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Scotland declares digital independence: from now on: “gov.scot”
On Tuesday, the Scottish Government shifted its internet presence from 'scotland.gov.uk' to 'gov.scot', redirecting the old domain to its new home. The move has been heralded for years by the Scottish National Party (SNP). Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rules“Scotland is well on the road to independence, and it looks like we will soon be independent”
Feb 18th, 2015 - 10:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0exactly.
well done.
Big deal, and support from Villa 31s chief Architect too! Bahahahaha
Feb 18th, 2015 - 10:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0But, Salmond was completely wrong. Scotland voted clearly against Independence in the recent referendum . And, with the oil price sinking below the horizon none of his already dodgy sums add up. Scotland would be broke and go the way of Greece having to beg on its knees for the UK to bail it out. If it did become independent and loose the current UK taxpayer subsidy of £1400 per person per annum things would rapidly get very difficult for Scots. Social benefits, child tax credits, education, free university places, widespread public housing and free health treatment would suffer massive cuts and taxes would have to rise. There would be a stampede to get out and into England which is presently the fastest growing economy in Europe and the developed world.
Feb 18th, 2015 - 11:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0.scot a badge of distiction or decrepitude?
1 Pablo
Feb 18th, 2015 - 11:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0is so jealous of others, and so embarrassed by his own country, he wants others to suffer the same fate.
Jealous, Pablo ? You spend so much time trying to put down the Brits, you must be feeling very inferior LOL !!
and it looks like we will soon be independent”
Feb 19th, 2015 - 12:21 am - Link - Report abuse 0so paulie,
now your Scottish,
they voted against it,
its called democracy,
SNP refuses to accept it, that's called ??
over to you.
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Feb 19th, 2015 - 01:37 am - Link - Report abuse 0@ 1 paulcedron
Feb 19th, 2015 - 01:58 am - Link - Report abuse 0You really don't have a clue, do you?
“ “Scotland is well on the road to independence, and it looks like we will soon be independent”
exactly.
well done.”
You take the quote out of context to suit yor pathological hatred and immature envy. Silly boy.
Alex Salmond declared this back in March 2012, then went on to LOSE the Referendum. So perhaps not 'on the road to independence' then? The Scottish did not choose that path.
Personally, I don't care what domain name the dotty.scots wish to use, it is up to them to decide.
Britain remains The United Kingdom and I am sure the Scottish are very glad of it now the oil-price is going through the floor.
Salmond is a has-been, shouting from the side-lines.
Bit like you paulie, a failure.
We have a name for this in Argentina... Peronism
Feb 19th, 2015 - 02:15 am - Link - Report abuse 0@8
Feb 19th, 2015 - 02:25 am - Link - Report abuse 0Which one? Lying, hubris or failure?
;-)
We had Voice, not to be confused with The Voice, who once was A Voice and is making HIS Voice known by telling The Voice to STFU. And I thought Voice was a TV show.
Feb 19th, 2015 - 02:32 am - Link - Report abuse 0Dany el poco Pablo actually posted something with an imbecile, idiot, moron.....did I miss anything?
Wait, wait......just a minute....wait for it...it's coming!!
looks like psaulie is just jumping at shadows and running away again.
Feb 19th, 2015 - 03:59 am - Link - Report abuse 0how utterly boring
“how utterly boring”
Feb 19th, 2015 - 06:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0well, he's a boring guy...
More importantly unemployment is at its lowest and growth at its highest driven by uk gov hard decisions. Not nationalist hypocracy.
Feb 19th, 2015 - 07:21 am - Link - Report abuse 0Much ado about nothing..
Feb 19th, 2015 - 08:22 am - Link - Report abuse 0@14
Feb 19th, 2015 - 10:51 am - Link - Report abuse 0Exactly!!!
It's as about as useful as putting up Gaelic road signs in areas where Gaelic was never spoken and nobody can read them....same in Wales !
Feb 19th, 2015 - 11:06 am - Link - Report abuse 0Who cares about this. Will it make the service on the net any better ? I doubt it.
As to trying to connect with UK govt. sites it's a nightmare.
Being over 70, I have to re apply for my driving licence and I am recommended to do so on-line, which I do . They promise a one week turn round...a joke.
Five weeks later no licence so I try to email them about this.
After spending over an hour trying to find an email address for queries, I end up at the same page I started.
Seemingly it can only be done by phone to a premium rated phone line.
