Show your love for the scottish government

[thinfourth]

I have heard the new BBC scotland is going to have a political program dedicated to scottish issues and the workings of Holyrood

So while england (boo hiss hate) has question time

We will have Don't Question time

Where some SNP politicians will say something and everyone will agree with them and wave some flags and blame the english

[Stevoraith]

They're not daft though.

It's the council tax rises that are angering me at the moment.

I've got a 4bed which happens to be in band G and so (in Fife at least) is subject to a 16% rise come April.
A rise in-line with inflation or thereabouts over the past ten years would have been easy for everyone to swallow and would have brought in more cash but they prefer to grab the headlines and then punish the 'rich'.

But as I said, they're not daft, they know their target audience will not be hit with council tax rises or be affected by the higher rate income tax threshold freeze.

And they win again 'cos said target audience likes the fact that the rich are being targeted cos 'they can afford it anyway'.

[ScottJ-PS]

Just got a letter from Glasgow Cooncul , apparently my wee mid Terrace 2 bed is a band E, and going up 7.5%

[campbell]

Starting to get a bit gutter abusive here. No need for that, surely?

[rossybee]

Starting to get a bit gutter abusive here. No need for that, surely?

I thought I was on facebook for a wee mo

My band G is due a £545 increase. Lovely.

[thinfourth]

Well this is excellent news

http://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/s ... -1-4375361



It is a game changer for the oil services industry.

Out with SDRLs, MTRs, CoCs, PSLs etc

In with blue paint and flags.

[greyrigg]

Oi, don't tar all us central belters with the same brush.

Sorry about that, stereotyping is very dangerous.

Malcolm


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[Rosssco]

Well this is excellent news

http://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/s ... -1-4375361



It is a game changer for the oil services industry.

Out with SDRLs, MTRs, CoCs, PSLs etc

In with blue paint and flags.

Seen that. Their track record in buying and securing "critical infrastructure" such as Preswick airport (costing the tax payer a mere £750k a month) is not a great one. Plus is it a great idea to publicise that you may want / need to buy specific North Sea assets? The current owners and probably smiling at this stage, and added an additional 50% mark-up.. I'm all for supporting the industry, but this seems a little bit of a ham-fisted attempt to potentially stoke more grievance when "the UK Gov won't agree to fund" such a pointless spending splurge..

[BiggestNizzy]

Bad stuff.

Seriously, your advocating the rape of a woman. It's comments like this that are killing this place.

They're not daft though.

It's the council tax rises that are angering me at the moment.

I've got a 4bed which happens to be in band G and so (in Fife at least) is subject to a 16% rise come April.
A rise in-line with inflation or thereabouts over the past ten years would have been easy for everyone to swallow and would have brought in more cash but they prefer to grab the headlines and then punish the 'rich'.

Acording to the bank of England £1 in 2007 is worth £1.27 now as "Inflation averaged 2.7% a year."[BoE] I have never really beleived in the council tax freeze and I do wonder if councils tend to be rather wastefull.

Edited to remove the bad stuff.

[mxvx]

[greyrigg]

The council tax rises are coming from Holyrood with the Scottish government reducing their payments to local authorities. It is all part of the centralisation of government in Scotland. When it suited Holyrood they fined councils who tried to raise council tax, hence the freeze.

Waste seems to be endemic in all government, local or national, and probably reflects the standard of people involved in running the show.

Malcolm


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[Sanjøy]

Bad Stuff

Seriously, your advocating the rape of a woman. It's comments like this that are killing this place.

They're not daft though.

It's the council tax rises that are angering me at the moment.

I've got a 4bed which happens to be in band G and so (in Fife at least) is subject to a 16% rise come April.
A rise in-line with inflation or thereabouts over the past ten years would have been easy for everyone to swallow and would have brought in more cash but they prefer to grab the headlines and then punish the 'rich'.

Acording to the bank of England £1 in 2007 is worth £1.27 now as "Inflation averaged 2.7% a year."[BoE] I have never really beleived in the council tax freeze and I do wonder if councils tend to be rather wastefull.

Arab scum and raping. I don't think SE is for you.

[tut]

bad stuff.

Seriously, your advocating the rape of a woman. It's comments like this that are killing this place.

Am I missing something? Was this actually posted on here and then edited before I read it? If so did the Mods allow it without immediately banning him.

tut

[c8rkh]

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According to the bank of England £1 in 2007 is worth £1.27 now as "Inflation averaged 2.7% a year."[BoE] I have never really beleived in the council tax freeze and I do wonder if councils tend to be rather wastefull.[/quote]

ERm is that right? Does it not mean that what cost you £1 to buy in 2007 will now cost you £1.27 thanks to inflation and if it was 2.7% a year then that needs to be compounded and not just simply multiplied by ten. My comprehensive education in what was at the time, the inferior educational system of England, might be making me get that wrong though.

As for the comments above, they really do not have any place anywhere, and especially not on here. We can have a strong argument, but that really crossed the line.

[BiggestNizzy]

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According to the bank of England £1 in 2007 is worth £1.27 now as "Inflation averaged 2.7% a year."[BoE] I have never really beleived in the council tax freeze and I do wonder if councils tend to be rather wastefull.[/quote]

ERm is that right? Does it not mean that what cost you £1 to buy in 2007 will now cost you £1.27 thanks to inflation and if it was 2.7% a year then that needs to be compounded and not just simply multiplied by ten. [/quote]

http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/educatio ... r/how.aspx

I bow to the BoE on this one to be fair.