scotland issues

http://www.euronews.com/2017/09/05/scotlands-government-says-will-create-new-national-investment-bank This seems like a reversal of the global trend to privatization of all government owned assets. In the past, government owned banks have played a pivotal role in industries such as agriculture...

Dunno about the absolute truth of "First", but go Scotland!! linky Here's hoping the UK gov refrains from pumping insane amounts of £££ into the horrific white elephant of the Hinkley Point C nuclear plant and supports initiatives like this one.

The new PM Teresa May has made it clear she will be invoking Article 50 at the moment, primarily due to SNP demands and the Scottish remain vote. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-36819182 "Mrs May also said she would not trigger article 50 - the formal process of the UK...

Actually I am wondering is this true and if so where is the outcry that would be happening if Cameron had done the same. http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/14463080.New_questions_over_Sturgeon_s___10bn_China_deal_after_firm_linked_to_illegal_forced_evictions_in_Africa/?ref=ebmpn

We are in interesting times but for David Cameron's party with his increased majority, no coalition partner to keep them in check and for their party no change in Scotland.(They had 1 seat before the election in Scotland and have 1 seat after the election). I am wondering how he will balance...

Despite all the "on-a-knife-edge" wishful thinking, Scotland has voted 55% to 45% to stay in the Union. David Cameron immediately announced that the promised additional powers for Scotland would involve a solution for the West Lothian question......in other words, Scottish MPs will have no say...

Outside Northern Ireland, the police forces (services ?) in the UK have not been routinely armed with guns for many decades now. There are specialist firearms units but the bobby on the beat does not carry a firearm. This has now changed in Scotland...

There seems a recurring theme in threads relation to Scottish independence implying that the non-Scottish portions of the UK have a negative feeling towards the Scottish and thus towards their independence I thought it might be interesting to run a poll to gauge the spectrum of opinion. I...

OK, there are lots of comments online from Scots as to whether they want to stay or leave the union, I'd like to hear from non-Scots. If you were Scottish would you vote to leave the union or stay in it? I think I'd vote yes for independence - due to the following reasons: 1) Whitehall barely...

Continued from here. Actually...... If Rolfe cared to apply some objective thinking to this small issue, she would quickly be able to realise that the bus is covered in a high-tech vinyl wrap, of a sort that's only been technically viable for a few years but which is very high-impact (which...

Is the announcement from Reuters making rounds over here. Linky. Naturally, the BBC has some more details. Like always, it looks like there were pushes for ever more "protections" for people opposed. A few interesting notes : Linky.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-13891033 Now , I'm opposed to religious schools of any sort, so it will surprise nobody that I think Lamont has simply stated the obvious truth. 'He said segregating children in Catholic and non-denominational schools contributed to the...

There's a bizarre phenomenon in online politics which is exemplified by the comments on the online Scotsman newspaper site. Every day, when the new articles appear around midnight, there's a rush to get the first comment in. Usually one particular article draws the commentators, and away they...

I've started this thread in this forum because I'm interested in the miscarriage of justice angle more than the politics of the highest Scottish court being overturned by the UK supreme court...

Some things might survive the transition easier than others: we have separate education and legal systems. But what of the big questions:- Monarchy: do we tell Brenda to take a hike? Defence: do we retain common armed forces with England, Wales and Northern Ireland? If not how do we divvy up...

Linky. Wow, did they change they way the count these crimes? Or is there some theory as to why this happened?

Well, so far the Herald has kept many of us in Scotland amused with the day-by-day legaltainment that is Tommy & Gail Sheridan's perjury trial, however I thought it perhaps time to flag it up for discussion and make the wider masses aware of it. Quick summary for our North American cousins...

A number of people on the forum have posted in support of the view that the conviction of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi for the Lockerbie bombing appears to be a miscarriage of justice. I would therefore encourage them to visit the web site of the Scottish parliament where an e-Petition has been opened...

Apparently so [1] thinks Ivor Tiefenbrun (he seems to have now distanced himself now from those specific remarks), entrepreneur behind the Linn hi-fi company, and prospective (though not any more) Conservative candidate for next years Holyrood elections. Now, why would Scots (or other Britons)...

If you'll recall, convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdul al Megrahi was released from prison last year on "compassionate grounds." That meant he was likely to die within three months. Back on May 20 we passed the nine months mark (since release, not the even earlier diagnosis), and he's still alive...

In drug crime. http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/02/23/2827460.htm?section=justin Twice that of Australia. Seriously, is this a credible study? Surely statistics like this are not properly collected (or collected at all) in many nations.

http://www.newstatesman.com/2009/11/poll-independence-support Damn, tough spot for Salmond.

Due to be announced tomorrow, is anyone particularly excited by the SNP White Paper on independence? I don't think it's great timing. and would have been better brought in during the first year of an SNP administration given that it's pretty much their raison-d'être. We're in the middle of a...

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a4c6cea0-9a51-11dd-bfe2-000077b07658.html Would Iceland's predicament have been the blueprint?

Given all the excitement over a possible Scottish Referendum, I have a question for those in favour of an independant Scotland (no, not who should get the oil... which logically should be whoever kept the navy): Who should become citizens of the new Independant Scottish State? Would it be...