20686)
posted 1 hour, 6 minutes ago
comment by Tully1 (U20686)
posted 9 minutes ago
comment by Gingernuts (U2992)
posted 19 minutes ago
comment by Zico 🏴 (U21900)
posted 35 minutes ago
comment by Gingernuts (U2992)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by Zico 🏴 (U21900)
posted 3 minutes ago
Sturgeon had to go, the £37 billion pound track and trace fiasco, the billion pound PPE fiasco, the lying, the sleaze, the parties during covid while people were dying..
oh wait...
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It was only a matter of time before the “whitabootery” comment arrived.
Surprised it took this long to be honest.
But now we’re at it, the Scottish government under Sturgeon performed just as appallingly, if not worse than Westminster. The difference is scale.
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No chance mate.
The Tories in the last five years, have stooped to record lows. All those billions lost and that was even before they put that idiot Truss at the helm.
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As I’m saying, it’s just a matter of scale
And you can’t go round castigating others while your own party and self are mired in scandals and cover ups. That’s just a race to the bottom
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"You can't go around castigating others while your own party are mired in scandals and cover ups" Why not? You do it ALL the time for fecks sake?
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You actually were the only person I know, and a I know a few Tories, that liked Liz Truss's budget. So, yes, I think we can talk about your Tory Party's multiple scandals, cover-up, scams, corruption, ineptitude and all round feck-ups of the economy and what that now means for ordinary people.
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Still… liked him when it suited you…
comment by Drunken Hobo (U7360)
posted 2 hours, 20 minutes ago
comment by Zico 🏴 (U21900)
posted 7 minutes ago
Sturgeon had to go, the £37 billion pound track and trace fiasco, the billion pound PPE fiasco, the lying, the sleaze, the parties during covid while people were dying..
oh wait...
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Being "not as bad as the Tories" just cements the transition from Salmond's SNP to Sturgeon's pseudo-Labour.
The idea of the SNP is to show that Scotland can lead its own way in the world and encourage others to see the same. If the justification for their party's existence is simply to say "well we're not as scandal-ridden as the bunch of coked-up public schoolboys down south" then the baw's burst and the game's a bogey.
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Who would you rather have in charge of your country?
Take your time
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posted 45 minutes ago
comment by Drunken Hobo (U7360)
posted 2 hours, 20 minutes ago
comment by Zico 🏴 (U21900)
posted 7 minutes ago
Sturgeon had to go, the £37 billion pound track and trace fiasco, the billion pound PPE fiasco, the lying, the sleaze, the parties during covid while people were dying..
oh wait...
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Being "not as bad as the Tories" just cements the transition from Salmond's SNP to Sturgeon's pseudo-Labour.
The idea of the SNP is to show that Scotland can lead its own way in the world and encourage others to see the same. If the justification for their party's existence is simply to say "well we're not as scandal-ridden as the bunch of coked-up public schoolboys down south" then the baw's burst and the game's a bogey.
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Who would you rather have in charge of your country?
Take your time
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You can choose none of the above
comment by Zico 🏴 (U21900)
posted 1 hour, 25 minutes ago
comment by Drunken Hobo (U7360)
posted 2 hours, 20 minutes ago
comment by Zico 🏴 (U21900)
posted 7 minutes ago
Sturgeon had to go, the £37 billion pound track and trace fiasco, the billion pound PPE fiasco, the lying, the sleaze, the parties during covid while people were dying..
oh wait...
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Being "not as bad as the Tories" just cements the transition from Salmond's SNP to Sturgeon's pseudo-Labour.
The idea of the SNP is to show that Scotland can lead its own way in the world and encourage others to see the same. If the justification for their party's existence is simply to say "well we're not as scandal-ridden as the bunch of coked-up public schoolboys down south" then the baw's burst and the game's a bogey.
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Who would you rather have in charge of your country?
Take your time
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I hate that argument.
Same as when a manager needs to go. “Who’s available though? Who would you take?”
Not a reason to keep someone who isn’t performing.
Pash argument. Can’t reward failure.
No doubt the alternatives have been a joke and are politically lost at best… that doesn’t mean she’s done a good job. Far too partisan in Scotland and she’s played on that better than anyone. A politician above reproach is worrying. I’ve always been labour… the biggest issue with them was that they rested on their laurels in Scotland.
Nicola could have won by a landslide regardless of any failings. Surely that’s unhealthy?
Just as labour expected years back. Lazy, too powerful and arrogant.
comment by Zico 🏴 (U21900)
posted 1 hour, 38 minutes ago
Who would you rather have in charge of your country?
Take your time
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Lauders pretty much said it all but you realise "there are no good options" is part of the problem rather than something to gloat about? The dearth of political talent in Scotland is not a point to celebrate.
In the SNP I quite like Joanna Cherry as she's closer to a Salmond-type figure and never got on with the new bunch of careerists. She's been quite vocal in her dislike for the way the party has been behaving recently and hopefully that means she values difference of opinion and debate rather than the anti-democratic way the SNP is being run.
Unfortunately it would probably go as well as Corbyn being in charge of a bunch of Blairites and the party would quickly rebel if she pushed for independence. Not sure many of the other MPs would be willing to give up their £300,000/year salaries and expenses.
comment by Gersmid (U22273)
posted 8 hours ago
we even had kids in George Square protesting the handling of exam results through COVID where there was a clear class bias to outcomes
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Indeed, I think Swinney saw the chance to close the attainment gap by the back door and give everyone form a 'disadvantaged school' an A
comment by Drunken Hobo (U7360)
posted 6 hours, 4 minutes ago
A legacy of failure in basically everything she tried. Imagine she'll get a cushy directors job at a charity or weird arm of the UN.
