Scottish Referendum / Independence - Vol 7

[Welshbeef]

simoid said:

If they do a good job of running a prosperous and happy country, there's no need for independence. Catch 22.

But it could be even better.

£15billion deficit plus Barnett contribution has to make anyone with any kind of brain think st don't rock the boat.

[csd19]

Did anybody else read the article regarding the £220,000 donation from ScotGov to Malawi to provide food for the starving? I presume this must mean there is no longer a requirement for food banks in Scotland. Must pass on the congrats to Nippy, obviously doing a good job to release that money (small amount that it is) despite the bd Tory austerity...

Nothing like sorting out your own ste first eh.

[simoid]

Surely as a thriving, small, independent nation, rich with natural resources, they're sting money!?

[Cobnapint]

Nice to know a bit of 'Barnet' is going to a good cause.

fk. Me.

[Edinburger]

csd19 said:

Did anybody else read the article regarding the £220,000 donation from ScotGov to Malawi to provide food for the starving? I presume this must mean there is no longer a requirement for food banks in Scotland. Must pass on the congrats to Nippy, obviously doing a good job to release that money (small amount that it is) despite the bd Tory austerity...

Nothing like sorting out your own ste first eh.

Did I miss sonething? Have the UK stopped foreign aid?

[Edinburger]

Westminster culture committee backs 'Scottish Six' plans.

Specific Scottish news programme sounds good. This will help with Scottish news content on BBC app which is woefully lacking. I like the option of Scottish news on 3 or international news on BBC News 24.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-pol...

[neelyp]

Edinburger said:

Westminster culture committee backs 'Scottish Six' plans.

Specific Scottish news programme sounds good. This will help with Scottish news content on BBC app which is woefully lacking. I like the option of Scottish news on 3 or international news on BBC News 24.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-pol...

Is that anything different from the specific Scottish news programme that's on BBC1 at 1830 every weekday evening?

Another load of posturing with absolutely no substance.

[Chuggy]

An hour long Scottish news program will inevitably have 25 minutes of football !!

[Welshbeef]

Chuggy said:

An hour long Scottish news program will inevitably have 25 minutes of football !!

I have to ask IF Scotland only pays in 10% of BBC funding WHY then does it think it's entitled to have more for less? They should use the Barnett funding to pay for the additional services instead of making other parts of the U.K. Subsidise yet another thing for them.

[Jinx]

Edinburger said:

Did I miss sonething? Have the UK stopped foreign aid?

If my local council used central funds to send foreign aid whilst reducing local services then yes I would be bloody annoyed. Central government have already used a lot of tax payers money in foreign aid, it is my local council's job is to provide local services not grandstand on the charity gravy train.

[Edinburger]

Interesting: Scotland can't be independent and negotiate a preferential trade deal with rUK.

[technodup]

Edinburger said:

Westminster culture committee backs 'Scottish Six' plans.

Specific Scottish news programme sounds good.

Why? We already have Reporting Scotland for Scottish news. I don't see how Scotland has a different slant from the UK in terms of world events. A Scottish Six is basically the Six O Clock News with a kilt on.

Plus Scottish TV is almost universally ste anyway. Ever watched Sportscene? River stty?

[r11co]

Edinburger said:

Interesting: Scotland can't be independent and negotiate a preferential trade deal with rUK.

Damning, you mean. Everything on that page illustrates why Nicola Sturgeon has painted the SNP into a corner over independence/EU membership and underlines that Scotland's EU status is entirely out of her hands and always was, and that the SNP peddled a demonstrably false economic and political case for independence in the run-up to the 2014 referendum.

The most telling statistic that came out of the EU referendum is that SNP supporters were more likely to vote to leave than supporters of the other parties, an entirely predictable outcome and one that puts these supporters at odds with the will of the party leader.

Peak SNP was reached in the General Election of 2015, and it has been a downhill slide for them since, recently accelarated by Sturgeon's grandstanding over the EU which has not made her looke statesmanly but has in fact exposed the ludicrous contradictions of a party that has no real policies beyond the single issue that motivates the majority of their otherwise disinterested and getting increasingly bored membership.