We all know what this means...please chose options by pressing 1,2,3,4,5 etc. then more until you hear “all our agents are busy just now” and we will play you an inane piece of music while you lose the will to live. So, after 15 minutes you give up having run up a few £'s in a wasted call and are no further on than when you started.!!!!
This is our govt.'s idea of “improved efficiency” in the Civil Service.
@1. There's a slight error in Salmond's sound bite. It should read 'Scotland is well on the road to bankruptcy”. I shall explain. Salmond's nazis decided that they could best buy the scotch vote with lots of freebies that English people have to pay for. They achieved this by stealing English money. It's only necessary to cite three examples. Back in 1707, when the scotch actually were bankrupt, England gave them a loan to tide them over. 308 years and the scotch haven't made a single attempt to pay it back. Taking into account a nominal rate of interest, that debt is now more than £2 trillion. Couple of points there. If the scotch are, supposedly, so wealthy, why can't they pay it back? And, if they paid it back, the UK would no longer have a national debt. But that's the way things are. When it suits them, the scotch are poor and need money. When England has money, it shares it out.
Feb 19th, 2015 - 11:11 am - Link - Report abuse 0Then, the scoth like to claim that they pay more into the UK treasury than anyone else. And that's sort of true. What they always 'forget' to mention is that it's only been like that since 1975. They never mention the other 268 years. It's called a 'gimme' culture. Much like argieland.
And now we can see that Salmond's figures never added up. But they were all based on continuing to leech off England. Now the oil price has dropped, Sturgeon says that the UK has to step in. Why? No-one 'steps in' when the UK or England has financial problems. Fortunately, changes are on the way. With the transfer of 'powers' to the scotch government, scotch MPs won't be allowed to vote on legislation unless it affects them. English votes for English laws! And public expenditure for the scotch will be reassessed using data collected by English officials. No more dodgy scotch figures! It is expected that the allocation will be reduced by as much as 50%!
“gov.scot”
Feb 19th, 2015 - 11:45 am - Link - Report abuse 0Ha, ha, ha ,ha, ha, ha, ha, ha ,ha, ha, ha, ha, ha ,ha, ha, ha, ha, ha ,ha, ha, ha!
”But don't worry folks, were are still taking the money from England.
What a despicable bunch of arseholes the SNP are.
Well as long as they keep voting for them, the SNP have a continued mandate to keep chipping away at their ultimate goal. Independence by the back door they are calling it. Personally I would have preferred them to take the front door last year and we could have washed our hands of them all together, but alas we seem to be stuck with them for some time to come and we will continue to see gratuitous playground stunts like these.
Feb 19th, 2015 - 12:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0This ridiculous mess we now find ourselves in, due to appeasement, is finite. Ultimately we are moving in different directions. By far the sensible solution would be federation, The Federal Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Four completely independent states in federal unity.
The status quo or “mess” we currently have will not last long, the political landscape is now changed forever.
Looks like the early stages of civil dis-obedience.
Feb 19th, 2015 - 01:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0We all know what that brings.
The majority of Scots don't want to be in the UK, don't let the referendum results fool you, theres at least a 5% margin who simply didn't want to rock the boat.
Not when theres a global economic mess going on.
#17
Feb 19th, 2015 - 02:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It took a little while for Paul's alter ego to put his oar in at #17, but true to form, the hate fest starts again. I have never bothered much about nationality as it is an accident of birth BUT seeing what it means to be true blue English, thank God I'm not! The man from Uruguay also says no as does the strangely named Britworker aka English worker .
@21
Feb 19th, 2015 - 02:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The problem you have with that analogy is that neither I nor the people I am surrounded by ever advocated the break up of the union. You cannot say the same.
Better we take charge of our own future than sit back allow one to be forged by the SNP on my behalf. You will find after May next year that many millions south of the border have the same view, I promise you.
It's quite simple 45% of Scots want independence and England wants rid of 45% of Scots.
Feb 19th, 2015 - 04:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Can't we just ring fence Glasgow and some of the other “yes” areas and call it quits?
Should Glasgow be an Independent country??
“Looks like the early stages of civil dis-obedience.”
Feb 19th, 2015 - 04:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Erm.... no it doesn't.