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You maybe need to research charity directorship salaries - she won't dirty her hands on that.
comment by Gingernuts (U2992)
posted 5 hours, 49 minutes ago
comment by Drunken Hobo (U7360)
posted 14 minutes ago
comment by IvanGolacIsMagic (U5291)
posted 1 hour, 29 minutes ago
Great politician and communicator but was there anything that was actually a success under her leadership?
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The Queensferry crossing was under budget
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And the vast majority of that was done when Salmond was at the helm.
Sturgeon has been a massive disappointment. I'm still on the fence as to whether she's just the sort of standard careerist numpty you get in politics or whether she genuinely is an MI5 plant.
Greatest mandate for independence in 300 years and she spends it allied with unionists trying to overturn the result of a referendum. Hopeless when covid came around - talked a lot but ultimately we were as bad as England, and the Tories are practically genocidal when it came to that. Tried to get her mentor jailed for life by getting her pals to tell tall tales about him. The named person scheme fiasco. £600k missing from their "ring-fenced independence fund". £107,000 loan from her husband that she knew nothing about. And her magnum opus - the thing she focussed more on anything else in her political career was to get rapists into women's prisons. At least that was the final straw.
A legacy of failure in basically everything she tried. Imagine she'll get a cushy directors job at a charity or weird arm of the UN.
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I’m relieved that others haven’t fallen for this brilliant politician nonsense.
An utter failure in every single respect, made worse by her steadfast refusal to listen to others and acknowledge issues; instead trying to humiliate anyone who dared question her unstinting belief that she was right no matter what.
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Ultimately yes, her success at the polls has bred unfortunate behaviours.
comment by Gingernuts (U2992)
posted 5 hours, 48 minutes ago
comment by WorkPermitPending (U1067)
posted 2 minutes ago
Not as bad as half the people make out, not as good as the other half make out. The performance of the SNP in government hasn't been stellar, but the failures always get more press than the successes. Ultimately I think you could see some pro-Indy supporters moving their second vote from SNP to Green specifically because they thought the increase in constructive opposition (as opposed to the vitriolic blind opposition to everything from Labour and particularly the Tories) would ultimately benefit the performance of the government. Hard to say how successful that's been.
I think most of the non-hardliners in Scotland will be in a pretty tough position come the next election. Pro-Indy supporters know the only way they can keep that representation up is through a stale and underperforming SNP, while the unionists are left with a choice between a Tory party whose only shred of "success" has come from exploiting extreme entrenched division, a Labour party in a decade-long identity crisis and devoid of any real intellectual or political clout, or the total non-entity of the Lib Dems who'd surprise me if they could even find enough candidates to contest every seat.
Scottish politics is in a bad way, and will remain so until the constitutional issue is resolved one way or another.
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What were these successes you allude to?
And every one of the failures have come at a huge cost financially, educationally and in health which will take years and many many more millions to reverse at a time when Scots benefit most from the public purse and suffer most from the highest taxes.
Even worse to come as a result of her stewardship.
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Pash
comment by St3vie (U11028)
posted 5 hours, 36 minutes ago
"Scottish politics is in a bad way, and will remain so until the constitutional issue is resolved one way or another."
Did we not have a vote in 2014 to do exactly that?
Only reason its "still to be resolved" is because we have had a party and a leader in power who couldn't take naw for an answer
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The irony - a party still in power - think about it.
comment by Irishred (U2539)
posted 4 hours, 18 minutes ago
If you add Kers to the word nic I would like it much more
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Soiled?
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posted 4 hours, 11 minutes ago
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posted 0 seconds ago
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posted 19 minutes ago
comment by Zico 🏴 (U21900)
posted 35 minutes ago
comment by Gingernuts (U2992)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by Zico 🏴 (U21900)
posted 3 minutes ago
Sturgeon had to go, the £37 billion pound track and trace fiasco, the billion pound PPE fiasco, the lying, the sleaze, the parties during covid while people were dying..
oh wait...
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It was only a matter of time before the “whitabootery” comment arrived.
Surprised it took this long to be honest.
But now we’re at it, the Scottish government under Sturgeon performed just as appallingly, if not worse than Westminster. The difference is scale.
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No chance mate.
The Tories in the last five years, have stooped to record lows. All those billions lost and that was even before they put that idiot Truss at the helm.
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As I’m saying, it’s just a matter of scale
And you can’t go round castigating others while your own party and self are mired in scandals and cover ups. That’s just a race to the bottom
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"You can't go around castigating others while your own party are mired in scandals and cover ups" Why not? You do it ALL the time for fecks sake?
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£37 BILLION on a failed Track and Test system in England and Wales (never worked properly as it was was based on Excel spreadsheets) and you personally 'wrotr it off' as '£37 billion, ok, but...'.
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“your”
You mean as in mine? Like they’re my policies and decisions?
Jesus wept man. You need to calm down and relieve yourself of the hard on when you see my name and stop making it all personal .
I genuinely have no idea what it is that I’ve done to upset you so much but it seems to have been worth it
I never even think or bother one iota when I see you post, yet you seem to harbour some insane dislike to anything I do.
Hope it gives you severe angst and anger. Best of luck
But from now on despatched to the land of filtered. Ta ta
Fwcking idiot
comment by Silver (U6112)
posted 25 minutes ago
comment by Gingernuts (U2992)
posted 5 hours, 48 minutes ago
comment by WorkPermitPending (U1067)
posted 2 minutes ago
Not as bad as half the people make out, not as good as the other half make out. The performance of the SNP in government hasn't been stellar, but the failures always get more press than the successes. Ultimately I think you could see some pro-Indy supporters moving their second vote from SNP to Green specifically because they thought the increase in constructive opposition (as opposed to the vitriolic blind opposition to everything from Labour and particularly the Tories) would ultimately benefit the performance of the government. Hard to say how successful that's been.
