Tele sports "journalist"

[The AuldYin]

I am anti Tory just like I am anti Dundee united,can still be pals we both sets of followers tho,who you vote for is none of my business.
Fowk are struggling at the moment and the government are doing hee haw about it.

What exactly do you expect the government to do?

[eric_sinclair]

What exactly do you expect the government to do?

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?

[Deeranged]

i await your evidence to back up your absurd ramblings.

You'll wait a while

[thegen65]

You'll wait a while

Yup either that or answer /ramble/ waffle delete as applicable and still not address the points raised.

[The AuldYin]

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?

The windfall tax runs to the end of 2025 and that would be the time to look at extending it IMO. Increasing pensions and benefits is a waste of time, dependency on the state is why most of them are in trouble as it is. Reducing VAT is a possibility but I would like to know where the shortfall in taxes was being siphoned from. Personally I would suspend or scrap free prescriptions and make everyone pay a token £1 that would raise a few bob.

[islaydarkblue]

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?

In my opinion the U.K. government should scrap the VAT on energy which was imposed on us by the EU as a condition of our membership and the EEC before that.
Mrs Thatcher managed to get the VAT reduced to 5% on energy bills as part of our ‘opt outs’ as that was the minimum that member countries were permitted to charge.
Now that the U.K. is no longer in the EU this 5% VAT charge and 20% VAT for businesses on energy bills including heating oil could easily be scrapped.
We are currently paying 15% extra or more on our electricity and gas bills to pay for feed in tariff for all the wind turbines and solar panels throughout the UK plus social tariffs and the installation of smart meters.
In my opinion the cost of the feed in tariffs, social tariffs and the installation of smart meters should be paid by General taxation which would reduce energy bills at a stroke.

[islaydarkblue]

I have looked at posts 17 and 18. All i can see are posts from RROS who is giving an opinion and the other from The Auld Yin is asking if i watched a documentary.

You always say you deal in facts Islay and do your research. Again i ask you to provide facts to back up YOUR statements re Charles Kennedy and also individuals and business who YOU say were terrorised during the 2014 independance referendum.

Again Douglas the floor is yours.... i await your evidence to back up your absurd ramblings.

Charles Kennedy was terrorised by the Mob rules tactics of Ian Blackford’s supporters in his Westminster constituency during the General election not the 2014 Independence referendum.
However during the run up to the 2014 Independence referendum the YES campaigners adopted Mob Rule tactics where no one including business owners was allowed an opinion unless they were speaking in favour of Scotland becoming an independent country.
These Mob Rule Yes campaigners were again out in force at Perth last Tuesday evening outside Perth Concert Hall.
People throughout the U.K. including Scotland fought in two world wars to give us free speech in Scotland yet the pro independence supporters are trying to deny us free speech.
It is their way or no way.

[eric_sinclair]

The windfall tax runs to the end of 2025 and that would be the time to look at extending it IMO. Increasing pensions and benefits is a waste of time, dependency on the state is why most of them are in trouble as it is. Reducing VAT is a possibility but I would like to know where the shortfall in taxes was being siphoned from. Personally I would suspend or scrap free prescriptions and make everyone pay a token £1 that would raise a few bob.

As I said Shud be looking at all ideas.
Prescription idea cud work.

[Deeranged]

Charles Kennedy was terrorised by the Mob rules tactics of Ian Blackford’s supporters in his Westminster constituency during the General election not the 2014 Independence referendum.
However during the run up to the 2014 Independence referendum the YES campaigners adopted Mob Rule tactics where no one including business owners was allowed an opinion unless they were speaking in favour of Scotland becoming an independent country.
These Mob Rule Yes campaigners were again out in force at Perth last Tuesday evening outside Perth Concert Hall.
People throughout the U.K. including Scotland fought in two world wars to give us free speech in Scotland yet the pro independence supporters are trying to deny us free speech.
It is their way or no way.

Are the pro independence supporters not allowed to express their opinions in the form of peaceful demonstration? The pro union demonstrators were out in force prior to the last referendum. They did it in the form of senior Labour and Conservative MPs actually visiting Scotland and spreading lies that would affect all levels of Scottish society from how we were better in a UK within the EU (wow, what a con that was) to how we wouldn't get Coronation Street if we were independent. Bullying and coersion of the minions from the very top of UK Government and opposition combined. Shocking.

[Deeranged]

As I said Shud be looking at all ideas.
Prescription idea cud work.

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.