Jonah Curses Fife Constituency
Kirkcaldy used to be a prosperous town. The birth place of Adam Smith was once a booming hub of industrial Fife. Then Gordon took over as the town’s MP. His SNP opponent highlights just how bad things have become:
“The claimant count unemployment rate in Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath is now higher than the Fife average, which in turn, is higher than the Scottish average. The four wards in Fife with the highest rates of unemployment (Smeaton, Valley, Ballingry and Sinclairtown) are all in Gordon Brown’s constituency. And all four have unemployment rates nearly three times the Scottish average.”
Elsewhere in the constituency things are also looking bleak: “Some 9835 Fifers were claiming job seeker’s benefit last month — which is 4.4% of the population and 2263 more than at the same time in November 2008.”
A staggering 45% of Gordon’s constituents are either on the dole or paid from the public purse.
That is becuase Gordon Brown is a spazzer
“I am a monster: What Defence Minister’s niece ‘told police after slashing lover’s throat’”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1242296/Jessica-Davies–I-monster-What-Defence-Ministers-niece-told-police-slashing-lovers-throat.html
She is ashen-faced, according to the Daily Mail. Probably sick as a parrot as well.
Moral: do not go around cutting people’s throats, for it will end in tears.
Quentin does have a rather nice Bell tower to lock her up in.
Ding Dong! Avon calling!
Coz let’s face it love you need all the help you can get!
‘failed model’ hee hee hee – ‘murderous minger’ would perhaps be more accurate.
Which one is Jessica and which one is Quentin?
So you might say Quentin’s got an old bell tower and she’s an old belter ??
you might
I’d sooner have her in bed with no clothes on than you in your best suit.
You might want to sleep with both eyes open though Bert.
Not entirely. The job-seeker’s claimant count at 4.4% is laughably low. This has been achieved by the simple expedient of ‘employing’ practically everybody with a pulse to work for the council, the NHS, Scottish National Heritage, Scottish this, Scottish that etc etc.
Then rinse and repeat for the whole of Scotland. If the UK is fucked (and it is – by Christ is it ever) then Scotland (and NI) are the Uber-fucked bits. The bits with lashings of extra fuckedness bought with squillions of extra borrowed and printed pounds.
Racist twat.
Again.
The truth hurts.
Are the Scotch a race?
Discuss.
If they are they’re in line for the wooden spoon.
Aye the truth does hurt. So its about time you cut the link rather than complaining which you do ever so well… and in thanks for cutting us off, you can keep Gordon.
It’s not surprising Gordon’s lot can only now fight political campaigns by means of deception and dirty tricks ( http://cogitodexter.wordpress.com/2010/01/11/despicable-underhand-below-the-belt/ ) – there’s nothing else they can do since the evidence of their own record is so ghastly.
The Scots are
cnuts celts.Susie,
I’m a Scot, but won’t mind your comments if you can tell me what HTML tags you use for the scorethru type?
Honestly! I’m really interested.
I’ve tried various tags but none of them work.
Go on hen!
Tell us!
And may God bless your little Sassenach bottom fur noo. lol!
THE GORD’S PRAYER
Our Pariah, which art in Downing Street,
Hated be thy name.
Thy government come,
Our Nation’s wealth go, in 2010 as in the 1970’s.
Give us this day our daily soundbites
And forgive us our tirading against those who tyrannise against us
And lead us not into another term of office,
But deliver us from evil
For thine is the catastrophe, the penury and the gloom
For ever and ever. Amen.
Now, let us share with each other the sign of piss-off you incompetent Labour arseholes.
Try going onto the BBc iPlayer site & finding “BBC England”.
Go on.
The only racist twats are the jock junta, the Scottish Raj, the Tartan tyranny in Westminster & their underlings at the BBC who have shown that it is ok to be a racist bigot as long as it is directed at the English.
Now fuck off.
Yes please. We’d like that. Could you talk to your MP and arrange it. I’ll even let you call us twats. Its a small price to pay…
-don’t forget to take your share of the British national debt with you though
byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Wow, what a constructive answer.
Not hard to spot the Scots and/or Guardian readers here.
the only thing good to come of of scotland in the last 100 years is ‘Whisky Galore’ and that’s an Ealing Comedy!!
Not just whiskey — lovely Fair Isle knitting, tartan, cashmere, smoked salmon and porridge.
I”m very fond of all of them.
It is not racist it is tribal and he has my full support . You wank bucket
It is not even tribal. It is simply the truth. It is no more controversial than ‘The earth travels around the Sun’.
@Four eyes
Please explain how post number 8 is in any way racist you imbecile. Nowhere does it speak ill of anyone of a different race – such accusations are only made by thick as pigshit clowns like you who know that there’s some truth being spoken that you can’t actually argue against, so you go straight for the slander of accusing someone of being racist.
It depresses me that I have to share my oxygen with wastes of space like you.
It’s SNP-think. The SNP is a crowd of anti-English racists and so they assume that anybody who isn’t 100% SNP must be anti-Scottish racists.
Poor old Scotland – stuck between the devil of Labour and the deep blue sea of the SNP.
No place for sane men.
Christ I didn’t know you owned the oxygen – stick it on my gas bill would you
The Oxygen bill is already on your gas bill. What do you think CO2 surcharges and taxes and carbon credits are all about?
You are now paying for your oxygen.
Don’t forget Wales.
£7,000 in Barnett Formula cash for every man woman and child in Wales – a total of £21 billion each year.
Do they raise this much in taxes? DTF.
The sooner England dumps the deadweight of the Celtic Countries, the better.
And Newcastle. And Hull.
Anyine know how many people are economically active in Wales?
Bradford. Birmingham. Slough. Bognor Regis. Hastings. Most of inner London. There are bits of Brighton that aren’t very nice, too.
@English Radical.
Not sure, but I think rope-sellers are doing very well.
Think that is below the belt. You will be suggesting that anything North of Watford is problematical next. Think there are many areas of the City, Gtr London, and the Home Counties that have their fair share of Social and Economic issues. Last time I was in Worthing, it had a real smell of decay. Same goes for Herne Bay. Pretty sure that some parts of the SE are void of economic self sufficiency. Where are you actually going to draw your line jgm2?
Worthing? My kids were born in Worthing. The town almost had a ticker-tape parade. Most folk go to Worthing to die.
and welwyn garden city
Was middlesbrough omitted for a special reason?
