Tele sports "journalist"

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Originally Posted by Returnofrros

It was the scum Tories, get with the programme

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My bad, I tend only to call DABs and currant buns scum.

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Originally Posted by Deeranged

Should be as it was, free for those that can't afford them and a nominal fee for those that - the old fee was £2.50 per item I think, that would be reasonable.

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People in England are now paying over £9 for their prescriptions.
I am surprised that Sir Keir Starmer leader of the Labour Party has not suggested dong the old Labour ‘trick’ of printing money to pay for things. However this leads to rampant inflation with the £ in your pocket worth Sweet FA.

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Originally Posted by Returnofrros

Conservatives egged on by eejits to pay for the scum.

SNP will give money to anyone who will vote for them, plastered all around the new shinny broo building.

I stopped, it's great.

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It’s not the SNP’s money. They managed to lose the £600,000 for Indyref2 around the same time as Nicola purchased her second home in Bridge of Allan.
The SNP hierarchy in charge of this Indyref2 fund have never admitted where the money went and it has been conveniently forgotten about.

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Originally Posted by Returnofrros

No those screaming for lockdown did.

The "science", the BBC, sky, Preston, the Welsh dick, sturgeon, knee taking sir dick, the blessed NHS, the civil service, teachers, cooooncils, Dr Hilary, Lorraine the **** Kelly, dab mad and every other **** that was wrong aboot COVID.

It was predicted, they have got it

Qué ****ing Sara.

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Earlier this week it was announced that a new vaccine has been produced by Moderna which can vaccinate people against the Omnicron varian of the Covid virus.
This means that the booster vaccination we received to protect us against the Omnicron variant was a waste of time and money as it did not work. That was obvious with the number of people contracting the Omnicron variant of Covid despite receiving their booster vaccination including the Dentist.
The new Moderna vaccine is being given to people aged 75 and over in England but there has been been no mention about it being given to people aged 75 and over in Scotland.

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Originally Posted by islaydarkblue

Earlier this week it was announced that a new vaccine has been produced by Moderna which can vaccinate people against the Omnicron varian of the Covid virus.
This means that the booster vaccination we received to protect us against the Omnicron variant was a waste of time and money as it did not work. That was obvious with the number of people contracting the Omnicron variant of Covid despite receiving their booster vaccination including the Dentist.
The new Moderna vaccine is being given to people aged 75 and over in England but there has been been no mention about it being given to people aged 75 and over in Scotland.

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How many times do you need told? A vaccine doesn't stop anyone catching a virus, it simply mitigates the effects that virus might have on the vaccinated individual and, hopefully, prevents the virus multiplying and passing on from the infected individual to others.

I wouldn't worry about being over 75 in Scotland and not getting the vaccine. I don't really think it has much effect and verges on a placebo intended to placate the masses and is an attempt to justify the initial massive over reaction to the 'pandemic'. I have no proof of this and haven't conducted any research to prove it, however my tin foil hat has been off for some time.

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Originally Posted by The AuldYin

Here's another £5 million saved that could pay a few Jakebombs leccy bills this Winter.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotla...lands-62603804

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This scheme would never have worked.
Local residents on the Scottish islands have a complete distrust of anyone moving to live or work on their island even if they are an asset to the place.
A former member of Islay GC who was a secondary school teacher moved to Islay to be a teacher at Islay High School.
He told me that one evening he was out for a drink. The parent of one of his pupils came over to him and complained about people moving to Islay to be a teacher at Islay HS.
My friend told this local resident that if teachers did not move to work on Islay the local residents would all be sheep shaggers.
It is a well known fact on Islay that Islay High School would not exist if teachers from the Mainland did not move their to take up teaching posts.
Most of the Scottish islands do not have decent full time jobs for young people.
Even with 9 whisky distilleries on Islay working full time a lot of the jobs in these distilleries are seasonal with people working in the whisky distillery’s visitor centre from Easter until the middle of October every year.
It is the same in the tourist industry on all the Scottish islands with people being employed for seasonal work with a short increase in work over the New Year period when the Calmac ferries are packed out running one way. Busy with people coming to Islay for the New Year and then busy with people returning back to the Mainland from 2nd January onwards.

