Ending PFI by setting up a Futures Trust to finance big public-sector projects by bond issues; replacing Council Tax with a local income tax and, in the meantime, freezing Council Tax; making prescriptions free and widening the scope of remedies available; providing home care freely so that elderly people can be helped to live out their lives at home; reducing class sizes to 20; abolishing university tuition fees and ending the practice of subsidising those defined as disadvantaged by those equally disadvantaged but failing to qualify (almost all eighteen year olds are poor and discrimination on the achievements and failures of the generation above is grotesque); providing a Home Civil Service appointed without fear or favour on open competition and by merit; effective governmental opposition to dumping nuclear waste out of sight and out of mind, but not out of effect, in natural and so conveniently deep holes in the countryside; opposition to making the country a target for nuclear missiles by removing the launch sites of nuclear missiles entirely outside of the country's control; enhancing relations with the islands large and small of the north western European archipelago (which provides a powerful grouping to front its interests within the European Union, just as is being set up currently and for similar purposes by the countries fronting the Mediterranean); all this is being organized by a Scottish Prime Minister.
Unfortunately not the Scottish prime minister we are landed with, he's trying desperately to stop all this. All of this is coming from the Scottish Prime Minister of Scotland.
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The Dom Mintoff of the North?
Isn't Mintoff Malta? Edinburgh is the Athens of the North, surely, S. Just as Northern Rock is the Essence of the North East.
And the South West of England doesn't exist.
Actually, we quite like it. Not existing, that is. Whilst the likes of towns like Swindon and Oxford look hopefully in the direction of London, Bristol and Somerset turn their backs towards it, and treat it with disdain. (Bath, it should be said, just pretends to be South Ken).
And all roads run past where we live in Somerset, which means that only those who want to be here are here. And those who can't get out.
And now I must go and cringe at the radio commentary on the football; it's the habitual manner of the Manchester City fan.
I was thinking of a clever rogue who exploited his neighbours' differences to the benefits of his own people.
There are no regions in England really. Croydonian has map references that show all kinds of maps going back to the 1200s and the country is still counties, as it should be now, were it not for the evil that is Edward Heath.
What an image Elby, - the south west turning a lovely shoulder to the bulge of south eastern England.
Scotland would gain so much as an independent country. It is astonishing that it has allowed three centuries of union. Exemplary in its demonstration of subjugation by state dependency and lack of investment and development, at least, from this, it will benefit from relatively undestroyed resources and population structures,S, which are so highly to be prized in this millennium.
Not sure I like all the SNP`s ideas HG. The Cornish nationalist movement( a bourgeois affectation on a par with Welsh Druids) has been financed by the EU as has the drive for Welsh language.
In fact EU regional policy is always aimed at detabilising national borders in one way or another.
The Scottish Prime Minister is merely doing what is best for the people who elected him, unlike the %$*** that sits in No 10 Downing St.
I was thinking about Gen de Gaulle, when he was President of France, and if memory serves all his actions and decisions were based on 'what is best for France', pretty good basis for government methinks
Malthebof
It isn't at all to England's advantage to be severed from Scotland, N, I agree. But so much damage has been done by Labour and its vile, imposed dependency culture of hopelessness masquerading as the heir to the early Scottish worker movements that it is hard to think the Scottish people will be interested in continuing the Union; paritcularly when the remnants of Scottish Labour sits in power in the English capital. They have had as much of Labour as they can bear - as have we - but they got the chance to vote them out of office (unlike us) and took it.
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