@English Radical
Professor Dylan Jones-Evans, who is Director of Research and Innovation at Cardiff University (and a Welshman in despair) estimated 60% of all new jobs in Wales in the first half of the decade were in the public sector. Wales does not have an economy, it simply re-distributes the Barnett cash.
Is this a bad thing? Not if you work in the publice sector it’s not.
As an example, go to any of the brand new steel and glass public sector buildings in Wales and count the number of high-spec VW and Renault cars in the car park. Ask yourself two questions. Who paid for the buildings and why are there so many rather smart cars there? The answers are simple. The English paid for the buildings through their enterprise; manufacturing, exports and the City, and the cars are lease cars driven by the very same Welsh public sector managers who claim to have no money to grit the roads, provide care for older people, or keep our communities safe.
The whole thing is a 22 carat scam, and if you’re English, and paying taxes, your paying for it all.
sic – make the you’re
Why? Why might this be the case?
Because once Brown was elected, why would he care? He has exactly the same problem with being Prime Minister. Once he managed to lie and cheat his way in to the position of Prime Minister, why would he care?
To borrow from a recent popular song: “He does nothing, Brown does nothing…”
You see, Brown has no capacity beyond the wanting. Rather like someone who, having spent years wooing someone, dumps them as soon as they are wooed.
It does show a certain mental lack, doesn’t it? A personality flaw?
Jeez, I am having trouble today. FFS – you’re
As the Barnett formular was written on the back of a packet of cigarettes, surely it should have been acompanied by a government health warning.
Cut the fuckers off, parasites to the west of us, parasites to the North and the French below, no fucker even Hitler would want to buy that flat.
Economically active people in Wales? It’s an oxymoron.
Surely there’s loads on sickness and disability benefits too ??
A retired GP friend of mine was recruited to check and assess sickness benefit claimants. He passed two of them, both long-term unemployed, as fit for work and was sacked immediately from the medical panel. It’s not pc to pass any scrounger as fit – far better to let them live off the tax-payer until the end of their days. That way, they’ll vote every time for the One-Eyed Scottish Nutter.
Even if someone on DLA is passed as fit to work and has their benefits stopped, they only have to whine repetitively for a week or two to get the benefit re-instated.
Yes; it’s called repetitive whine injury.
The traditional primary and tertiary sectors of Industrial Fife have long ceased as major employers. The infrastructure is not great and Tertiary sectors prefer Edinburgh or Glasgow. However they have the misfortune of having The worst Prime Minister ever as their MP. Fiddle the figures rather than trying to do something about it.
Anecdotally something like 60-70% of those in work on the West Coast of Scotland are employed in the public sector. Obviously there are mitigating factors for this and it is not like other areas of the UK full of dole scroungers, just a reality that there are not many private sector opportunities.
Public sector firms cannot compete with the government rates of pay in Scotland.
Council workers in Fife get the same rates of pay as council workers in London.
I used to live in (fucking) Dunfermline. Prior to the last election Lexmark (the printer maker) closed their operations after the Scottish government removed the 2500 quid per worker bribe they were making to the company. Naturally the workers didn’t want to take a paycut but then – with Dunfermline property prices bing half the UK average they should never have been getting that kind of money to bolt a few components together in the first place. The only reason this level of pay is seen as reasonable is ‘cos the public sector ‘workers’ are all on the same rate as their contemporaries in the south of England.
Scotland’s competetive advantage (shit weather = nobody wants to live there = lower wages = cheap manufacturing base) is completely annihilated by the go-to jobs being well-paying, seven weeks hliday a year public sector jobs. Private firms cannot compete.
+ the regulation 30-40 days paid sick leave!!
Maybe with an LVT instead of transfer(income, corp, NI, dividend) taxes the whole country could sort out some distortions.
My private sector job’s paid sick leave was 10 days.
If the Scots want independence they can have it.
As soon as we rebuild Hadrians wall to prevent raiding and pillaging across the border, we’ll cut them free.
But they won’t, for all the sabre-rattling and Braveheart quotations by the SNP, they know deep down, that without the Act of Union they are helpless.
For the Scots, the union is an economic and social godsend. The economic value of the oilfields has gone; paid out to the shareholders of BP. Industry has gone; shipbuilding on the Clyde was destroyed by the greedy Union barons. Those Union Chiefs have done very well, while the workers are now dying off in poverty.
New Labour has failed. The “heir to Blair” will be no better.
what about Berwick, it’s in England?
Luckily for them – it is.
So is the whole of Northumberland – Hadrian’s Wall runs along the Tyne, not the Tweed!
I think actually it is in both Scotland and England.
Since no-one knew for sure, Berwick declared war on Germany in 1939 seperate from the Home nations.
However at the end of WW2 Berwick did not sign the peace treaty.
Berwick thus remained officially at war with Germany until the error was noticed — in 1987.
Cybic – every sentence you wrote is wrong.
At the risk of repeating myself ad-nauseam. Yes please.
But the problem with democracy is that the English (80%) need to vote the Scots (10%) out of the union.
So get the fuck on with it.
@Jock McJock
Agree. 750,000 of us on Facebook stopped the Islam4Uk march in Wootten Bassett, and we coud do the same for English independence.
Cybic – at the end of WWII there was an armistice, but no peace treaty.
As soon as they up the price for booze in Scotland expect to see raiding parties of drunk scots buying up beer in England. I am going to the borders to set up a Mars Bar frying machine empire.
Like all Gingers, Scots should be exterminated. I wonder if McMental has any Ginger Hairs, we know his spunk receptor the twittering fragrant Sarah has a ginger minge, same colour as Salmon pink inside and smells the same
You don’t honestly think that the one-eyed poofter has actually had any kind of sexual relationship with his “wife”, do you? Gordo only got the “wife” in the vain hope of hiding his real sexuality. This is “Standard Operating Procedure” for all of “New Labour’s” undeclared homosexuals (and there are a lot of them).
Interesting concept, but as an Indepedent in the EU they will get the same benefits as now with an extra 20% levy for the English who will still have to pay for it.
Net effect= More money for the EU
I say give the Welsh a little more devolution and Northern Ireland and have them ask the question if they want to be full members of teh EU.
When they all say yes, which they will we ask the ENglish if we want to leave the EU. The result will be we leave and jettiison the parasites and get rid of teh Northern Irish question overnight.
The Plan
Don’t forget why the Acts of Union came about. England did not ask Scotland to join the Union, Scotland wanted it,partly due to financial problems. The Acts added 398K in compensation to the National Debt for the Darien scheme.
