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As I drive past grounds (or the roads that lead to them) such as ictfc, Brora, wick academy... I pay attention to the boards to see who the next visitors are and when. THAT would be a simple and obvious way of perhaps enticing passing trade....?

So... ...is THAT your last, last punt of the season?

Fill yer boots... If she couldn't envisage support for Brexit and May seeking a mandate (as Sturgeon asked her to do) then she was very short-sighted and inept politically. And enough voters in the recent election have shown that, in their opinion she was not attempting to look after Scotland. As snlt points out above, going cap in hand to Berlin rather than London doesn't seem like an idyllic exchange... Is that really looking after Scotland? I fully understand and empathise with the alienation from the soft underbelly of the Home Counties and Westminster elites, but cutting off noses to spite faces is crassly simplistic.

I recall that once upon a time, Sturgeon said an indy ref would be a once in a generation thing. She lied. She changed her mind. I also recall Sturgeon beating May aboot the heid cos May "did not have a mandate to govern". So it strikes me that of all the people on the planet, Sturgeon should have been best placed to recognise that May, like herself, was a politician and thus highly likely to change her mind, especially when Sturgeon was asking herself for another election.. Lying and wrong-footing the opposition is second-nature to politicians. Sturgeon utterly, naively miscalculated and should have known better.

Godwin's Law strikes again.

Aye, and that was because - too late - the SNP realised they should have buttoned it earlier and not pissed people off... ....just as poz pointed out a few posts above. Of course, the other parties exploited that error...

Ach well this may be an evening in which I enjoy myself..

Goodness. That is an utter wank....

Me and mah lass drink fizzy wine to celebrate the return of Socialism every election. Thatcher for a number of years f**ked that up. In 1997 we had smuggled 6 bottles off fizzy stuff onto a yacht we were sailing out near the Leeward Islands... (It took a day or two till we found the result in earlier posts on this website_) Blair quickly f**ked up the clear vote of the British people to do a lot of things. (basturt) I came down sadly and soon after Blair got in.... Currently, I am a happy bunny - we're on our second bottle of bubbly. about 12.30... we LOVE politics... We both come from Scottish working class underclass shite and we both know that Socialism and quality education (not strong points of Conservatism or SNP lately) will help many more folk like us. For those of you who think that cos I've left Scotland years ago... and so that it renders my opinion is not valid (small minded basturts! ) - I work and live in Scotland from April till October. Also.... I still have a bit of an accent...

Aye. It's a gift...

That might work better nowadays - most people have better Broadband and wifi connectivity.

"Adobt"? step away from the bottle, Boab....

Ah well... It was only shown in Scotland, I guess. I'll get it on I player.... Can't imagine there'll be anything to learn from it, but be good to see any auld fillum.... ...of the Mills and the Toon. and the Mill Lassies... mah Maw, for instance.

Well... NO. You misunderstood or chose to read what YOU want into it. She and her working husband and working daughter have taken on the job of helping care for someone else's kids. (Parenting has been her job?) When asked about her circumstances by a journo, she has replied - not whining cos she expects this election to help her situation not one iota - that she thinks it understandably perverted that her help to do that from the state has been cut. (One of the kids is disabled, you know the type you MIGHT help out, but you didn't want to read that, did you?) And did I speak of taxing the rich? Or taxing successful people? Or have you made that up also to fit your selfish agenda? The answers are that I didn't and you have. I spoke of the iniquity of all the companies that are failing to contribute to the Common Weal, paying the minimal or simply no tax back into the communities from which they derive their wealth.

It's looking drunk already....

The £40 is per person. 4 people her weekly shop is £160. It's mental arithmetic. You need to have skillset... The power card story? I wrote, "I would suggest.." You could have read that - though that requires yet another skill. Many people buy cards for their power supply - it's more expensive but the only practical way for those who do not have a bank account nor the excess wealth to enable them to set up cheap standing orders for an all round cheaper energy supply. Their tv and other supplies would be included in that weekly shop. But you have just made up that she was wasting £160 a week on food. It was her 'weekly shop'. Now you are trying to deflect from that lie, which I have already proved to be the case by quoting the article you cite. And in this latest post, you make up even more numbers to demonise them. You've made up £650 'splurging' It's certainly nowhere in the article. To pay rent and all their other costs a figure of £550 is mentioned. Her partner works as does another family member, Nicola (on minimum wage). So it is a combination of their earned income plus the minimal social aid that pays for all their £550 'splurging'. My 'realisation' is that she is not whining - she is coping - she expects nothing from political change.. You fail to read and understand the story - as it suits your desire to mock and demonise people less privileged than yourself. I thought you were better than that.

Perhaps... but it is intellectually and morally much more acceptable and practical than right wing punishing of the weakest in our society.

The circle could be rendered less vicious if the companies who extract their profits from our society actually paid taxes that helped pay for society's infrastructures that it uses. such as roads, transport, education, health police and all the other services necessary for civilisation. it's not the pensioners nor the poor people that governments need to confront, but the companies leaching wealth out of our societies.

If you are going to quote, please do so correctly. the woman actually said that the weekly shop costs about £160.00. not just food. reading the living situation... ....which I now offer as a link so we can all judge personally rather than rely on selective misquotes: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jun/05/voices-and-votes-glasgow-east-easterhouse-what-point-voting-nothing-change i would suggest that weekly shop would include power cards for meters on an expensive tariff, cleaning and health products and all the other things one might buy in "a weekly shop". £40.00 per person per week to survive is not the lap of luxury. i wouldn't want her/their lives. (she appears to be doing her best to cope and help others, but carry on slagging her, by all means.)

No one has mentioned Chris Smith! this is a relief.

Oh dear, how sad, never mind?

Both in the same game...?

Ha! I'll poke you in the eye of Horus for Victoria...

I wouldn't blame you. that Hayley Mills, yon Brigitte Bardot, Jane Fonda and Victoria Coren-Mitchell have been on my case for a while. It was only a matter of time till an online entity joined in.