I think most of the non-hardliners in Scotland will be in a pretty tough position come the next election. Pro-Indy supporters know the only way they can keep that representation up is through a stale and underperforming SNP, while the unionists are left with a choice between a Tory party whose only shred of "success" has come from exploiting extreme entrenched division, a Labour party in a decade-long identity crisis and devoid of any real intellectual or political clout, or the total non-entity of the Lib Dems who'd surprise me if they could even find enough candidates to contest every seat.
Scottish politics is in a bad way, and will remain so until the constitutional issue is resolved one way or another.
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What were these successes you allude to?
And every one of the failures have come at a huge cost financially, educationally and in health which will take years and many many more millions to reverse at a time when Scots benefit most from the public purse and suffer most from the highest taxes.
Even worse to come as a result of her stewardship.
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Pash
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I think we should wait and see no?
comment by St3vie (U11028)
posted 15 hours, 23 minutes ago
"Scottish politics is in a bad way, and will remain so until the constitutional issue is resolved one way or another."
Did we not have a vote in 2014 to do exactly that?
Only reason its "still to be resolved" is because we have had a party and a leader in power who couldn't take naw for an answer
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And because people kept voting for them, and their policies in large numbers.
That bit seems quite important.
comment by IvanGolacIsMagic (U5291)
posted 50 seconds ago
comment by St3vie (U11028)
posted 15 hours, 23 minutes ago
"Scottish politics is in a bad way, and will remain so until the constitutional issue is resolved one way or another."
Did we not have a vote in 2014 to do exactly that?
Only reason its "still to be resolved" is because we have had a party and a leader in power who couldn't take naw for an answer
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And because people kept voting for them, and their policies in large numbers.
That bit seems quite important.
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I must have missed all those other referendums that were held after 2014 because the SNP wouldn’t take no for an answer.
comment by IvanGolacIsMagic (U5291)
posted 23 minutes ago
comment by St3vie (U11028)
posted 15 hours, 23 minutes ago
"Scottish politics is in a bad way, and will remain so until the constitutional issue is resolved one way or another."
Did we not have a vote in 2014 to do exactly that?
Only reason its "still to be resolved" is because we have had a party and a leader in power who couldn't take naw for an answer
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And because people kept voting for them, and their policies in large numbers.
That bit seems quite important.
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But the issue they have faced recently and will do going forwards is that the public mood hasn’t shifted for independence despite all the attempts since 2014 and now the party is faced with internal struggles as people have more important things to worry about.
comment by Gingernuts (U2992)
posted 9 hours, 47 minutes ago
comment by Silver (U6112)
posted 25 minutes ago
comment by Gingernuts (U2992)
posted 5 hours, 48 minutes ago
comment by WorkPermitPending (U1067)
posted 2 minutes ago
Not as bad as half the people make out, not as good as the other half make out. The performance of the SNP in government hasn't been stellar, but the failures always get more press than the successes. Ultimately I think you could see some pro-Indy supporters moving their second vote from SNP to Green specifically because they thought the increase in constructive opposition (as opposed to the vitriolic blind opposition to everything from Labour and particularly the Tories) would ultimately benefit the performance of the government. Hard to say how successful that's been.
I think most of the non-hardliners in Scotland will be in a pretty tough position come the next election. Pro-Indy supporters know the only way they can keep that representation up is through a stale and underperforming SNP, while the unionists are left with a choice between a Tory party whose only shred of "success" has come from exploiting extreme entrenched division, a Labour party in a decade-long identity crisis and devoid of any real intellectual or political clout, or the total non-entity of the Lib Dems who'd surprise me if they could even find enough candidates to contest every seat.
Scottish politics is in a bad way, and will remain so until the constitutional issue is resolved one way or another.
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What were these successes you allude to?
And every one of the failures have come at a huge cost financially, educationally and in health which will take years and many many more millions to reverse at a time when Scots benefit most from the public purse and suffer most from the highest taxes.
Even worse to come as a result of her stewardship.
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Pash
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I think we should wait and see no?
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Oh, the scandals? Sure they will rumble on.
The pash bit is your moan about Scots benefiting most.
comment by Silver (U6112)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by Gingernuts (U2992)
posted 9 hours, 47 minutes ago
comment by Silver (U6112)
posted 25 minutes ago
comment by Gingernuts (U2992)
posted 5 hours, 48 minutes ago
comment by WorkPermitPending (U1067)
posted 2 minutes ago
Not as bad as half the people make out, not as good as the other half make out. The performance of the SNP in government hasn't been stellar, but the failures always get more press than the successes. Ultimately I think you could see some pro-Indy supporters moving their second vote from SNP to Green specifically because they thought the increase in constructive opposition (as opposed to the vitriolic blind opposition to everything from Labour and particularly the Tories) would ultimately benefit the performance of the government. Hard to say how successful that's been.
I think most of the non-hardliners in Scotland will be in a pretty tough position come the next election. Pro-Indy supporters know the only way they can keep that representation up is through a stale and underperforming SNP, while the unionists are left with a choice between a Tory party whose only shred of "success" has come from exploiting extreme entrenched division, a Labour party in a decade-long identity crisis and devoid of any real intellectual or political clout, or the total non-entity of the Lib Dems who'd surprise me if they could even find enough candidates to contest every seat.
Scottish politics is in a bad way, and will remain so until the constitutional issue is resolved one way or another.
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What were these successes you allude to?
And every one of the failures have come at a huge cost financially, educationally and in health which will take years and many many more millions to reverse at a time when Scots benefit most from the public purse and suffer most from the highest taxes.
Even worse to come as a result of her stewardship.
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Pash
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I think we should wait and see no?
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Oh, the scandals? Sure they will rumble on.
The pash bit is your moan about Scots benefiting most.
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But they do have the highest per capita spend or “allowance” from the public purse. That’s a fact
comment by Gingernuts (U2992)
posted 13 minutes ago
But they do have the highest per capita spend or “allowance” from the public purse. That’s a fact
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Your company operates in Scotland, right? How much corporation tax does it pay to Holyrood?
