salmonbuddie

At the risk of repeating myself, what I said about Bob Crow the other day is also true for Tony Benn - a few more like them and we wouldn't need a referendum.

You're all wasting your time, guys, he thrives on the attention hence the constant smear tactics. Leave him alone in his own delusional world and let the adults carry on the debate. And bluto, are you telling us you're George Galloway to StuD's Saddam?

He was a bit loopy but what I wasn't keen on was the human hair we found in the bedding. We had originally planned on camping at Victoria Bridge but the other 2 didn't fancy it and the Inveroran and BoO Hotels were full so we were stuck. If you do stay there, take your own sleeping bag.

The other thing I meant to mention is to avoid starting on Saturday, Sunday or Monday of you want to avoid crowds. We started on a Thursday and while we saw a few people along the way it was only on the final stretch we came across big numbers. Still haven't figured out where they all came from. I found 6 days just right, 3 of the 4 of us were novices and although one dropped out, the three of us did manage as long a walk as any mentioned so far, Bridge of Orchy to Kinlochleven.

FIFY. Or for me, maybe.

Don't let him railroad you into an answer you don't want to give, Sonny

Double post, can't figure out edit on the app....

The youngest of our party (by a good 10 years on the second youngest and a few more on me) had to give up halfway because he didn't break in his boots. Turned out he'd broken a toe!That's the thing people never mention, the stress on your toes caused by the downhill bits - I lost 5 toenails altogether. Always promised I'd mention it if anyone asked, can't offer any solution but forewarned is forearmed.

Denbud's got it right. I worked abroad, in the EU, paid UK tax/NI and maintained my voting rights. If you've chosen not to and expect to have a say because you might come home eventually then you're on a hiding to nothing.

Can't get used the one in Elderslie being labelled the "memorial," it was always the monument when I was growing up. I don't think I even knew about the usurper in Stirling until I was about 20 or so.

I'm sure you do but there are others who don't

1912 according to the council: http://www.renfrewshire.gov.uk/webcontent/home/services/leisure+and+culture/heritage+and+local+history/els-elderslie(ourhistoryandheritage)

No, bluto, he's the leader of the SNP, not the same thing at all. And how can you be disenfranchised when you never had a vote in the first place? It's a fairly simple, robust and fair ruling - if you're registered to vote in Scotland, you get a vote, if you're not, for whatever reason, you don't. Come up with a better system and give the reasons why it's better and I'll accept it but I strongly suspect you won't be able to.

Did the WHW over 6 days 2 years ago come May and was lucky enough to have beautiful sunny weather for the last 3 days from Crianlarich to FW. We used a mix of B&B's and bunkhouses (happy to pass on recommendations if you want them) and used the luggage transfer scheme - £7/day iirc. I bought a pair of walking boots at Christmas (and good socks!) and started training mid-January 3 nights a week at the gym, a 30-40 minute weight session followed by 30 mins walking at 6 kph and up to 15 degrees. Did this with the boots on to break them in and found this to be just about right, for me anyway. It was mainly about conditioning the muscles to get them used to walking, the only real problem I had using this training routine was the parts of the Way which go above 15 degrees - make sure you use a stepping machine! The first 3 days were pretty murky but even allowing for that well worth it. The glorious weather over Rannoch Moor was the icing on the cake for me - arriving at the King's House after walking from Bridge of Orchy and getting a full Scottish breakfast while watching a family group of deer graze with Buachaille Etive Mor as a backdrop..... Also got the train back to Glasgow and the glorious weather held for that too, making it a memorable part of the whole experience.

A good old fashioned socialist, by all accounts. A few more like him and we wouldn't be having this referendum.

I'm genuinely interested, if it was the same guy he was actually persuading me of the validity of his argument up to the revelation of not being registered to vote. He lost me at that point, though.

The Daily Mail....and you had a go at me for quoting from the Huffington Post! Is this the guy who was on Breakfast a few weeks back? I posted about him at the time, he was actually doing quite well until he revealed he wasn't registered to vote where he lived. In London. Nor could he remember where the last place he was registered to vote was, it was either Dumfries(?) where he came from or Edinburgh where was a student. There's an online petition with his name, too, it's been on the go for about two years now and mentions the legal challenge (without any detail) and it's attracted over 3,000 signatures. Unlikely to change anything with those kind of figures (imo), especially since it's aimed at the Scottish Parliament by people who can't actually vote in elections to that very same Parliament. Here you go, fill your boots: http://www.change.org/petitions/the-scottish-parliament-let-wallace-vote I did check the link to his website but all it says is "Coming soon" - better get a move on, the referendum's only 6 months away, now. Maybe z_a (or another of our legal eagles) could give us an idea of the legal argument he says he has? I can't find it anywhere on-line and can't for the life of me imagine what it could be.

Equally, British people are now beginning to show contempt for the British government, look at the latest polls - some show as much as a 10% swing away from them. Not edited, I don't need any slaps on the wrist from the grammar polis. Or the punctuation polis, for that matter. If only there was an autocorrect polis......

That's where I was coming from, ts. Rick, the post I was referencing was implying that an independent Scotland would have been solely responsible for bailing out RBS and HBOS. The link I gave demonstrated that this is not the case and that other countries bailed out banks no matter what the label on the tin was. It's another non-issue. Cue StuD with some long rambling crap culminating in it the entire banking collapse being the fault of Reichsfuhrer Salmond.......

I do feel sorry for the poor people of the US having to bail out an English bank. http://m.huffpost.com/uk/entry/4895234 Surely we can finally put this particular myth to bed instead of constantly going round in circles.

If you can make up words when you feel like it......

Or he made it up. I know what my money's on.

Or petendypence, as some call it. "Scotland will also be a foreign country, in law......" Typical Tory twat, hasn't anyone told him?

Alistair Darling of the Better Together campaign said spending cuts were "the last thing families need." He'd better disassociate himself from the Con-Dems, then.

Me too, I was having pop-up problems. I'm still using it for my laptop and have downloaded the app for my phone.