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Eric_WLothian wrote:This would really shake up Holyrood and re-energise the Labour party in Scotland:

Gordon Brown has suggested that he could stand for election in the Scottish Parliament if Alex Salmond continues to “peddle lies” about the NHS.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/ ... n-NHS.html

Keep lying, Alex

And the Scotsman has nailed its colours to the mast (not that there was much doubt):

http://www.scotsman.com/news/scotland-s ... -1-3537857

The biggest threat to Scotland's NHS is independence.

Prison suicides rise by 64% in a year
Call for overhaul of prevention procedures in English and Welsh jails after 'troubling' surge in self-inflicted deaths (Guardian)

Jim Pickard ‏@PickardJE 31m
Foreign secretary. "Britain will not be taking part in any air strikes in Syria".
No.10: "The PM has not ruled anything out." Whoops.

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Faisal Islam ‏@faisalislam 11m
FM Salmond writes to PM and the Cabinet Secretary "your Treasury has been involved in trying to destabilise financial services in Scotland"

letsskiptotheleft wrote:Hah! Thought there was something queer going on, you don't normally hear clapping and applause during press conferences..

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rebeccariots2 wrote:

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Faisal Islam ‏@faisalislam 11m
FM Salmond writes to PM and the Cabinet Secretary "your Treasury has been involved in trying to destabilise financial services in Scotland"

Oh FFS.

Apparently the Treasury line is that they were responding to questions posed by journalists.

This is getting all too much. Will be glad when voting day is upon us. Then we'll just have the fall out to contend with.

Salmond has flipped. Man trying to break up country writes to U.K Govt accusing it of causing market instability.

'The buggers are out to get us': aristocrats on independence fears
Scottish aristocrats tell high-society magazine Tatler from their ancestral castles that they fear a mansion tax
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014 ... ence-fears

Their chief concerns, according to the upmarket title, are not about the future of the sterling or what happens when Royal Bank of Scotland relocates its registered headquarters to London. Their worries are slightly closer to home: "Will their 80,000-acre estates be parcelled out to crofters? Might SNP leader Alex Salmond bring in a swingeing castle tax? Will treasonous Scots cast off the Queen as their head of state? It's causing disquiet among the ranks, if not the file."

PaulfromYorkshire wrote:Here is perhaps the oddest "myth"

Mike Smithson ‏@MSmithsonPB 16m
So no afternoon Tweet from @rupertmurdoch this afternoon about tonight's YouGov IndyRef poll for his Sun & Times papers. Time to bet on NO?

rebeccariots2 wrote:

PaulfromYorkshire wrote:Here is perhaps the oddest "myth"

This government seem to have completely changed the style of supposedly neutral, policy implementing departments. They now seem to think they must adopt the same kind of evangelical, belief based assertions as the ministers they have to put up with (sorry, that should read who are so firmly at the helm).

Bonkers. We are living in bonkers time.

Mike Smithson ‏@MSmithsonPB 5m
New ComRes IndyRef poll for @ITVBorder of South of Scotland finds NO 67% YES 33%

Robin Brant ‏@robindbrant 1m
Outside clacton Tories candidate selection meeting pic.twitter.com/W9tscRtvoQ

rebeccariots2 wrote:

Mike Smithson ‏@MSmithsonPB 5m
New ComRes IndyRef poll for @ITVBorder of South of Scotland finds NO 67% YES 33%

Presume that's one specific region only. Where's the rest?

Eric_WLothian wrote:

rebeccariots2 wrote:

Mike Smithson ‏@MSmithsonPB 5m
New ComRes IndyRef poll for @ITVBorder of South of Scotland finds NO 67% YES 33%

Presume that's one specific region only. Where's the rest?

Not surprising if it was the western borders that were polled (and as Border TV is, I think, based in Carlisle, that's quite likely). Don't forget it's Dumfriesshire that returns the Scottish Tory MP and iirc was the only area to vote against devolution.

Scottish independence: voting intention across Scotland mapped
Voting intention data mapped across Scotland shows that the race remains too close to call
http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablo ... and-mapped

Hugh Pym ‏@BBCHughPym 2h
IFS analysis says NHS spend in England 2009/10 and 2015/16 up 4%, Scotland down 1% because of Scot Govt decisions

rebeccariots2 wrote:

Eric_WLothian wrote:

rebeccariots2 wrote: Presume that's one specific region only. Where's the rest?

Not surprising if it was the western borders that were polled (and as Border TV is, I think, based in Carlisle, that's quite likely). Don't forget it's Dumfriesshire that returns the Scottish Tory MP and iirc was the only area to vote against devolution.

Is it one of the most densely populated regions? Just wondering what % of the total voting population that might represent.

AnatolyKasparov wrote:No, everywhere voted for a Scottish parliament in 1997 (IIRC Orkney had the lowest "yes" vote then)

D&G was the only area to (just) go against tax-altering powers, though.

rebeccariots2 wrote:This partly addresses my query. Very timely.

