Of course! Why didn't we think of this earlier........Originally Posted by Stuart
1%, you want to be finding yourself a better job
Of course! Why didn't we think of this earlier........1%, you want to be finding yourself a better job
I've just been told no pay rise for the next 11 years
The First Minster of Scotland ( can't remember his name
Wonder what the odds are on Scotland needing a bail out in the first 5 years if it's a yes.....
I think it will be a No now anyway, banks, companies saying they'll go south etc, plus supermarkets saying prices will go up
0.9% is part of the issue, Westminster has the power to still implement policies that effect Scotland and our devolved parliament can not do anything about it neither can we be heard in Westminster with only 0.9% of MP's.
Edd,
Standard life have been saying since the 70's they are moving south but not actually done it.
RBS may register their head office in London but wont move employees or operations out of Scotland ( as per their chief executives statement yesterday )
And as for the bbc reporting lloyds moving to London well they really should have researched that one a bit a better, they are already in london and have no head office in Edinburgh.
Supermarkets?
Fair enough asda has said prices may go up and the no campaign reported tesco shoppers may pay 16% more for their shopping
Tesco issued a statement saying they figures are inaccurate and based on the Republic of Ireland supermarkets where there is highr taxes on certain products. They have no plans to raise prices.
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bazil, the point i was also making about the representation in westminster is that there are 59 scottish mp's in westminster out of 650.. so 9% of the mp's looking after 8.5-9%(depending on just how many illegals there are) of the total uk population.
this is not unfair at all, it is actually quite correct, but then only a tenth of the scottish mp's are SNP, which is because that is who got elected in 2010 by scottish people.
we english have often asked why we haven't got a devolved english parliament, which is then governed over by a uk parliament... this always falls on deaf ears
Last edited by mowgli; 12-09-14 at 07:04 AM.
Here's an example of how some of us feel, this is a copy/paste from a someone on another site i use.
Scotland has only 8.3% of the UK's population. 8.3%! Remember this important figure... 8.3%
But we DO have...
32% of the land area.
61% of the sea area.
90% of the fresh water.
65% of the natural gas production.
96.5% of the crude oil production.
47% of the open cast coal production
81% of the untapped coal reserves
62% of the timber production
46% of the total forest area
92% of the hydro electric production
40% of the wind wave and solar energy production
60% of the fish landings
30% of the beef herd
20% of the sheep herd
9% of the dairy herd
10% of the pig herd
15% if the cereal holdings
20% of the potato holdings
...obviously 100% of the Scotch Whiskey industry.
We have a...
17 billion pound construction industry
13 billion food and drink industry
10 billion business services industry
9.3 billion chemical services industry
A 9.3 billion tourism industry
7 billion financial services industry
5 billion aeroservice industry
4.5 billion pound whiskey exports industry
3.1 billion pound life sciences industry
Scotland still has 350 million pounds worth of textile exports
We have 25% of Europes wave and wind energy potential.
And finally we are blessed to have 1.5 trillion pound worth of oil and gas reserves.
All of this, yet only 8.3% of The UK's population... Whaow Scotland should be rich!
IGNORANCE...
If you hear anyone saying "I DONT LIKE ALEX SALMOND" or "I DONT LIKE SNP"...
THIS VOTE IS ABOUT SCOTLAND'S RIGHT TO ELECT ITS OWN GOVERNMENT... IT HAS NOTHING WHATSOEVER TO DO WITH ALEX SALMOND OR THE SNP.
DONT LET POLITICAL IGNORANCE RUIN THIS OPPORTUNITY.
Do you know... This is the UK's legacy of success in our history of being better-together is as follows...
The UK has the 3rd lowest pensions in the 34 OECD countries of the world
The UK has the single most expensive childcare in the European Union
The UK has the second lowest-paid economy in the entire developed world
The UK has the 3rd longest working hours in the EU
The UK has the lowest number of holidays in the EU
The UK has the 8th highest gender inequality pay gap out of the EU's 28 countries
The UK has the highest likelihood of poverty in disablement in the EU
The UK has the highest rail prices in Europe
The UK has the second highest housing cost in Europe
The UK has the highest fuel poverty rates in Europe.
The UK is the 4th highest country of wealth inequality in the entire planet!
But surely these awful figures cannot be possible when you read the following Scottish statistics...
Now, finally, did you also know that in all of the UK's elections for Westminster ever!... Not one vote cast in SCOTLAND has ever mattered! Because of the Westminster numbers, whatever government England votes for, the UK gets. So we have no democracy here!!! 4 decades of tory rule that we voted against is proof enough, and our defiance was punished by the closure of all the mines; closure of all the steelworks; closure of all the shipyards losing hundreds if thousands of jobs. The term used by Westminster's Thatcher when these industries needed some assistance was "let the markets decide". Funny how when the greedy bankers collapsed everywhere they were bailed out to the tune of over a trillion pounds of our money... Not a mention of "let the markets decide".
FACTS:
Fact: Scotland has an oil boom waiting to happen on the West Coast, but Michael Hesaltine signed a cessation of any form of oil exploration in the entire area in the 80's to make way for nuclear submarines which Scotland doesn't want!
Fact: Scotland has shown its revulsion time and time again to nuclear weapons but they place them here against our countries wishes. A recent contingency report was carried out a out the feasibility of relocating them in Portsmouth. The report stated that it was unfeasible because the detrimental risk to the area of an incident was too high. (Ok for the Clyde though)
Fact: Scotland, with only 1 Tory MP, was forced to take the shocking attack on the poor & disabled called The Bedroom Tax, even though as our nations government, Holyrood voted to utterly reject this awful tax on the poor. Westminster gave us it anyway!
Fact: We are led to believe that the oil in our waters is finished and its a dying industry. Yet 13.5 billion has been invested by oil companies in the last 2 years alone!
Fact: The Clair Oil Field is about to open, and on its own has over 650 million barrels which will be extracted over 20+ years with production reaching a hundred thousand barrels a day!
Fact: Scotland gives more to Westminster than it gets back. Do you really think they'd be so keen to keep us if we were being subsidised like they'd have us believe?
Fact: Westminster has amassed over £1.3 trillion debt and still growing at nearly £6000 a second. Thats another £516 million today alone which YOU will have to pay for.
Fact: Of the 178 countries that have gained their own independence across this planet, not one single one of them has ever asked to reverse this independence, and very few of them have the assets we have.
success is only limited by a weak mind
We have all of the above yet people think we won't last 5 years... Retards.
If scotland is really that oil rich how long will it be untill the Mer'cans invade you skirt wearing lady boys?
^^^ did you just read that? what a idiot ^^^
PROJECT 2 FAST 2 FAT clicky
''lifes what happens, while your busy making plans''
Defence industry?
According to the better together campaign it's apparently Russia that's going to invade us
Its all good, NORTH KOREA will protect us
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