Showing posts with label Scotland. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Scotland. Show all posts
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Should Scotland be independent?
Alex Salmond of the Scottish National Party has brought out a Scottish independence plan.
According to David Walker, in The Guardian:
"The Scottish independence white paper, unveiled by the first minister Alex Salmond on 26 November 2013, was 'conservative' and 'unambitious'."
Did Alex Salmond miss his chance?
According to Lynn Henderson, of the Public and Commercial Services Union:
"A more fundamental failure of the independence blueprint is to not imagine a Scottish state controlling the fiscal and economic levers required to meet its objectives.
"That the European Central Bank and the Bank of England would continue to dictate the ground rules - plus ca change?"
According to Mark McDonald of the Scottish National Party: "Instead of getting governments at Westminster that Scotland doesn't vote for, the direction of an independent Scotland will be in the hands of people living here."
1. Public Spending as a share of GDP:
2011-12
Scotland 42.7%
UK 45.5%
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/0041/00418131.pdf
2. Check out the SNP's really hard hitting attack on Scots primary class sizes.
2011-12
Scotland 42.7%
UK 45.5%
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/0041/00418131.pdf
2. Check out the SNP's really hard hitting attack on Scots primary class sizes.
3. So, basically, Edinburgh Council, and my pathetic community council will remain unchanged, forever, because the system works so well according to the SNP.
Added to that, we should be centrally governed by an unchecked unicameral parliament, because the system works so well according to the SNP.
Added to that, we should be centrally governed by an unchecked unicameral parliament, because the system works so well according to the SNP.
4. The state is the single largest employer in the land. It consumes wealth and fosters militant unions with a nothing to lose mentality that can come unstuck in the commercial real world. The state is under financial pressure to reform but is the Hindu cow of Scottish politics.
5. Whats not mentioned either in this Guardian report or any BBC Scotland reportage is the huge Con/Dem cuts facing all public sector employees, if we stay in this nonsense union.
6. Dave Greenway, the Pulitzer prize winning journalist of The Boston Globe, summed up the SNP thus :
The SNP's nationalism is based on citizenship, rather than on ethnicity, religion, or language, and is pro-immigration; quite different from many national movements.
7. Too wee, too poor, too stupid to run your own affairs, but the sheltering wing of the UK will keep us all safe and well from hordes of dirty rampaging immigrants etc.
That's the case against independence as it's being presented by it's advocates.
You want authoritarianism, start looking at the other side.
8. Major restructuring has already taken place under devolution (the centralisation of police and fire, for example).
9. Will people be better served in a smaller more nimble economic entity with a directly accountable form of government?
Will popular sovereignty prove more able and adaptable than top down?
Do people want to spend their cash on bombs or bairns?
Just why have things gotten so bad if the current system is so good?
10. Osborne and the OBR forecast a cut of over 1.3 million public sector jobs.
11. Unison Scotland say councils have lost 34,500 jobs since 2008/9 - severely damaging services across the country.
And SCOTLAND has lost 49,000 public sector jobs since the Con-Dems came to power – the equivalent of 49 Ravenscraig closures.
Did Alex Salmond miss his chance?
Office of National Statistics, 2013. Published in the Glasgow Herald 27 November 2013.
If Scotland becomes independent its citizens will be richer than those in England.
This might explain why a number of people from England have already moved to Scotland.
Between 2007 and 2011, 820,000 people from the rest of the UK moved to Scotland.
Scotland becoming the place to live
Office of National Statistics, 2013. Published in the Glasgow Herald 27 November 2013.
. Now an increasing number are looking north - to Scotland."No prescription charges, an efficient health
service, good schools and no university fees are all being cited by those moving north of the border. Add to that far cheaper property prices than in the South, and the attraction becomes even more potent."No university fees, free prescriptions and a cheap house
The richest countries in the world, in terms of wealth per person, are mainly countries with small populations and a moderate degree of socialism:
Singapore, Norway, Sweden, Denmark...
Scotland already has its own parliament, but it has limited powers.
