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Would a fee be required from Raith if we have offered him a deal???
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Stewart is looking to make himself out the 'big guy' with 'honest opinions' as he always does. He managed to mention 'incompetence' and 'Sportscene' without any hint of irony; which says it all.
How anyone can talk about that incident without mentioning the player cheating and his manager lying to protect him is beyond me. The problem is that these 'honest opinions' would have consequences whilst any 2 year old can slag off refs.
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In the interests of balance Lex/Tubbs, are you not commenting on today's Sunday Times Poll?
I prefer to read a Scottish paper
. Feel free to add it to the mix; that's what a discussion forum is all about. however, I think I was being quite balanced by questioning the swing of the SoS poll.0 -
Really depends on where the wealth is spent. Doesn't change the fact we are a relatively wealthy nation in or out of the UK. Independence gives us the opportunity to spend that wealth on things that aren't toy boats, train sets or a city four hundred miles away in another country
Well the wealth out of the UK is entirely speculative our position currently is absolutely clear.
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Jenkins writes it off as one of things and that there will be 'peaks and troughs' - which is fair enough. He continues that Scotland is one of the wealthiest countries in the world...................... which to me would seem to be an endorsement of the union. The wealth he is pointing to has been established during 300 years of union, that wealth and the union cant just be a coincidence. Even within the UK he points to us being richer than the UK so hardly a case of Westminster ignoring us and looking after themselves.
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Not sure the swing for this one is realistic ?
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In fairness to Shiels, short of blanking the question entirely there's not really much else he can say. It's total pish of course, but short of having a go at Rae in response and escalating it further, that's the kind of nonsense he has to come out with if he wants to continue managing the club. Rae has put him in an impossible position.
He could have side stepped it or dealt with it in many ways. Turning it into an attack on the integrity of a media he is/was happy to be part of for some dosh is what shows he isn't in step with reality.
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When did Shiels say this?
If true, Shiels is even more full of wind and piss than usual. Was Rae misquoted? If not, it's difficult to see how you could misconstrue those words. It was pretty clear that he thinks Shiels and O'Connor are both mistakes, that'll he'll shortly need to be shot of.
Sportsound last night - it will be on the BBC website.
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Shiels claiming Rae's words were distorted and that's just typical of the Scottish media for you. Aye, I'm sure the Greenock Telegraph would jeopardise it's relationship with Morton by spinning it out of all proportion.
Kenny Shiels is clearly ill and his comments should not be ridiculed.
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They didn't lose again did they?
Yes but in a more unusual and entertaining way than normal................................which was nice.
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I'm sure your chocolate watch is in the post for scraping 4 points from our fortress this season.
Tonight we're gonna party like its 1999 ?
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There certainly is a great feeling at Cappielow whenever we are there. Unbeaten there in this millennium.
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The editorial re the ICM suggests that the doubt over currency, EU etc may be putting people off. I said this yesterday that a lot of the yes campaign is based on claiming everything is straightforward and the separation will be negotiated without too many problems. so while the confrontation with a Tory chancellor will play well with many others just see doubt. the tactic has also put paid to 2 key positions of the yes camp, 1) positive negotiation and 2) that fear is the no campaigns tactic - by playing on the fears of the uk people by threatening to not pick up debt at the very first hurdler disagreement . for me most decent Scots would be absolutely uncomfortable about this even in the context of the debt/asset debate
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A straightforward yes or no is the fairest referendum. politicians and the media are making it complicated enough without adding any potential confusion to such a huge vote.
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Most pleasing. I've noticed a few more 'blood on the streets' type comments from the no camp in the last few days. They're getting rattled. Basically if we vote for independence some factions will not accept democracy and say they will resort to violence. No doubt a few groups of loyalists may shout a wee bit louder at ibrox but that'll be it.
Whilst you make a one sided comment; you are right that the democratic result will not be accepted by some/many on both sides.
The question of margin has never really been covered. ie if one side wins by the smallest of margins what happens? For me it is that scenario that is most likely to lead to issues.
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Oh sorry, is the point that polls are usually right? My apologies.
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Just thought I'd pop this here
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/labour-dismiss-rogue-poll-showing-1100963
Politician doesn't accept poll that doesn't suit him/her ! what next? fire? the wheel?
