I was under the impression that Scotland was able to do things such as student grants, stick to promised wage increases etc by the simple fact that it is able to balance its books better rather than some mythical imbalance in 'tax payers' money.

It wouldnt look right for the Scots to be seen in a good light of course. Therefore we are all scrounging northerners leaching all the hard earned tax money from those delightful residents of Surrey, salt of the earth that they are.

I have really noticed a definate air of 'rasicim' towards Scotland over the last year or so.

I know this is the wrong place to get angry but my comment was bounced by the great DM moderator in the sky so here goes.
If you want student grants, free prescriptions and whatever else in England make your own sodding laws, no-ones stopping you!

I fell better now.

actually you tw*ts are because without all your "West Lothian" MPs we'd have a different government that would pander even more to the tastes of Mail readers .... hold on that can't be right can it?

They'd rather have no benefits for anyone than fight for their own I fear.

Scots' prescriptions cut to £5 the same day English charges are RAISED to £7.10

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/a ... =1770&ct=5


Plenty for the Mail plebs to bite on.

Our government isn't lowering charges in Scotland, the Scottish government is.

I read about Berwick upon Tweed wanting to change alliegence from England to Scotland, partly because of the general aceness of the Scottish executive and the stuff they're doing. Frankly, I can't blame them, I'd like my town to move too, but I think Norwich is a little far south for it to be plausible.

I wonder how one got through. He's 100% correct with that one.

On the article relating to the story about the murder of the two French students in London-

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... bbery.html

This weird dig at 'the Union'-



The Scottish Mafia?

The story itself has loads of dodgy comments on it, while the case is horrific most of the commenters have used it as a dig against 'liberals' and the goverment. Infact from a brief reading of just a few of the comments its open day on immigrents, the youth, Scottish people, the Goverment, 'liberals', anything post-1950, civlisation, gangs etc all on one story that the Mail, and subsequently all their readers, know very very little on, oh for knee jerkers.

Oh yes, things were much better in the old days.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10_Rillington_Place
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Ellis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bodkin_Adams
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hanratty

You get the impression that the DM readers' ideal approach to law enforcement would be very similar to that of Captain Renault in Casablanca: 'Round up the usual suspects'

"You are under arrest."

"On what charge?"

"Captain Renault will discuss that with you later."

The original headline for the student murders linked it to Tarantino's style of filmmaking, i'm surprised this angle hasen't been followed more although the recent knife deaths may be an easier link.

Why are all the comments missing on the Mail website? I'm looking forward to the tide of Scotland-bashing that will greet this one: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1044932/Paxman-outrages-Scots-calling-Burns-poetry-sentimental-doggerel.html

Much as I tend to think Burns' poetry a tad over-rated, I warm to his mischievous sense of anti-English defiance and his radicalism. Jeremy Paxman, on the other hand, is a cock who makes a living by sneering at students and complaining about things that are unimportant.

I'm willing to bet that the Mail Readers will be writing comments like 'Jeremy Paxman for PM' though.

But he does work for the KG...sorry, BBC?

You can haz comments nao:





That's one to remember!