Scotland, since it got its parliament has been attracting more foreign direct investment
than all the other parts of the UK apart from London.Foreign investment: Catching the Scots | The Economist
Scotland's top politician Alex Salmond says that if Scotland became independent 'next week', it would be the eighth most prosperous country in the world
for GDP and have an income £2,000 per head higher than the UK average.Scottish independence 'could lead to job creation'
The mainstream media tries to tell us that Scotland will have 'adebt
problem' if it becomes independent.An independent Scotland would of course take on a share of UKdebt
.It is estimated that if Scotland took on 'a population share of UK public sector net debt
', this would be equivalent to 72% of Scottish GDP.This would be lower than the equivalent UK figure of 77%.
An alternative way to determine Scotland’s share of UK public sector debt
could be to base the calculation on an estimate of Scotland's previous contributions to the UK’s public finances.According to the economists, this would mean that Scotland’s share of UK debt
would be 27.6% of Scottish GDP, lower than the population share calculation.What about the UK's national debt? | Yes Scotland
According to Scotland's Alex Salmond:
"The one-size-fits-all economic policies of successive Westminster (London) governments have failed and are continuing to fail the people of Scotland.
"We perform well at the moment, but we should be doing so much better.
"A simple glance at many other European countries of similar size to Scotland, some without the natural advantages Scotland has, shows that we have lagged behind their growth rates for decades."
Scottish independence 'could lead to job creation'
According to Alex Salmond:
Scottish independence could lead to the creation of lots of new jobs.
According to Alex salmond, an independent Scotland would:
1. Focus on exporting more to countries such as China and Brazil.
2. Cut taxes on businesses.
3. Revive manufacturing.
There would be a revival of Scotland's engineering.
Scotland would copy Germany's Mittelstand model - promoting small firms with fewer than 250 employees.
There would be an expansion of the renewables industries, pharmaceuticals industries, financial services, food and drink, tourism and energy.
Industries would be helped through tax breaks, investment and the easing of red tape.
4. Make full use of its natural resources and huge human talent.
Conclusion
It is England that has the debt problem.
It is England that does not have vast oil wealth.
It is England that goes in for expensive foreign wars.
Vote YES for Scottish independence.
The richest countries in the world, in terms of wealth per person, are mainly countries with small populations and a moderate degree of socialism:
Singapore, Norway, Sweden, Denmark...
Scotland already has its own parliament, but it has limited powers.
Scotland, since it got its parliament has been attracting more foreign direct investment than all the other parts of the UK apart from London.
Foreign investment: Catching the Scots | The Economist
Scotland's top politician Alex Salmond says that if Scotland became independent 'next week', it would be the eighth most prosperous country in the world
for GDP and have an income £2,000 per head higher than the UK average.Scottish independence 'could lead to job creation'
The mainstream media tries to tell us that Scotland will have 'a debt problem' if it becomes independent.
An independent Scotland would of course take on a share of UK debt.
It is estimated that if Scotland took on 'a population share of UK public sector net debt', this would be equivalent to 72% of Scottish GDP.
This would be lower than the equivalent UK figure of 77%.
An alternative way to determine Scotland’s share of UK public sector debt could be to base the calculation on an estimate of Scotland's previous contributions to the UK’s public finances.
According to the economists, this would mean that Scotland’s share of UK debt would be 27.6% of Scottish GDP, lower than the population share calculation.
What about the UK's national debt? | Yes Scotland
According to Scotland's Alex Salmond:
"The one-size-fits-all economic policies of successive Westminster (London) governments have failed and are continuing to fail the people of Scotland.
"We perform well at the moment, but we should be doing so much better.
"A simple glance at many other European countries of similar size to Scotland, some without the natural advantages Scotland has, shows that we have lagged behind their growth rates for decades."
Scottish independence 'could lead to job creation'
According to Alex Salmond:
Scottish independence could lead to the creation of lots of new jobs.