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I think Alex Salmond was the 'victim' of editing. The radio and TV repeatedly all went with the short piece where he said about the black day and also St Andrew's day and then about pride etc. It sounded a bit glib but it was part of a much wider 'speech' which was much more rounded and appropriate.
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The most expensive team to be bottom of this division at this staqe?
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Funny that we get all this caring society p**h from all these leftie liberals and then when it comes to allow people the right to mourn the passing of someone who they admired, they're dancing in the streets and making numpties out of themselves on social media.
"Caring society where everyone's rights are respected". Aye that'll be right
Haven't seen much mourning to be interupted just folk wanting to tell everyone she was great and expecting 'respect' to mean that no one answers back.
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SIR Mark Thatcher! on the news.
Didn't know that he had inherited his fathers title.
We are all in it together right enough.
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Using charity hand outs to accomodate your last few months and the state paying for your funeral - free marketeering or scrounging.
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Nicked from another forum:
1. She supported the retention of capital punishment
2. She destroyed the country's manufacturing industry
3. She voted against the relaxation of divorce laws
4. She abolished free milk for schoolchildren ("Margaret Thatcher, Milk Snatcher")
5. She supported more freedom for business (and look how that turned out)
6. She gained support from the National Front in the 1979 election by pandering to the fears of immigration
7. She gerrymandered local authorities by forcing through council house sales, at the same time preventing councils from spending the money they got for selling houses on building new houses (spending on social housing dropped by 67% in her premiership)
8. She was responsible for 3.6 million unemployed - the highest figure and the highest proportion of the workforce in history and three times the previous government. Massaging of the figures means that the figure was closer to 5 million
9. She ignored intelligence about Argentinian preparations for the invasion of the Falkland Islands and scrapped the only Royal Navy presence in the islands
10. The poll tax
11. She presided over the closure of 150 coal mines; we are now crippled by the cost of energy, having to import expensive coal from abroad
12. She compared her "fight" against the miners to the Falklands War
13. She privatised state monopolies and created the corporate greed culture that we've been railing against for the last 5 years
14. She introduced the gradual privatisation of the NHS
15. She introduced financial deregulation in a way that turned city institutions into avaricious money pits
16. She pioneered the unfailing adoration and unquestioning support of the USA
17. She allowed the US to place nuclear missiles on UK soil, under US control
18. Section 28
19. She opposed anti-apartheid sanctions against South Africa and described Nelson Mandela as "that grubby little terrorist"
20. She support the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia and sent the SAS to train their soldiers
21. She allowed the US to bomb Libya in 1986, against the wishes of more than 2/3 of the population
22. She opposed the reunification of Germany
23. She invented Quangos
24. She increased VAT from 8% to 17.5%
25. She had the lowest approval rating of any post-war Prime Minister
26. Her post-PM job? Consultant to Philip Morris tobacco at $250,000 a year, plus $50,000 per speech
27. The Al Yamamah contract
28. She opposed the indictment of Chile's General Pinochet
29. Social unrest under her leadership was higher than at any time since the General Strike
30. She presided over interest rates increasing to 15%
31. BSE
32. She presided over 2 million manufacturing job losses in the 79-81 recession
33. She opposed the inclusion of Eire in the Northern Ireland peace process
34. She supported sanctions-busting arms deals with South Africa
35. Cecil Parkinson, Alan Clark, David Mellor, Jeffrey Archer, Jonathan Aitkin
36. Crime rates doubled under Thatcher
37. Black Wednesday – Britain withdraws from the ERM and the pound is devalued. Cost to Britain - £3.5 billion; profit for George Soros - £1 billion
38. Poverty doubled while she opposed a minimum wage
39. She privatised public services, claiming at the time it would increase public ownership. Most are now owned either by foreign governments (EDF) or major investment houses. The profits don’t now accrue to the taxpayer, but to foreign or institutional shareholders.
40. She cut 75% of funding to museums, galleries and other sources of education
41. In the Thatcher years the top 10% of earners received almost 50% of the tax remissions
42. 21.9% inflation
Aye; but apart from that what did she do wrong ?
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. Feel free to add it to the mix; that's what a discussion forum is all about. however, I think I was being quite balanced by questioning the swing of the SoS poll.
The 3rd Chapter. (Accies 2016/2017 Thread)
in Scottish Premiership General Chatter
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didn't realise he was almost 25
no point in us keeping him at that age.