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Post by research0it on Dec 31, 2022 10:23:25 GMT
Hi jaydee
Happy new year to you as well.
The SNP are certainly successful but that probably reflects the constitutional issue rather than any real judgement on how good or bad they are. As objectively as I can, I'll give marks out of ten in some categories for both the current governments in London and Edinburgh.
Edinburgh
Integrity and honesty 7
Trying to do the right thing 7
Competence 5
Inspirational thinking 2
London
Integrity and honesty 3
Trying to do the right thing 3
Competence 3 would have been 1 in October
Inspirational thinking 2
But any comparison is subject to what I said and should not form the basis for one's view on the constitution
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Post by jaydee on Dec 31, 2022 11:04:07 GMT
No it isn't, there has been an announcement that Hulk 804 or whatever it is called will now be another year late, so it isn't sorted out. The rest of your post is unanswerable. Yes it has been sorted out. It will now be a further year overdue. Last I heard the Scottish government do not build ships. So now tell me when is what I stated, going to be sorted out. Billions of pounds worth. Lets start with Hinkley point. And indeed matey. You are screwed to answer the rest of the post. Every utterance you make. It turns out corrupt Westminster is 30 or 40 times worse. As once again you spectacularly fail to answer what incompetence, venality, ineptitude and allegedly corrupt that you have just ranted. As the tune changes.. Give me one. Facts and figures. Not what Dross rants.. And you let me worry about who I vote for. You worry about who you vote for. Which is costing the Scottish tax payer a fortune |
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Post by om15 on Dec 31, 2022 11:16:41 GMT
Let's start with an easy one, whilst concerning itself with strange gender pervert laws the SNP are ignoring their responsibilities, these are the facts and figures as you so politely requested,
In 2007, when the SNP came to power, just 3981 potholes were reported, yet by 2020-21, that figure was more than five times higher at 20,988 potholes over the last year.
Scotland is frequently ranked the worst part of the UK when it comes to the state of the roads and has more potholes than Wales and Northern Ireland combined, that is what the SNP has achieved.
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Post by research0it on Dec 31, 2022 11:28:23 GMT
Let's start with an easy one, whilst concerning itself with strange gender pervert laws the SNP are ignoring their responsibilities, these are the facts and figures as you so politely requested, In 2007, when the SNP came to power, just 3981 potholes were reported, yet by 2020-21, that figure was more than five times higher at 20,988 potholes over the last year. Scotland is frequently ranked the worst part of the UK when it comes to the state of the roads and has more potholes than Wales and Northern Ireland combined, that is what the SNP has achieved. Hi Om15 Concentrating on only what someone does wrong will produce distorted pictures My somewhat mediocre scores for the SNP administration reflect overall performance I mean they've built more railtrack than any other part of the UK, turned Prestwick airport around and done fairly well on renewables. Just mentioning those would not be correct either. The GRA ia not exclusively SNP either as there was considerable support from other parties and labour are planning to do it for the uk. |
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Post by jaydee on Dec 31, 2022 11:39:32 GMT
Let's start with an easy one, whilst concerning itself with strange gender pervert laws the SNP are ignoring their responsibilities, these are the facts and figures as you so politely requested, In 2007, when the SNP came to power, just 3981 potholes were reported, yet by 2020-21, that figure was more than five times higher at 20,988 potholes over the last year. Scotland is frequently ranked the worst part of the UK when it comes to the state of the roads and has more potholes than Wales and Northern Ireland combined, that is what the SNP has achieved. Oh boy pot holes he says. Cost not even close to bankrupt England. Pot holes are not the responsibility of the SNP. They are responsibility of the local authority. and the 10 worst in the country are. See below. So once again England is 90 times worse. Are you for fecking real with your idiotic nit picking,. The average frequency of road surfacing is now once every 68 years in England, and the bill to fix the backlog of maintenance work on our local roads in England and Wales remains in excess of £10bn. Who feeds you this drivel. Your pal in jail for sex offences in Nottingham. Or the fascist half wit on your last rant. 1.Surrey County Council - 6,733 2.Kent County Council - 3,194 3.Hertfordshire County Council - 3,124 4.Essex County Council - 2,989 5.Lancashire County Council - 2,703 6.Glasgow City Council - 2,486 7.Buckinghamshire County Council - 2,484 8.Hampshire County Council - 2,411 9Oxfordshire County Council - 2,345 10. Cheshire East Council - 2,306 www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/fixing-britains-potholes-would-cost-23824389 |