VAT? Central coffers.
You live in Greater Manchester, right? HS2 will deliver a huge benefit to you, right? You do know that £100bn capital expenditure is deemed 'for the good of the whole country' so excluded from Barnett? "Fund your own capital projects." Ditto Heathrow expansion £60bn. Yeah that's really benefiting Scotland. Let's throw in Westminster £10bn.
Barnett has zero accounting for needs. You know running separate legal, planning and education systems and the funding of less efficient smaller schools, hospitals, policing, care of a more sparsely distributed population?
I mean when you need a heart bypass the response can't be 'sorry, the average health spend per head doesn't cover heart bypasses, sir.' When your child has special needs the answer cannot be 'sorry, the average education spend doesn't cover special needs, sir.'
Why has every UK government in all time failed to come up with a needs based assessment for spending decisions? I wonder?
comment by Silver (U6112)
posted 1 hour, 39 minutes ago
comment by Gingernuts (U2992)
posted 13 minutes ago
But they do have the highest per capita spend or “allowance” from the public purse. That’s a fact
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Your company operates in Scotland, right? How much corporation tax does it pay to Holyrood?
VAT? Central coffers.
You live in Greater Manchester, right? HS2 will deliver a huge benefit to you, right? You do know that £100bn capital expenditure is deemed 'for the good of the whole country' so excluded from Barnett? "Fund your own capital projects." Ditto Heathrow expansion £60bn. Yeah that's really benefiting Scotland.Let's throw in Westminster £10bn.
Barnett has zero accounting for needs. You know running separate legal, planning and education systems and the funding of less efficient smaller schools, hospitals, policing, care of a more sparsely distributed population?
I mean when you need a heart bypass the response can't be 'sorry, the average health spend per head doesn't cover heart bypasses, sir.' When your child has special needs the answer cannot be 'sorry, the average education spend doesn't cover special needs, sir.'
Why has every UK government in all time failed to come up with a needs based assessment for spending decisions? I wonder?
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No idea mate
But let’s not suggest that per capita Scots pay more of a share of those costs. They quite simply don’t. And the GDP contribution is far less than the rest of the UK.
Anyways, I’m not the answer to every governments failings. Am I?
And I’ve yet to understand how HS2 will benefit me or indeed anyone near my postcode. It’s turned into a vanity project as far as I’m concerned and nobody has the guts to make that decision of drawing a line in the sand and halting the entire thing.
An East - West improvement and a direct hourly link from Manchester to Birmingham whilst improving services north to Edinburgh and Glasgow would be far more beneficial.
comment by Gingernuts (U2992)
posted 8 minutes ago
comment by Silver (U6112)
posted 1 hour, 39 minutes ago
comment by Gingernuts (U2992)
posted 13 minutes ago
But they do have the highest per capita spend or “allowance” from the public purse. That’s a fact
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Your company operates in Scotland, right? How much corporation tax does it pay to Holyrood?
VAT? Central coffers.
You live in Greater Manchester, right? HS2 will deliver a huge benefit to you, right? You do know that £100bn capital expenditure is deemed 'for the good of the whole country' so excluded from Barnett? "Fund your own capital projects." Ditto Heathrow expansion £60bn. Yeah that's really benefiting Scotland.Let's throw in Westminster £10bn.
Barnett has zero accounting for needs. You know running separate legal, planning and education systems and the funding of less efficient smaller schools, hospitals, policing, care of a more sparsely distributed population?
I mean when you need a heart bypass the response can't be 'sorry, the average health spend per head doesn't cover heart bypasses, sir.' When your child has special needs the answer cannot be 'sorry, the average education spend doesn't cover special needs, sir.'
Why has every UK government in all time failed to come up with a needs based assessment for spending decisions? I wonder?
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No idea mate
But let’s not suggest that per capita Scots pay more of a share of those costs. They quite simply don’t. And the GDP contribution is far less than the rest of the UK.
Anyways, I’m not the answer to every governments failings. Am I?
And I’ve yet to understand how HS2 will benefit me or indeed anyone near my postcode. It’s turned into a vanity project as far as I’m concerned and nobody has the guts to make that decision of drawing a line in the sand and halting the entire thing.
An East - West improvement and a direct hourly link from Manchester to Birmingham whilst improving services north to Edinburgh and Glasgow would be far more beneficial.
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We should rebuild Hadrian's Wall and give day passes to the people in England that we like. Overnight stays are allowed with written consent from a sponsor or relative.
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Personally, I heartily dislike the GB, with their 'Stars on 45' up-tempo chants accompanied by a truly feckin awful drum-banging by a (hopefully) totally inebriated erse hole, but that banner and their comments about DRoss and the Tories were spot on.
posted on 15/2/23
comment by Tully1 (U20686)
posted 9 minutes ago
comment by Gingernuts (U2992)
posted 19 minutes ago
comment by Zico 🏴 (U21900)
posted 35 minutes ago
comment by Gingernuts (U2992)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by Zico 🏴 (U21900)
posted 3 minutes ago
Sturgeon had to go, the £37 billion pound track and trace fiasco, the billion pound PPE fiasco, the lying, the sleaze, the parties during covid while people were dying..
oh wait...
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It was only a matter of time before the “whitabootery” comment arrived.
Surprised it took this long to be honest.
But now we’re at it, the Scottish government under Sturgeon performed just as appallingly, if not worse than Westminster. The difference is scale.
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No chance mate.
The Tories in the last five years, have stooped to record lows. All those billions lost and that was even before they put that idiot Truss at the helm.
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As I’m saying, it’s just a matter of scale
And you can’t go round castigating others while your own party and self are mired in scandals and cover ups. That’s just a race to the bottom
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"You can't go around castigating others while your own party are mired in scandals and cover ups" Why not? You do it ALL the time for fecks sake?
