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RuamRudy

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  1. I have given you several links already. Better Together was a UK government backed body. The UK government lied about North Sea oil as they have done about so many other things.
  2. Absolutely I have. Better Together was a UK government initiative and they amplified the claim. You can deny it all you like but it is there in black and white.
  3. Come on, you are not so naive as to think that the timing of the pronouncement by the openly unionist Ian Wood, on the eve of the referendum, trumpeted by the government's campaign group across every newspaper in the land, is coincidence are you? If so, I have a bridge to sell you.
  4. I never claimed that 'oil was finished'. It was the government's Better Together cross party campaign that propagated the lie. Alistair Darling, the former Labour chancellor and head of the pro-UK Better Together campaign, said Wood's analysis "fatally undermines" Salmond's oil predictions and "blow apart Alex Salmond's plans for funding schools and hospitals."
  5. Published the very morning of the independence referendum: North Sea Oil 'Running Out Faster Than Feared' Published July 2023: Hundreds of new North Sea oil and gas licences to boost British energy independence and grow the economy
  6. Schrödinger's oil - in the run up to 2014 the UK government declared that the North sea was finished. Now it's a major part of their economic forecasts.
  7. You make a good point. Every country in the UK is declining in every major societal aspect. The Scottish government, as my links show, has done better than most other countries in the UK in mitigating the toll of being in the union, dominated as it is by the masochistic wishes of the English electorate, forcing repeated Tory governments upon us.
  8. UK poverty Unemployment Crime Higher education Inward investment Healthcare
  9. Child poverty 4% lower than UK Overall poverty lower... Unemployment lower... Crime lower... Record numbers in higher education Record inward investment Best performing healthcare... Etc Etc And all that with one hand tied behind our backs while the country next door rifles our pockets. Imagine what we achieve if we weren't burdened by the that.
  10. The law isn't an SNP law - it's a cross party law, having been supported by Labour, Lib Dems and greens.
  11. Are you suggesting that we should have no politicians? Maybe govern by AI?
  12. Good news - disaster has been averted thanks to the application of a bit of @transam and @impulse's suggestion and the insertion of a BBQ skewer. Thanks to all for you input. Sláinte
  13. The royal family costs the UK almost £1 million per day. That's money that could be used to better the lives of the people of the country. The posts from some individuals absolutely reek of hatred and venom, especially towards his wife. That you haven't noticed it is not an indication of it not existing.
  14. I like that idea. I will try it in the morning - I have already poured a monkey shoulder tonight.
  15. Credit where credit is due. I have yet to try it but it's on my list. https://www.englishwhisky.co.uk/blogs/news/the-worlds-best-single-malt-whisky
  16. My concern is that the cork is already starting to break up - I guess if the worst came to the worst I could sieve it though a coffee filter afterwards...
  17. Last night I was a bit over enthusiastic in getting this bottle opened and the cork split halfway down the neck of the bottle. Is there a way to extract the cork without it disintegrating and falling into the bottle? Cheers!
  18. I can't imagine there is any scenario where you would lie low, Tranny.
  19. Word salad? Use your finger on the lines if it makes it easier for you. He hasn't be convicted of anything yet so I couldn't possibly speculate as to what she did or didn't know.
  20. It gets harder and harder to disagree with you. It seems that the journey was more important than the destination to such an extent that the destination became an afterthought.
  21. I have met neither, but then again, I am not a member of the SNP - just someone who believes that my country could be much better looking after its own affairs.
  22. Thanks for announcing my arrival - not actually necessary and not entirely accurate but always happy to help with your efforts to increase your post count no matter the drivel you spout getting there.
  23. The hatred for a man who simply decided that the organisation he was born into and was expected to uphold was so internecine, so corrupt and so out of date that he wanted nothing to do with it is astonishing, and shows how remarkably adept the palace is at keeping the sheep on side while they bleed them dry.
  24. Why might they regret it?
  25. Care to explain? I could explain to you but you clearly wouldn't understand.
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