@Joybe2you@unreMARKLEble Anyone who has a proper job and kids never respobds with their job title as mum or dad...it is a given...they respond with whatever awful job they have and miss out the mum/dad stuff.
It’s not as you say.
Heriot-Watt has already filled its quota of Scottish government-funded places for Scottish-domiciled students for the current intake cycle. As a result, it has closed its clearing process to additional Scottish applicants.
This is the price you pay for no tuition fees.
With no price mechanism to ration places, Scot Gov rations by quotas instead, placing a strict cap on the number of Scots that can go to university. The cap is determined by the size of the budget Scot Gov has allocated to pay for Scottish student places.
It is a very bad system. Scottish universities can take as many English and foreign students as they like (they all come with fees) — and they take a lot. But not as many Scottish students as they like. So many miss out.
Here’s SNP MP Lara Bird gleefully saying how she was supporting Norway and Mexico when they played England in the World Cup. As a Scot, I find this mentality embarrassing. As Scotland are out of the World Cup, I hope England win the tournament.
Imagine paying the highest taxes in the UK...
...to fund the biggest civil service Scotland has ever had.
The SNP's priorities are crystal clear:
📌Protect the bureaucracy.
📌Protect the quangos.
📌Protect the political class.
As always, ordinary Scots come last.
Forty years of your life, paid in.
There's no pot. They spent it the day it arrived.
Now they move the age again. Sixty five. Sixty six. Sixty seven. Sixty eight is law.
They're whispering seventy one.
Work longer. Get less. Die sooner.
They didn't lose your pension.
They spent it.
Finally people are demanding answers about why the accountancy firm Johnson Carmichael failed to spot anything!
Remember that one of the partners in Johnson Carmichael was John Todd, who is married to SNP MSP Maree Todd…
HT @UAS1707
A liar and a hypocrite to the end ...
Starmer will add 19 further cronies to the House of Lords in his 'resignation honours', despite promising previously not to do so.
He just can't help himself, the man is rotten.
So …
Please explain to all of us why out of 125 places at Glasgow Vet School the number of Scottish students are capped at 15 ..???
We have no Vets because of you and your ilks corruption , greed and madness ..
Andrew Neil has once again perfectly summed up the rotten, self-serving core of British politics:
“It’s once again politicians using the political system to their advantage, at the expense of the people. Labour did it in Makerfield Nigel Farage is doing it in Clacton.” 🎯
Farage resigns his Clacton seat and forces a by-election to dodge scrutiny over donations, framing it as people versus the establishment. The big parties refuse to contest it, exposing the whole exercise as a cynical farce.
Labour pulled the exact same trick in Makerfield, forcing a vacancy so Andy Burnham could parachute in and challenge Starmer for the leadership. No hand-wringing about democracy or taxpayer costs then. Just naked self-interest.
This perfectly illustrates how politicians of all stripes treat the system as their personal plaything.
These people are not public servants. They are careerists who manipulate by-elections, rules and voters for power and survival. They bend the rules when it suits them and howl with outrage when others do the same. @afneil exposes the hypocrisy. The entire class is in it for themselves, and the public always pays the price.
Peter Murrell helped himself to thousands of pounds of SNP funds. Now we learn that the Police are investigating the Yes Scotland finances.
It's time for some answers!
@Mofoman360 Yes along with all of the royal family. Completely undemocratic system and where numpties are in line for the throne. One would never vote for this if they had a choice!
The SNP have turned Scotland into the highest-taxed part of the UK, scared off investment, hit homeowners, and their latest tax raid won't raise enough money to "touch the sides."
It's economic vandalism dressed up as social justice.
Burnham will restrict access to VPNs
This puts the UK into a very select group
China, Russia, Iran, Myanmar, Oman, Pakistan, Turkey, and the UAE.
No one voted for this guy
People haven't gone without heating because of school uniforms.
They've gone without heating because Britain has some of the highest energy costs in Europe.
Expensive energy pushes up the cost of EVERYTHING, food, transport, manufacturing, school uniforms, you name it.
Labour promised to cut household energy bills by £300.
Instead, bills have gone up.
High energy costs are driving Britain's cost of living crisis.