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Alan Craigie
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Eradicate Quangos that cost this country..........65 BILLION POUNDS a YEAR.. and this is just to run them. it doesn't include the money they waste on our behalf. The government can start with our own money wasting, waste of money........
Lord Lucan
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Quangos, Holyrood, and local councils are all very good at wasting public money, usually with nothing to show for it. The SNP bleat about Westminster not giving them enough. Even if they got doulbe it would still be wasted on the usual "Pie in the Sky" ideas. The councils, so many of them waste money hand over fist, then say tighten your belts. Your belts Not theirs. So maybe I could be wrong. Sue Bruce of the over inflated salary has told the council "No more rowies" now that will really make a big difference. The only thing the difference will be is some of their waist lines.
minnie mo
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Hi Minnie care to comment?" It(SNP) wants the House of Lords abolished, saving £100m a year". Great points but the House of Lords figure greatly understates the piggery which is another hidden subsidy for the South East. "each member of the House of Lords now costs the taxpayer a year - nearly half a million pounds." - tinyurl.com/a9lx5b So with the current 733 unelected sycophants who pig out there the annual cost is around £350 million a year. Interesting to note all of the comrades again are feigning support to abolish the house of lords. That would be comrades like those 'socialists' who previously voted to abolish the House of Lords, but when offered the parcel of gold gladly accepted anyway. Arise Mr Harry Ewing as Baron Ewing of Kirkford Arise Mr Norman Hogg as Lord Hogg of Cumbernauld Arise Mr Robert Hughes as Baron Hughes of Woodside arise Mr John Maxton as Baron Maxton Arise Mr George Robertson as Baron Robertson of Port Ellen Arise Mr George Foulkes as Baron Foulkes of Cumnock see - tinyurl.com/d8bzu5 Of course many more billions are poured into the South East as hidden subsidies/forced tithes from Scotland such as supporting London's/South East civil servant jobs. The 733 scroungers that we support in the Lords is nothing compared with the over 200,000 civil servants & advisers that Scotland helps keep in employment London/South East. see - tinyurl.com/ybhek7m
alan reid
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And is a pie in the sky idea?
alan reid
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So Minnie how much money from our lottery causes have been stolen for the London regeneration project??? Better known as the Olympics!!!!
alan reid
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Since we are on the topic of CASH THAT SCOTLAND SHELLS OUT FOR nothing!!!! I assume I can post the following without the Brit Nats having it censored :) 14th Feb 2009 "Jack Lemley, the last man to run London’s Olympic Delivery Authority — which is spending the budget — has said that London’s final bill could be a dire £20billion. " "Extravagant: No amount of money is being spared on building the stadium" and what will happen with the latest White Elephant of inefficiency - "the 80,000-seat stadium is its post-Olympic future — or ‘legacy’, as Lord Coe likes to call it. Once the Games are over, most of the stadium will be torn down to leave a 25,000-seat athletics site. " "The Government is begging us to believe that the bill will not go any higher." Of course out sycophancy of our Brit Nat comrades ensures they will believe any spin from the proven liars in Westminster - talk about unbelievable naivity. And also as a reminder of one of many other White Elephant tributes to the British Capital "the £750 million Millennium Dome was a good example of what happens when wishful thinking by grand public committees shunts commercial realism aside." see - tinyurl.com/dyx2za "Amid growing concerns of a repeat of the £1billion Millennium Dome fiasco, The Times has learnt that the Olympic stadium will cost at least £800,000 a year to keep open. " see - tinyurl.com/ct9cg6 So just what benefit is Scotland going to get from the London Olympics. From an Economic Impact analysis of the London Olympics (see tinyurl.com/6my6gp ) we have : "The implication of this is that for the rest of the UK (excluding London), London 2012 will have a negative impact on GDP of c.