The Supreme Court/ECHR ruling on Named Person (and the earlier EC ruling on minimum alcohol pricing) were an apolitical indictment of the SNP government's inability to formulate legislation that meets the criteria of the legal system it operates under and openly supports - in other words an objective illustration of the gross incompetence of ScotGov and its profligacy in pursuing laws that cannot actually be implemented.

Regardless of your politics, the SNP are wholeheartedly st at their fundamental day job.

Are you finally starting to see the light, 'burger?!

Edited by r11co on Tuesday 2nd August 09:31

[r11co]

technodup said:

River stty?

LOL

[AstonZagato]

Edinburger said:

Westminster culture committee backs 'Scottish Six' plans.

Specific Scottish news programme sounds good. This will help with Scottish news content on BBC app which is woefully lacking. I like the option of Scottish news on 3 or international news on BBC News 24.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-pol...

I've always found local news to be remarkably dull and content free. They seem to either give a local perspective on national/international news ("Peterborough man was in Nice minutes before IS attack" or "stretch" to find something newsworthy ("Northampton cheese manufacturer to close with the loss of three jobs"). I'm not sure why anyone would want more of it to be honest. You'd have to want a very parochial view of the world.

[Alpacaman]

AstonZagato said:

Edinburger said:

Westminster culture committee backs 'Scottish Six' plans.

Specific Scottish news programme sounds good. This will help with Scottish news content on BBC app which is woefully lacking. I like the option of Scottish news on 3 or international news on BBC News 24.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-pol...

I've always found local news to be remarkably dull and content free. They seem to either give a local perspective on national/international news ("Peterborough man was in Nice minutes before IS attack" or "stretch" to find something newsworthy ("Northampton cheese manufacturer to close with the loss of three jobs"). I'm not sure why anyone would want more of it to be honest. You'd have to want a very parochial view of the world.

It's another thing the snp want to help convince the gullible how "different" Scotland is to the rest of the UK. Look even our news is different so we have to be independent! Complete waste of money, I want to know the news, not "the news from a Scottish perspective".

[r11co]

Alpacaman said:

It's another thing the snp want to help convince the gullible how "different" Scotland is to the rest of the UK. Look even our news is different so we have to be independent! Complete waste of money, I want to know the news, not "the news from a Scottish perspective".

IMO it is a propaganda drive - a divide and conquer method of gaining more exposure for the SNP while at the same time disconnecting the BBC in Scotland from the UK-wide context and making it easier to control politically.

The SNP (thanks to shyster Salmond) genuinely believe that the BBC presented a biased view of independence in the run-up to indyref (in the same way that any balanced reporting before or since is seen as being 'biased' or 'talking Scotland down') and have made it one of their goals to seek retribution.

[johnxjsc1985]

Has she been gagged I haven't seen her happy smiling face for a few days.

[technodup]

johnxjsc1985 said:

Has she been gagged I haven't seen her happy smiling face for a few days.

I think she's in Portugal. On holiday as opposed to boring them to death about EU rules and haggis exports. Although I'm sure any opportunity she gets...

Can you imagine meeting her in the hotel bar? What a night that would be.

Although I'm sure she's probably got a nice villa and a guard on the door. Suppose it does everyone else a favour, even if we are paying for it one way or the other.

If Scotland's so fking great she should holiday in Oban or somewhere.

[johnxjsc1985]

technodup said:

think she's in Portugal. On holiday as opposed to boring them to death about EU rules and haggis exports. Although I'm sure any opportunity she gets...

Can you imagine meeting her in the hotel bar? What a night that would be.

Although I'm sure she's probably got a nice villa and a guard on the door. Suppose it does everyone else a favour, even if we are paying for it one way or the other.

If Scotland's so fking great she should holiday in Oban or somewhere.

Quite certain the good people of Oban voted to stay in the UK so its not fair for them to have to suffer her.