Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more.
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Pear has arrived at @ayrracecourse for her first racecourse gallop!🍐
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23 days later, we are yet to be contacted by Police Scotland regarding this report. wingsoverscotland.com/like-r…
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John Swinney won't be able to pop into his local for a pint any more.
Brown & Blacks in Scone is run by an entrepreneur called Katie Long.
Her story sums up everything that's wrong with business rates.
Katie put around £140,000 of her own money into the business. She's done everything she can to make it work.
Her energy costs have risen from £25,000 a year to over £100,000. But the real stinger is that her business rates have gone up from under £20,000 to over £52,000.
How is anyone supposed to make a living with that?
Now think about the knock-on effect: potential job losses at a time of high unemployment, which means less tax coming in and a greater burden on the state.
The First Minister has appointed Jonathan Murphy to look at rates. So here's my offer to Jonathan: let's spend a day together visiting the businesses whose livelihoods are threatened by the current system.
Peter Scudamore retweeted
This is economic illiteracy of a high order.
After separation Scotland would still use sterling. So it would have to borrow in £s to cover its massive budget deficit and promise lenders it would pay back in £s (or they won’t lend).
But after an unspecified transition it would move to a Scottish currency. But all the borrowing done during the transition would have to be paid back in sterling.
If the Scottish currency plummeted v sterling (likely given the size of the deficit, lack of credit track record etc) that could become an unmanageable burden given the likely poor exchange rate.
Scotland would have to borrow billions in its own currency just to convert to sterling to pay back lenders. Devaluing the Scottish currency further.
What a shambles that would be.
He has no idea what he’s talking about.
Peter Scudamore retweeted
I can't wait to be arrested
This is a real life sitcom !
Please tell the police to contact my agent
UK: Muslim group reports John Cleese to counterterror program for ‘incendiary posts about Muslims and Islam’
The government is likely to take this quite seriously, for to do otherwise might risk enraging the nation’s Muslim population, and that is what they want to avoid doing above all. What, however, did Cleese say that was not true? And that is the problem with all “Islamophobia” initiatives: they make it a crime to tell unwelcome truths.
Read more at the link in the next post.
ALT John Cleese by John Manard, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0
Peter Scudamore retweeted
Jeremy Clarkson is right. He’s saying what the vast majority of people are thinking about the absolute clown world enforced upon us by our control hungry politicians.
Peter Scudamore retweeted
I just found the most brilliant bit by @JohnCleese
He explains Leftism better in 90 seconds, than you could learn from any academic in 20 years.
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@JohnSwinney
This is very sad and l feel sorry for Katie Long.
She took a derelict pub in Scone, your local, she poured £140,000 of her own money into it.
She built a business she meant to retire in, and hand to her son.
Your government then put the rates up from £19,900 to £52,700.
That, on top of an electricity bill that had already gone from £25,000 to £100,000, was the end of it.
She asked for help. She went to Holyrood. You would not even meet her.
England eased the rates. Northern Ireland paused them. Scotland, under the man who lives three miles away, did nothing.
She leaves in January calling herself a failure.
She is not. You taxed the poor woman's dream out of existence, then looked the other way.
You could've watched the Scotland game in your local and donated the £100000 to her. But no, you think you are so high and mighty.
Scotland Grim Reaper strikes again:-
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This billboard wasn’t allowed in public incase it offended anyone so please do not repost it. Thanks.
