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Tories advance in council elections forecasts a strong result for Theresa May on 8 June
British Prime Minister Theresa May said she was “taking nothing for granted” following her Conservative party's good showing in local election results reported on 5 May. The party gained control of 11 councils for a total of 28 and added 559 new councilors across England, Scotland and Wales. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesVoicey's SNP punishment beating didn't happen? Perhaps the populace is saving it up for the general election?
May 08th, 2017 - 07:30 am - Link - Report abuse +1By the way Mercopress, 'north of the English border' is a country called Scotland.
May 08th, 2017 - 09:25 am - Link - Report abuse -1https://wingsoverscotland.com/what-theyre-trying-to-sell-you/#more-94506
This is no success story for SNP...there is No overall control of any mainland council for them, they lost control of Dundee council and only gained six seats...
May 08th, 2017 - 11:06 am - Link - Report abuse +4I did predict Tory gains, but more for the General Election, you need to look at the trend...The Tories gained 161 council seats to the SNP 6 seats...
A Tory victory...especially in Scotland...
Translate that trend to a general Election...
I'm sticking with my guesses...
All the Labour voters have jumped over to Tory, that's basically it. It is another SNP victory. They might loose a Scottish seat or two come June 9th, but nobody cares, - We are still going to be having the next Independence referendum around Oct 2018, - That's the important one.
May 08th, 2017 - 08:54 pm - Link - Report abuse -5The decision is not yours or the SNP's....the decision is made by the UK Govt and it's fair to say the next UK Govt will be a Tory one with a large voting majority...
May 08th, 2017 - 10:40 pm - Link - Report abuse +4There is less appetite for a referendum now than there was for the first and even then you were proved to be in the minority...
Minority....not Majority, you do not represent the people of Scotland or their majority view...Remember that....
Why is it that every Scot I meet here in Surrey and Hampshire is against Scottish independence?
May 09th, 2017 - 07:56 am - Link - Report abuse +2Gordon, having lived in the South they have discovered that instead of the greedy Tory arses and snobs that the Nationalists like to paint us as, we are sane hardworking friendly folk that and they wish to remain in the Union with. And they acknowledge an independent Scotland will really struggle economically.
May 09th, 2017 - 11:25 am - Link - Report abuse +1Voice you are wrong. The majority in Scotland want this referendum. Remember that.
May 09th, 2017 - 06:15 pm - Link - Report abuse -2Got any facts to back that bold statement...?
May 09th, 2017 - 11:02 pm - Link - Report abuse +3...and why are all the most recent polls have the majority backing to remain part of the Union...?
Do you understand the term majority...?
I think you are confusing it with minority....
I think that we are sick to death of the SNP putting a referendum at the top of their priority list. During their tenure, the Scottish education system has been on a terminal decline. The results on literacy are shocking. If they concentrated on their day job instead of their continual harping we would all be grateful.
May 12th, 2017 - 12:40 pm - Link - Report abuse +1As to the expat Scots living and working in the South, of course they are happy. The government is looking after their interests...not necessarily those of Scotland OR the N. of England. There is a London biase to the detriment of the rest of the country.
For example. The proposed HST to Birmingham. This will just make it easier for more traffic heading to London. What use is it to the rest of the UK.
Crossrail. Impressive expensive engineering project. How does this help me or any other part of the UK?
It's the part of the UK that generates most of the wealth that gets the infrastructure investment and that enables that part of the country to generate more wealth to subsidise the rest. Living in South Wales for years I learned it was always 'they' who were expected to invest and do things. In the South it's what can 'we' do, and that makes the South wealthier. Socialists exist in cities and the north.
May 12th, 2017 - 02:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Yes because business and infrastructure are directed there at the expense of the rest of the country. You will end up with a mega city in the S.E. which will eventually collapse under it's own weight as land and water will be insufficient for the population to survive.
May 12th, 2017 - 07:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It doesn't affect me as I have just declared myself as the King of Dalriada by placing my foot on the hollowed out footprint at Dunadd last week. Actually my foot is too big to fit into the footprint. This I interpret that I am even greater than the Gaelic Kings preceding me.
