Will Scotland be more entreprenurial after a yes?

Will Scotland be more entreprenurial after a yes?

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Derek Smith

45,514 posts

247 months

Wednesday 17th September 2014
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AJS- said:
Derek

I know you're a bit of lefty but can you imagine a country where the Labour left is the middle ground? That is Scotland.
Only on PH can I be considered as a lefty. At one firm I used to work at I was considered right wing, and I've moved right since then. I've voted tory more often than I have for any party (I think) but despite that because I have voted labour I'm considered a Trotsky.

I'm a classic floating voter. I vote for whoever I think will do a good job. I have difficulty understand anyone who votes for a party because they are that party.

So that makes me a lefty I suppose.


xr287

874 posts

179 months

Wednesday 17th September 2014
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This Business for Scotland document gives an idea http://www.businessforscotland.co.uk/wp-content/up...

Hoofy

76,253 posts

281 months

Wednesday 17th September 2014
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slipstream 1985 said:
Hoofy said:
Welshbeef said:
How do you make more people entrepreneurial? Is it better education - I'd say no its much more pure talent or ability or pure luck.
Thought it's more down to mindset. Dunno if you can teach mindset to someone. Some people are born to do 9-to-5 (nothing wrong with it, of course).
Maybe with all the job losses and standards of living that are about to drop these entrepreneurs will be forced to start businesses.
That's true. People who needed an excuse to go it alone will have that reason, I guess. Maybe the government and local authorities should routinely cull their staff. biggrin

Hoofy

76,253 posts

281 months

Wednesday 17th September 2014
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Welshbeef said:
Hoofy said:
Welshbeef said:
How do you make more people entrepreneurial? Is it better education - I'd say no its much more pure talent or ability or pure luck.
Thought it's more down to mindset. Dunno if you can teach mindset to someone. Some people are born to do 9-to-5 (nothing wrong with it, of course).
And you need plenty of steady Eddies also those who want to progress and then those who have hit glass ceilings in a corporate world so go solo and can make it then you have others who simply go it alone from day 1 risking everything and for some they make a fortune countless don't make a thing but they have tried
Not sure of your point. biggrin

Rovinghawk

13,300 posts

157 months

Thursday 18th September 2014
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gottans said:
how are they expecting this to happen?
It just will, alright?

Freeedoom!

ianrb

1,529 posts

139 months

Thursday 18th September 2014
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In the little leaflet they stuck through the door a few weeks back they said they would create 100000 new jobs by doubling Scotland's exports. They didn't provide any details of how they would achieve that, but it's obviously a sound plan.

0000

13,812 posts

190 months

Thursday 18th September 2014
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Derek Smith said:
Only on PH can I be considered as a lefty. At one firm I used to work at I was considered right wing, and I've moved right since then.
Was it the Met? wink

QuantumTokoloshi

4,161 posts

216 months

Thursday 18th September 2014
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Scotland will certainly need to be, to pay for the utopian egalitarian paradise being sold to the YES voters. The wizard of Oz (wizard of Glasgow perhaps) has more grounding in reality than the SNP economic plans.

The Salmond coined phrase "Arc of prosperity", which happens to include the ROI and Iceland, Yup, he has got that about right.

Edited by QuantumTokoloshi on Thursday 18th September 08:56

Moonhawk

10,730 posts

218 months

Thursday 18th September 2014
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Perhaps tomorrow will be like that scene in the Simpsons where itchy and scratchy is made non violent - so the kids all turn their TVs off - go outside - rub their eyes and see the world for the first time in all it's glory - all the time Beethoven's "Symphony 6 in f major" is playing in the background

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v50XkRrp5x8

Who knew it was English oppression that was standing in the way of Scottish neds being great inventors, philosophers, poets etc. Perhaps it's something the evil overlords are putting in the buckfast.

Edited by Moonhawk on Thursday 18th September 15:06

TheLemming

4,319 posts

264 months

Thursday 18th September 2014
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It will have to be....

24 months tops till the recession hits with the kind of force that will leave remittances as a major contributor to GDP.

The only thing that could prevent that would be EU membership but I don't see that happening with the rumblings from Spain and Belgium.

Whether the doomsday economic forecasts come to fruition is another question, but I see a very precarious walk on the edge of an abyss...

Dog Star

16,079 posts

167 months

Thursday 18th September 2014
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Will Scotland be more entreprenurial after a yes?

Will it hell! It won't need to be, they'll all be sat stfaced on Buckfast, mainlining methadone and enjoying all the "free stuff" that they would have otherwise enjoyed if it hadn't been for those bd Tories!

And Thatcher! Don't forget Thatcher!