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2 hours ago, gogsy said:

Conservative MSP misses parliamentary committee meeting because he is linesman in Sporting Lisbon v Real Madrid game.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-38078341?intlink_from_url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/football/38074963&link_location=live-reporting-story

 

He is also a Local Authority Councillor.  Nose well and truely in the trough.

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5 hours ago, gogsy said:

Conservative MSP misses parliamentary committee meeting because he is linesman in Sporting Lisbon v Real Madrid game.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-38078341?intlink_from_url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/football/38074963&link_location=live-reporting-story

 

To be fair only two groups of people lose out from this, and neither of them are the Scottish people.

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10 hours ago, jmothecat said:

The government are apparently about to ban access to porn which includes 'non-conventional' sex acts.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/nov/23/censor-non-conventional-sex-acts-online-internet-pornography

There's something that makes me feel very uncomfortable about the government deciding what counts as 'non-conventional', particularly as apparently this includes female orgasms.

I'm trying to understand what the point of this is? If what you're showing is consensual, and everyone is an adult what is the problem?

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They should just start with their own "non-conventional" sex acts for now, that'll be plenty for the search engines to be getting on with for now.

I really want them to individually read out every category of porn and vote on it. That would make my day.

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With regards to the Autumn Statement.

The 'extra' £800m is over 5 years - I am also pretty sure that this is not extra money we are getting but approval to borrow an additional £800m over that time but am happy to be corrected if I'm wrong.

Even with this 'extra' money, there has been a cut in real terms since 2010 and will be cut in real terms again this year.

The increase in borrowing and projected cut in growth are both attributable to Brexit, no wonder David Cameron wanted out of Parliament.

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23 minutes ago, Granny Danger said:

With regards to the Autumn Statement.

The 'extra' £800m is over 5 years - I am also pretty sure that this is not extra money we are getting but approval to borrow an additional £800m over that time but am happy to be corrected if I'm wrong.

Even with this 'extra' money, there has been a cut in real terms since 2010 and will be cut in real terms again this year.

The increase in borrowing and projected cut in growth are both attributable to Brexit, no wonder David Cameron wanted out of Parliament.

If only they had Brexit to blame for the continued missed growth and borrowing predictions since 2010.

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On ‎24‎/‎11‎/‎2016 at 10:08, Granny Danger said:

With regards to the Autumn Statement.

The 'extra' £800m is over 5 years - I am also pretty sure that this is not extra money we are getting but approval to borrow an additional £800m over that time but am happy to be corrected if I'm wrong.

 

It's not extra money, they're just not cutting our budget by as much as they planned.

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http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/14930662.Revealed__The_secret_multi_million_pound_corruption_report_at_scandal_hit_Labour_council/?ref=mr&lp=2

 

Alleged 20 million pound corruption at Labour council. Nothing on the BBC yet...

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24 minutes ago, capybara said:

I'm pretty sure that pish is widespread, I was charged about a quarter of £3,200 for a few dozen tiles and ridge tiles, the following week the council send out 2 of their own with a ladder to carry out similar work across the road, "we followed all the procedures is all they'll say", £6,000 to £8,000 for a full roof and SAC think it's fine to spend £3,200 on repairs on a roof that's like a pound of mince.

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