Naw, yae did actually
Scotlands debt came from a failed attempt to colonise Panama. They wanted an empire and it bankrupted them.
You should really read upon history
You would find that it WAS England that invited Scotland to join
as they proposed the treaty of Union, which became Act in both parliaments.It was Scottish Lords and Nobles that were conned and bribed into accepting the Treaty.
As for the failed Darien scheme, it was in fact a brilliant idea allthough not thought through as the Scots had not bargained for the likes of King Billy screwing them for his own self interests
“The bits with lashings of extra fuckedness bought with squillions of extra borrowed and printed pounds.”
Which the majority will pay for, while the inhabitants of accursed Fife will enjoy said squillions…
“A staggering 45% of Gordon’s constituents are either on the dole or paid from the public purse”
Sadly that’s low for Scotland.
Just how Labour like it. Who would you vote for if you lived there? Certainly wouldn’t be for a party that’s going to make them get a job and pay their way!
oh do fuck up jgm2, you boring c’unt!!
Work??
WORK???????
Fifers wouldn’t work supposing you gave them Epsom Salts!!!!!
And how many of those “employed” are in pretend government jobs, diversity officers, insulation inspectors, rubbish collection gestapo, thought-crime monitors etc.
Plus there will soon be a whole new class of jobs no doubt for those who need a “free” laptop from gordon supplied. Really makes me happy that I work and spend my own money to buy a computer. Gordon is a twat.
More Climate Change co-ordinators than gritters. Says it all really.
Kirkcaldy residents angry at icy pavements
Councillors and members of the public have complained about icy pavements and empty grit bins over the past two weeks, as freezing conditions continue across Fife
http://www.fifetoday.co.uk/news/Kirkcaldy-residents-angry-at-icy.5946931.jp
The Prime Minister has said the Government is working closely with the emergency services, local authorities and all the relevant agencies to minimise the disruption caused by the snow and keep the public safe.
http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page22089
Don’t worry.
That nice man Jim Murphy will be around your house to have a wee cup of tea with you.
With his sweater on – a suit is far to scary, especially when worn with his “screaming skull” facemask that he fondly sports.
Gordon, get the Window lickers to lick the pavements and roads clean!!
Actually you will find this is a subtle attack on the SNP Government
as the Fife Today paper is part of Johnson Press, which also owns the Scotsman and is very anti SNP
The Fife council is SNP I think and the handling of the salt and grit is with the Scottish Government, who unfortunately have to work with the UK Government in obtaining supplies. What the UK Government failed to appreciate is that the Artic weather has been in Scotland a lot longer than the home counties of England, so have been using up salt/grit at a higher rate
THIS POWER CRAZEY BASTARD IS NEEDING PUT OUT HIS MISERY.IMAGINE HIM DOING A RUNNER ART A VENUE BECAUSE THE AUDIENCE WOULDN’T STAND UP AND APPLAUD HIM?
WHAT A FU(KING EGO FOR A ZOMBIE…
sorry for the ‘e’ in crazy
A “spazzer” ?
Hang on a moment, this really is NOT on !……………………………………..Oh, I’ve just thought about it,yep, spazzer is a good word !
When did he do this runner ? I missed that, please elaborate Mr Nice.
Fools Gold – Stone Roses
Has to be Gorgons all time favourite track.
But of course – without his ‘client base’ voters how on earth would Brown continue to hold onto his seat?
Is anybody surprised?
So that all generations understand the situation, he never had a MoJo,
Maybe his feckless constituents should get off their lazy fat arses and vote the bong-eyed-Hunt out at the next election !
Now there is a challenge to start – Gordon losing his seat ! How do we encourage the Fifer’s to act ?
Bribery.
We need to pay them more than they get from the dole.
The SNP are doing their best to promise just that.
More money for doing the same fuck-all – Vote SNP!
Is this down to “Jonah Brown” syndrome?
Does he visit on a regular basis?
was there during summer
“but what worries me is not the shortage of grit for the roads, but the near total lack of that grittiness for which we Brits were once renowned.
About the only leading politican to show any these days seems to be the much-abused Prime Minister Brown. Grittiness and the stiff upper lip seem to have been replaced with emotional incontinence, political correctness and open-necked shirts worn with well cut suits.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/normantebbit/100021822/a-shortage-of-grit-youre-telling-me/
I guess Norman does not rate Call me Dave then
Nurse, nurse! I have wet myself again.
Norman is doing his bit to make sure that Labour jump into the turgid waters of the election with the millstone still tied round their neck.
Credit where credit is due. Nice to see a tory talking sense for a change.
A reminder that the party wasn’t always run by the cast of Brideshead Revisited.
Dave will do a good job.
Because he will do what he’s told to do by Lord Ashcroft’s chosen MPs.
100+ of them – all very much right of centre and all voting the same way.
It will be futile for Dave if he attempts to resist.
The whips will effectively be chosen by, and will support the agenda, of the group.
The new bloc will push through ITS OWN agenda – Dave will simply rubber stamp these policies.
He will be an excellent figurehead.
The result will be good for our nation (at long last)
Labour had Mandleson.
The tories will have a new “director” – but far more powerful.
And Gordon has been working hard to bring that economic ‘success’ to the rest of the country…
… and to vote him out of power now would put the recovery in freefall.
Jeez
Let him join them!
Socialist government is about managing activity in such a way as to leave untouched their clients’ status quo: the very last thing they want is to have their power base successfully lifted up out of the swamp of failure and thus out of their clammy grasp.
Exactly. A high claimant count means a high Labour vote. This is feudal politics.
Why I’ve always supported a national education curriculum which makes it mandatory for every child to study basic Economics.
Anyone who truly understands the need for a private sector/productivity/financial budgets etc within society would deeply question the kind of policies that have virtually ruined our country (yet again).
Aye, lad. Think on’t.
But thee’s a bugger with them calendars.
Shut it, Shadders…
They”re not going to vote for successful government they might have to work for a living!
The right to vote should be removed from any person who has been on the dole or benefits for more than 12 months straight. That may help cut the ground from under the Client State.
The franchise was linked to paying taxes in the US until that law/whatever was repealed in the late 50s/early 60s. Reason for the change of heart? Very few African Americans were taxpayers.
Praise The Lord
Start with all those in prison, then move on to 1st generation immigrants.
Perhaps – but that may only act as an incentive for any Socialist Government to introduce more “new deal” employment measures to ensure nobody is out of work for more than 11 months.
Don’t forget how slippery these nation f*cking creatures can be.
