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11 minutes ago, bonzo said:
@aaid Small Fakers tonight at the 100 club.
Funnily enough I was at Altered Image at 229 last night with the drummer’s wife - and other friends as well before you get any ideas.
40th anniversary one-off for Bite, absolutely brilliant.
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Mental health problems, lone wolf, thoughts and prayers.
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17 minutes ago, Orraloon said:
He was, but I meant he wasn't that great for Scotland. Decent but not great. He would walk into the team we have now, though.
I was talking about in comparison to McBurnie who is neither.
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20 minutes ago, Orraloon said:
It's still Scottish taxes that has to pay back "our share" of that borrowing plus interest.
Did you think it was free?
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18 hours ago, Orraloon said:
That's very harsh.
McClair wasn't very good, but he was nowhere near McBurnie level of shitness.
McClair was a good player at two very good clubs.
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37 minutes ago, vanderark14 said:
He’s just been trotting out the same nonsense on Politics Live.
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1 hour ago, Caledonian Craig said:
Still coming out of Scottish taxes and returned via Barnett Formula which I bet guarantees less comes back to Scotland than came out.
Barnett is actually a higher rate than a per capita share of population.
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1 hour ago, Orraloon said:
Is it not being paid for by borrowing? Does Scotland not fund a share of that borrowing? Or, are we getting a "refund" every year under Barnett until the debt is paid off? Which will be never.
Barnett consequentials work this way.
Lets say a project in England costs £1billion over 10 years and is subject to Barnett in Scotland, then over that 10 year period Scotland will get £117 million - 2019 numbers - added to that budget over that 10 year period. The Scottish Government decides what it wants to spend that money on.
The UK Treasury to fund that £1billion project needs to raise £1.117 billion, usually through borrowing and needs to pay that debt back over time.
So we get additional money, decide what we spend it on, and then have to pay back the money that was borrowed to give to us. -
HS2 may well be a complete fiasco but Scotland is not paying for it.
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15 minutes ago, Dave78 said:
Maybe, but the people advocating for it will be Auld Yins. You mentioned George Kerevan... I recall him suggesting it in an article a few years ago.
I suspect he’ll be advocating for others to do it.
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19 minutes ago, Dave78 said:
I also expect them to be the ones to engage in civil disobedience, if and when we get to that stage.
Civil disobedience tends to be the realm of the young. I expect Alba will be focussed on writing strongly worded letters to the newspapers.
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On 10/19/2023 at 8:50 PM, stocky said:
We do produce good strikers, however they tend to be allergic to playing for Scotland for one reason or another...
This century, all top finishers..
Duncan Ferguson
Kris Boyd
Jordan Rhodes
Gary o Connor
Leigh Griffiths
Steven Fletcher
Ross Macormack
Derek Riordan
I'm sure there are more,
Most if not all of these guys if they had, had Kenny Miller's commitment or circumstances had been different could easy have scored 20+ for Scotland.
However we have never really had top scoring strikers for some reason, even Lyndon Dykes has more than Joe Jordan.
None of these guys are “top finishers”.
They fall into two categories, flat track bullies - Boyd, Rhodes, McCormack - or guys with poorer than average scoring records - Ferguson (1 in 3.6), Fletcher (1 in 4).
A third category, ex Hibs Neds - Griffiths, O’Connor, Riordan.
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On 10/19/2023 at 4:27 PM, daviebee said:
McCoist - 19 in 61; Johnston - 14 in 38.
No idea if you ever seen Johnston at his peak, but Steve Clarke would skin a kitten alive in the centre circle of a sold-out Hampden to have a striker of that quality available to him. He was a brilliant player, especially when he moved to Nantes. His game went up several levels. I hope we find somebody better than him as well cos we'll have one hell of a player if we do.
I absolutely loved McCoist as a player, my favourite ever player, but I think Johnston is the last exceptional striker that we’ve had. A striker that if he were playing you’d expect to score.
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1 hour ago, Dave78 said:
So we end up having 3 pro-indy parties in holyrood. The radical/hard left of the Greens, radical/hard right of Alba, and the centrist managerial soft-left of the SNP.
I don’t see where you get this view of Alba as a radical hard right party. Their economic view is pretty much left wing or at least those who seem to be driving their economic policies are, ie, George Kerevan. They differ from the Greens as they don’t tend to care much about the environment and their model seems to be about central rather than local control. They remind me a lot of sections of 1980s Labour complete with the small ‘c’ conservatism.
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2 hours ago, Ally Bongo said:
The cap on bankers' bonuses is being removed as part of a post-Brexit shake-up of City rules, it has been confirmed.
They are just ripping the pish now
Never made any difference to renumeration anyway, it just shifted the balance from bonus onto salary.
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Lesbian Nana at it again. She’s out of control, look at her response compared to the other officers. She shouldn’t be a police officer.
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Thought it was going to be this one - was a world record at the time.
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3 hours ago, Ally Bongo said:
When someone lies you know they have already lost
That was what Wings was saying in the article you posted as your view on “how to”.
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16 minutes ago, Alibi said:
They'd be quite happy to invade us if it came to that. with the approval of the USA likely, given Faslane.
But Ally Bongo thinks its simply a case of declare UDI and ask for international recognition.
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15 minutes ago, Hertsscot said:
Thank you for pointing that out. I had a look this morning and I couldn't find any mention of it at all. I did a rough calculation so guessed the turnout wasn't great but it's nice to have actual figures. Obviously such low turnouts make any future predictions a bit more unpredictable.
This tweet shows that when comparing the turnout to a poll carried out in the constituency on voting intention, that turnout across the board is down. It’s not just a case of the Tory vote stayed at home and the Labour vote turned out. A great deal of traditional Tory voters must have voted Labour.
https://x.com/damiansurvation/status/1715329517575651836?s=61&t=MHJIOYAKuUpVTHulpYS2rQ
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10 minutes ago, Ally Bongo said:
In that case the MSM ignored that the Independence voters stayed away from the SNP
Which is of course a completely different story.
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18 minutes ago, Ally Bongo said:
Once again the BBC are loathed to mention that turnout in both by-elections was well down
Tamworth went from 64% to 35% and the Labour vote was up by only 800 from 2019
Mid Bedfordshire went from 73% to 44% and the Labour vote was down from 2019
They would rather spout pish about British Labour being unstoppable
So what you’re saying is that the reaction to Rutherglen and Hamilton West was overcooked by the media?
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8 hours ago, hampden_loon2878 said:
No it’s the argument of being the head of the snp and what’s best for independence,, you ever going to admit I was right about sturgeon
There’s literally no minority, no vulnerable person you’d throw under the bus is there?
The news thread
in Anything Goes - Other topics not covered elsewhere
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Tory MP Crispin Blunt has been arrested on suspicion of rape and possession of controlled substances. He’s been released pending further investigations.
Funnily enough I’m not seeing wall to wall tv coverage or a tent in anyone’s front garden.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-67233090