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You actually were the only person I know, and a I know a few Tories, that liked Liz Truss's budget. So, yes, I think we can talk about your Tory Party's multiple scandals, cover-up, scams, corruption, ineptitude and all round feck-ups of the economy and what that now means for ordinary people.
posted on 15/2/23
comment by Call Sign (U3627)
posted 4 hours, 46 minutes ago
comment by Lauders - 55 time predictor champion (U9757)
posted 1 hour, 26 minutes ago
great guy*
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Nobody is biting
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Very disappointed.
posted on 15/2/23
comment by Tully1 (U20686)
posted 1 hour, 6 minutes ago
comment by Tully1 (U20686)
posted 9 minutes ago
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posted 19 minutes ago
comment by Zico 🏴 (U21900)
posted 35 minutes ago
comment by Gingernuts (U2992)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by Zico 🏴 (U21900)
posted 3 minutes ago
Sturgeon had to go, the £37 billion pound track and trace fiasco, the billion pound PPE fiasco, the lying, the sleaze, the parties during covid while people were dying..
oh wait...
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It was only a matter of time before the “whitabootery” comment arrived.
Surprised it took this long to be honest.
But now we’re at it, the Scottish government under Sturgeon performed just as appallingly, if not worse than Westminster. The difference is scale.
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No chance mate.
The Tories in the last five years, have stooped to record lows. All those billions lost and that was even before they put that idiot Truss at the helm.
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As I’m saying, it’s just a matter of scale
And you can’t go round castigating others while your own party and self are mired in scandals and cover ups. That’s just a race to the bottom
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"You can't go around castigating others while your own party are mired in scandals and cover ups" Why not? You do it ALL the time for fecks sake?
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You actually were the only person I know, and a I know a few Tories, that liked Liz Truss's budget. So, yes, I think we can talk about your Tory Party's multiple scandals, cover-up, scams, corruption, ineptitude and all round feck-ups of the economy and what that now means for ordinary people.
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Still… liked him when it suited you…
posted on 15/2/23
comment by Drunken Hobo (U7360)
posted 2 hours, 20 minutes ago
comment by Zico 🏴 (U21900)
posted 7 minutes ago
Sturgeon had to go, the £37 billion pound track and trace fiasco, the billion pound PPE fiasco, the lying, the sleaze, the parties during covid while people were dying..
oh wait...
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Being "not as bad as the Tories" just cements the transition from Salmond's SNP to Sturgeon's pseudo-Labour.
The idea of the SNP is to show that Scotland can lead its own way in the world and encourage others to see the same. If the justification for their party's existence is simply to say "well we're not as scandal-ridden as the bunch of coked-up public schoolboys down south" then the baw's burst and the game's a bogey.
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Who would you rather have in charge of your country?
Take your time
posted on 15/2/23
comment by Zico 🏴 (U21900)
posted 45 minutes ago
comment by Drunken Hobo (U7360)
posted 2 hours, 20 minutes ago
comment by Zico 🏴 (U21900)
posted 7 minutes ago
Sturgeon had to go, the £37 billion pound track and trace fiasco, the billion pound PPE fiasco, the lying, the sleaze, the parties during covid while people were dying..
oh wait...
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Being "not as bad as the Tories" just cements the transition from Salmond's SNP to Sturgeon's pseudo-Labour.
The idea of the SNP is to show that Scotland can lead its own way in the world and encourage others to see the same. If the justification for their party's existence is simply to say "well we're not as scandal-ridden as the bunch of coked-up public schoolboys down south" then the baw's burst and the game's a bogey.
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Who would you rather have in charge of your country?
Take your time
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You can choose none of the above
posted on 15/2/23
comment by Zico 🏴 (U21900)
posted 1 hour, 25 minutes ago
comment by Drunken Hobo (U7360)
posted 2 hours, 20 minutes ago
comment by Zico 🏴 (U21900)
posted 7 minutes ago
Sturgeon had to go, the £37 billion pound track and trace fiasco, the billion pound PPE fiasco, the lying, the sleaze, the parties during covid while people were dying..
oh wait...
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Being "not as bad as the Tories" just cements the transition from Salmond's SNP to Sturgeon's pseudo-Labour.
The idea of the SNP is to show that Scotland can lead its own way in the world and encourage others to see the same. If the justification for their party's existence is simply to say "well we're not as scandal-ridden as the bunch of coked-up public schoolboys down south" then the baw's burst and the game's a bogey.
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Who would you rather have in charge of your country?
Take your time
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I hate that argument.
Same as when a manager needs to go. “Who’s available though? Who would you take?”
Not a reason to keep someone who isn’t performing.
Pash argument. Can’t reward failure.
No doubt the alternatives have been a joke and are politically lost at best… that doesn’t mean she’s done a good job. Far too partisan in Scotland and she’s played on that better than anyone. A politician above reproach is worrying. I’ve always been labour… the biggest issue with them was that they rested on their laurels in Scotland.
Nicola could have won by a landslide regardless of any failings. Surely that’s unhealthy?
Just as labour expected years back. Lazy, too powerful and arrogant.
posted on 15/2/23
comment by Zico 🏴 (U21900)
posted 1 hour, 38 minutes ago
Who would you rather have in charge of your country?
Take your time
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Lauders pretty much said it all but you realise "there are no good options" is part of the problem rather than something to gloat about? The dearth of political talent in Scotland is not a point to celebrate.
In the SNP I quite like Joanna Cherry as she's closer to a Salmond-type figure and never got on with the new bunch of careerists. She's been quite vocal in her dislike for the way the party has been behaving recently and hopefully that means she values difference of opinion and debate rather than the anti-democratic way the SNP is being run.