Meanwhile the only sane labour MP speaks on the same platform as David Cameron:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6983597.ece
CMD`s speech was at the marxist think tank Demos….birds of a feather….
Worth reading.
Sensible comments from Frank Field and DC.
A good idea remains a good idea regardless of who suggested it.
What chance that SNP chap unseating gordon at the next election?
45% on dole/public sector – perfect Labour voters = no chance.
Drug addled, Buckfast swilling scroungers hold him up as a hero probably
And it is this constituency – 70% on the dole or ‘employed’ by the state that the SNP has to attempt to get on-side. Which they do by the simple expedient of promising the locals even more free stuff funded with magic money.
If you think the UK is bad with Labour trying to make the entire population benefit junkies with ‘tax credits’ and suchlike then the end-game is already upon the folk of Scotland. The two main political parties are now engaged in a race to promise ever more unfunded free stuff to their ‘Stepford Voters’.
I wept so much that in the end I left. And my only regret is that when I had all that cash in the bank I didn’t turn it all into gold and keep on going.
It’s fucked.
The UK’s economy is FUBAR.
As one of a family of six children who were all born and raised in the Valley ward of Kirkcaldy over the past 40 years… look beyond the figures! I can say that none of us are on the dole, we’re all earning well above the national average wage and not all paid from the public purse (by the way, what’s wrong with that – as a leading scientist, most of my funding comes from the public purse, but the wealth generation that is delivered both in terms of pratical outputs and education of next generation scientists is probably greater than most can claim). Kirkcaldy has vastly improved as a place to live from when I was growing up and all the pits and industry were being closed down.
the problem is that a lot of people in Kirkcaldy and many other areas of the UK need it drummed into them that they may have to MOVE to find work – sitting on your backside in Kirkcaldy or anywhere else on the dole because ‘ all your family live there’ is not good enough – loads of us have moved for work. 45% on the dole etc is a disgrace – it should be a last chance saloon to claim the dole – not a first choice.
Some of us even changed country in order to be able to earn a living!
Did you vote for Mr Brown, please?
Yes The sons of Miners have a lot to thank Margaret Thatcher for. No early death for them.
And does she receive any thanks?
No, not one. They have all retrained (at the public expense), most have moved on to build successful careers and live a healthy life.
Nor does she receive any thanks from the millions of constituents who did not spend every winter since freezing their bollocks off in their unheated, electricity-free homes because Comrade Scargill decided to have another strike over the Christmas period.
‘Cos he fancied a bit more money.
actually, Scargill was working for MI5
That’ll come as a bit of a surprise to himself and Jack Jones then. They thought they were working for the KGB.
exactly. couldn’t have done much worse for his union, could he?
‘His’ union did alright out of the gig. It was the members who got thoroughly fucked over by following the hairdressser’s error down his jackass route of destruction.
And the actual miners of the time.
My first husband’s uncles were miners in Tenby in their mid to late forties. When I commiserated with them about the pits closing etc… they laughed and said it was the best thing that had ever happened to them.
They formed a syndicate and clubbed together their redundancy money to buy some land in Pembrokeshire and opened a holiday park. They’ve never looked back.
“a leading scientist”
=code for AGW funding jockey?
cancer research
Or code for “big-headed, self-aggrandizing twat”? Who is funded by us. And whose research, if applied, will generate “wealth” in the US, Germany or Japan, since his heroes in the UK government are complete fucktards and never invest in British ingenuity.
Not ALL of you are working in the Public Sector. That must be OK then.
a nurse and a cancer researcher – I’d say important jobs. No, none of us are diversity co-ordinators or such like. All employed and contributing positively to society
Good for you, but you’re in the minority.
Many important jobs are assumed by the state, the problem being of course is that the state’s interests and the interests of the people it is supposed to serve are often not the same. Incidentally I was under the impression cancer research was mostly in the private and/or third sector rather than under direct state control?
Both Jobs that shouldn’t be run by the state.
Apols AC1 – quite right.
I should have clarified that the state snaffled the jobs for their own purposes and not because “its the right thing to do”.
“as a leading scientist,”
In what field and who says that you are? It’s a comparative and entirely subjective view.
“most of my funding comes from the public purse,”
Really, any from the private sector at all. If so what proportion and how much?
“but the wealth generation that is delivered both in terms of pratical outputs and education of next generation scientists is probably greater than most can claim).”
Garbage. Where’s your evidence for this sweeping generalisation and assumption? Name your field, demonstrate your particular impact on that field, and show how ‘pratical outputs and education’ actually increases the GDP.
If you can do none of this then you are a shyster, clinging to the teat of public revenues. Take your hands of my wallet.
I think he claims to be a cancer researcher. As cancer is mainly a disease of age, this will allow retired people to live longer, but this will transfer more money from those who aren’t retired (i.e. workers) and will probably depress the economy.
If so, then he’s responsible for even more government expenditure than he’s already leeching from the public purse. When do I see a real return on my cash?
As another cancer scientist I have to agree with Unsworth, cancer research is extremely bad value for money. The vast sums that have been wasted in this area of medical research have provided disproportionately few clinical benefits. If the self-important Fifer is reading this, s/he would do well to go to Pubmed, insert Clayton and Rowbotham as search terms and read up a little on the history of medicine and cancer. Then s/he might understand why the bulk of current research is such a waste of time and resources.
Yep, it’s the historical (hysterical?) glamour attached to Cancer which is such a huge con. The fear of the ‘incurable’ has a certain frisson or excitement, does it not? But the wider question might be – why is it necessary or desirable to prolong lifespans? There are very good arguments for not doing so.
Congratulations my friend – you’re one in a gazillion ~ and you’re also smart enough to know that the average jock is one worthless fecker ~ btw didn’t I pay for you education?
And I’m sure you’ll be first to admit that yours is not a “typical” local family, yes ?
I support your Science bias, however.
Areas such as Science funding demand financial ringfencing as, like most of the private sector, they create wealth or at least fair opportunities for wealth.
Why we support ringfencing of areas such as NHS and Schools Education, for instance, is beyond me.
Both are vastly over financed and inefficient, offering little in way of value for money to the taxpayer – to be promised anything less than drastic cuts ought to be an outrage.
Sorry to spoil a good story but Kirkcaldy has been a dump for all my adult life and predates Gordon Brown’s tenure as MP.
I have been to Kirkcaldy (and Burntisland and Cowdnbeath and Dunfermline and Lochgelly and all over Fife) and I can confirm that it is unfair to single out Kirkcaldy as a shithole.
