Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

Why do the Nats want to control the purse strings?

They say it would be a better arrangement as the English don't understand Scotlands needs.



Well, that sounds fair enough, if it was Scot's taxes that was paying - but it's not.

Scotland relies on subsidies to make ends meet (Barnet Formula)


So, what do they expect .. an (English) blank cheque with which to buy votes?

No, perhaps they would settle for a return of previous north sea oil and gas revenues.

PS.

It seems that Cameron was trying to buy parliamentary votes in NI, but choked on the price asked.

Prescott refers to Miliband as 'Red Ed' on BBC Today programming

http://order-order.com/2014/12/16/prezzas-red-ed-slip-on-today-programme/

Someone should tell him to shut up. He comment is not professional.

I wonder what Prescott opinion of Cameron and Osborne would be!

Come to that what the tory loony Right wing would be!

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/dec/16/lord-prescott-miliband-red-ed

Prescott, discussing English votes, said: “That is why ‘Red Ed’ is right to have a commission to look at these issues and not rush them through ready for the election.”

Yes. We are fed up with rushed loony daft U-turns from PR driven Con party rushed out without any thoughts.

Prescott, yet another hypocrite in the Labour camp.
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He cannot be considered positively as he made his big company bankrupt ....

Check the deficit and debt and and food banks after four and half years of tory mismanagement. (With borrowing rates at a low.)

Check the handouts to Cameron's mates and the bribes from them to the confidence trickster's party's coffers.

The General Court of the European Union in Luxembourg accepted the petition by Hamas in which it sought to have itself removed from the EU's list of terrorist organizations.

Hopefully they will add Israel to the list.

Putin has been voted Man of the Year by Russians for the 15th year in a row.

Let's hope for peace and prosperity return to the region.

Does anyone remember paternoster lifts? Looking back I am amazed that they were allowed on H&S grounds. I worked somewhere and never thought much about them at the time.

It is very quiet on this board.

Everybody down the pub drinking their successes or sorrows away, or just busy pushing buttons?

A simple answer to the English Question

The one logical solution is that only English MPs can vote on English laws

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/scottish-independence/11297953/A-simple-answer-to-theEnglish-Question.html

Therein lies the problem, when was anything fair and simple ever done quickly in politics?


"They need to stick with one: that only English MPs will vote on English laws. That is fair and simple and can be done quickly."

Labour is very unhappy with that approach as it might take away any majority they might have. It would mean that they might win an election and then always get their budget voted down. Their losses in Scotland could cripple Labour's ability to pass legislation.

If it was only that simple said a butterfly to another butterfly!

But I think that Wales should have the rights to make their own laws and the outlaw the English, or at least make them apply for visas (so that we can turn them down) when they intend visiting, and of course fees crossing the border increase the charges for Welsh water.

Also, double the price for Welsh Lamb, especially for certain individuals.