According to Alex salmond, an independent Scotland would:
1. Focus on exporting more to countries such as China and Brazil.
2. Cut taxes on businesses.
3. Revive manufacturing.
There would be a revival of Scotland's engineering.
Scotland would copy Germany's Mittelstand model - promoting small firms with fewer than 250 employees.
There would be an expansion of the renewables industries, pharmaceuticals industries, financial services, food and drink, tourism and energy.
Industries would be helped through tax breaks, investment and the easing of red tape.
4. Make full use of its natural resources and huge human talent.
Conclusion
It is England that has the debt problem.
It is England that does not have vast oil wealth.
It is England that goes in for expensive foreign wars.
Vote YES for Scottish independence.
Scottish honey is as good as New Zealand Manuka honey.
This is according to a study published in The Veterinary Journal and carried out by Dr Patrick Pollock and colleagues at the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Glasgow.
Of 11 different honeys tested, heather honey from the Inverness area was particularly effective, killing MRSA microbes and three other types of bacteria.
Of 11 different honeys tested, heather honey from the Inverness area was particularly effective, killing MRSA microbes and three other types of bacteria.
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Reportedly, Kenneth S. Babe of Lewistown Church of Christ is the former Corporate Controller of Penn State University.
Allegedly, Lewistown Church of Christ is involved with the CIA in child kidnapping.
PENN STATE
Allegedly, Lewistown Church of Christ is involved with the CIA in child kidnapping.
PENN STATE
"It seems that a deacon of our church was molesting his own daughter."
Ex-Church of Christ Support Group :: Sexual Abuse
Sandra MacKenzie
Sandra MacKenzie is the head teacher of the 400-pupil Kirktonholme Primary school in East Kilbride in Scotland.
She reportedly invited the US Church of Christ to brainwash her pupils.
"HORRIFIED parents fear an extremist religious sect has been trying to brainwash their kids after it was allowed to infiltrate a Scots primary school."
Extremist US religious controls Scottish school
The 'missionaries' at the school include Jared Blakeman.
Missionary Jared Blakeman
Many parents only realised their children were being brainwashed "when kids brought home alarming books they had been handed at assembly."
The books, "defended by head teacher Sandra MacKenzie... warn pupils that.... they risk being murdered in a harmful, disgusting world.
"Parents have called for emergency talks with education chiefs, where they will demand the sect’s removal from the school."
Extremist US religious controls Scottish school
Blakeman
According to The Daily Record:
"The Church of Christ have targeted Kirktonholme as a 'mission' and have several members helping with classes and giving lessons in religion."
Church members like Blakeman "were allowed in to work as classroom assistants and help with homework and in other mainstream roles...
"Parents were also furious to learn that cash raised by children which they thought was intended for school funds had been given to the sect to build a church nearby."
The notorious Kyle Butt
A parent said of the books given to the children: "It didn’t take long to see they were spouting crazy, right-wing nonsense...
Both books were written by American Kyle Butt, printed by Alabama-based Apologetics Press, who are closely affiliated to the Church of Christ.
The school's head teacher Sandra MacKenzie invited the West Mains Church of Christ into Kirktonholme school eight years ago.
"After initial contact by church minister Alex Gear, church leaders in Rogersville, Alabama, were told East Kilbride could provide fertile ground for the church’s doctrine."
Extremist US religious controls Scottish school
Jim Jones - pedophile, fond of snuff movies?
The books, "defended by head teacher Sandra MacKenzie... warn pupils that.... they risk being murdered in a harmful, disgusting world.
"Parents have called for emergency talks with education chiefs, where they will demand the sect’s removal from the school."
Extremist US religious controls Scottish school
Blakeman
According to The Daily Record:
"The Church of Christ have targeted Kirktonholme as a 'mission' and have several members helping with classes and giving lessons in religion."
Missionary Jared Blakeman
Church members like Blakeman "were allowed in to work as classroom assistants and help with homework and in other mainstream roles...
"Parents were also furious to learn that cash raised by children which they thought was intended for school funds had been given to the sect to build a church nearby."
