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Yeah that is the other problem with the west end, there is a black hole (i.e. its own arse) which it disappears up as quickly as it takes over yet another area of pristine city jakieness. And converts it into hipster whankdom. It is like a cancer...

Someone on another thread posted that some people drive around in cars worth 2-3 times their annual salary... To be super manly. I could not find the thread but is this true? I am perplexed by the number of hugely expensive motors cruising the streets but I up till now I have been assuming no one is crazy enough to spend ? X more per month on their car than their mortgage.

Finnieston was (maybe still is) a cheap way to get into the west end. Yorkhill has a lot of 'first time' buyer flats in the 100k range but the value has gone from there I feel. It is an efficient market in Yorkhill as all the flats are very similar. I would imagine Maryhill will go the same way as Finnieston at some point down the road, look how close it is to the west end... I would maybe get in there now. G41 & G42 would be my non west end choice but you will not go wrong betting on the west end in the long term. I bought a flat in Finnieston years ago on the logic that the west end is expanding. Maryhill will be the next Finnieston IMHO. You heard it here first.

Yeah I need one of them to tighten all the the bolts on my uber manly mountanbike to the right torquieness. Essential bit of kit for any bloke who is not a woman in disguise. I also bought a Dewalt cordless drill and impact driver which sit in its own assassins like briefcase type thing. Not sure what an impact driver does or why I bought it other than it sounded hugely manly.

It became moot in the aftermath of the No result but Orkney & Shetland council leaders looked very much like they had cut a deal with David Cameron (on his surprise visit just before the vote) to stay in the rUK.

they are sending you massive signals they are scamming lowlife chunts. just dump the whankers and find something else. Soon as their replacements start sending you the same signals, dump them too. This is the world of whank that is now dealing with any kind of tradesman in the UK.

People are laughing at this like it is stunt but in fact this has legs. I would welcome our fellow notherners. Top class idea. I think we would be a very formidable novocountry. edit Should Manchester and the north be part of Scotland? YES 67% NO 33%

So the police visit SD HQ to requisition some paperwork and few days later Ashley calls in his loan... If you believe Phil the Gob his loan has been in default for a while now so why call it in now. Has he actually taken any legal steps to call in the loan or is this all being done as PR through the papers for now. 5m is small change to a seriously wealthy individual like King is supposed to be. Ashley owned a lot less of Rangers and was prepared to lend 10m no bother. You just make it a condition of the loan that you get X directors on the board etc etc same as he did with whatever securities you require. Using the SFA clearance as an excuse is a pile of shite.

You have more fingers on one hand than Labour, the Conservatives and the Liberals have MPs in Scotland.

"Give me the child until he is seven and I’ll give you the man"

Touchy... Rangers remove controversial 'New Pioneers' painting from Ibroxhttp://news.stv.tv/west-central/1320218-rangers-remove-controversial-new-pioneers-painting-from-ibrox/

"One of the worries I have at the moment is that it could be Scotland that let's us down at the GE..." If Scotland is letting 'Us' down then it does make you wonder who 'Us' are? Conservatives did not win the election Labour lost it. Cameron is weak and the coalition was there for the taking after all this austerity shite while bailing out criminal bankers. Miliband was an unelectable freak show and the fact you idiots appointed him leader was an act of public suicide years in the making. (His scary brother would have been a Blair II, jumping into every neocon war going.)

Last time we called a referendum without clear blue water majority support. Because we believed that when offered the question for the first time in 300 years Scots would seize their chance. And maybe they would have had the referendum been remotely fair. But it wasn't and they didn't. So that means next time it has to be the other way round. The public must first demand it by a clear majority of them wanting to vote Yes. That must be measurable in the polls and significant. I would say 65% minimum. There is no way you can risk another No. Next time it has to be the other way around or not at all. You are going to need a big Yes majority going into it in order to survive the Onslaught II (which will be even worse than the Onslaught I).

If I had to bet I would say Scunnered is Labour through and through. The whole Katy pish was just a backdoor way to re-legitimize a rancid labour campaign. Every point is ever more logically convoluted and stretched to make some kind of 'sense' but reliably it always ends in a dig at the SNP while effectively giving Labour a free ride, yeah yeah save me the tedious lip service. He is the Ed MIliband of the Tamb. Presiding over the annihilation of his party while just keep going with the same rubbish.... Grim.

Seems to me the most direct way to give the 'youth' a voice is make one an MP. (Even if it is a bit of a one off.)

One thread to the energy of Sept 18th was the feeling that we were somehow taking democracy back. It has clearly become a corrupt shameful charade, with phoney candidates bought and sold umpteen times before they even get before the electorate. There is something to be said for flushing out the cosy political elite and replacing them every 50 years no? Christ Scotland was in need of flush. Labour in Scotland were putrid, really really rotten and clinging to the sides of the bowl. I am in awe of the Scottish people once again for actually doing this. It will take a time to get my head around them voting No but this at least makes me think they are perhaps working to some crazy step by step let's get comfortable plan to Independence...

They (the people who hold power in the UK) will never 'give' you anything that you have not won already, one way or the other, and even then it is just another disguised way to find a new route to attack you. This is what you are dealing with here.

Reaching for 'token' but too thick to find a better replacement.

Hurd was very shocking. Always remembered him as one of the moderate and reasonable tories of that era. Yet he came across as a right old bigoted Thatcherite .

Damn... Alex is looking pretty thin.

I think something (far, far) bigger has happened. That weird proto-revolutionary energy that existed around the Scottish referendum has now somehow 'jumped' medium and copied itself into the mainstream of the general election via the SNP... where does it go from here.

8 months ago we were knocked out. spark out. So to be here now with this result is incredible. I can barely believe it myself. What a result. The tories have an absolute majority, we are all now spectators in the glorious union.

Five years of being in position A is what happens now. Don't with it, don't change it, just enjoy it and let the others destroy themselves.

Scunnered man, Katy got swept up in the righteous whirlpool of flushing Scottish Labour down the toilet. You fly with the jobbies, you get flushed with the jobbies. Nothing personal.

Watching Murphy's defeat speech (and I confess this is the first time I have actually watched him) he really does come across as a student union president giving a speech far out of his depth rather than a professional and seasoned politician. All the weird gaps and pauses in his delivery make it sound like he is reading a script rather than saying something he really believes in. He really is terrible.