So I expect to be treated with deference in this forum as befitting my Royal status and inherited wisdom !
@The Voice
May 12th, 2017 - 09:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0We all pay taxes, we should all be able to say 'we'. But people in the South East are the ones who believe they control the government, and perhaps they are right.
Wouldn't it be much better to invest in the rest of the country so they can generate their own wealth and stop needing a subsidy? It would be better to increase transport links across the Pennines as that would help the North of England develop instead of just letting yet more people commute to London.
@King Clyde15
Ha, I knew it! Those old kings were totally exaggerating when they claimed their feet were 12 inches long. :)
I have just been informed by my daughter who is a senior officer for Historic Scotland and 20 years ago had Argyll under her jurisdiction, that the footprint is a fake !! It is a copy of the actual footprint on a slab and put over the original to protect it. My wife's foot is size 5 and fitted perfectly.
May 13th, 2017 - 12:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0This makes me a potential usurper and no better than Think and co. who wish to usurp the Falklands from their rightful owners...the UK.
My thoughts are now turning to Old King Cole, the remains of whose castle is reputed to be at Fergus Loch 3 miles inland from me near Coylton. Maybe my heritage is Romano-British and I am the rightful King of Ayrshire more so than Robert the Bruce who was born on what is now part of Trump's golf course at Turnberry. There's a thought to ponder !.
Clyde
May 13th, 2017 - 10:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0When was the fake put there....?
I was up there years ago and my size ten (barefoot) fitted perfectly...and I declared myself King before you...was the carved boar still there...?
Bruce was Norman French decent, his family was based in Yorkshire after the conquest...De Brus...Skelton Castle I believe.
I was doing some research and I once visited a Priory at a place called Guisborough that his family built Robert de Brus...
I then went on to visit the scene of The Battle of the Standard (1138) where there was a Brus on both sides (Father/Son) Scots/English and a place called Scots Pits Lane where 11500 Scots were buried from the battle...
...just sayin...
I will have to ask -she who knows-about the date. I can't say I noticed a boar carving. I was too busy trying to keep my footing in a half gale. The only things I can remember were the well just below the summit and the various Historic Scotland notice boards.
May 14th, 2017 - 08:47 am - Link - Report abuse 0We gave the Kilmartin grave stones a miss as there were too many people about.
I can remember lying on one of them and falling asleep after an all-night drive to get there way back in 1965.
As to King Cole -who knows. He appears in the annals of Ayrshire in the mid 1800's but may just be as mythical as King Arthur.
However, an American lady “archaeologist” has spent years proving that Camelot was actually Greenan Castle near the Heads of Ayr and Arthur and his court lived there a century after the Romans quit Britain.
Thatcher cancelled the IDC policy that restricted companies that wanted to grow to the region's. That's when the economy in the SE took off. Entrepreneurs exist all over the UK and too many head for London and the South East. It's got a lot to do with families too, a family history of enterprise spurs people on. In S Wales that spirit was largely absent. The red hotspot at the moment is Hoxton and Shoreditch with their knowledge industries, it's not all about financial business. If people in other parts of Britain can prove they can use investment, they can get it, nothing stopping them. Government schemes have little to do with enterprise, they never have. Where they do have an effect on is paying for 'screwdriver' plants like Nissan that import most of the components and assemble them. IMO we should not be concentrating on that.
May 14th, 2017 - 11:02 am - Link - Report abuse 0For once I think you have a point. It's true that there is a limited amount governments can do to create enterprise and industry, and new businesses are attracted to areas where there is already expertise. Sometimes a new industry will grow up around a university so this could be a good thing for the government to put money into, and better connections among the smaller cities can make them a more viable place to invest. Either way there are not many jobs for unskilled people though. In the US people have voted for Trump to essentially give them 'screwdriver' factories and I agree with you that it is not a good way to go. But I don't know what the solution is.
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