tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9049548032314779842.post8414256504181358872..comments2020-08-29T17:50:09.711+01:00Comments on Braveheart's Blog: Devolution-Max: a dangerous Red-HerringBravehearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07223196805548966030noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9049548032314779842.post-73724385133828307172011-11-29T22:09:20.106+00:002011-11-29T22:09:20.106+00:00Devo Max (whatever it is) shouldn't necessaril...Devo Max (whatever it is) shouldn't necessarily be ruled out by Labour but not discussed/debated properly until the SNP's independence referendum is resolved.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9049548032314779842.post-64010595887810561112011-11-29T16:08:17.322+00:002011-11-29T16:08:17.322+00:00I agree with you that the public doesn't want ...I agree with you that the public doesn't want "independence".<br /><br />As for my wealthy friends, have you seen this?<br /><br />http://politics.caledonianmercury.com/2011/11/29/snp-dragged-off-the-fence-reluctantly-in-pensions-dispute/<br /><br />like to comment?Bravehearthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07223196805548966030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9049548032314779842.post-34502769401328567862011-11-29T15:39:51.514+00:002011-11-29T15:39:51.514+00:00The public want more powers not the damaging Scotl...The public want more powers not the damaging Scotland Bill and only Westminster can offer those so if no one comes up with with what the public desires then only Independence will be on the referendum ballot.<br /><br />Your <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0184xg1/Panorama_Whos_Getting_Rich_on_your_Money/" rel="nofollow">legacy to Scotland</a> is an ever larger debt bill to make your wealthy friends wealthier.cynicalHighlanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06034325908473006163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9049548032314779842.post-67825276847673906712011-11-27T23:19:15.617+00:002011-11-27T23:19:15.617+00:00And the SNP has had over four years and have achie...And the SNP has had over four years and have achieved virtually nothing.<br /><br />Let's take schools: between 2003 and 2007 my local council, with 80% subsidy from Holyrood, built 5 PPP schools.<br /><br />The SNP came to power promising to oppose PPP but, even so, to "matcLabors school building programme brick for brick".<br /><br />Some hope. The blind ideaological opposition to PPP and the fact that they had no prepared alternative meant no Holyrood funding for new schools.<br /><br />We stll have not, 4.5 years later, put even one brick on another in my councvil area.<br /><br />The story is the same all over Scotland. Labour at Holyrood provided large subsidies for new schools. Hundreds were built.<br /><br />I would be surprised if even 10 new schools have been started, never mind finished, win the country, ith any subsidy from Holyrood, since the SNP took control.<br /><br />Four years ago we had a community hospital on the drawing board but dtill nothing built or even started. .. The new Forh Valley hospital that has been getting good publicity recently for its robot dispensing systems is a PPP project started under Labour. As far as I know, no new hospitals have been built with Holyrood financing (If I'm wrong please feel free to name successfully completed projects).<br /><br />Labour has achieved plenty and the SNP not a lot. <br /><br />Or maybe you could list the SNP's actual achievemts, number and names of schools and hospitals financed by Holyrood especially welcome..... <br /><br />BTW picking fights with Westminster doesn't count as a real achievement.Bravehearthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07223196805548966030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9049548032314779842.post-68232758348101260222011-11-27T22:52:22.130+00:002011-11-27T22:52:22.130+00:00Are you serious?
You had 13 years to do that - uno...Are you serious?<br />You had 13 years to do that - unopposed! And that is just the UK. In Scotland you have had power for most of the last century! And you failed abominably with parts of Scotland having worse deprivation than parts of the third World!<br />Your time is over!Fourfolksachehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12651190231842907126noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9049548032314779842.post-15457415350600305132011-11-27T19:33:12.034+00:002011-11-27T19:33:12.034+00:00Diametrically wrong.
I would like to see better s...Diametrically wrong.<br /><br />I would like to see better schools, hospitals, public services. I.e. everything the SNP isn't delivering. <br /><br />As it says on my profile... <br /><br />"I'm just a sensible, moderate, fellow, who thinks that the Tories have the wrong recipe for a decent society. Even when they correctly identify the problem, they always get the wrong solution. I also believe that chasing Scottish independence is a sad waste of time and energy. It's a great sorrow to me that I have spent so much of my political energy opposing Tory wrong headedness about the Welfare State and Nationalist wrong headedness about the constitution, rather than concentrating on addressing the real problems in our country."<br /><br />I just don't want the change you want.<br /><br />I want change for improvement, not change for destruction.Bravehearthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07223196805548966030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9049548032314779842.post-32249425890093183062011-11-27T18:56:31.894+00:002011-11-27T18:56:31.894+00:00Aye Braveheart, all totally logical but all your d...Aye Braveheart, all totally logical but all your diatribe demonstrates is that your party wants to change nothing! More of the same ie keep the pretendy Parliament where we always intended it to be, whilst you carry on appealing to Middle England!Fourfolksachehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12651190231842907126noreply@blogger.com