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Originally Posted by islaydarkblue

This scheme would never have worked.
Local residents on the Scottish islands have a complete distrust of anyone moving to live or work on their island even if they are an asset to the place.
A former member of Islay GC who was a secondary school teacher moved to Islay to be a teacher at Islay High School.
He told me that one evening he was out for a drink. The parent of one of his pupils came over to him and complained about people moving to Islay to be a teacher at Islay HS.
My friend told this local resident that if teachers did not move to work on Islay the local residents would all be sheep shaggers.
It is a well known fact on Islay that Islay High School would not exist if teachers from the Mainland did not move their to take up teaching posts.
Most of the Scottish islands do not have decent full time jobs for young people.
Even with 9 whisky distilleries on Islay working full time a lot of the jobs in these distilleries are seasonal with people working in the whisky distillery’s visitor centre from Easter until the middle of October every year.
It is the same in the tourist industry on all the Scottish islands with people being employed for seasonal work with a short increase in work over the New Year period when the Calmac ferries are packed out running one way. Busy with people coming to Islay for the New Year and then busy with people returning back to the Mainland from 2nd January onwards.

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Why don't the youngsters on Islay train to be teachers? Voila, teacher crisis resolved, school stays open and an element of the refusal of locals to welcome incomers disappears.

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Originally Posted by islaydarkblue

This scheme would never have worked.
Local residents on the Scottish islands have a complete distrust of anyone moving to live or work on their island even if they are an asset to the place.
A former member of Islay GC who was a secondary school teacher moved to Islay to be a teacher at Islay High School.
He told me that one evening he was out for a drink. The parent of one of his pupils came over to him and complained about people moving to Islay to be a teacher at Islay HS.
My friend told this local resident that if teachers did not move to work on Islay the local residents would all be sheep shaggers.
It is a well known fact on Islay that Islay High School would not exist if teachers from the Mainland did not move their to take up teaching posts.
Most of the Scottish islands do not have decent full time jobs for young people.
Even with 9 whisky distilleries on Islay working full time a lot of the jobs in these distilleries are seasonal with people working in the whisky distillery’s visitor centre from Easter until the middle of October every year.
It is the same in the tourist industry on all the Scottish islands with people being employed for seasonal work with a short increase in work over the New Year period when the Calmac ferries are packed out running one way. Busy with people coming to Islay for the New Year and then busy with people returning back to the Mainland from 2nd January onwards.

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Just a quick question on this Islay. We see lots of programmes on TV recorded on various islands, usually the interviewee has an English or even foreign accent. It's also pretty widely known that young islanders are reluctant to stay and tend to move to the sanctity and sanity of the mainland. This suggests, to me at least, that a high percentage of island (very generic I know) are not actually native islanders.

Why therefore are incomers made so unwelcome when there are so many of them and a huge number of existing residents are incomers themselves?

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Originally Posted by eric_sinclair

I would expect them to look at all options available even on a temporary basis.
Extend the windfall tax,increase pensions/benefits over the winter months.
Reduce vat on energy?

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Reduce VAT to what?

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Originally Posted by Deeranged

How many times do you need told? A vaccine doesn't stop anyone catching a virus, it simply mitigates the effects that virus might have on the vaccinated individual and, hopefully, prevents the virus multiplying and passing on from the infected individual to others.

I wouldn't worry about being over 75 in Scotland and not getting the vaccine. I don't really think it has much effect and verges on a placebo intended to placate the masses and is an attempt to justify the initial massive over reaction to the 'pandemic'. I have no proof of this and haven't conducted any research to prove it, however my tin foil hat has been off for some time.

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What’s the point of wasting billions of ponds giving people Covid vaccinations if they do not work.