Blackholes Explained [A Scottish Perspective]
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- čas přidán 10. 09. 2024
- The Chancellor vows to “fix the foundations of our economy" while claiming there is a £20bn blackhole. Meanwhile Viceroy Ian Murray charters a course of £10.9m to the space sector
Republic of Scotland 🏴🙏
Scottish councils should be fixing abandoned properties and buildings instead of selling them to foreigners.
Bairns....NOT bombs!
With no real focal point on the constitutional question the movement is fractured and if it continues I can see a labour administration getting in through the back door, possibly a coalition which will shut out pro Indy partys. SNP are all over the place which isn’t surprising as the man at the helm is Murray Foote
The SNP have had 17 years in which to build towards a consensus for Independence, they have failed BIG TIME they've had an obsession with *POWER not Independence* and set back any chance of Independence, if not forever, at least for a couple of decades. A way to persuade a lot of people towards independence would have been to make everything in Scotland better than the rest of the countries, not worse, BUT, the SNP have made a mockery of their ability to govern a country by continually failing and then blaming others.
It's time they were removed as the default 'Independence Party' and replaced by another with the remit to develop a consensus by working realistically with others to develop a proposal to put to the electorate in the form of a plebiscite and if that's successful, move on to a referendum.
I thought you were a Unionist that independence was or is that is a lot of rubbish@@blackislepeastoo
Audre Lorde: "For the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about
genuine change." She used this line in a different context, but it seems to me a very appropriate quote to bear in mind whenever anyone plays Westminster's game.
SNP: Why bother with Independence when we already have Flynn'dependence 💰🪙🪙🪙
It should be a four nation summit on what is the point of the union. I really want those MPs out of there, to not do anymore commitees on unionist business.
spending that sort of money on space program is absurd and disgraceful
Good afternoon guys,looking forward to your talk
Indeed ❤
Absolutely correct Roddy in your characterisation of RFK and his predisposition to the Zionist cause, not unique by any manner of means, Kennedy has a fellow traveller in the personage of Starmer who would appear generously sponsored by proponents of that political ideology. It remains the case that the Kennedy dynasty were never noted for practising the tenets they were wont to espouse.
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This argument is quite common to hear, and Westminster does ultimately deserve a lot of blame for what goes wrong in Scotland. That really isn't up for debate. They do control the bottom line, unfortunately.
While £100 million is a very small percentage of the Scottish budget, the vast majority of the Scottish budget is already locked into certain expenditures that simply cannot be sacrificed. NHS and public sector salaries for example. Furthermore, where there is a bit of freedom to spend money (A9 and 96 dualling projects for example) they're often being forced to take money from them to mitigate things like the 2 child benefit cap or the bedroom tax.
Scotland's budgetary situation is analogous to that experiment with the mother chimpamzee and her baby where they kept heating the floor and the mother did everything to protect her baby but, once the temperature got too hot, she relented and then stood on her baby to save herself.
Blaming the Scottish government for not being able to allocate even an apparently modest sum to mitigating against child poverty is like blaming the mother chimpanzee for killing her baby. It just loses sight of where the real problem lies.
Cherry is a traitor.
Really enjoy all these podcasts but I can’t stand the barking dogs in the background…so starting to switch off. Sorry🤷
What would you suggest kill the neighbours dogs!
Nobody forces you ir charges you to watch
I have to ask, what's the Ming vase about?
They are frightened to rock the boat incase they break it
Had the SNP focused of things like child poverty in 2007, and seriously pursued such goals consistently since, they may have been in a position to gain political capital from these manoeuvres. However, Salmond instead jerked off the middle class with the backing of the Tories, delivering a series regressive measures, benefiting the rich, and denying resources to the most needy, for short term political gain.
Since 2014, the losers have never stopped bleating about independence, after losing the referendum, relentlessly promising another referendum that cannot be delivered and manifestly not a priority for the overwhelming majority of voters. This now leaves the SNP, looking like they are fumbling around looking for a trendy, worthy cause…child poverty! This will not work, 2026 is likely to put the SNP and their Indy cause, put back in its box, fringe issues for fringe eccentrics.
Salmond's Government between 2007 and 2014 did more to alleviate poverty than 300 previous years of English rule. Scots born English Nationslists like yourself are so gullible and so easy to manipulate our imperial masters love your stupidity. They told you Salmond bad you believed them and repeated it Independence Bad ditto, Russia Bad, China Bad immigration Bad you daftness fall into line because you are incapable of critical thinking
The SNP focussed pretty readily on child poverty. They have mitigated against the two child benefit cap (to their great credit), they implemented the baby boxes and they entitle young families to more free childcare per year that anywhere else in the UK.
I don't understand how you can come on here and so blatantly lie about that?
Thank you Debbie for that aptly "focussed" point of view.
I can fully understand Rod's grievance, as Scotland is held by our British Masters, but facts are facts and the more positivity the better.
I leave this for a fuller understanding when it comes to other's aptly written words about Scotland in that bigger picture.
This time re Nicola Sturgeon
In many ways Nicola Sturgeon, in her time as First Minster with her SNP team, did set out to sort the detrimental impacts done to Scotland, given by too many years of British control.
Recently (End of April 2024) reading a reposted article from Pat Kane @ thoughtland by Danny Darling, (Are things about to get better)
Danny was to write,
"However, something began to change as we emerged from the worst of the pandemic years. We have started to see a rapid shift in the distribution of incomes - perhaps the first sign that we are at the beginning of a far faster move towards equality than we have experienced in any year since the 1930s.
The most dramatic change has been in Scotland, where the Scottish Child Payment - given to any family in receipt of benefits, on top of other support-was raised to £25 a week for every child aged 16 or under. When Charles and Camilla holiday in Balmoral this summer, they will do so in the only part of their kingdom where a poor family with three young children will be receiving an extra £3,900 in 2023 as compared to 2022 and so will be able to put food on the table. In the coldest months of the year, a poor family may also be able to afford to heat their home, as long as they are extremely frugal.
*Nicola Sturgeon left office only when arguably the most important part of her work was done*
I have *starred the last (posted) sentence as I have always shared a Scottish kindred spirit, with Nicola Sturgeon and her work (calling) to balance a Margaret Thatcher (Tory) wrong.
Carol. x
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I thought it was a 2 child benefit cap not rape as mentioned you she was not good and factually correct sort it out before posting
It is 'a 2 child benefit cap, unfortunately it is just a pish poor audio translation system NOT compatible with the Scot's dialect and most of the time disnae work for Englandshire either, no that a wid be particulary worried aboot the latter!!!
It is a 2 child benefit cap it has a the rape clause enshrined in it
You're wrang. To get family allowance for a third child the mother needs to say she was raped. Disgusting