Unfortunately it would probably go as well as Corbyn being in charge of a bunch of Blairites and the party would quickly rebel if she pushed for independence. Not sure many of the other MPs would be willing to give up their £300,000/year salaries and expenses.
posted on 15/2/23
comment by Gersmid (U22273)
posted 8 hours ago
we even had kids in George Square protesting the handling of exam results through COVID where there was a clear class bias to outcomes
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Indeed, I think Swinney saw the chance to close the attainment gap by the back door and give everyone form a 'disadvantaged school' an A
posted on 15/2/23
comment by Drunken Hobo (U7360)
posted 6 hours, 4 minutes ago
A legacy of failure in basically everything she tried. Imagine she'll get a cushy directors job at a charity or weird arm of the UN.
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You maybe need to research charity directorship salaries - she won't dirty her hands on that.
posted on 15/2/23
comment by Gingernuts (U2992)
posted 5 hours, 49 minutes ago
comment by Drunken Hobo (U7360)
posted 14 minutes ago
comment by IvanGolacIsMagic (U5291)
posted 1 hour, 29 minutes ago
Great politician and communicator but was there anything that was actually a success under her leadership?
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The Queensferry crossing was under budget
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And the vast majority of that was done when Salmond was at the helm.
Sturgeon has been a massive disappointment. I'm still on the fence as to whether she's just the sort of standard careerist numpty you get in politics or whether she genuinely is an MI5 plant.
Greatest mandate for independence in 300 years and she spends it allied with unionists trying to overturn the result of a referendum. Hopeless when covid came around - talked a lot but ultimately we were as bad as England, and the Tories are practically genocidal when it came to that. Tried to get her mentor jailed for life by getting her pals to tell tall tales about him. The named person scheme fiasco. £600k missing from their "ring-fenced independence fund". £107,000 loan from her husband that she knew nothing about. And her magnum opus - the thing she focussed more on anything else in her political career was to get rapists into women's prisons. At least that was the final straw.
A legacy of failure in basically everything she tried. Imagine she'll get a cushy directors job at a charity or weird arm of the UN.
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I’m relieved that others haven’t fallen for this brilliant politician nonsense.
An utter failure in every single respect, made worse by her steadfast refusal to listen to others and acknowledge issues; instead trying to humiliate anyone who dared question her unstinting belief that she was right no matter what.
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Ultimately yes, her success at the polls has bred unfortunate behaviours.
posted on 15/2/23
comment by Gingernuts (U2992)
posted 5 hours, 48 minutes ago
comment by WorkPermitPending (U1067)
posted 2 minutes ago
Not as bad as half the people make out, not as good as the other half make out. The performance of the SNP in government hasn't been stellar, but the failures always get more press than the successes. Ultimately I think you could see some pro-Indy supporters moving their second vote from SNP to Green specifically because they thought the increase in constructive opposition (as opposed to the vitriolic blind opposition to everything from Labour and particularly the Tories) would ultimately benefit the performance of the government. Hard to say how successful that's been.
I think most of the non-hardliners in Scotland will be in a pretty tough position come the next election. Pro-Indy supporters know the only way they can keep that representation up is through a stale and underperforming SNP, while the unionists are left with a choice between a Tory party whose only shred of "success" has come from exploiting extreme entrenched division, a Labour party in a decade-long identity crisis and devoid of any real intellectual or political clout, or the total non-entity of the Lib Dems who'd surprise me if they could even find enough candidates to contest every seat.
Scottish politics is in a bad way, and will remain so until the constitutional issue is resolved one way or another.
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What were these successes you allude to?
And every one of the failures have come at a huge cost financially, educationally and in health which will take years and many many more millions to reverse at a time when Scots benefit most from the public purse and suffer most from the highest taxes.
Even worse to come as a result of her stewardship.
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Pash
posted on 15/2/23
comment by St3vie (U11028)
posted 5 hours, 36 minutes ago
"Scottish politics is in a bad way, and will remain so until the constitutional issue is resolved one way or another."
Did we not have a vote in 2014 to do exactly that?
Only reason its "still to be resolved" is because we have had a party and a leader in power who couldn't take naw for an answer
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The irony - a party still in power - think about it.
posted on 15/2/23
comment by Irishred (U2539)
posted 4 hours, 18 minutes ago
If you add Kers to the word nic I would like it much more
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Soiled?
posted on 15/2/23
comment by Tully1 (U20686)
posted 4 hours, 11 minutes ago
comment by Tully1 (U20686)
posted 0 seconds ago
comment by Gingernuts (U2992)
posted 19 minutes ago
comment by Zico 🏴 (U21900)
posted 35 minutes ago
comment by Gingernuts (U2992)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by Zico 🏴 (U21900)
posted 3 minutes ago
Sturgeon had to go, the £37 billion pound track and trace fiasco, the billion pound PPE fiasco, the lying, the sleaze, the parties during covid while people were dying..
oh wait...
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It was only a matter of time before the “whitabootery” comment arrived.
Surprised it took this long to be honest.
But now we’re at it, the Scottish government under Sturgeon performed just as appallingly, if not worse than Westminster. The difference is scale.
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No chance mate.
The Tories in the last five years, have stooped to record lows. All those billions lost and that was even before they put that idiot Truss at the helm.
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As I’m saying, it’s just a matter of scale
And you can’t go round castigating others while your own party and self are mired in scandals and cover ups. That’s just a race to the bottom
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"You can't go around castigating others while your own party are mired in scandals and cover ups" Why not? You do it ALL the time for fecks sake?
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£37 BILLION on a failed Track and Test system in England and Wales (never worked properly as it was was based on Excel spreadsheets) and you personally 'wrotr it off' as '£37 billion, ok, but...'.
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“your”
You mean as in mine? Like they’re my policies and decisions?
Jesus wept man. You need to calm down and relieve yourself of the hard on when you see my name and stop making it all personal .
