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Scotland is a vassal state of Tory England. It was forced to leave a sizeable trading partner and union of sociopolitical likeminded nations...
FFS!
Scotland is a vassal state of Tory England. It was forced to leave a sizeable trading partner and union of sociopolitical likeminded nations...
FFS!
I forgot to mention the unelected bureaucrats at No. 10, that scum who refused to help Greece...
Mmmm, some aside. For what it's worth, 'the unelected bureaucrats' (?) at No.10 were not the cause of Greece's difficulties. For that you should refer to the unelected bureaucrats at the European Commission, and subsequently the unelected technocrats at the ECB and the IMF.
Oddly enough, we have Gordon Brown to thank for keeping the UK out of the Euro. Incidentally, he was elected.
When you move, you’ll enjoy the benefits of SNP government locked in irrespective of your vote, not some Tory Lite future government you’re expectingThe relevance? Where I live has always been tory. So what? I’m talking about the UK, not about me, not about England and not about Scotland.
Most Scots don’t want out of the UK but most want rid of the tories. When the tories lose in 2024 I’m certain things will change, your chance to break up the UK will be gone even if it takes until the following GE after a term of non tory UK govt.
At a UK level we need to see the back of the tory party. Your priority is simply different to my own.
And to think, you would move away from all of that good stuff and put up with living in horrible England just to be close to me. Well, I’m touched, close to tears even, I never realised you cared so much.When you move, you’ll enjoy the benefits of SNP government locked in irrespective of your vote, not some Tory Lite future government you’re expecting
You will enjoy more GPs per head of population, shorter A&E waiting times, fairer pay for public service workers, a ban on no fault evictions (could be useful?), a private rental sector rent freeze, higher child payments, free prescriptions, not to mention your free bus passes and no university tuition fees.
None of that anti-immigrant rhetoric from government and no Tory MPs after the GE. You could end up paying higher income tax to fund all of the above. You will pay higher stamp duty if you’re buying a home though, still, you’ll know it’s going to those who deserve it.
Welcome to Scotland Brian.
Oddly enough it was the elected bureaucrats at Maximos Mansion that were the cause of Greece's difficulties...
But 'By the start of 2010, French banks had lent the Greek government and banks $53.5 billion, German banks $36.8 billion and British banks $12 billion.'
So the UK Government would have happily supported a write-off? Or were they supporting the bailout, just not with British money? (cake-n-eat-it, etc.)
A simplification so profound as to be well within the bounds of complete delusion.
Are you suggesting that the UK taxpayer should have been expected to bail out (again) the banks and rescue them from their own failure to conduct proper diligence?
The Greek issue was a construct of EMU, a project in which neither the British government nor the British taxpayer and voter played any part (in fact profoundly objected to) and in which Greece itself was only implicated due to the EU's determination to bring the fount of Western civilisation into its grand project, a process that involved a great deal of looking the other way whilst Goldman microwaved the books on behalf of both parties.
The banks, incidentally, were the main, and arguably the only, beneficiaries of the Greek bailouts, from which they profited handsomely.
I've answered your question.
Irony alert!You have not.
You have not.
Bingo. Exploits the plight of the Greeks, accompanied by a deep commitment to hand-wringing strictly at a distance. You’ll be telling us next you’ve been doing your best shopping for yams this week.I know I'm letting you draw me down an utterly irrelevant bunny hole here, but to avoid the thread turning into the pfm Christmas panto, you presumably do think the British taxpayer should have supported a Greek write off by agreeing to bail out degenerate banks again.
Why?
I know I'm letting you draw me down an utterly irrelevant bunny hole here, but to avoid the thread turning into the pfm Christmas panto, you presumably do think the British taxpayer should have supported a Greek write off by agreeing to bail out degenerate banks again.
Why?
Irony alert!