The whole of Fife is one giant rain-soaked pit of despond. The only thing that keeps the folk of Fife going is the thought that there are people in Alloa and Dundee who are worse off. ‘Cos it’s even shitter there.
I think you are unfair on fife. Have you seen cumbernauld?
I’ve read abot Cumbernauld but thankfully I don’t believe I’ve ever been there. Is that another one of those places with a giant ASDA with an entire aisle devoted to ‘Tonic Wine’ (Buckfast)?
Asda is too upmarket for Cumbernauld.
I’ll admit I probably haven’t been. But you go through it if you’re aiming for the M6. Friends of ours ended up there as refugees from the eastern block in 1970. They moved, quickly.
I do like scotland, but when i go I make sure I have enough food,water,fuel, and caffeine to get past the flattish bit in the middle.
Ardrossan, Greenock, Shotts, Bathgate, Airdrie to name a few
I enjoy the shooting at Mullardoch and Glen Afric, plus Killin is a pretty village. Edinburgh is a one-eyed man in a kingdom of Blunketts.
I put the ‘dross’ in Ardrossan and the ‘irk’ in Kirkcaldy.
Any idea what I put into SHunthorpe ?
I should have said SCLINTHORPE, of course.
Add Armadale – no, don’t just add it – put it at the top of the list.
Those places are like Las Vegas compared to Coatbridge, Lanarkshire. The spiritual home of Buckfast, white baseball caps, sectarianism (IRA), East German style socialism and the ugliest women in the northern hemisphere. ‘Nuke it from orbit, it’s the only way to be sure’
Fife is a strange place.
For each shithole no hope town like Kirkaldy, there is a nice little seaside village.
The East Neuk is lovely, as are places like Aberdour etc (Got married in Aberdour castle)
But granted, the majority of places like Kelty, Dollar, Dunfermline etc are crap.
But it isn’t just Scotland, last year taking the train back from Paddington to Cheltenham, the train stopped at,in order, Slough, Reading ,Didcot and Swindon. Believe me I know these places and they are four of the grottiest dumps in the western world, cesspits for the modern hoodies,illegals and chavs and other assorted Labour voters.
I think you were lucky the train didn’t stop in Bracknell.
Actually, Didcot is the largest town in a Tory constituency (Ed Vazey, Wantage) and most of the town’s councillors on the County and District Councils are Tory too.
Hey! Dollar isn’t crap. It, and surrounding area, are excellent. You will be telling me that Gleneagles is crap next (its just up Glendevon from Dollar).
Gleneagles is crap.
At least the people of Dundee can throw together a good cake. Even when there are no almonds they can use false fingernails.
Hahaha
Dundee Town Motto is
Actually St Andrews and Cupar are rather nice.
What is it with Scotland and pebbledash. Every building apart from their ‘Parliment’ is pebbledashed. Do they not teach their bricklayers how to pointing? Are they afraid of a nice brick wall. Will their home be burned to the ground by socialists if it does not look like social housing in the same way that Pol Pot killed people who wore glasses and were therefore suspected intellectuals?
Keeps out the wind
Keeps the bricks from getting frost-damaged and having to rebuild their houses every 10 years. I agree though – I hate pebble-dashing but it’s not so bad if the fuckers simply white-wash it every two or thre years.
It’s the grey, unpainted, drab, bleak oh-fuck-I-remember-why-I-left-now….
No no — the “pebbledash” consists of a coating of peanuts and various alcoholic drinks (like meths) spewed up each evening by the inhabitants since about 1831.
and of couse you got the newsnight gig Kirsty.
Cumbernauld, Greenock and the like are the home of “Scottish Municipal Architecture.”
Drab, grey, angular and ugly beyond belief.
Labour have done for Industrial Scotland what myxamatosis did for rabbits.
Poor natural building materials, plenty of porous stone I suspect
This is exactly why labour might do bettern in the polls than anticipated: large parts of the electorate have effectively been bribed by means-tested benefits and/or public sector employment schemes with generous pensions.
Add postal votes.
Add disappearing voter registers.
Add the fact that labour requires i think 7,000 votes per seat less than the conservatives, given boundaries.
And it’s clear that the election is not in cameron’s bag.
The tories need a lot of activists to get the postal votes out and to guard ballot boxes if votes are not counted straight away (PS note: there even have been complaints that last year in Glenrothes the vote counting tables were not all that clearly to see).
You’re damn right!
I think UN observers should be called in for the GE.
If Labour think they can get away with it, they will commit electoral fraud on a massive scale. I have no doubt of it.
I notice that some wards are saying they won’t actually declare on the night, because the huge increase in applications for postal votes (wtf?) would make it impractical. They are already managing expectations of late results and ‘hanging chads’.
The spirit of Glenrothes will be abroad come the election.
This is the real issue. You are right. Opionon polls? Irrelevant. Nulabour are the political wing of the British people. This gives them the right to do what it takes to remain in power. I do not trust this election to be fair for one minute.
I was working abroad at the last GE and I applied for a postal vote. They wouldn’t send it to me at my foreign address, they’d only send it to my empty UK address, and only “about a week” before the GE. So no chance of a friend popping in and forwarding it to me.
So in order to vote postally, I’d have had to fly back to England “about a week” before the GE, sit around, earning nothing, waiting for the postal vote form, which I’d then pop in the post before flying back to work.
Postal votes are only useful if your name’s Abdul and you want to supervise your wives’ (Labour) votes.
I have requested my Con MP advise re UN oversight of election, not possible because not requested by main parties!
If things are bad now, wait till the full affects of NuLab being in charge of education for 13 years kicks in.
So, UN monitoring not possible because the major protagonists of any electoral shenanigans have not asked for it? FFS!
How do the UN manage to monitor elections in the most corrupt shit holes in the world? Do the politicians there congenially agree to have the UN come in and monitor their shams?
Incredible.
The UN Monitoring teams are deployed to guarantee that the Fat Controller’s party/candidate gets “elected”.
Running a country is not to be entrusted to popular choice you know !
This is the very basis upon which our beloved EUSSR is being run.
Yep, The UN is the USSR on steroids.
The risk is probably not that high, becuase fraud is most likely where Labour is dominant and would win anyway.
Where other parties are in with a chance there will be plenty of hawkeyed observers about, (if they have any sense).
Plenty of hawkeyed observers about? Who are they exactly? And what weight do they carry? Unless it’s the UN monitors, then they carry precisely NO weight.