I genuinely have no idea what it is that I’ve done to upset you so much but it seems to have been worth it
I never even think or bother one iota when I see you post, yet you seem to harbour some insane dislike to anything I do.
Hope it gives you severe angst and anger. Best of luck
But from now on despatched to the land of filtered. Ta ta
Fwcking idiot
posted on 15/2/23
comment by Silver (U6112)
posted 25 minutes ago
comment by Gingernuts (U2992)
posted 5 hours, 48 minutes ago
comment by WorkPermitPending (U1067)
posted 2 minutes ago
Not as bad as half the people make out, not as good as the other half make out. The performance of the SNP in government hasn't been stellar, but the failures always get more press than the successes. Ultimately I think you could see some pro-Indy supporters moving their second vote from SNP to Green specifically because they thought the increase in constructive opposition (as opposed to the vitriolic blind opposition to everything from Labour and particularly the Tories) would ultimately benefit the performance of the government. Hard to say how successful that's been.
I think most of the non-hardliners in Scotland will be in a pretty tough position come the next election. Pro-Indy supporters know the only way they can keep that representation up is through a stale and underperforming SNP, while the unionists are left with a choice between a Tory party whose only shred of "success" has come from exploiting extreme entrenched division, a Labour party in a decade-long identity crisis and devoid of any real intellectual or political clout, or the total non-entity of the Lib Dems who'd surprise me if they could even find enough candidates to contest every seat.
Scottish politics is in a bad way, and will remain so until the constitutional issue is resolved one way or another.
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What were these successes you allude to?
And every one of the failures have come at a huge cost financially, educationally and in health which will take years and many many more millions to reverse at a time when Scots benefit most from the public purse and suffer most from the highest taxes.
Even worse to come as a result of her stewardship.
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Pash
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I think we should wait and see no?
posted on 16/2/23
comment by St3vie (U11028)
posted 15 hours, 23 minutes ago
"Scottish politics is in a bad way, and will remain so until the constitutional issue is resolved one way or another."
Did we not have a vote in 2014 to do exactly that?
Only reason its "still to be resolved" is because we have had a party and a leader in power who couldn't take naw for an answer
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And because people kept voting for them, and their policies in large numbers.
That bit seems quite important.
posted on 16/2/23
comment by IvanGolacIsMagic (U5291)
posted 50 seconds ago
comment by St3vie (U11028)
posted 15 hours, 23 minutes ago
"Scottish politics is in a bad way, and will remain so until the constitutional issue is resolved one way or another."
Did we not have a vote in 2014 to do exactly that?
Only reason its "still to be resolved" is because we have had a party and a leader in power who couldn't take naw for an answer
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And because people kept voting for them, and their policies in large numbers.
That bit seems quite important.
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I must have missed all those other referendums that were held after 2014 because the SNP wouldn’t take no for an answer.
posted on 16/2/23
comment by IvanGolacIsMagic (U5291)
posted 23 minutes ago
comment by St3vie (U11028)
posted 15 hours, 23 minutes ago
"Scottish politics is in a bad way, and will remain so until the constitutional issue is resolved one way or another."
Did we not have a vote in 2014 to do exactly that?
Only reason its "still to be resolved" is because we have had a party and a leader in power who couldn't take naw for an answer
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And because people kept voting for them, and their policies in large numbers.
That bit seems quite important.
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But the issue they have faced recently and will do going forwards is that the public mood hasn’t shifted for independence despite all the attempts since 2014 and now the party is faced with internal struggles as people have more important things to worry about.
posted on 16/2/23
comment by Gingernuts (U2992)
posted 9 hours, 47 minutes ago
comment by Silver (U6112)
posted 25 minutes ago
comment by Gingernuts (U2992)
posted 5 hours, 48 minutes ago
comment by WorkPermitPending (U1067)
posted 2 minutes ago
Not as bad as half the people make out, not as good as the other half make out. The performance of the SNP in government hasn't been stellar, but the failures always get more press than the successes. Ultimately I think you could see some pro-Indy supporters moving their second vote from SNP to Green specifically because they thought the increase in constructive opposition (as opposed to the vitriolic blind opposition to everything from Labour and particularly the Tories) would ultimately benefit the performance of the government. Hard to say how successful that's been.
I think most of the non-hardliners in Scotland will be in a pretty tough position come the next election. Pro-Indy supporters know the only way they can keep that representation up is through a stale and underperforming SNP, while the unionists are left with a choice between a Tory party whose only shred of "success" has come from exploiting extreme entrenched division, a Labour party in a decade-long identity crisis and devoid of any real intellectual or political clout, or the total non-entity of the Lib Dems who'd surprise me if they could even find enough candidates to contest every seat.
Scottish politics is in a bad way, and will remain so until the constitutional issue is resolved one way or another.
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What were these successes you allude to?
And every one of the failures have come at a huge cost financially, educationally and in health which will take years and many many more millions to reverse at a time when Scots benefit most from the public purse and suffer most from the highest taxes.
Even worse to come as a result of her stewardship.
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Pash
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I think we should wait and see no?
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Oh, the scandals? Sure they will rumble on.
The pash bit is your moan about Scots benefiting most.
posted on 16/2/23
comment by Silver (U6112)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by Gingernuts (U2992)
posted 9 hours, 47 minutes ago
comment by Silver (U6112)
posted 25 minutes ago
comment by Gingernuts (U2992)
posted 5 hours, 48 minutes ago
comment by WorkPermitPending (U1067)
posted 2 minutes ago
Not as bad as half the people make out, not as good as the other half make out. The performance of the SNP in government hasn't been stellar, but the failures always get more press than the successes. Ultimately I think you could see some pro-Indy supporters moving their second vote from SNP to Green specifically because they thought the increase in constructive opposition (as opposed to the vitriolic blind opposition to everything from Labour and particularly the Tories) would ultimately benefit the performance of the government. Hard to say how successful that's been.
