Reply to: Britain very nearly best in the World

[SueEllen]

I'll have a pair of whatever earplugs you're wearing please!

They were ambulance and fire engine sirens - can't you tell the difference?

The police try not to use sirens unless they are going home for lunch because the criminals hot foot it.

[SantaClaus]

I visited London last weekend.

You might not realise it but it is now one sh"t hot city. I saw no slummy areas at all. The trains ran on time, not a scrap of litter. I heard no police sirens at all, felt perfectly safe wandering around in the East End late at night. I reckon if I dropped my wallet on the floor someone would have picked it up and handed it to me. Even the buskers were well dressed.

A lot more drunken yobs, graffti and broken car windows in Zürich than in London.

I'll have a pair of whatever earplugs you're wearing please!

[d000hg]

So Scotland will become a sort of Cyprus without the sun?

More like Eire I think... low tax rate than collapse.

[GB9]

So you really think the world is black and white world where people are either communists or capitalists with no gray areas in between? Usually people have developed their thinking beyond such elementary thoughts after high school. Did you skip formal education or are you just thick?

We had a socialist government in the UK recently. It created wealth by printing shed-loads of artificial money on big computers. Lots of people thought they were rich. It all ended really well. Honest.

[proggy]

They are socialists how on earth are they going to stimulate wealth creation?

So you really think the world is black and white world where people are either communists or capitalists with no gray areas in between? Usually people have developed their thinking beyond such elementary thoughts after high school. Did you skip formal education or are you just thick?

[The Spartan]

While I was there my car was trashed once just for the hell of it and broken into though they couldn´t find anything. The trains were full of rather loud slobbish drunken youths, unpleasant really. I rember even walking on Mount Pilatus near Lucerne and there was some football match going on in the town, even on the mountain all you could here was football yobs chanting and singing.....glad to leave the place.

Roll on the 26th

[minestrone]

"By contrast health spending in Britain is 11th but it tops the table for overall health and wellness. "

I stopped reading there.

[DodgyAgent]

SNP or Proggy's Capitalist Wonderland Party.

They are socialists how on earth are they going to stimulate wealth creation?

[proggy]

Which Scottish party is going to create the low tax entrepreneurial environment for Scotland to prosper?

SNP or Proggy's Capitalist Wonderland Party.

[DodgyAgent]

Like Switzerland, but with Oil world class golf and whisky.

So which types like, low taxes, oil, whisky and golf? Chinese/American businessmen? Yes!

Which Scottish party is going to create the low tax entrepreneurial environment for Scotland to prosper?

[proggy]

So Scotland will become a sort of Cyprus without the sun?

Like Switzerland, but with Oil world class golf and whisky.

So which types like, low taxes, oil, whisky and golf? Chinese/American businessmen? Yes!

[Mich the Tester]

A lot of banks are moving offices to Glasgow/Edinburgh from London, in preparation for Scotland becoming independent and lowering its corporation tax. Scotland will take over England/Wales in a few short years.

So Scotland will become a sort of Cyprus without the sun?

[proggy]

If we get rid of Scotland would it make us #1 ?

A lot of banks are moving offices to Glasgow/Edinburgh from London, in preparation for Scotland becoming independent and lowering its corporation tax. Scotland will take over England/Wales in a few short years.

[NotAllThere]

In another poll, Britain was at number 1. It was based on how British the country is. Scotland came 94th.

[BlasterBates]

I was very surprised by this when I initially got here as I thought it would be clean and tidy etc but have found it's not the case

While I was there my car was trashed once just for the hell of it and broken into though they couldn´t find anything. The trains were full of rather loud slobbish drunken youths, unpleasant really. I rember even walking on Mount Pilatus near Lucerne and there was some football match going on in the town, even on the mountain all you could here was football yobs chanting and singing.....glad to leave the place.