Otherwise these regions are also in “the early stages of civil dis-obedience” as well:
.bayern - Bavaria
.bzh - Brittany
.cat - Catalunya
.cymru - Wales
.eus - Basque, Spain and France
.frl - Friesland
.gal - Galicia
.nrw - North Rhine-Westphalia
.ruhr - Ruhr
.saarland - Saarland
.tirol - Tyrol, Austria and Italy
.vlaanderen - Flanders
.wales - Wales
And there must be riots in these cities:
.berlin - Berlin, Germany
.brussels - Brussels, Belgium
.budapest - Budapest, Hungary
.cologne - Cologne, Germany
.gent - Ghent, Belgium
.hamburg - Hamburg, Germany
.koeln - Cologne, Germany
.london - London, United Kingdom
.madrid - Madrid, Spain
.moscow - Moscow, Russia
.paris - Paris, France
.wien - Vienna, Austria
Let alone New York, Melbourne, Sydney, Tokyo, Vegas and Rio de Janiero.
I know change confuses old people, but there is no reason to panic.
They're just the new top level domain names coming into use.
@ 23 Monkeymagic
Feb 19th, 2015 - 04:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Should Glasgow be vapourised ?”would make more sense.
20 Vestige
Feb 19th, 2015 - 05:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Looks like the early stages of civil dis-obedience.
We all know what that brings. ”
Vestige - you are really reaching !!!
Too funny!!
Do we know “what that brings”??
Well, in your Aryentina, probably nothing.
well it was intended as a bit of a joke.
Feb 19th, 2015 - 06:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0that said, you really should be nicer to the Scots. A pervasive attitude in here seems to be 'well it didn't happen yet and therefore cant'. or 'yeah yeah 45% whateva'.
As one who correctly foresaw a close call referendum resulting in a 'No' campaign win I can tell you that public opinion is what really matters, and Scottish nationalism is without doubt well above 45%.
I say that objectively - changing the political status quo almost always involves a sizable percentage advantage for the 'no' side. Human tendance towards risk aversion in the middle of economic crises saved the 'no' campaign.
Just say it isn't so.
I too need a laugh.
We should ALL be nicer to each other.
Feb 19th, 2015 - 06:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The 45% were a lot of emotionally motivated voters - the majority realised that Nationslist misgivings were out weighed by economic concerns and social security
#21
Feb 19th, 2015 - 06:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I didn't notice any analogy in my post.
The trouble you have is that you fail to notice that the bulk of the Scottish electorate did not advocate the break up either. However don't let that get in the way of your prejudices.
I will find out in May 2016 will I ? What exactly will I find out ? A mass vote for UKIP in England, coming out of the EU and England finding it's former golden age ? As we say here “ Aye, that'll be right”
#25
You and monkeyman are getting more like the prize looney .
By country GVA (Gross value added) per head was highest for England (£21,937), followed by Scotland (£20,013), Northern Ireland (£16,127) and Wales (£15,401).
Feb 19th, 2015 - 06:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0...hardly a poor cousin.....
Does England even have an identity....?
National Emblem..?
National Dress..?
National Musical Instrument...?
...who are these people....?
Does Scotland have an identity....?
Thistle...
Tartan...
Kilt...
Pipes.....;-))))
Why not....Dot Eng.....
Perhaps because they are not so insecure or self absorbed.
Feb 19th, 2015 - 07:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0More like a bunch of mongrels....
Feb 19th, 2015 - 07:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0: ) Better than shagging close family, and creates less centric view.
Feb 19th, 2015 - 07:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0...you have obviously never met my cousin....;-)
Feb 19th, 2015 - 08:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0In the words of Monty Python, this is getting stupid.
Feb 19th, 2015 - 09:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Mercopress throw in articles like this which have NOTHING to do with ANYTHING applicable to S.America because they know it will cause certain posters to start an anti Scottish rant and keep the pot boiling.
If you look at the actual article it is a total non -event and only of passing interest.
England has its own internet presence . It's .UK.
Every time Scotland is mentioned or MP , all the old come out and the mud starts to be thrown ,
Feb 19th, 2015 - 10:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0as a unionist I have no interest in anti--
but I will say this,
Appeasement does not pay, never has done , does not today, and never will do,
We as in the UK government will certainly pay the price of apeasment if the UK breaks,
and if, after the contracts for the type 26 are given and the demise of Portsmouth happens, and the UK breaks apart,
some in parliament should be tried for treason,
that just my opinion.
@1 Paulcedron
Feb 20th, 2015 - 04:56 am - Link - Report abuse 0March 2012: “Scotland is well on the road to independence”- Alex Salmond
18th September 2014: Scotland votes in a referendum 55.3%-44.7% not to become an independent country.
You're a silly clueless child, Paul
Clyde
Feb 20th, 2015 - 08:17 am - Link - Report abuse 0You mistake “anti-scot Nat” with “anti-scot”. I am not sure why.
