Salmond "We can take Scotland in two weeks"

[scooterscot]

The SNP cut 130,000 college places to pay for free tuition fees.

As a result we have less people from working class backgrounds going to uni than England.

There's two arguments there, mistakingly made singular.

First, 50% of young people pursuing higher education is not economically sensible. University is not for everybody and does not service the economy with what it requires.

Second, we must restore the value of apprenticeships. No matter your background. The time honoured skills that can only exist with years of application and practice is not something easily taught but the value it holds can often be beyond a number of students coming out of university thinking they'll get that six figured salary in a few years time only to be sorely disappointment whilst saddled with debt at the same time.

[scooterscot]

That particular piece of tax policy can be adjusted in rUK faster than Salmond can say "Free Scotland".

Also a larger economy can move quicker, because the policy change can be better cushioned by the size of the economy.

Can Salmond afford to drop it by another 3% - after rUK has tracked him down once - where will the money come from ???

The UK is much much more exposed to financial markets than a iScotland would be. Ability is not the concern, doing on a whim makes markets nervous.

[centurian]

The UK is much much more exposed to financial markets than a iScotland would be. Ability is not the concern, doing on a whim makes markets nervous.

Utter codswallops - markets wouldn't blink - rUk could even offset funding gap from corp tax by rising other taxes to make it revenue neutral - and best of all, they get to blame the tax rise on Salmond.

[SueEllen]

There's two arguments there, mistakingly made singular.

First, 50% of young people pursuing higher education is not economically sensible. University is not for everybody and does not service the economy with what it requires.

Second, we must restore the value of apprenticeships. No matter your background. The time honoured skills that can only exist with years of application and practice is not something easily taught but the value it holds can often be beyond a number of students coming out of university thinking they'll get that six figured salary in a few years time only to be sorely disappointment whilst saddled with debt at the same time.

Mmmm. Last time I checked apprentices were sent to further education collages for the day release part of their courses. Anyway the policy like many SNP policies don't make sense. In fact the SNP are as tulip as politicians elsewhere in the UK.

linky

.... men in the Shettleston area of Glasgow have a life expectancy of 68, while their counterparts in Lenzie, eight miles away, can expect to be on this earth for 82 years.

But then fast-forward to this week’s ludicrous proposal from Shona Robison, on behalf of the SNP administration, that Scottish pensioners should be paid earlier than English ones because “we” die younger.

Is the cutting of 130,000 places in further education colleges designed to close the gap in educational attainment – a key determinant of life expectancy? Were the disproportionate cuts in council budgets, and particularly Glasgow’s, conceived of as a means of reducing disadvantage? What radical initiatives have been promoted to prioritise schools which battle against the worst socio-economic indicators?

The Scottish Government has all the data it needs about the inequalities that exist within our own boundaries. The recently retired Chief Medical Officer Sir Harry Burns has devoted his professional career to spelling out in great detail the source of these inequalities and the measures needed to address them.

When the Nationalists came to power, they ditched Prof Lang’s report and its recommendations, probably on the grounds that they had not initiated it. That is the kind of experience which tells a very different story about the priority accorded to the whole public health agenda by the Scottish Government....

*My bolding

[minestrone]

I see the SNP have started to use the word metropolitan in the last few days, metropolitan media etc. We can clearly see that it means English.

[SueEllen]

I see the SNP have started to use the word metropolitan in the last few days, metropolitan media etc. We can clearly see that it means English.

That's because they have got in trouble for encouraging anti-English sentiment.

They should just say "London based" and be done with it.

[Batcher]

I see the SNP have started to use the word metropolitan in the last few days, metropolitan media etc. We can clearly see that it means English.

More pish. Being pro-Scottish doesn't mean being anti-English.

Only a twisted mind like yours would say they mean English when they are talking about the Mainstream media who are so biased they don't report things that happened.

Lord Reid was filmed today saying at a Better Together meeting that if people were still undecided then they shouldn't vote. How can a Lord of the Realm actually get away with telling people not to vote? This wasn't pressed to him by the media and he was allowed to say on camera interviews that if you are undecided then you should vote no.

Alex Salmond tore The BBC's Nick Robinson a new one last week but on the news Robinson didn't report what had happened. Here's the exchange which shows why Robinson was too embarrassed to report it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Jo113LjqB0

[Batcher]

Mmmm. Last time I checked apprentices were sent to further education collages for the day release part of their courses. Anyway the policy like many SNP policies don't make sense. In fact the SNP are as tulip as politicians elsewhere in the UK.

linky

Oh Pul-eeeease. Brian Wilson (not to mention the unionist Scotsman) can't be trusted to be impartial. He has always hated the SNP and doesn't like the fact they are trying to stamp out bigotry and sectarianism.

Ex-MP in rebel song confession | UK | News | Daily Express

Mr Wilson said he was not from a Catholic background, but was a supporter of republicanism over monarchism, he believed in a united Ireland and his support for Celtic was in his “DNA”.

[TestMangler]

More pish. Being pro-Scottish doesn't mean being anti-English.

Only a twisted mind like yours would say they mean English when they are talking about the Mainstream media who are so biased they don't report things that happened.

Lord Reid was filmed today saying at a Better Together meeting that if people were still undecided then they shouldn't vote. How can a Lord of the Realm actually get away with telling people not to vote? This wasn't pressed to him by the media and he was allowed to say on camera interviews that if you are undecided then you should vote no.

Alex Salmond tore The BBC's Nick Robinson a new one last week but on the news Robinson didn't report what had happened. Here's the exchange which shows why Robinson was too embarrassed to report it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Jo113LjqB0

Robinson reported it and in his VT, Salmond's response was cut out and Robinson reported 'The First Minister declined to answer'.

The letter from Asda claiming that their original communication was misrepresented has not been on the news either.

[Churchill]

The UK is much much more exposed to financial markets than a iScotland would be. Ability is not the concern, doing on a whim makes markets nervous.

Transactions, like ships through the Panama Canal, flow through London.

You lot North of Carlisle can **** off, we're better off without you.