Elections are won and lost in marginals, not the Labour or Tory heartlands.
Expect the postal vote in Labour marginals to skyrocket.
The Muslim wives will put in a good showing, and I expect the recently dead will make the effort too.
It’s going to be a dirty one.
“UN observers” They see only that which they which to see.
Well I ‘wiched’ to see a coherent comment, but alas…
While the UN monitors might be less than perfect, I’d rather they cast a scrutinizing eyeball over the forthcoming GE than nobody at all – which is the likely scenario.
Sorry. The second “which” should read “wish”,but I am sure you understood my meaning Electoral.
They used to make things that people wanted to buy (lino), and now they don’t.
That sounds like most of industrial UK.
er, who wants to buy lino?
Gordon Brown is lower than Lino.
visitors from the past.
Some lino is really cool these days….whoops…sorry, just bored myself to death..
Don’t knock linoleum. It’s a great product, way better than most kitchen and bathroom floor coverings you get.
I prefer oil cloth.
Back in the old days, when people received a decent education and before Labour came to power, I attended Kirkcaldy College. I loved Kirkcaldy a vibrant place full of lovely, warm people. Happy Days.
It saddens me to think Kirkcaldy is no longer the thriving place it once was.
Can you name ANYWHERE in the country that is as vibrant as it was ?
Everything and everywhere is fukced utterly.
This is The Mental One’s main objective, he’s been getting on with his Jobbee in totally destroying the entire country’s wealth, identity, culture and future – to deliver us to the mercy of the faceless automaton called Europe.
I’ll bet that the No.10 bunker is busy working away at a scheme to announce no more elections are required, we are now a sub-set of greater europe, the machine will make the right decisions for the benefit of the greater good..
It’s so Orwellian, anyone know if our Tone is sharing the same DNA as Eric ?
’1984′ was written in Scotland by an increasingly sick and consumptive Orwell…
I happened to take a detour to a town in the east midlands the other day. Hoon’s constituency. Thats as vibrant as it was in 1998.
The only things that vibrate are faulty exhaust pipes.
I’d been working in Norway for a couple of years until last August. When I got back to Aberdeen, I saw that it had become enriched and, as a result, is more vibrant. The police certainly seem to think so.
Nor are the people.
Gordon has kept his promises to his consituents. When he asked what their “aspirations” were thety said.
“sit at home, get piad by the English to do fuck all”
He’s delivered
A staggering 45% of Gordon’s constituents are either on the dole or paid from the public purse.
Laptops all round then. Gordon is determined to get re-elected.
I saw the item on the Labour Broadcasting Corporation too – where Gordon and Ed were donating laptops the nice ethnic family of two kids and Mum who had been “invited” into Downing Street for this initiative.The only condition of getting one of these “free”(sorry paid for by taxpayers )laptops is of course that you must commit to astroturfing blogs such as this on behalf of Labour for at least two hours daily
I prommisst to rite nise thinks abowt Mistu Brwon but I kant fidn the ‘any’ key
Gordon must have an aversion to white people.
In a crowd of 100s he always makes a beeline for the only brown person there.
Nothing wrong with that but, EVERY fucking time.
I know it’s easy to find fault when it suits but when you already suspect someone don’t like you, wanker Brown reafirms that suspicion on every possible occassion.
Laptops? Who is paying for the broadband?
You.
Exactly. Here we go again. Buy all these wasters laptops, pay for their broadband, pay for their fucking everything else. And why are the public libraries crammed with students sitting at computers wasting their time on Facebook at my expense? Still if Brown buys them all a laptop it’ll keep our IT industry going won’t it? After all, where is all this stuff made these days?
Well I guess they figure that if tax-payer funded porn is good enough for a Home Secretary’s old man, it’s good enough for those who don’t bother to go to work of a day! Also, they’ll be able to fritter away their giros on online bingo sites – as we know, there is nothing more this lot love than gambling – they can tax it and there is no burden on the health service, unlike booze and fags.
And that’s why he’ll keep his seat.
Throwbacks to the Neanderthals still crop up in some peripheral parts of the UK population… Witness Gordon Brown: robust build; huge, craggy, shaggy head, seemingly out of proportion to the body; recently discovered use of brownish make up… an individual from a strain fated to die out completely, to be supplanted by the more gracile, adaptable and articulate homo sapiens.
It is time we accepted that “Care in the Community”, though a commendable aspiration, just does not work and has a negative impact on us all. we need to quietly remove Gordon Brown and put him where he cannot do any more damage to us.
“A staggering 45% of Gordon’s constituents are either on the dole or paid from the public purse.”
…and the rest claim incapacity benefit.
http://noconsensus.wordpress.com/2010/01/10/google-brain-drain/
meanwhile – in other news
Jocky Wilson……one of Kirkcaldys finest darts player.
Jocky had been a heavy drinker and his lifestyle contributed to the onset of diabetes in 1995. For ten years during his darts career he had a house in Wallsend to cut down on travel expenses, but he left that to return to his home town of Kirkcaldy. Within two years, he was declared bankrupt, and now survives on disability allowance, living as a recluse in a one-bedroom flat back on the council estate where he grew up. (Wikipedia, 2010)
Another of Gordons stats….
FUCK ALL!
I noticed that this was the SNP complaining.
What are they going to do to get useful employment back into the nether-regions of the UK?
A staggering 45% of Gordon’s constituents are either on the dole or paid from the public purse.
Now I know why 30% still say they’ll vote Labour – and just to make sure he’s OK – McDoom has got 45% on his payroll in his own constituency.
Explains the Glenrothes by-election too. That and the postal votes. And the missing register.
McDoom has signed Article 122 of the Lisbon Treaty. If the Council of Ministers decides Greece has to be bailed out, Britain has to fork out our share, minimum £7 billion, no veto allowed.
They will be asking for the money as Greece otherwise will crash out of the Euro, and they don’t want to lose face and admit to the world that the Euro is over.
And that’s just Greece. We could also be paying to bail out Spain, Italy, Portugal and Ireland.
Britain’s total share of the coming Euro bail-out could be £50 billion.
This must be stopped.
Don’t worry, by the time this gets flushed through the BBC it will all be the banker’s fault rather than the Maximum Imbecile who signed us up for this idiocy.
Don’t forget Thatcher has to be blamed by the BBC for any economic problems.
The first item on Cameron’s agenda should be ‘Independence for Scotland’ with a three line whip to ensure it gets through. Only then could we start to relax.
