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Just now, Blootoon87 said:
3 minutes ago, Granny Danger said:
The Scottish government is to give large subsidies to the fishing and seafood industries from the money that has been made available.
Why does this relatively small sector always seem to get disproportionate assistance?

They're staunch Tories.

Yeah but the Scottish government isn’t.

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19 minutes ago, bernardblack said:

Surely him travelling to Balmoral, whilst having symptoms, is a blatant disregard to the isolation rules?

If he had turned up in his "camper van" I'm sure our media would have been down on him like a ton of bricks and he'd have been vilified throughout the corridors of power, but.....

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7 minutes ago, Granny Danger said:

The Scottish government is to give large subsidies to the fishing and seafood industries from the money that has been made available.

Why does this relatively small sector always seem to get disproportionate assistance?

Fish and seafood exports are worth about £1 billion each year, well over half the value of all of our food exports combined.

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1 minute ago, WATTOO said:

If he had turned up in his "camper van" I'm sure our media would have been down on him like a ton of bricks and he'd have been vilified throughout the corridors of power, but.....

Surely the COVID-19 crisis presents the perfect opportunity to kill abolish the royal family and their hangers on.

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2 minutes ago, GordonS said:

Fish and seafood exports are worth about £1 billion each year, well over half the value of all of our food exports combined.

Not by my calculations.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Maybe my views are coloured by my dislike of fishermen.

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1 hour ago, dirty dingus said:

That's a fair leap from the paper shop to the supermarkets. So are the newsagents a critical service? The response has been pish everyone non critical should shut down. Building sites, hair salons, car showrooms, newsagents, factories not producing food medicine or other essential needs. The longer this half arsed approach goes on the longer I'm stuck in the house.

Newsagents tend to be an essential source of food and other key items for small communities, so yes I'd say they're absolutely crucial. My local corner shop has been the only place I've seen selling toilet paper, hand sanitiser or pasta in the last week and a half.

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2 minutes ago, craigkillie said:

My local corner shop has been the only place I've seen selling toilet paper, hand sanitiser or pasta in the last week and a half.

Same, and that's without Navid hiding them behind the counter for the regulars.

Lidl, Tesco, the larger Co-ops etc useless (even for beer).  Scotmid & Premier, business as usual.  

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