Digging to China

I see Geordie Foulkes is using he Freedom of Information Act again.
I suppose he's working on the premise that if he keeps digging, some flecks of dirt will stick to Salmond.
And to hell with the cost to the taxpayer.

The Cava for bucks sake!

I've just recovered from my daughters 21st.

The cost of hiring a stretch limo, but that's only money.

Sixteen stilletto heels, and their effect upon my lovely polished floor, but that can be repaired.

Using money.

Using rather expensive Champagne for Bucks Fizz, instead of the Cava set aside for it, is just plain bloody annoying.

Especially as I had to drink the Cava.

But the look on my daughter's face, was indeed, priceless.

The Hunt For SNP Scapegoats

Removing Trident from Scotland was going to cost thousands of jobs, said Labour, way back when.
Now Trident is going to be "cut back" by a UK Government, I wonder how many of those jobs will remain...

A deliberate slight or affront.

Another amazing piece of bias from the Hootsmon today.

He's Leven hame

It's 1984.Thatcherism was peaking.
Distillers hasn't yet been taken over by another rival firm, helped by the larcenous bunch of thieves known as "The Guinness Four".(One of them has another claim to fame, while in prison he developed Alzeimhers and was released early; he then got better, still the only person recorded in medical science to do so.)
Vat69 and Johnny Walker Red Label had been chosen, amongst other Distillers brands, to be taken out of the EEC countries markets; the reason being a Common Market resolution that the brands be retailed for the same amount in every EEC country.
That meant a large drop in production for those brands taken off and the smaller bottling halls of Haigs of Markinch and William Sandersons of South Queensferry were earmarked for closure.
The unions were tipped off by Tam Dalyell, the then MP for Queensferry, who had heard about it on his Etonian Old Boys network.
A protest commitee was formed, with futile attempts to save several hundred jobs.In one face to face meeting with a high heid yin from London, a nervous young shop steward managed to pin him down about if the plant made a profit.
"Yes," was the bald answer" but not enough." He looked down at his expensive cufflinks as he said it, not meeting my gaze.
Perhaps it was then I became a Nationalist.A product which from start to finish was made in Scotland by Scots-and here was this upper class Englishman saying that we weren't making enough profit!

Of course we lost the battle with the London executive.

Perhaps if there had been a Government in Edinburgh things may have been different...

http://www.gopetition.co.uk/online/29112.html

Going Postal

Of course I may be paranoid.
It's just a couple of unlikely coincidences isn't it?
That the postal vote was 300% higher than it had ever been.
And then they went missing, something that's never happened before.
Ever.
I wonder if modern forensic science would have been able to trace DNA on these forms...Ah well we'll probably never know now.

When Saturday comes

The Telegraph made a hurriedly corrected booboo, about Murray being the First English Player to qualify for the semi-finals since the year dot.
Just goes to show in the mindset of some patronising English journos, Scots are still British when winning and Scots when losing.
British meaning English of course.
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A Telegraph journo being interviewed by the BBC after Andy Murray's knife edge defeat.

"We will have a dartboard in the office tomorrow with Murray's face on it."