Scottish independence: voting intention across Scotland mapped
Voting intention data mapped across Scotland shows that the race remains too close to call
http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablo ... and-mapped

Might just be my laptop screen but the choice of colours to differentiate the levels of support for YES and NO seems poor ...

letsskiptotheleft wrote:The graphics re independence made me cross eyed, gave up in the end.

Dumfries & Galloway is a lovely part of Scotland, saw my last yellowhammer there, spend an idyllic week on a headland, some wooden chalet jobbee, the wind blew so much most nights didn't think make it till morning. But a lovely part of the world, Galloway Forest Park, cracking coastline. But most just drive past on the way to the Highlands or the Trossachs.

Tubby Isaacs wrote:

letsskiptotheleft wrote:The graphics re independence made me cross eyed, gave up in the end.

Dumfries & Galloway is a lovely part of Scotland, saw my last yellowhammer there, spend an idyllic week on a headland, some wooden chalet jobbee, the wind blew so much most nights didn't think make it till morning. But a lovely part of the world, Galloway Forest Park, cracking coastline. But most just drive past on the way to the Highlands or the Trossachs.

Do lots of English people live there? Would seem like Scottish Powys.

letsskiptotheleft wrote:

Tubby Isaacs wrote:

letsskiptotheleft wrote:The graphics re independence made me cross eyed, gave up in the end.

Dumfries & Galloway is a lovely part of Scotland, saw my last yellowhammer there, spend an idyllic week on a headland, some wooden chalet jobbee, the wind blew so much most nights didn't think make it till morning. But a lovely part of the world, Galloway Forest Park, cracking coastline. But most just drive past on the way to the Highlands or the Trossachs.

Do lots of English people live there? Would seem like Scottish Powys.

Didn't seem to be tbh, if memory serves me right all the pubs and shops seemed to employ locals, some of the villages had a depressed feel about, at the time, talking about 7/8 years ago, didn't seem too many youngsters about, as if they has moved away for work, found there was much more English on the west coast, Highlands. But the countryside is similar to Powys, farmland, not so many churches as Powys tho.

Powys is nice, do you know it at all?

MP Matthew Hancock punished for misusing stationery
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-29162678

An MP has been made to repay £1,674 after being found to have misused House of Commons facilities.

Business Minister Matthew Hancock, Conservative MP for West Suffolk, sent letters trumpeting the government's achievements to 3,000 homes.

The Parliamentary Standards Commissioner upheld a complaint from a constituent in Suffolk that it was "blatant campaigning"...

letsskiptotheleft wrote:

Eric_WLothian wrote:This would really shake up Holyrood and re-energise the Labour party in Scotland:

Gordon Brown has suggested that he could stand for election in the Scottish Parliament if Alex Salmond continues to “peddle lies” about the NHS.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/ ... n-NHS.html

Keep lying, Alex

And the Scotsman has nailed its colours to the mast (not that there was much doubt):

http://www.scotsman.com/news/scotland-s ... -1-3537857

The biggest threat to Scotland's NHS is independence.

Ouch!

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Tubby Isaacs wrote:His party should have to write to the same 3,000 people and apologise, at their own expense.

I thought this sort of thing stopped with New Labour.

letsskiptotheleft wrote:Some bloke from ''Bread'' has been chosen to fight Clacton by the Tories..

His face just about rings a bell, but I didn't watch it much, as it was crap.

rebeccariots2 wrote:

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Faisal Islam ‏@faisalislam 11m
FM Salmond writes to PM and the Cabinet Secretary "your Treasury has been involved in trying to destabilise financial services in Scotland"

Oh FFS.

Apparently the Treasury line is that they were responding to questions posed by journalists.

This is getting all too much. Will be glad when voting day is upon us. Then we'll just have the fall out to contend with.

PorFavor wrote:Goodnight, everyone.

'Poison pill' privatisation contracts could cost £300m-£400m to cancel
'Unprecedented' clauses guarantee firms 10 years of profits even if new government scraps controversial probation contracts

The disclosure comes as the two outsourcing firms at the centre of serious fraud inquiries,, G4S and Serco, confirmed they had been granted new government work during a period when the justice secretary, Chris Grayling, had told MPs that contracts would not be awarded. The confirmation has led to claims that Grayling misled parliament.

AngryAsWell wrote:I am beyond word for this shower of sh$t

'Poison pill' privatisation contracts could cost £300m-£400m to cancel
'Unprecedented' clauses guarantee firms 10 years of profits even if new government scraps controversial probation contracts

FFS!!!

The disclosure comes as the two outsourcing firms at the centre of serious fraud inquiries,, G4S and Serco, confirmed they had been granted new government work during a period when the justice secretary, Chris Grayling, had told MPs that contracts would not be awarded. The confirmation has led to claims that Grayling misled parliament.

....and what will be done about this??? nothing...

letsskiptotheleft wrote:When challenged about the IFS figures, Sturgeon responds ''it's our money, it goes down to London, and less comes back up'' argument..

Blows a raspberry, shows the audience her arse and runs away..

The last bit I made up, unfortunately.

Tubby Isaacs wrote:That's Sturgeon, Not you!