Published: Thursday, 8th January, 2009 10:40am
Does the Prime Minister want to see an end to the Scottish Parliament?
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HAVING helped create the current financial crisis, Gordon Brown now announces that he is going to 'create or protect up to 100,000 jobs by bringing forward public projects'. But this is not to include any consideration of the second Forth road bridge.
Gordon Brown and his previous Labour Party colleagues set up the Scottish Parliament with few financial powers including no ability to raise loan capital.
It"s so unlike our dear Westminster Government, which lives on borrowings and has now accumulated the biggest national debt in history!
No-one would want the Scottish Government to get into the kind of financial chaos over which the UK Government of Gordon Brown now presides but surely it is reasonable to see some of Gordon Brown"s 'generosity' aimed towards his Scottish taxpayers.
Labour now says that it is for the Scottish Government to find the bridge finance from within the grant they allow us yearly. How magnanimous!
Could it just be that Gordon Brown and his Unionist friends want to see an end to a Scottish Parliament and Government by denying them the kind of support through the re-scheduling of projects that will be brought forward throughout the rest of the UK?
This 'Scottish' Prime Minister and his Chancellor of the Exchequer would never be so malevolent, would they?
Steve Hossack,
14 The Latch, Cairneyhill
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GEORGE ROBERTSON JR ESQ
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Aug 25 09 01:05
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ITS SOUNDING MORE & MORE AS IF SCOTLAND IS INCAPABLE OF GOVERING ITSELF.
1. A JUSTICE MINISTER THAT HAS THE AUTHORITY AS A BUREAUCRAT TO SHAME THE COUNTRY WITH A TERRORIST PARDON.
2. FEW CITIZEN RIGHTS, E.G., THE RIGHT TO OWN FIREARMS.
3. IMPRUDENT FISCAL MANAGEMENT.
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Barry Laidlaw
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George, firstly... TURN OFF THE CAPS LOCK!
Secondly, check your spelling.
Thirdly, do us a favour and get your facts right.
1. No terrorist was given a \'pardon\'.
2. I am pretty sure that it was not a Scottish Government decision to remove a right to own firearms, we have never had the right without a license.
If you want a USA style ownership of a gun, then I suggest you vote for a party with that in their manifesto, or better still, bugger off the the good ol\' USA.
3. Imprudent Fiscal Management?
At best, that is your opinion, obviously a seriously flawed and uniformed opinion, but hey, you are entitled to it.
For the Scottish Government to be ABLE to excert Fiscal Management, (imprudent or otherwise) they would have to be given a lot more powers than currently afforded to them by Westminster.
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Barry Laidlaw
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And what's with the insertion of all the "
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