The notorious Kyle Butt
A parent said of the books given to the children: "It didn’t take long to see they were spouting crazy, right-wing nonsense...
Both books were written by American Kyle Butt, printed by Alabama-based Apologetics Press, who are closely affiliated to the Church of Christ.
The school's head teacher Sandra MacKenzie invited the West Mains Church of Christ into Kirktonholme school eight years ago.
"After initial contact by church minister Alex Gear, church leaders in Rogersville, Alabama, were told East Kilbride could provide fertile ground for the church’s doctrine."
Extremist US religious controls Scottish school
Apparently, the CIA and Mossad have worked out that most of the fundamentalist Christians are secretly pedophiles and are easy to brainwash and control.
Jim Jones - pedophile, fond of snuff movies?
Which economy is doing worst in terms of GDP growth?
It's David Cameron'S UK.
It's David Cameron'S UK.
What has happened to wages in the UK?
Most people have got poorer.
Why do 36% of the UK public think that their Conservative government can be trusted to handle the economy?
They have been brainwashed by the crooked media, which currently supports David Cameron, Britain's top war monger.
Ian Macwhirter, who has questioned the official version of 9 11.
On 5 September 2013, journalist Iain Macwhirter wrote in the Glasgow Herald that the UK finance minister George Osborne has a nerve to say that the Scots would be worse off if they were independent.According to Iain Macwhirter:
"George Osborne is responsible for policies that have left tens of thousands of Scots in insecure jobs and plunged many Scottish families into crisis... while he cut taxes for multi-millionaires.
"He has also sparked a mini-property boom in the south-east of England by using taxpayer's money to subsidise £600,000 mortgages.
Wealthy warmonger George Osborne, in charge of the UK economy.
Now for the funny bit!
According to Iain Macwhirter:
George Osborne says that "an independent Scotland would be worse off if it received revenues from North Sea Oil."
According to Osborne, an independent Scotland would have a budget deficit of £8 billion.
Note that the budget deficit of the evil London government is around £120 billion.
And, the London government has debts of nearly £2 trillion.
Osborne mentions Norway.
According to Iain Macwhirter:
Norway "is a successful small country, with a very similar demographic profile to Scotland, and fewer economic advantages...
"Not only does Norway have one of the highest standards of living on the planet, it has one of the lowest levels of income inequality, the highest levels of social security and - Conservative chancellors please note - one of the most dynamic private sectors in the world...
"In Britain, by contrast, 4.8 million workers earn less than the living wage of £7.20.
"The top 1% have seen their share of income triple thanks to low taxation..."
Macwhirter fails to tell us that Norway is not really independent, as its top people are controlled by the CIA and its friends.
"Not only does Norway have one of the highest standards of living on the planet, it has one of the lowest levels of income inequality, the highest levels of social security and - Conservative chancellors please note - one of the most dynamic private sectors in the world...
"In Britain, by contrast, 4.8 million workers earn less than the living wage of £7.20.
"The top 1% have seen their share of income triple thanks to low taxation..."
Macwhirter fails to tell us that Norway is not really independent, as its top people are controlled by the CIA and its friends.
Headlines - David Icke Website
Above: Syrians about to be murdered by the evil rebels.
The evil rebels are supported by Obama.
Russia gave the UN a 100-page report in July blaming the Syrian rebels for the Aleppo sarin attack
Dr Bouthaina Shaaban, an adviser to Syrian President Bashar al Assad, tells Sky News the United States has "fabricated" evidence.
WWW.SOFILIANEWS.BLOGSPOT.COM
Lawlessness and Ruin in Libya
Above: Syrians about to be murdered by the evil rebels.
The evil rebels are supported by Obama.
Russia gave the UN a 100-page report in July blaming the Syrian rebels for the Aleppo sarin attack
Dr Bouthaina Shaaban, an adviser to Syrian President Bashar al Assad, tells Sky News the United States has "fabricated" evidence.
WWW.SOFILIANEWS.BLOGSPOT.COM
Lawlessness and Ruin in Libya