I am enormously proud of the 55% of Scots who voted No, enormously proud to share a country with them, enormously proud of our shared past and shared ancestors.
I despise most of the 45%. I despise Alex Salmond and hobbit Sturgeon, who have fuel a Nationalist fervour based on lies. In my mind they are no better than CFK and Timmerman, using the lowest common denominator (Nationalism) to peddle propaganda.
The whinging lies of the Nationalist annoy both the English and probably the sane 55%.
There is a whole world of difference between hating Scot Nats and hating Scotland.
If you want to see true racism, listen to Sturgeon.
#25
Feb 20th, 2015 - 01:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Should Glasgow be vapourised ?”would make more sense
If Russia loses the place then it probably will be. We have the privilege of hosting the UK''s stock of nuclear weapons some 30 miles from the city AND the submarine fleet which makes it the no. one target in the event of hostilities.
I don't hear a clamour for this to be relocated in Kent or Essex.
Straight from the press at 1345.... The PM has announced that they have signed an £800 million contract with Bae. to build 13 type 26 frigates on the Clyde.
Hey Clyde take no notice of them....
Feb 20th, 2015 - 02:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I have just taken some pics for you about half an hour ago...
They don't have these views in England....
The last one ...I waited until it was going past exactly where you were born....
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7375/16590882145_f246c34cb3_z.jpg
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7375/16590882145_f246c34cb3_z.jpg
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7375/16590882145_f246c34cb3_z.jpg
Nice looking brigantine.
Feb 20th, 2015 - 03:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 041
Feb 20th, 2015 - 03:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Yeah Pops..I just zoomed in for the name...and Googled it.....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stavros_S_Niarchos
It came in to the Holy Loch late last night and left a a little while ago....
#40
Feb 20th, 2015 - 03:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Nice ship. I'm sure I have seen it before. At a guess I would say you were near Ferry road , on Shore road at Ardnadam when you took that picture, however, the first two seem to have been taken nearer Sandbank and all taken with a medium tele lens which distorts perspective. I'm surprised at snow on the hills as we are totally clear here and there did not seem to be any on Goatfell either...but again, it's been covered in cloud the last few days.
For the record, I could not be bothered going to the Benmore member's day yesterday as the weather was iffy and I have had experience of the ferry being off and having a 120 mile return trip to Ayr. As you know, the “Rest” is also dodgy after rain and that would mean going back via Inverary, Lochawe. Tyndrum and Glasgow...180 miles.
I will wait until March when the garden is in bloom.
@ 29 Clyde15
Feb 20th, 2015 - 04:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Calm down, it was a joke: only half of Glasgow needs to be vapourised.
Now I wonder which half it should be?
:o)
43
Feb 20th, 2015 - 07:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Close Clyde.... I was stood at Lazaretto point, it's the deceiving medium-tele lens that you guessed I was using....
As for the snow...it is the Highlands... goes with the territory....
I've had to go the long way a few times with the landslip on the Rest...tiresome, but scenic, always good to see Kilchurn Castle....
Thought you would appreciate the pic of your childhood home not far behind the ship....fourth along I believe.....
44
That would probably be Glasgow's East End... if anywhere....
Dragon ‘humbled’ as she pays her respects to the lost destroyers of 1982
Feb 20th, 2015 - 08:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Sailors from HMS Dragon paid homage to their forebears by laying wreaths at the isolated monuments to HMS Sheffield and Coventry.
https://navynews.co.uk/archive/news/item/12505
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Another reason you will never get the British Falklands..
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£850m orders placed for equipment for Navy’s next-generation frigates
Whitehall today placed orders with BAE Systems to press ahead with the Type 26 programme – the ships which will begin taking the place of the current Duke-class frigates as workhorses of the Fleet early next decade.
https://navynews.co.uk/archive/news/item/12505
some great new pictures……
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Investing in the Royal Navy – Philip Dunne MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State and Minister for Defence Equipment, Support and Technology
https://navynews.co.uk/archive/news/item/12505
This afternoon the Prime Minister announced a £859 million investment in the Type 26 Global Combat Ship, the Royal Navy’s next generation frigate.
It has been designed to replace the trusty Type 23s, the nation’s safeguard and protector against submarine attack – and much more – since the early 1990s.
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Interesting reading, one of the links will take you there.
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The Defence Debate – why the UK needs to change the subject
https://navynews.co.uk/archive/news/item/12505
An American view, a very nice picture.
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