I think he’ll come up with Scottish independence starting with Berwick and Carlisle and then there will be more initiatives issued day by day.
It’s taking it’s time to sink in but we don’t have jurisdiction on such things any more.
Borders, Countries etc have, or are about to be abolished in favour of Regions, entirely decided by the EUSSR Automatons.
Sorry, and Dave’s surname is … ?
Surely everone do kno that Gord do not do Manuacturing and stuff like that.
As he tolld all his marksist phd freinds ‘Don’ do it, It’s dirty an yew hav to get up erely’
Much better to claimoff the disability liek a frend of mine, he has tennis elbow and it gets him a nice flat, a good allowance and a littl car.@
He’d liek a big car but he’s gonna have to hav Frozzen sholder for that.
Bravo!
Well said.
Did you know the idlers and layabouts in the DLA assesment centre get a bonus for each slacker they get onto DLA and off JSA?
The story of the tennis elbow providing a nice flat, all council taxes paid etc together with a decent allowance, is unfortunately true.
Truth has now become stranger than fiction, and certainly why work or try to work when you can enjoy life at the expense of what’s left of the working population.
Least honest party leader since 1979?
Most popular party leader since 1979?
- Tony Blair
Most honest party leader since 1979?
Leastpopular party leader since 1979?
- John Major
Source: Ipsos MORI
That just show the differance the media can make
Matches my own perception.
Just shows what a crap system is democrocay, apart from all the others.
No wonder Dave Nicey is concentrating on being Nice.
Wouldn’t it also be nice if he just had a smidgen of backbone and conservativism, or even if he just had a bit of a plan.
Of cause yew hav forgot, that Mr Major tucked his shirt into his pants and theirfor as ever fule do kno he was no gud as prime minster.
An also Tone was relugar guy and had a gitar as well so he aws a gud prime misnter
‘Innit’ sais Molesworht grand junier
Most dishonest politician since we climbed out of the pond.
Least popular party leader since 2006.
- Gordon Brown.
A full house.
Politician incapable of telling the truth.
Gordon Brown.
Aside from his own constituency there is all the damage Brown has done to Scotland in general (not listed above).
In his attempts, as a Scot, to be seen not to favour Scotland (as he is the PM of the UK) Brown goes to the opposite extreme to cultivate English voters and neglects Scotlands needs.
I call Bull Shit on that one! Sorry, but Brown and Co have massaged the Magic Formula to benefit the Gaelic Fringe. No where more true as in Education Funding, HealthCare and re-training programmes.
You should realise that Scotland’s funding is a fixed amount calculated from the Barnett formula. All the health benefits that the Scottish government derives is based on money from that budget and implemented by the Scottish Parliament. The same thing could be done in England if that is what the Westminster government wanted and that might even happen, because, what Scotland does today England does tomorrow as Scotlands government has sensible policies, intended to help people, e.g. Council tax frozen, free care for the elderly, free prescriptions. You have no room to complain about the Westminster government being full of Scots as English MPs (there are many more of them than there are Scots) put them in their positions of power and look at the number of Scots who sit as MPS in English constituencies. Ask youself who voted them in? You have no room to complain. Just get up off your arses if you are unhappy.
Neglect Scotland’s needs? He leaves that to Alastair Darling and the rest of the Scottish Labour pork-barrellers.
What Scotand needs is independence. Then we’ll see how they get on …
English Parliament NOW!
Dear James,
Please vote the bastard out and then shut the door after you when you’ve taken your independence.
We give in, you’ve won, please leave us in peace,
Many thanks,
“A staggering 45% of Gordon’s constituents are either on the dole or paid from the public purse.”
As horrific a statistic as that is, should we really be so surprised?
It’s Labour
It’s Gordon
It’s what they do.
One from the BBC archives…
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6312127.stm
Work and Pensions Secretary John Hutton says this will stop lone parents moving “seamlessly” on to incapacity benefit once their child-related benefits stop. …
In a speech later, Mr Hutton will say Britain has one of the lowest levels of lone parent employment in Europe, with almost half on benefits.
‘Child poverty’
He will say he has evidence that up to a third of lone parents move on to incapacity benefit once their child benefit ends as their youngest reaches 16.
Labour – rigging incapacity and unemployment figures since 1997.
But the nasty Tories would have eaten all those babies, wouldn’t they ?
In fact they would have ETON all those babies.
Or they knock out another kid when the oldest is 14.
Well some will be retired and living off their state pension. maybe 25% of voting age?
I’ve been on the Jeremy Kyle show, I’ve spoken to Tricia, been on the Breakfast Show couch and know Ant and Dec personally. I know I am the best man to run the country – it’s the right thing to do!
Can you go on ‘ Wipe-out ‘ next?
Can he simply go and stand on a Taliban IED.
Cameron on Radio 5 for an hour at 3.0pm with, wait for it, Richard Bacon….don’t say you weren’t warned…….
Please let there be a ‘Thick of it’ moment for Cameron.
Useless twat that he is.
Shit or get off the pot Cameron you Cu*nt.
Soo good to know that Dave will protect the license fee
haha snort!
Breaking News: Peter Robiinson to lay low for 6 weeks until this has all blown over.
was that not what the lad was doing with Iris?
remember alastair campbell ….
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jan/10/alastair-campbell-iraq-dossier-inquiry
Gratitude HUh !! message recieved CW standing down !
I’m getting on with, getting on with, getting on with, getting on with, Getting on ….
Let me out of here this minute Harriet. I want to come out I tell you.
You can’t keep me in this basement a minute longer. I shall get very angry.
Now where’s my favourite Poem again. They’ll never defeat me. Never,never, never, never ……..
Lord Snooty on R5 now
Those figures will no doubt apply to the whole country before long.
Fraser Nelson was on Sky earlier, entertaining as ever with descriptions such as ‘deluded’ etc
Fraser Nelson on Gordon Brown and the Cabinet.
I want to see Gordon Brown demolished live on TV – perhaps at one his his ghastly press conferences.
Get Boulton,Fraser and another one to just keep at him,refusing to stop and pile it on him until Brown’s head explodes live on TV.
I want to see Brown totally smashed to pieces live on TV – that way he can then be dragged off to Broadmoor and tied to a drain pipe in his cell which he will share with Donald Nielsen.
Your wish might be granted with the TV debate, but I have a feeling Dave Nicey will fall apart too under questioning, because he has no backbone or principle to fall back on.
Maybe Clegg will come out best. He seems to be marshalling their ideas quite succinctly. He isn’t even going to ring fence the ivory tower of the NHS, unlike the Niceys.
