Salmond "We can take Scotland in two weeks"

[minestrone]

Salmond is a power crazed nutter, he has already amalgamated the police forces who have so much power that they recommend new laws to be passed. You only had to observe what happens in the met to see the problems a super force creates. Add to that the 'named person' laws that are a total invasion of privacy to parents. This is the way dictatorships work.

Essentially I want nothing to do with this new government if it comes to pass. I will look to ways to move my company south, I will try to keep a British passport by refusing a Scottish one and if Standard Life who hold my pension don't move south as promised I will move my pension there myself. I fear the government will try to dip private pensions in the future.

[minestrone]

Salmond is a power crazed nutter, he has already amalgamated the police forces who have so much power that they recommend new laws to be passed. You only had to observe what happens in the met to see the problems a super force creates. Add to that the 'named person' laws that are a total invasion of privacy to parents. This is the way dictatorships work.

Essentially I want nothing to do with this new government if it comes to pass. I will look to ways to move my company south, I will try to keep a British passport by refusing a Scottish one and if Standard Life who hold my pension don't move south as promised I will move my pension there myself. I fear the government will try to dip private pensions in the future.

Edit: add to that the SNPs attempts to end corroboration in the courts which the judges don't want.

[scooterscot]

It can still exist but in the post devolution world where organisations are working out where to give funding and what laws/regulations apply to Scotland, why bother giving it to Scotland when you can give it to other places in the UK?

Facility, environment, the law, less red-tape, money is important yes but the spending the UK does for it's size is not going to blow out any candles if Scotland goes, of that I'm sure.

People were moving abroad long before tuition fees. The pay and prospects in UK academia are poor. Even in the companies that are allied to research you get far better pay abroad.

Agreed. Perhaps why I'm typing in post in Germany instead of my home I dearly miss. Managed three visits to Edinburgh this year, hope to squeeze in a forth.

[The Spartan]

Will Scotland honour it's share the of the Public Sector Pension liabilities?

[scooterscot]

Will Scotland honour it's share the of the Public Sector Pension liabilities?

No idea.

[mudskipper]

Will Scotland honour it's share the of the Public Sector Pension liabilities?

Life expectancy in Scotland is lower than the rest of the UK.

[scooterscot]

Life expectancy in Scotland is lower than the rest of the UK.

So we can adjust the retirement age to 40.

[Old Greg]

Facility, environment, the law, less red-tape, money is important yes but the spending the UK does for it's size is not going to blow out any candles if Scotland goes, of that I'm sure.



Agreed. Perhaps why I'm typing in post in Germany instead of my home I dearly miss. Managed three visits to Edinburgh this year, hope to squeeze in a forth.

You've put on weight again?

[Bunk]

So we can adjust the retirement age to 40.

Nah, just means you don't need to bother with a pension because you'll never live long enough to collect it.

[scooterscot]

You've put on weight again?

bah humbug.

I've got work to do. Someone please switch off the internet for the next 15 days.