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Post by om15 on Dec 31, 2022 12:31:09 GMT
It didn't occur to me to use the Daily Mirror as a source of evidence, I use Government data and statistics, usually more reliable. Here is a good source for your research into your Parliaments failures, www.scotlandmatters.co.uk/snpfails/ |
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Post by research0it on Dec 31, 2022 12:43:17 GMT
It didn't occur to me to use the Daily Mirror as a source of evidence, I use Government data and statistics, usually more reliable. Here is a good source for your research into your Parliaments failures, www.scotlandmatters.co.uk/snpfails/Hi Om15 But nobody claims the current administration in Edinburgh is perfect. With the concentration on merely the bad, you look biased. |
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Post by jaydee on Dec 31, 2022 12:56:32 GMT
It didn't occur to me to use the Daily Mirror as a source of evidence, I use Government data and statistics, usually more reliable. Here is a good source for your research into your Parliaments failures, www.scotlandmatters.co.uk/snpfails/Your link is nonsensical anti SNP hype. What has that fascist crap you posted as a link to do with the Government. And it did not occur to me you were a expert on Scotland or pot apart from looking for meaningless rubbish. Which part of potholes are a local authority problems skips over the bit between the lugs you call a brain. And if you care to use the links. It was from local authority reports. That's were the data comes from. Not made up and invented by crack pots you use as sources. And how you equate £200 million to fix Scottish pot holes on your rant with over £10 billion in England is once more how so stupid you are it beggars belief. And your Government figures that you rant on about. The number of potholes filled in by councils in England and Wales has increased during the past year to almost 1.7 million, a survey suggests.The Asphalt Industry Alliance said this figure - up 200,000 from 1.5 million in 2019-20 - equated to one being fixed every 19 seconds. It now works out that £61,700 is needed to be spent for every mile of local road in England and Wales and it would take councils nine years to bring their crumbling networks up to scratch. Not even close to Scotland. As once more your havering slastering meaningless drivel is 100% wrong. You just do not give up with your continual Jock hating stupidity. Do you. Even when time after time the evidence is slapped right in your face. Whats next. Nicola gets free fanny pads at tax payer expense. That's the level of your stupidity www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-56590518 www.fsb.org.uk/resources-page/revealed-england-s-pothole-problem-laid-bare-as-700-000-complaints-reported-across-the-country.htmlwww.thisismoney.co.uk/money/cars/article-10636661/Bill-fix-potholed-roads-soars-quarter-12-6bn.html |
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Post by om15 on Jan 20, 2023 18:00:17 GMT
The Shetland Islands are in receipt of £27M "levelling up" money, direct from Westminster, this money has purposely been directed to the Shetland Islands in order to bypass the SNP.
Delighted with this support the Shetland Islanders are going to purchase a new ferry to replace their current ferry which is coming to the end of its life.
The Shetland Islanders are very pleased with Westminster, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said: “By reaching even more parts of the country than before, we will build a future of optimism and pride in people’s lives and the places they call home.”
The other successful projects are:
£20m to turn Peterhead’s disused Arbuthnot House into a new museum, library and cultural hub
£20m to refurbish Kilmarnock’s Palace Theatre
£14m to promote sustainable transport in Dundee
£20m for the regeneration of Greenock town centre
£19m for Stirling regeneration
£19.4m to improve Riverside Park in Fife
£9m for Cumbernauld regeneration
£11.3m for the green regeneration of a former power station site in East Lothian
£18m to turn old buildings into cultural spaces in Dumfries and Galloway.
Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove said: “We are firing the starting gun on more than a hundred transformational projects in every corner of the UK that will revitalise communities that have historically been overlooked but are bursting with potential.”