Yes, that would be nice, on the other hand I think it’s only the finest medical care in the World (obviously not on the NHS) that he can still walk and occasionally talk. however inarticulately, so he’s probably going to do a Mrs Robinson before long.
We live in hope.
I’d much prefer a Dr David Kelly.
NB: There’s no problem with the blog, just too many of you at the same time!
Crumbs Fraser’s got an annoying voice.
Has Aintbustinagut walked or not?
I cannot find out anywhere.
‘old tha’ osses, lad. Be wi’ thee when I’ve ‘ad me snap.
Think its a non-story. Just speculation by a Telegraph journo.
No – he is sat on the front benches with the other defence twats.
Come on Bob – do a Howe on Brown – perhaps something like;
“it’s like going in to bat and Gordon has taken away the WHOLE cricket pitch and given it to a family of immigrants to put in their Notting Hill mansion back garden”.
What we need and quick is for 20,000 of us to move to Browns constitency and register to vote so, we can make sure he loses his safe seat given to him by the Jack Jones Russian KGB controllers.
I’m willing to move there so I can vote, thinking of setting up a facebook for flash voters. This is the only way to remove these fuckers who we hate.
http://www.flashvoters.co.uk
I don’ zink you can do this moving unless you are proved scottish marxist with links to KGB.
Of cours zings can be arranged for a leetle consideration.
Simples !
Linky no workee
Well by the sound of it, it’ll not cost you much to buy somewhere to live!
‘Brave Gordon’ will still be re-elected to his constinuency at the next election – if he chooses to stand. But what do you expect when so many of the peeps are flippin’ idiots? There is a man on Radio 5 right now asking David Cameron not to cut public sector jobs because those that get the chop won’t be able to pay tax, which would damage the economy!
In that case we obviously need more public sector employees, so we can collect more tax.
In fact if everyone was a public servant….., blimey this is the best idea since Dave fitted a windmill to his bike for more power.
FFS don’t let Cameroon hear this, it’ll be another new party ‘policy’ before morning.
STUFFED !!!
The rumour that I have been locked in the basement by Harriet and Peter is entirely without truth.
The truth is I’m here because I want to be here, and I’m getting on with getting on, I tell you, and nothing will stop me.
The rumour that I have been locked in the bunker by Harriet and Peter is entirely unfounded.
I’m here because I want to be here, and I’m getting on with the job, I tell you.
That 45% know how they are going to vote I’m sure!
Bacon (salary £100,000?) on radio5 has just asked Cameron – does he know any poor people?
Jonah is a self-hating son of the manse twerp who prays to a false god everynight. He had to hide behind his ex-PR star wife’s skirt even though he’s never touched her…sensually. This is because he’s a faggot (no crime there but you cannot be a family man whilst secretly getting sucked off for sixpence by the rent boy Balls)
I’d personally like to take Sarah Brown and show her what a real man is like. and tear her Hunt to shreds….but Barack Obama has probably beaten me to it as witnessed by them holding hands, fingers intertwined
He’s never seen the beef curtains and she’s never seen the pork sword.
and before you ask,
I forgot to mention the turky baster.
Let’s hope Sterling is on the up tommorow. I am stuck with truckload of the stuff…
.
Put your money in wheelbarrows, there’s gonna be a run on them soon to take money away from cash dispensers.
Oh, and the cash dispensers are going to be upsized to about the size of a house to hold cash.
This is just the sort of thing that Cameron should hit Brown with at PMQs
4.4% of the population? Surely the decimal point has moved to the left.
Not only the liberals who can’t add up after lunch.
“A staggering 45% of Gordon’s constituents are either on the dole or paid from the public purse.”
It’s worth pointing out that Brown’s majority is a “staggering” 43.6% – a remarkably similar figure.
Never did I think that comments on this website are expurgated. Shocking.
Shame on you.
I wish Jonah hadn’t said that our gas supplies were safe …
Its greater than 66% in the people’s republic of Teesside
The Quango One North East has actually INCREASED the states grip, when it was charged with promoting enterprise
Is this Labours definition of enterprise.? Benefits and the black economy
It’s amusing that the Kirkcaldy High School report on Wikipedia http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=kirkcaldy+high+school&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a has had its circumstantial account of underachieving exam results, behavioural problems and poor ratings in recent years completely airbrushed out and replaced by ‘Hello clouds, hello sky’ mood-music, such as this…
“The school has been described as “Beacon of excellence among state schools, producing high-achieving academics, captains of industry and even a future prime minister. ” by The Times newspaper.[2]”
But if you click on that footnote [2], you access a Times article (May 4th, 2008) that, far from describing the school as a ‘beacon of excellence’, is headlined “Gordon Brown’s old school ‘must do better’ – Kirkcaldy High, the prime minister’s alma mater, has been branded one of Scotland’s worst schools.”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article3868166.ece
To quote from that article: “Now Kirkcaldy High School (KHS), Gordon Brown’s alma mater, has been branded one of Scotland’s worst schools…Despite the 1,300-pupil school being ordered to address declining standards in 2006, a new follow-up report has found the problems have become more severe. Overall progress was rated as “weak”, the second- worst of the six grades used by HMIE, and far worse than found by a similar inspection a decade earlier. …Overall truancy levels were twice the Fife average and four times the Scottish average. A sickness culture meant most staff were on leave at some point last year, several for extended periods, with efforts to stem the problems “adversely” affected by high staff turnover and unfilled vacancies. ”
Bit like Jonah’s cabinet, then.
So Brown’s old school has actually become ‘far worse’ since the Labour government has been in office.
How typical of New Labour’s culture of mendacious, self-glorifying spin – its only culture.
Brown has trashed his own school, and condemned his own young countrymen and -women to failure. And then lies about it.
Welcome to Scotland… there are far more counties where that percentage is higher.
Scotland’s curve of decline since the 1900′s exactly matches the rise of Labour. Its not rocket science. Labour is a disease.
Am Fifer – he still getting my vote, well it him or Fishy
yep, long ago Labour have forsaken the working class, and now represent the shirking class.
F*** Fife.
F*** Scotland.
F*** Scots.
If any Scots are offended, good. You now have a taste of what it is like to be English in post-devolution Britain with Labour, Conservative and Lib Dems all saying f** England and f*** the English.
If you are English vote for anyone, but the LibLabCON!
If the English were now asked about devolution, Scotland, Wales and N. Ireland would all be independent within a second.