ian madeley

This has not aged well has it??Try the 2017 general election🙄

@Indyisamust @RealStephenKerr

Why do you think “secret” polling-even was true- would give vastly different results to independent polling?They would be using one of the major players currently doing regular polls🤷‍♂️

You can’t tell from that map — it’s too low-res for Scotland. North-east Scotland (long-time Tory areas) has underperformed since the 2014 oil crash. That’s industry decline, not a voting pattern. Scotland as a whole is still up in real terms

Wrong.She has the constitutional right to involve herself in all matters of U.K. Govt including devolved aspects.You just don’t like her politics🤷‍♂️

I am trying to explain the point?You don’t understand how business actually works.The absolute amount of cash profit is completely irrelevant without looking at the scale of the operation generating it. You cannot look at a £1.9 billion profit figure in isolation without looking at the £73.7 billion cost of running the business. Have you ever actually run a decent-sized company? Because any business owner knows that forcing that absolute profit to zero is corporate suicide🤷‍♂️

Is that what you think?I tried to debate with you using real life experience of very similar projects but you don’t want to do that.Yes Westminster wastes tons but I live in Scotland and this is a classic case of a poor idea badly implemented and at a ridiculous cost.Do you think this scheme was properly researched before it went ahead and why not deal with a specialist from the start rather than using what is basically a creative business at a large premium?

Scottish Government spending comes directly from ScotGov data. Their statisticians choose the methodologies, make the adjustments, compile everything and publish the final GERS figures as official statistics. They control the whole package🤷‍♂️

What does it matter where she was born?Her Dad is Scottish and she was in Aberdeen from 16.Take a look at SNP figures born outside Scotland for balance-would you like a list??

What are the final proposals??I don’t care if you have a mortgage tbf but I’m interested if you can explain what will happen to the 750,000 or so Scottish mortgage holders currently paying in £ sterling when they start to become paid in the new currency and still have to pay their mortgage in £ sterling?

SNP ‘betraying’ Scottish factories with Chinese-made schoolbags thetimes.com/article/909e905… That isn’t true,however,not cost effective.Also someone is going to have to collate the whole package.They say they are using EU made contents so unless they are sending them out to China (which is ridiculous)then the handling costs in the U.K. would probably cost more than the FOB price of the bag.The whole thing needs to be done in China frankly and then find a cost effective way to get them to kids?

I’m interested.Do you conduct your own research in house or do you use independent specialists to do this for you?

Apart from the last two🤣🤣🤣

Let me know if you don’t know how to read a research table.There are other sources but Scotland is very pro N .You’re welcome😉

The 2% GDP pledge is itself an assertion, not a costed plan: it skips how command, intelligence and procurement would be built while RUSI specialists say UK forces would still have to provide the real cover for 10–20 years🤷‍♂️ Former officer Stuart Crawford, author of the only detailed model, called the current proposals closer to fantasy than a workable force in the first 25 years and said a much smaller regional posture is the realistic option. Scotland would therefore be relying on a very benevolent neighbour whose continued protection is a political choice, not a right; pointing at NATO’s varied sizes does not turn that assumption into an argument.

“North British Regionalist Quislings”-can you translate this for those of us who have a more rounded view?

How arrogant. I totally understand the two cases are distinct — the civil judicial review showed the Scottish Government’s investigation was unlawful and tainted by apparent bias, while the Crown Office ran a separate criminal prosecution that ended in acquittal. That distinction doesn’t collapse the original point. The media reported a leaked government process and a public trial; the court-documented failings and costs still sit with the administration that ran the inquiry🤷‍♂️