Scottish Tory local government spokesman Miles Briggs welcomed the announcement. He said: "It is brilliant to see so many projects secure funding as the UK Government continues to deliver for the people of Scotland. The Levelling Up Fund highlights how our country can collectively tackle regional challenges by working together as one United Kingdom."
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Post by om15 on May 17, 2023 16:10:40 GMT
An update for those who are interested in the current ferry disaster from Tom Harris, writing in the Telegraph,
It was a perfectly timed intervention by an SNP minister, aimed at emphasising the Scottish government’s commitment to financial realities. Unfortunately, all it really did was highlight the absence of joined-up thinking.
“We have to recognise that if we spend money in that area, there won’t be money for something else,” Graeme Dey, the higher and further education minister, told a Holyrood committee. “That is the reality of government.”
Well, quite. It is a sentence that should be etched into the ministerial boardrooms of every department in Edinburgh.
Except that only one day before Mr Dey’s sobering and responsible words, his own ministerial colleague announced he was overruling civil servants’ advice and pressing ahead with a ship-building contract at the beleaguered Ferguson shipyard in Port Glasgow, even though doing so will cost more than scrapping the vessel and ordering a new one from elsewhere. The extra costs that the UK taxpayer will have to fork out for this benevolence have not yet been revealed, but given that the project was initially costed at £97 million and that the latest estimate is north of £300 million, we may assume we’re not talking about small numbers here.
And every extra pound spent is a pound not spent elsewhere. A Scottish minister said so, so it must be true.
All this is just the latest development in a scandal that is entirely of the SNP’s own making. It was the SNP who, under the leadership of Nicola Sturgeon, awarded the contract to build two new ferries to the yard – then owned by prominent independence supporter Jim McColl – and which stage-managed a “launch” of the new ships even before they were remotely ready (complete with windows painted on to give the impression they were).
It was the SNP government that nationalised the yard and it was the SNP government that recently announced it would be privatised.
The decision to ignore civil service advice that the project no longer represents value for money is only the latest, but probably not the last, development in a catalogue of errors that has exposed nationalist incompetence and – far more importantly – has left Scotland’s island communities without crucial services to the mainland.
If we are to believe the minister responsible, Neil Gray, the SNP’s wellbeing economy minister (that’s the sort of title we give ministers in Scotland these days), procuring a vessel from a new source would delay the delivery by two and a half years: an extraordinary shift in priorities for a government that originally planned for the two new vessels to enter service five years ago.
And so, true to the sunk cost fallacy, the SNP are pressing ahead with Ferguson’s, convinced that throwing good money after bad will, in the end, work out alright for everyone.
But to get to this point, Gray had to issue a “letter of comfort” to civil servants, acknowledging their concerns over value for money and effectively absolving them of responsibility for the decision.
Assuming that Gray’s concerns about schedule are valid, what other motivation can be attributed to such a controversial order? Certainly his fears for the future of the Inverclyde economy should Ferguson’s finally close are well-founded, and will have resonance elsewhere in the Holyrood chamber, especially among Labour MSPs. But pride also plays a part.
This is a project that Nicola Sturgeon, as first minister, fiercely championed. It was, so to speak, her flagship industrial policy, one that sought to emulate and appropriate Labour’s own cultural history of shipbuilding on “Red Clydeside” in the last century. To accept defeat, to accept the hard realities of economics, to prioritise the responsible spending of money that is, after all, not really the Scottish Government’s anyway – that would be a defeat too far, a final, bitter renunciation of the last decade of devolved government.
It is simply too high a political price for the SNP to pay. The new vessels will be completed, come hell or high water, at Ferguson’s so that Sturgeon’s legacy can be assured. It is difficult to escape the conclusion that at least a small part of the reason behind this dreadful decision is that the party right now needs desperately to create a legacy that has nothing to do with police investigations, arrests, “missing” money and camper vans.
And if the generous taxpayers of the United Kingdom have to fork out a little bit more of their hard-earned cash to accommodate that nationalist ambition, so be it.
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