Reply to: Scotland Vs Norway

[DodgyAgent]

It's true. If I return home The Scots will suddenly shoot themselves.

Jest aside, clearly the wealth of one country's natural resources is being exhausted for the feckless masses in the south.

FTFY

[minestrone]

Isn't Scotland the region with the largest proportion of public sector leeches, er workers?

It is hard to compare, the water board are still public up here, Forestry as well are always going to hire more in Scotland.

If we had privitisation to the level for done in England it would compare. I do not think anywhere in Scotland is on a public sector gravy train like what new labour gave to some areas of England and Wales. Scotland's economy is modest but ticks over without too much help.

[sasguru]

Isn't Scotland the region with the largest proportion of public sector leeches, er workers?

[minestrone]

dunno if this might be part of yer troubles

That works out at 4440 people.

dunno if this might be part of yer troubles

[Troll]

Scotland's GDP figures never contain oil revenue data unless you use the SNP's ones which were probably calculated by some mad rabid nationalist and nobody trusts.

Edinburgh is the 4th largest financial center in Europe and Scotland as a whole outperforms the rest of the UK with the exception of London.

While we may not be perfect we are very far away from the basket case presented as fact by the OP.

Statistics released yesterday showed that 43 per cent of the 148,000 employment and support allowance (ESA) claimants in Scotland were capable of working, compared with 39 per cent of claimants in the UK as a whole.

The figures sparked claims that Scotland was at the forefront of the UK's "culture of welfare dependency

dunno if this might be part of yer troubles

[Doggy Styles]

She gave birth to mine

Have you seen it lately? Thought not. I bet she ate that as well.

[DodgyAgent]

Thatcher ate my babies.

And she's friends with the giant alien lizards.

She gave birth to mine

[minestrone]

SCOTLAND is top of the class when it comes to pupils studying science and maths.

According to a Royal Society report, more children in Scotland sat post-compulsory exams in physics, chemistry, biology and maths than in the rest of the UK.

In 2007, 12% of 16-year-olds sat higher physics. This compared with 3.6% of 17-year-olds studying the subject at A-level in England, 4.8% in Northern Ireland and 2.8% in Wales.

The same year, the number of young people in Scottish schools taking higher maths was 28%. In England, 8.1% of pupils studied the subject at A-level.

Press and Journal - Article - Scotland is top of the class for science and maths

3.6% of English pupils take A-level physics 8.1% for maths

Truly terrible figures.

[minestrone]

Scotland's GDP figures never contain oil revenue data unless you use the SNP's ones which were probably calculated by some mad rabid nationalist and nobody trusts.

Edinburgh is the 4th largest financial center in Europe and Scotland as a whole outperforms the rest of the UK with the exception of London.

While we may not be perfect we are very far away from the basket case presented as fact by the OP.

[snaw]

Thatcher ate my babies.

And she's friends with the David Icke.

FTFY

[Doggy Styles]

The Norwegians invested their oil money in the future. Margaret Thatcher squandered the UK's oil money on mass unemployment in pursuit of an ideology espoused just as rabidly, and as much in denial of reason, as that of any Communist regime.

Thatcher ate my babies.

And she's friends with the giant alien lizards.

[snaw]

That's the spirt people!

Talking down the UK, what are you guys like.

Proof national stereotypes exist for a reason?

[scooterscot]

Did they also annouce they were going to sell off all their gold too, just to ensure they got the lowest possible price for it?

Perhaps we can sum it up as Britain having one tulipe government after another, and perhaps Norway having some governments that put the interest of their people first.

That's the spirt people!

Talking down the UK, what are you guys like.

[DimPrawn]

The Norwegians invested their oil money in the future. Margaret Thatcher squandered the UK's oil money on mass unemployment in pursuit of an ideology espoused just as rabidly, and as much in denial of reason, as that of any Communist regime.

Did they also annouce they were going to sell off all their gold too, just to ensure they got the lowest possible price for it?

Perhaps we can sum it up as Britain having one tulipe government after another, and perhaps Norway having some governments that put the interest of their people first.

[NickFitz]

The Norwegians invested their oil money in the future. Margaret Thatcher squandered the UK's oil money on mass unemployment in pursuit of an ideology espoused just as rabidly, and as much in denial of reason, as that of any Communist regime.