I think most of the non-hardliners in Scotland will be in a pretty tough position come the next election. Pro-Indy supporters know the only way they can keep that representation up is through a stale and underperforming SNP, while the unionists are left with a choice between a Tory party whose only shred of "success" has come from exploiting extreme entrenched division, a Labour party in a decade-long identity crisis and devoid of any real intellectual or political clout, or the total non-entity of the Lib Dems who'd surprise me if they could even find enough candidates to contest every seat.
Scottish politics is in a bad way, and will remain so until the constitutional issue is resolved one way or another.
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What were these successes you allude to?
And every one of the failures have come at a huge cost financially, educationally and in health which will take years and many many more millions to reverse at a time when Scots benefit most from the public purse and suffer most from the highest taxes.
Even worse to come as a result of her stewardship.
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Pash
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I think we should wait and see no?
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Oh, the scandals? Sure they will rumble on.
The pash bit is your moan about Scots benefiting most.
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But they do have the highest per capita spend or “allowance” from the public purse. That’s a fact
posted on 16/2/23
comment by Gingernuts (U2992)
posted 13 minutes ago
But they do have the highest per capita spend or “allowance” from the public purse. That’s a fact
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Your company operates in Scotland, right? How much corporation tax does it pay to Holyrood?
VAT? Central coffers.
You live in Greater Manchester, right? HS2 will deliver a huge benefit to you, right? You do know that £100bn capital expenditure is deemed 'for the good of the whole country' so excluded from Barnett? "Fund your own capital projects." Ditto Heathrow expansion £60bn. Yeah that's really benefiting Scotland. Let's throw in Westminster £10bn.
Barnett has zero accounting for needs. You know running separate legal, planning and education systems and the funding of less efficient smaller schools, hospitals, policing, care of a more sparsely distributed population?
I mean when you need a heart bypass the response can't be 'sorry, the average health spend per head doesn't cover heart bypasses, sir.' When your child has special needs the answer cannot be 'sorry, the average education spend doesn't cover special needs, sir.'
Why has every UK government in all time failed to come up with a needs based assessment for spending decisions? I wonder?
posted on 16/2/23
comment by Silver (U6112)
posted 1 hour, 39 minutes ago
comment by Gingernuts (U2992)
posted 13 minutes ago
But they do have the highest per capita spend or “allowance” from the public purse. That’s a fact
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Your company operates in Scotland, right? How much corporation tax does it pay to Holyrood?
VAT? Central coffers.
You live in Greater Manchester, right? HS2 will deliver a huge benefit to you, right? You do know that £100bn capital expenditure is deemed 'for the good of the whole country' so excluded from Barnett? "Fund your own capital projects." Ditto Heathrow expansion £60bn. Yeah that's really benefiting Scotland.Let's throw in Westminster £10bn.
Barnett has zero accounting for needs. You know running separate legal, planning and education systems and the funding of less efficient smaller schools, hospitals, policing, care of a more sparsely distributed population?
I mean when you need a heart bypass the response can't be 'sorry, the average health spend per head doesn't cover heart bypasses, sir.' When your child has special needs the answer cannot be 'sorry, the average education spend doesn't cover special needs, sir.'
Why has every UK government in all time failed to come up with a needs based assessment for spending decisions? I wonder?
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No idea mate
But let’s not suggest that per capita Scots pay more of a share of those costs. They quite simply don’t. And the GDP contribution is far less than the rest of the UK.
Anyways, I’m not the answer to every governments failings. Am I?
And I’ve yet to understand how HS2 will benefit me or indeed anyone near my postcode. It’s turned into a vanity project as far as I’m concerned and nobody has the guts to make that decision of drawing a line in the sand and halting the entire thing.
An East - West improvement and a direct hourly link from Manchester to Birmingham whilst improving services north to Edinburgh and Glasgow would be far more beneficial.
posted on 16/2/23
comment by Gingernuts (U2992)
posted 8 minutes ago
comment by Silver (U6112)
posted 1 hour, 39 minutes ago
comment by Gingernuts (U2992)
posted 13 minutes ago
But they do have the highest per capita spend or “allowance” from the public purse. That’s a fact
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Your company operates in Scotland, right? How much corporation tax does it pay to Holyrood?
VAT? Central coffers.
You live in Greater Manchester, right? HS2 will deliver a huge benefit to you, right? You do know that £100bn capital expenditure is deemed 'for the good of the whole country' so excluded from Barnett? "Fund your own capital projects." Ditto Heathrow expansion £60bn. Yeah that's really benefiting Scotland.Let's throw in Westminster £10bn.
Barnett has zero accounting for needs. You know running separate legal, planning and education systems and the funding of less efficient smaller schools, hospitals, policing, care of a more sparsely distributed population?
I mean when you need a heart bypass the response can't be 'sorry, the average health spend per head doesn't cover heart bypasses, sir.' When your child has special needs the answer cannot be 'sorry, the average education spend doesn't cover special needs, sir.'
Why has every UK government in all time failed to come up with a needs based assessment for spending decisions? I wonder?
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No idea mate
But let’s not suggest that per capita Scots pay more of a share of those costs. They quite simply don’t. And the GDP contribution is far less than the rest of the UK.
Anyways, I’m not the answer to every governments failings. Am I?
And I’ve yet to understand how HS2 will benefit me or indeed anyone near my postcode. It’s turned into a vanity project as far as I’m concerned and nobody has the guts to make that decision of drawing a line in the sand and halting the entire thing.
An East - West improvement and a direct hourly link from Manchester to Birmingham whilst improving services north to Edinburgh and Glasgow would be far more beneficial.
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We should rebuild Hadrian's Wall and give day passes to the people in England that we like. Overnight stays are allowed with written consent from a sponsor or relative.
posted on 16/2/23
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