I have previously but never again.
Their premise that the Scots are morally superior to the rest of the UK I find is incredibly insulting.
They were a huge part of a devisive, negative YES campaign while calling it energising and engaging; Scotland will never be the same again. They manage to take the credit for anything going well while blaming all their failures on "Wastemonster"
NS and AS can talk very well, the trouble is so much of it is lies though I suppose Salmond has at least confessed to "not confining himself to facts" while answering questions.
I'm amazed at the unquestioning following the SNP have. The near univsersal belief that everything the media says is wrong and that they are better informed by the unbiased likes of WingsOverScotland
. Perhaps that will change since "The former First Minister told the party conference in Glasgow that BBC Scotland must be devolved to Holyrood so that its supposed anti-Nationalist bias can be “resolved”. " State controlled media WTF!!
It must be this attitude that allows the SNP to cut the NHS budget year after year while assuming the role of NHS protector. A friend is a consultant at the local hospital. He eventually came out as a NO voter because when NS was Health Secretary she cut his expected budget face to face (although the funding from Westminister is Scotland's to do with as it wishes, there is a notional amount they expect to go to the NHS - her allocation was way less.)( www.ifs.org.uk/publications/7366 ) he just couldn't sit by and watch her lie.
The proclaimed rise in doctor and nurse numbers are laughable too since though on paper there may be more, NHS Scotland can't actually recruit people to fill the positions. Basic salaries for Drs are comparable but in the year the SNP got into power the rest of the UK brought in Clinical Excellence awards. My friend was awarded a 'B', worth an extra £47k a year however the SNP promptly scrapped the award in Scotland. While consultants are paid well in comparison to the general population when there is such a difference in salaries north and south of the border for the same profession no wonder there are so many vacancies here (any savings are more than eaten up by extortionate locum rate so worst of all worlds). Nurses are paid a grade lower than their English counterparts. The reaction in trying to tell people the realities of his working life ? To be told to f* off home, we didn't need the likes of him in the country being negative (he's English).
Maybe its also never reading the papers that means while there is free Higher Education the number of Further Education places has been slashed. That seems to surprise people (then be disbelieved).
And thinking we can have "Bairns not Bombs" when actually the SNP have said they will spend all the trident budget on conventional arms. To be fair though people might be forgiven for missing this as they have also said it will fund nursery provision (it wouldn't) and the set up of the new government infrastructure (again it wouldn't).
All practicalities can be forgotten so long as we have FREEDOM !! Sheesh. Don't get me started on AS comparing himself to Nelson Mandela...
Really wish Scottish Labour would get its act together. The SNP will be found out but by then the damage will be done.