Looks Like It's About To Get More Expensive To Live In Scotland....

[ToraToraTora]

https://inews.co.uk/essentials/news/politics/nicola-sturgeon-signals-tax-rises-launches-snp-plans/
wee jimmy wants more of your poonds!

[-Talbot-]

KARL
The aim is to make Scotland the world's best place which is a good aim. But while Scotland is part of the UK it will never be significantly better than the overall UK status/situation and thus will remain backward compared to the usual top 15-40 countries or so (which is the best the UK can manage in comparisons, depending on the criteria being considered).


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[New Judge]

Another manifestation of the ridiculous devolution arrangements put in place by the Blair regime.

Scotland runs a deficit of around 10% of its GDP (compared to less than 1% for the UK as a whole). So where are the extra funds to come from? (A clue: it will not be from Wales or Northern Ireland). No, Ms Sturgeon wants to increase the profligacy that the Scots demonstrate with the McPoonds that are shovelled into trains nightly for their journey north from England.

[douglas9401]

Know what you mean there Judge, almost the same as London sucking the life out of the rest of the country as it competes to be something in the world.

I suppose it depends where you view from.

Remember, we're all in it together. :)

[Jackdaw33]

This is the night mail crossing the Border,
Bringing the cheque and the postal order,
Letters for the rich, letters for the poor,
The shop at the corner, the girl next door.

W.H Auden

[douglas9401]

In the islands where I grew up
Nothing seems the same
It's just the patterns that remain
An empty shell
But there's a strangeness in the air you feel too well

Al Stewart.

[Jackdaw33]

I wonder if Auden had the Barnet formula in mind when he wrote that poem.

[douglas9401]

No, he didn't.

[sunny-dave]

"You're all just pissin' in the wind"

Neil Young

[jourdain2]

annea I'm trying to learn to do links. I can now copy and paste on my own writing. I read this in, I THINK

[jourdain2]

anne a- I am trying to learn to do links. I can do tiny bits with my own writing, or I could (it is so complicated with click here and slide finger there, then click somewhere else - so I've probably forgotten how to do it already) but all I can say with honesty is that I read it in authoritative form. Probably in the Daily Telegraph, but possibly on line. Anyway, I definitely read it, from an authoritative source.

[ToraToraTora]

click on the address bar, it will highlight. Right click, left click on "copy" then got to the boc where you want the link and hit ctrl+V together.

[jourdain2]

Ta ttt, I've written it down, will have a go.

[jourdain2]

Jackdaw - that was my end-of -first-term assignment at Bingley Grammar. I stood up and recited the whole of the 'Night Mail', I can still do it. I now use it to inspire the poor readers 'Jabberwocky' usually sends them out with vorpal swords flailing as well! :)

[Zacs-Master]

'Twas brillig and the slythy toads did gyre and gimble......

Used to be a great music shop in Bingley called JSG. Stil there?

[THECORBYLOON]

JOURDAIN, folk in Scotland have paid Scottish Rate of Income Tax in 2016/17 and Scottish Income Tax for the current tax year. Looks like the Scots Government has the powers to me.

[jourdain2]

I remember JSG very well zacs. Whether or not it is still there, I can't say. My trips over there (about 2 hours, usually to parents' graves) are a couple of times a year. I will ask my sister, who still lives very near to Baildon Glen.

[Zacs-Master]

Thanks Jourdain. I bought a Hondo Les Paul copy from there in about 1980. Happy days.

[anneasquith]

Still no link from jourdain?

[Mamyalynne]

Tora Tora Tora - you ask on another thread why I brought in the idea of a thesaurus.

It was my totally unsubtle way of encouraging you to use words to describe what you want to say rather than disguised foul language using initial etc.(one of your replies here has been tidied up a little)

Correct names would be useful too - it's not the first time this request has been made but you seem to struggle to comply.

I am prone to a little gobbledygook myself but there is a place and maybe a news thread isn't it.

I am in no way implying I am a scholar (I'm not), simply seeking clarity and a site where folk coming in for the first time can read a News thread without wondering what the references mean.

[ToraToraTora]

I see, Alans in a Brahms then! right oh! Feel free to ignore everything I write, I won't be offended.