@JohnDuncanS30 All added up you’re barely at 1% of UK GDP on this ‘info’ graphic. It’s almost like this is just a mishmash of unrelated, overlapping, figures from different years using different measures. In other words … garbage.
@campbellclaret It's vitally important for our future that we celebrate mediocrity and failure and prevent any mechanisms that might promote success. Fairness! And such a champion, the king of mediocrity himself.
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury…
John Swinney is wilfully mis-representing what Andy Burnham was saying. We don’t have much detail but his point was that political and fiscal power has become too centralised in Edinburgh and London. He is correct. Scotland is one of the most centralised countries in Europe with very weak (non-existant in practice) *local* government. Scottish Parliament has removed many competencies that local authorities enjoyed back in 1999.
John Swinney had been actively engaged is this centralisation over the past 25 years from his threats to take away education from local authorities to his years of enforcing a council tax freeze and the creation of national police snd fire services.
It is actually John Swinney who is in no position to lecture anyone on these matters.
We should never hear ‘the Government cannot’ in a legal sense, the Crown-in-Parliament in Sovereign.
If the law currently prevents this man from being deported - change it.
The Government has a majority of 165 in the House of Commons. On this, they can add my vote to it.
Spectacular. The willingness of some supposedly intelligent people to pretend to be the village idiot to avoid dealing with the consequences of their own nonsense staggers me.