Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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17 October 2010
08:0575261Well its like shangri-la up there, the promised land , ermmm if you can live with that 'weee jimmy' accent ( I can talk!) and of course if you can endure all that brass monkey weather (the wind whistles in from the Trossachs something awful!).
I mean, our fellow citizens up there in Scotland are enjoying all the good time benefits that we should be having, like...FREE university places for all their kids, and now, now, to top it all off, FREE prescription charges for ALL was announced yesterday, by that ever so smug Nichola Sturgeon ( who???- you might well ask!).
How do they do it ??
Im gobsmacked. A nation of 5 million and they are quids in, while the rest of us here in downtrodden weatherbeaten England are already paying through the nose for the aforementioned services but on top of that we are going to lose the few measly benefits we have, particularly after contributing to the bloody system all our lives. Well there we are....
fairness for all!!..sayeth the Coalition.
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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17 October 2010
08:1975262Chanters, drums and drones already blowing, Paul!
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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17 October 2010
08:2475263But then, Kent has got possibilities too!
Guest 702- Registered: 9 Jul 2010
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17 October 2010
09:3075264According to occasional articles in the Sunday Post (Scottish sunday paper) there might not be the money to support all of their 'free' services for much longer.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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17 October 2010
09:3175265i saw that about the prescriptions as well paul.
sounds like political stunt from the s.n.p. when the spending review details are announced they can then say look what those awful english have done, cut our budgets to stop us doing all the nice things.
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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17 October 2010
11:3075274Scotland could have the key to wind-energy resources! It would be better than Britain spending hundreds of billions of pounds on nuclear-power stations, which is an impossible prospect anyway, considering the costs that would be involved.
17 October 2010
12:2675278Sorry - I couldn't hear you over the clatter of the train tracks as I gallop towards Edinburgh........
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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17 October 2010
13:4175285you could be right about the wind energy aspect alex.
what with all the doner kebabs and deep fried mars bars washed down with extra strength lager that our tartan friends enjoy.
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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17 October 2010
14:0075288Howard, before you posted this, I had just conducted a research on doner kebabs, and discovered that they contain massive amounts of fat, saturated fat and salt!
Guest 660- Registered: 14 Mar 2008
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17 October 2010
15:5775299Moving up to the McGoodwin Castle next week,east end of Glasgow
If you knew what I know,we would both be in trouble!
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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17 October 2010
16:2275301There`s a delightful cafe/residence I`d buy up and move to tomorrow if I had the chance, the other side of Ullapool. We`ve always had tea and food in there whenever we`ve been up there. Keep your Costa Del whatever, there`s warm sunshine up there too, though the scenery compensate`s for when the sun`s not out.
Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
17 October 2010
18:4575325Paul B,
As you are probably aware I am from north of the border. I do not share the view of Nicola Sturgeon and her boss Alex Salmon that the scots should get free this and that. We are supposed to be a united nation within these shores.
Stunts like the one we have just been exposed to I.E. free prescriptions and the like are divisive and are being put in place as a deliberate part of scottish national party policy. the end result being that people south of the border will become so pissed off with the scots that it will make it easy for the SNP to achieve there aim of misguided independance. I have no objection to the scots having there independance with the proviso that they surrender there right to dip into the taxes paid by the people south of the border. If they want independance that much then they should be happy to pay for it themselves.
On a personal note, I have lived south of the border for the last 52 years and am more than happy that that situation stays as it is.
I think all nationalists are crack pots whether they be scots, welsh, irish or even cornish, we dont need them nor do we want them.
17 October 2010
19:0075327Alexander D,
You are quite right when you say the scots have the wind resources. All you have to do is listen to the scottish national party, I am sure that will prove the point!!
17 October 2010
19:3375331Plus the property seems (comparatively) cheap!
http://www.nestoria.co.uk/isle-of-lewis/property/buy
Although I believe they still padlock the swings in the childrens' play-park on Sundays!
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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17 October 2010
19:3875333excellent post james, i find alex salmond to be a cheap opportunist with a chip on his shoulder.
most nationalists parties around the globe play on emotions rather than logic and when they get success it always end in tears.
17 October 2010
20:3275339Howard Mcsweeney,
"AW Shucks" your just saying that cause it is true!!
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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17 October 2010
21:3275341Jimmy Long, there are no independence movements from any mainstream population in Scotland, Wales or Cornwall!
It would be horrific, emotionally, if the economic blunder that our Country is in was to become the cause for an internal separatist movement among the constituent Countries of Britain, or within England, and a really poor show!
Let's remember, to make one example, that the Scots never denied all Britain full participation in Northsea oil and gas, when it was abundant, and therefore why should the English grudge any extra money going now to Scotland?
Furthermore, the Union Jack to me is Holy, and it includes the Flag of Scotland!
17 October 2010
23:1875359Alexander D,
Have you taken leave of your senses?? Perhaps you can tell me what the scottish nationalists stand for. Integration with England?? I think not.
For goodness sake don't be so daft as to think for one moment that Scotland can be absolved for there part in the economic mess the "WHOLE"country is in.
Who do you think has been paying for free Scottish universities?? the Scots?? I don't think so. Who has been paying for free home care in Scotland ?? Who has been paying for free central heating for the elderly in Scotland?? The Scots are enjoying the life of Riley at England's expense
This devolved government is just one unholy racket that should be stopped dead in its tracks before it goes on to eventually bankrupt the nation.
I may add that the same criteria should be used against the welsh and irish assemblies. They are a nonsense,they know it and so do we!!
P.S.
the referance to the people of Cornwall was meant as a joke, sad that you could not see that for what it was.
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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18 October 2010
00:0575360Jimmy Long, my views concerning Scotland and Wales remain as I stated, but you mentioned Northern Ireland.
The National Assembly there is vital for peaceful union between the Irish of Northern Ireland.
Personally I believe in the future British Isles as Sovereign State, with unified Ireland one of the Four Constituent Countires, but only if this were the will of the people.
As it is now, it is vital not to disturbe the peaceful relations in Northern Ireland.
Our history of the British Isled is interlinked, and if you would like to read an article I recently edited on the Web, you will find that the English Church has its foundations to an important extent in the work of Irish and Scottish missionaries.
Saint Aidan is Irish. The name Scots refers, in the seventh century, to Irish and Scots. The Picts also inhabited both Ireland and Scotland. There is too much beauty in our history to not cherish it!
Should you wish to read on, google: Celtic foundations within the English Church.
18 October 2010
10:4375408Alexander D,
I think this is a case where we shall have to agree to disagree, no need for us to fall out over this tom foolery.
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