faraway saint Posted September 16, 2024 Report Posted September 16, 2024 Happy 10th anniversary. 🤣🤣🤣 Quote
stlucifer Posted October 19, 2024 Report Posted October 19, 2024 (edited) Dirty red, tory Bassas. Let's get this straight. IF the so called Labour government CHOOSE to freeze tax thresholds, it IS raising taxes on working people. Working, low paid workers WILL pay more tax. If you pay more tax, you've suffered a tax rise. Your tax has risen. No amount of semantics will change that fact. They will have lied in their manifesto. Edited October 19, 2024 by stlucifer Quote
beyond our ken Posted October 22, 2024 Report Posted October 22, 2024 1 hour ago, shull said: 2nd and 3rd bottom in column 2, Male and female. The approach seems to be parallel to the World Health Orgainsation "Gender interacts with but is different from sex, which refers to the different biological and physiological characteristics of females, males and intersex persons, such as chromosomes, hormones and reproductive organs. Gender and sex are related to but different from gender identity. Gender identity refers to a person’s deeply felt, internal and individual experience of gender, which may or may not correspond to the person’s physiology or designated sex at birth." My view, why do people get so uptight about this? being a "man" or a "woman" doesn't happen at birth. They are references to the state of physical maturity of human males and females. There are misleading notions around being a man in society, such as you are not a man until you have sex or you start drinking, etc. Thanks Shull for flagging up this negative reporting on a wholly reasonable approach. Quote
faraway saint Posted October 31, 2024 Report Posted October 31, 2024 A bit of a mixed bag on yesterday's budget. As usual the normal bickering from other parties about this, that and the other. An increase of over £3 billion to Scotland which, no doubt, won't be enough and will see no improvement for most of us. Quote
Hunterian Posted October 31, 2024 Report Posted October 31, 2024 On 10/19/2024 at 5:36 PM, stlucifer said: Dirty red, tory Bassas. Let's get this straight. IF the so called Labour government CHOOSE to freeze tax thresholds, it IS raising taxes on working people. Working, low paid workers WILL pay more tax. If you pay more tax, you've suffered a tax rise. Your tax has risen. No amount of semantics will change that fact. They will have lied in their manifesto. I can’t believe that a Politician has lied. Quote
shull Posted November 2, 2024 Author Report Posted November 2, 2024 Kemi Badekoch is the new Leader of the Conservative Party. Quote
eastlandssaint Posted November 18, 2024 Report Posted November 18, 2024 Truss was preparing for Putin to fire nuclear weapons, new book claims Quote
faraway saint Posted February 5 Report Posted February 5 The cost to build a replacement jail for Barlinnie is, wait for it, a staggering £1 BILLION 🙄 Initially it was, albeit a smaller version, supposed to be £100 million. Let's sit back and watch this spiralling out of control. Quote
faraway saint Posted February 7 Report Posted February 7 (edited) I've noticed a considerable growth in support for Reform UK on various social media platforms, more so in the business sector. Mainly down to disenchanted voters who are fed up with all the traditional parties. Even with Farage in charge, which is a concern for many, their common sense approaches to many aspects of life and business is proving to be popular. https://yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/51474-what-is-attracting-24-of-britons-to-reform-uk Edited February 7 by faraway saint Quote
Albanian Buddy Posted February 7 Report Posted February 7 On 2/5/2025 at 6:44 PM, faraway saint said: The cost to build a replacement jail for Barlinnie is, wait for it, a staggering £1 BILLION 🙄 Initially it was, albeit a smaller version, supposed to be £100 million. Let's sit back and watch this spiralling out of control. Well let’s hope it’s not the contractors involved in the Paisley museum renovation. As the cost will go up and delays will be inevitable. Quote
faraway saint Posted February 7 Report Posted February 7 (edited) 13 minutes ago, Albanian Buddy said: Well let’s hope it’s not the contractors involved in the Paisley museum renovation. As the cost will go up and delays will be inevitable. It seems, and I'm sure there are some projects by government or local authorities that are on time and cost, that when things go wrong there are no consequences and the spiraling costs are picked up by the tax payers. Incompetence is becoming the new norm across most services these days. PS on the new Barlinnie, Swinnie got roasted yesterday when it was pointed out the levels of stupidity on some of the facilities that will be in this 5 star facility. Edited February 7 by faraway saint Quote
alanb Posted February 7 Report Posted February 7 (edited) 2 hours ago, Albanian Buddy said: Well let’s hope it’s not the contractors involved in the Paisley museum renovation. As the cost will go up and delays will be inevitable. I noticed a company logo on the barrier around the museum site when it started to be renovated It was the same company who were the principal contractor on a new site in the south side near Hampden The project overran and went over budget It was a cash cow for the sub contractors who had no incentive to finish and commission the plant on schedule The principal contractor went bust in 2022 so at least they won’t be involved I know I was there as an employee of the company whose plant was delayed Edited February 7 by alanb Quote
Albanian Buddy Posted February 7 Report Posted February 7 Regards the museum renovations….am I correct that Notre Dame after the fire was rebuilt in less time? Quote
faraway saint Posted February 7 Report Posted February 7 15 minutes ago, Albanian Buddy said: Regards the museum renovations….am I correct that Notre Dame after the fire was rebuilt in less time? Comparing apples and oranges. The cost to rebuild Notre Dana was in the region of £750m The museum is costing a reported £65m Now I agree £65m is a big bag of money but for some comparison the council up here decided to remove the dual carriageway running through the centre of the town to build, wait for it, bike lanes costing an eye watering £14m The centre of town has been in chaos for close on a year and it's projected to be completed by September this year. Quote
Albanian Buddy Posted February 7 Report Posted February 7 1 hour ago, faraway saint said: Comparing apples and oranges. The cost to rebuild Notre Dana was in the region of £750m The museum is costing a reported £65m Now I agree £65m is a big bag of money but for some comparison the council up here decided to remove the dual carriageway running through the centre of the town to build, wait for it, bike lanes costing an eye watering £14m The centre of town has been in chaos for close on a year and it's projected to be completed by September this year. It was meant as a joke. 😂 However taking it a step further ND has 12million visitors in a year and charge for entry so it’s easily money well spent. Still it’s better our council kept it going as a public museum rather than turning it into an HMO. Quote
faraway saint Posted February 10 Report Posted February 10 A Labour MP been binned after numerous out of order messages posted on a group chat. As I've said for yonks, every political party has its fair share of absolute wallopers. Quote
faraway saint Posted May 13 Report Posted May 13 Scottish parliament voted in favour, at this stage, of assisted dying. A complicated and difficult decision for many. Personally I'm in favour. Quote
stlucifer Posted May 29 Report Posted May 29 So the labour party has drawn the batle lines saying it's now a straight choice between Kidstarver or the fascistfarage. Talk about worser and worsest(sic). Luckily Scotland has another choice. Quote
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