RuamRudy

Did you do it?

I would be happy to offer you a bet that the SNP outperform the nasty party in Scotland once again - just don't pull a Sunak and welch on it...

Conservatives plan to bring back mandatory national service Having come to the realisation that nobody under the age of 40 is going to vote for them, the Tories are desperately trying to woo the boomers. What's next - the return of capital punishment?

Could it be because this is as good as it's going to get? Sunak recognises that growth and recovery are going to stall, and regardless of just how unfavourable the conditions are now for the Tories, things are only going to get worse.

With an admittedly shaky understanding of corporate finance, would I be right in saying that the company's costs were around $400 million for the first quarter? Is that even feasible for running a website with a few thousand users? How can any site possibly cost over $4 million per day to run?

Guided by Voices - Awful Bliss

Why does everything have to be framed in the context of race and culture wars?

For how much longer can this farce continue? Conservative MP Natalie Elphicke defects to Labour citing border security

If there is any semblance of reality in the suggestion that a hung parliament was a possibility, it shows just how undemocratic and unfit for purpose our electoral system is.

There are certainly a few notable absences from this thread.

Congratulations must be offered to Sadiq Khan for his remarkable 3rd term as London Mayor. Susan Hall Pronouns: Has/Been

I imagine that info would have added a certain frisson to your relationship...

That might have been possible 30 plus years ago, however the barriers to entry are now so great that it is no longer feasible for all except the super rich. What needs to be done is that some sort of anti monopoly commission with teeth looks at the media conglomerates we have now, and breaks them up.

Media in the UK and worldwide in general is a disgrace, and I agree that the BBC is hardly a bastion of impartiality. I read recently that printed news in the UK was mostly in the hands of only 6 organisations. TV news is hardly better. No democracy should accept that.

Why would English people vote in a Scottish referendum? That makes zero sense. How about you grow a pair and vote for your own independence rather than just barge into others' affairs? I know it must be a worrying thought for England to not have other countries' resources to purloin for its own benefit, but it's going to have to happen one day.

Surely nobody with any sense will go near GBeebies now? It has been the demise of many a grifter who thought that thinly disguised misogynistic and/or racist, right wing codswallop delivered with confidence was a sure fire route to riches. Thankfully these 'news' channels don't appear to have fooled most viewers so hopefully the financial woes GBnews is experiencing will continue until it ceases to exist, and the remaining grifters slope back off into obscurity.

I am sorry if it hurts that the majority of Scottish people don't want to be in your union. It's nothing personal, honestly. But it's fact - Scottish people don't want to be in the UK.

That depends upon who you consider a Scot. The majority of people who were born in Scotland and voted in the referendum voted to leave the UK. The vote was swung by incomers, a significant number being Europeans who believed the lie that a vote for the UK was a vote to remain in the EU. So to be clear, in 2014 the majority of people who were born in Scotland voted to leave the UK. That number can only have increased since then, because let's face it - no matter how bumpy the road the SNP has taken, it's been nowhere near the binfire that has been the last 14 years of the Nasty Party. Independence referendum figures revealed: Majority of Scots born here voted YES while voters from elsewhere in UK said NO That said, we are a welcoming people, and even though incomers may have dashed our peoples' hopes for a better country, I don't think anyone holds it against them. We just need to help them better see how much better Scotland would be if it wasn't burdened by this union.

The decision was made, in a large part, after promises were made. Those promises have not been honoured. If they had been, independence may have withered on the vine.

Are you trolling? This is a direct quote from the link: "Child poverty rates in Scotland (24%) remain much lower than those in England (31%) and Wales (28%) and are similar (if slightly higher) than in Northern Ireland (22%). "

If only the promises made in the run up to the referendum should we vote to stay were kept, there might not be the discontent we have now.

This means the UK as a whole, including Scotland, so the Scottish numbers are lower than overall UK.

They do - you either choose not to accept it or you can't see the connection between the UK government's Better Together campaign and... the UK government.

Then kick us out and everyone will be happy. Learn to stand on your own two feet for once and we can all get along much better.

Then why is it that the UK government, which is heavily English in makeup, fights so hard to prevent it? I have nothing but good will towards England and it's people. I simply don't want my country governed by it. It's been said on many an occasion that Scotland is a net drain on the UK's finances - just think how you could put that extra money to good use if you were to stand in your own two feet without us truculent Jocks (allegedly) costing more than we contribute?