Standard Life make plans to leave Scotland for England

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

Seriously, you are welcome to the IT work in SL. They used to have hundreds of contractors, replaced with Bobs mostly.

Who said anything about working for SL?

[doodab]

That's the point. Is it really news to anyone? London institutions have been delivering the same rhetoric for years. If the UK adopts transaction taxes, if the UK leaves the eurozone... etc etc

I din't see residents in England queuing outside the doors of no. 10 pleading with the PM to stop this attack on city banks. Quite the opposite.

What next are those hypocritical protagonists going to convince me of, that black really is white?

What the **** are you even talking about? Do you have an actual point and if so can you explain what it is please, because all I can gather from this is that you get upset at the mere mention of Scotland in the papers. I have a spider plant on my window sill that talks more sense than you.

[GB9]

That's the point. Is it really news to anyone? London institutions have been delivering the same rhetoric for years. If the UK adopts transaction taxes, if the UK leaves the eurozone... etc etc

Of course it is news. SL is the first company to raise its head and say it is putting plans in place. A potential loss of several thousand high quality jobs.

And it doesn't demonstrate the value oc a currency union, just that Scotland would desperately need one.

[scooterscot]

What the **** are you even talking about? Do you have an actual point and if so can you explain what it is please, because all I can gather from this is that you get upset at the mere mention of Scotland in the papers. I have a spider plant on my window sill that talks more sense than you.

Calm down dear.

What "I'm on about" is that with one hand London media churns out negative stories of why Scottish independence is bad and on the other why UK independence from the EU. Despite many in Scotland being in favour of EU membership.

The hypocrisy is supernova flying TNT.

[Bunk]

This is terrible news

Christmas nights out in Edinburgh won't be the same without the Standard Life office totty stumbling around the city.

[scooterscot]

Of course it is news. SL is the first company to raise its head and say it is putting plans in place. A potential loss of several thousand high quality jobs.

And it doesn't demonstrate the value oc a currency union, just that Scotland would desperately need one.

Well that would be a prudent thing to do in the face of change.

Apparently flooding in the south is news too. Weeks and weeks and weeks of news.

I'm curious what a 'high quality job' means.

[doodab]

Calm down dear.

What "I'm on about" is that with one hand London media churns out negative stories of why Scottish independence is bad and on the other why UK independence from the EU. Despite many in Scotland being in favour of EU membership.

The hypocrisy is supernova flying TNT.

The "London media" and I'm sure quite a lot of other media reported that Standard Life are making plans to move to the UK in the event of independence. That's only a "negative story" of "why independence is bad" if you choose to see it as such. Clearly you see it as bad, although for those in the UK who stand to gain it's arguably rather good, but blaming the media for the story existing in the first place is very much a case of shooting the messenger.

"why UK independence from the EU" what BTW?

[Dallas]

This is terrible news

Christmas nights out in Edinburgh won't be the same without the Standard Life office totty stumbling around the city.

I interviewed there for a 1 year internship when I was 19. Turned up drunk (from the night before, Brannigans in Scumdee on a Monday night was epic!) drank the entire water bottle during the interview and still got the job.

Got a counter-offer in London - darn, sounds like I missed out.

[eek]

Calm down dear.

What "I'm on about" is that with one hand London media churns out negative stories of why Scottish independence is bad and on the other why UK independence from the EU. Despite many in Scotland being in favour of EU membership.

The hypocrisy is supernova flying TNT.

You live in Germany as you aren't able to get a job in either Scotland or England. How does the content of the English press affect you?

[minestrone]

Place used to be well known for drinkers with plenty of lunch time piss ups but they put the kibosh in all of that.