£4 billion caused by the displacement of resources and activities towards London." "A change in the number of businesses created is also forecast and implies a considerable negative impact to the rest of the UK (excluding London) resulting from business closure or displacement towards the London eco "A change in the number of businesses created is also forecast and implies a considerable negative impact to the rest of the UK (excluding London) resulting from business closure or displacement towards the London economy." "Again this implies a huge negative effect on jobs in the rest of the UK (excluding London)" And this report was before the massive and obscene cost over runs from the original estimate of £4 billion to now at least £14 billion see - tinyurl.com/6p43bv Additionally £184 million has been taken from the Scottish lottery . see - tinyurl.com/6pyd43 Yep, Union dividends galore, and no doubt the craven Brit Nat apologists will be out in force to tell us how this in Scotland's best interests :) And from the ennobled unelected tax-free expenses for Life Lord Coe we have : "The creation of the team [GB] has been opposed by the Football Associations of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland who are concerned it may compromise their individual status within Fifa.But he said the BOA, which selects teams for the Games, has decided to press ahead with a football squad despite the opposition.When asked last night about the opposition from the Welsh and Scots, Coe replied bluntly: “F*** em!”" see - tinyurl.com/b9bdu8
alan reid
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And more. £18 billion London Olympics ( including £250 + million stolen from the Scottish Lottery) see - tinyurl.com/olympicscam The London Olympics is just another example of Scotland building up the infrastructure of the South East and British Capital, and of course we are told the breadcrumbs we will get will be sufficient for us. 2% of the contracts Scottish companies are currently getting is hardly even a breadcrumb - see - tinyurl.com/3jbu2d So just what benefit is Scotland going to get from the London Olympics. From the official Economic Impact analysis of the London Olympics (see tinyurl.com/6my6gp ) we have : "The implication of this is that for the rest of the UK (excluding London), London 2012 will have a negative impact on GDP of c.£4 billion caused by the displacement of resources and activities towards London." "A change in the number of businesses created is also forecast and implies a considerable negative impact to the rest of the UK (excluding London) resulting from business closure or displacement towards the London economy." "Again this implies a huge negative effect on jobs in the rest of the UK (excluding London)" And this report was before the massive and obscene cost over runs from the original estimate of £4 billion to now at least £14 billion see - tinyurl.com/6p43bv Additionally £250+ million has been taken from the Scottish lottery. see - tinyurl.com/6pyd43 On top of all that the "positive" impact we are told the games will means that it counts towards Scotlands expenditure in the latest GER Report and will do so in subsequent GERS reports !! As of course do our involuntary contributions to Trident, The Iraq War, etc. see - tinyurl.com/6m9lsm Scotland is just being treated with absolute disdain and likely the most we will get out of this that our begging for breadcrumbs from the masters table might, just might mean we recover a small portion of our "investment". Scotland needs to be rid of these British parasites as quickly as possible.
alan reid
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Another example of Opportunity Cost in terms of choices in where to spend money is highlighted in a pretty good article from the Scotsman The consequences of the recession and theft like annexing Scottish Lottery funds for the London Olympics is having a dramatic effect on critical charity work in Scotland. "SCOTLAND'S charities are being ravaged by a "perfect storm" of recession, public sector spending cuts and a loss of lottery cash that will leave thousands of vulnerable people without the help they need." "The squeeze is coming from all sides: reductions in local and national government funding as a result of tighter public spending; good causes lottery cash being diverted to fund the London Olympics in 2012; fewer donations from a recession-hit public; less corporate sponsorship; and serious doubts over the future of foundations hit by tumbling stock markets." ""The diversion of lottery money to the Olympics means very little will flow into the voluntary sector. We are talking about a 70 per cent decrease over the next three years. That comes at a time when local government and public sector grants are harder to access; it comes at a time when big corporate sponsorship is massively reduced." "And The Scotsman can reveal the situation has become so serious that Holyrood ministers are now considering offering loans to keep hard-up charities afloat. " see - tinyurl.com/cwp2y3 At least the Scottish Government is trying to do something about it, but why should our charities suffer due annexation from a massively over budget project like the London Olympics which benefits only England ? The answer of course is there is no reason whatsover.
alan reid
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Mo Scotland is getting assett stripped, even you can see that?
alan reid
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