Highlandmagar Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 2 hours ago, DublinMagyar said: Membership arrived today Sad, sad man! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DublinMagyar Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 54 minutes ago, Fullerene said: I am impressed that your postman deciphered the blue bit and got it to the right address. Amazing. My house 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carpetmonster Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 1 minute ago, DublinMagyar said: My house Is this you? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 "THIS ISN'T FOR YOU - JUST GET IT TO IRELAND!" 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DublinMagyar Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 6 minutes ago, carpetmonster said: Is this you? rumbled! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carpetmonster Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 Just now, DublinMagyar said: rumbled! Well, you’re certainly the least unattractive bear in a big blue house you’re likely to see on a Scottish fitba forum. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clown Job Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 (edited) Wonder why….. Edited December 30, 2022 by Clown Job 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 Generation X, the punk kids - what a fucking minter Can't help but think that the best thing people like John Lennon and Kurt Cobain ever did for their legacies was to die; they'd be Trump voters shilling for massive corporations by now. "Imagine all the people, saving in an IRA...from JP Morgan!" "With Wells Fargo, it's less dangerous! Compound interest, to amaze us!" 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D Angelo Barksdale Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 It's balanced out a bit by Millenials being considerably less likely to vote. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 6 minutes ago, Slim Charles. said: It's balanced out a bit by Millenials being considerably less likely to vote. Aye, it'll be quite something to see America fall to fascism with maybe the smallest right-wing voter share on record. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suspect Device Posted January 8, 2023 Share Posted January 8, 2023 If you've got some spare time you can have a look at how much money MPs are raking in from 'outside intersts'. Also has a good overview of party donations. Westminster Accounts: Search for your MP or enter your full postcode | Politics News | Sky News 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highlandmagar Posted January 8, 2023 Share Posted January 8, 2023 43 minutes ago, Suspect Device said: If you've got some spare time you can have a look at how much money MPs are raking in from 'outside intersts'. Also has a good overview of party donations. Westminster Accounts: Search for your MP or enter your full postcode | Politics News | Sky News Worth every penny. Our upstanding, whiter than snow MP's deserve everything they get. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caledonian1 Posted January 8, 2023 Share Posted January 8, 2023 50 minutes ago, Suspect Device said: If you've got some spare time you can have a look at how much money MPs are raking in from 'outside intersts'. Also has a good overview of party donations. Westminster Accounts: Search for your MP or enter your full postcode | Politics News | Sky News It's an annoying format but interesting to see that Fishy Sunaks largest individual donation is £100k from Chris Rea.....definitely taking the road to hell. This is probably a more comprehensive list https://www.parliament.uk/mps-lords-and-offices/standards-and-financial-interests/parliamentary-commissioner-for-standards/registers-of-interests/register-of-members-financial-interests/ This is also good to see how little the likes of Ruth the Mooth contributes to the House of Lords https://members.parliament.uk/ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted January 8, 2023 Share Posted January 8, 2023 Ah, but, you see, this is why politicians should be paid footballers' wages. If you pay them millions, they'll accept that as 'enough', and won't spend their time looking for people willing to pay them backhanders for whatever influence they have in government. That's definitely how that works; rich people definitely have limits on the amount of money they feel entitled to. If you don't pay them more money, the "talent" won't want to stay in politics and will just work in industry. Because we've all seen how talented our politicians are at things other than syphoning money out of the public purse to their friends, family, and financial sponsors. Industry would love to have them, shorn of their ability to influence law and generate business in parliament. They used to be commonplace, but you don't see these arguments so much anymore. Wonder why. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jakedee Posted January 10, 2023 Share Posted January 10, 2023 Just recieved this today, what sort of country do we live in? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 13, 2023 Share Posted January 13, 2023 Not sure where people stand on the "freeports", however as someone who lives in North Ayrshire and sees the high levels of deprivation and lack of decent jobs throughout the whole area of Ayrshire and Inverclyde, I can only feel that this is going to create much animosity and disillusionment throughout the areas that have missed out, especially as these "lucky" areas are going to draw the little investment there is further East, same as everything else in the past 30 years. I've been saying for the past few years now that the policies which are promoting Edinburgh and the surrounds as a "hub" is doing nothing other than turning it into the London of the North where all the life is being sucked from the rest of the country. It's all very well slaughtering the UK GOV for their pathetic policies and their joke of "levelling up", however the Scottish Government appear to be completely complicit in the freeports and the awarding of the status / investment to the areas awarded, as such they're in danger of alienating many voters in the West and other areas which are unlikely to see any benefit at all, and indeed are likely to see job losses as both a direct and indirect result. Being clear, I don't agree with the freeport model at all, however the only saving grace would be to award the most deprived areas the status in order to try and create jobs and a better standard of living where it's most required but despite the rhetoric from both Governments, actions tend to speak much louder than words..... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suspect Device Posted January 14, 2023 Share Posted January 14, 2023 Iran has gone through with the execution of one of our spies. What happens now? Iran hangs former defence ministry official for spying for UK | News | Al Jazeera Alireza Akbari: Iran executes British-Iranian dual national, state media says - BBC News 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renton Posted January 14, 2023 Share Posted January 14, 2023 15 hours ago, WATTOO said: Not sure where people stand on the "freeports", however as someone who lives in North Ayrshire and sees the high levels of deprivation and lack of decent jobs throughout the whole area of Ayrshire and Inverclyde, I can only feel that this is going to create much animosity and disillusionment throughout the areas that have missed out, especially as these "lucky" areas are going to draw the little investment there is further East, same as everything else in the past 30 years. I've been saying for the past few years now that the policies which are promoting Edinburgh and the surrounds as a "hub" is doing nothing other than turning it into the London of the North where all the life is being sucked from the rest of the country. It's all very well slaughtering the UK GOV for their pathetic policies and their joke of "levelling up", however the Scottish Government appear to be completely complicit in the freeports and the awarding of the status / investment to the areas awarded, as such they're in danger of alienating many voters in the West and other areas which are unlikely to see any benefit at all, and indeed are likely to see job losses as both a direct and indirect result. Being clear, I don't agree with the freeport model at all, however the only saving grace would be to award the most deprived areas the status in order to try and create jobs and a better standard of living where it's most required but despite the rhetoric from both Governments, actions tend to speak much louder than words..... I'm not convinced it's a particularly good idea, and doubt it'll generate the kind of benefits being touted. At the same time if your goal is to create 'green' freeports based around the offshore renewable logistics chains then the Forth and Cromarty make sense, no? The Highlands should also particularly benefit from the nascent Space launch industry in the UK which in theory will deliver a lot of high quality jobs into that area over time - at the same time Prestwick should also become a cluster for space/aerospace companies looking to use Scottish launch sites. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StellarHibee Posted January 14, 2023 Share Posted January 14, 2023 "with no respect for the human rights of their own people" Says the guy playing his hand in ripping up the Human Rights Act in the UK. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
101 Posted January 25, 2023 Share Posted January 25, 2023 Only places in Scotland that appear to have been "leveled up" seems to be the Tory seats along the northern coast at Moray. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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