The Scottish government intends to do more to help Scottish fishermen cope with rising prices and unfair advantages of Spanish and French fishermen who receive state aid. Rising fuel prices, crippling EU regulations and reduced quotas are damaging commercial fishing so the Scottish government is giving up to £400,000 towards the annual costs of maintaining [...]

Wendy Alexander has addressed the Scottish Liebour spring gathering and told them that she will lead them to victory in the Scottish Parliament. Yeah, right. In a characteristic display of utter hypocrisy, she said that she “will lead by exposing the dishonesty of the SNP”. Dishonesty of the SNP? Sorry Wendy Love, just remind me [...]

Alex the Salmon, First Minister of Scotland, has proposed a referendum on the future of governance of Scotland with two questions – enhanced devolution or independence. The Conswervative and Unionist Party, Liebour and the Illiberal Dumbocrats have all shrieked hysterically that it’s “the wild words of a panicking man” and an “attempt to drag an [...]

England have lost to Scotland in the Six Nations. I don’t mind England losing (I’d rather we didn’t of course) just as long as it’s not to Scotland! Technorati Tags: England, Scotland, Rugby

Tom Yeo, the Conswervative MP for Suffolk South, introduced a private members bill to get the clocks put forward one hour to save lives and energy and increase leisure and social time. As with previous attempts by various MPs the bill failed with the usual arguments being put forward – the farmers won’t like it [...]

Andy “Anyone But England” Murray has been beaten again and almost got censured for swearing. Technorati Tags: Andy Murray

Saturday’s defeat at the hands of the mutton munchers was made slightly more palatable by yesterday’s demolition of the sweaty socks by the cheese eating surrender monkey’s. Our friends north of the border lost by 21 points putting them firmly at the bottom of the table on points difference after the opening fixtures.  Hopefully they’ll stay [...]

CEP: England victimised yet again by United Kingdom government The Council tax in England will be going up in April by just under 5%, more than twice the limit on pay increases being imposed by the Union Government. The average Council Tax bill in England will go up by £115 per month. Meanwhile in Scotland [...]

… but only in England and Wales. The Scottish Executive have ruled out a ban on Scottish prison officers going on strike saying that they have an agreement for binding arbitration in the event of a dispute with prison officers. Jack Straw intends to ban prison officers in England and Wales from striking if a [...]

The Republic of Ireland will hold a referendum on the EU not-a-constitution thanks to the provisions of their constitution. Denmark was expected to hold a referendum when it was reported that a majority of Danish MPs wanted one but this appears to have fallen by the wayside. Enter Alex Salmond: When the constitutional treaty was [...]

Kosovo has suffered terribly at the hands of the Serbs ever since Yugoslavia broke up. For a while now, Federal Europe has provided mediators to try and come up with a solution that would allow Kosovo to remain part of Serbia which would be acceptable to both the Serbs who don’t want to lose Kosovo and [...]

English police are on the receiving end of the same racist treatment as English nurses when it comes to pay increases. Earlier this year, our nurses were told that they would be getting the same percentage pay rise as Scottish nurses but rather than a single pay increase like in Scotland, their pay increase was [...]

I’d like to wish a Happy St Andrews Day to all my Scottish readers, friends and enemies. To mark our neighbour’s special day, I will refrain from taking the piss out of Scotland or Scottish people for the duration. Technorati Tags: Scotland, St Andrews Day

From the BBC …  Ministers have come up with a “vibrant” new message to greet tourists arriving at Scotland’s airports.  The new message is … “Welcome to Scotland”. Gosh. Technorati Tags: Scotland, WTF

A Scottish woman who doctors said was 30lbs overweight has travelled to Malta for two hip replacements at a cost of £7,000 each because the Scottish NHS refused to even put her on the waiting list. I guess I must be lucky (if you look at it that way) in that I’ve never been turned down [...]

I only wish the match wasn’t on Sky Sports so I could cheer Italy on. Italy are leading Scotland 1-0 in the second half. Update: 18:24 – Noooooooooooooo, Scotland have equalised. Update: Scotland lost 2-1 to Italy and are out of the Euro 2008 competition. Technorati Tags: Football, Italy, Scotland

The Crossrail project – a huge train network in the south east of England, centred on London – is estimated to cost the taxpayer £16,500,000,000. The breakdown is as follows: Building Crossrail – £16,000,000,000 Buying Scottish votes – £500,000,000 Under the Barnett Formula, Scotland is entitled to £500m purely because £16bn is being spent in England.  [...]

… Scots. The Scottish government is abolishing prescription charges in Scotland for all Scots.  At the moment, 96% of all prescriptions are dispensed free of charge. Abolishing prescription charges north of the border is going to cost the English taxpayer another £70m. In April this year, the Welsh government abolished all prescription charges in Wales [...]

Primary school children in Scotland are to get free school meals in a pilot scheme costing the English taxpayer £5m. Parents of English children will still have to pay for their children to have school meals. School meals in England current cost as little as 37p to produce with the British government pledging to increase [...]

Oh dear, Argentina knocked Scotland out of the rugby world cup.  Sadly, it does mean we won’t have the opportunity to dump the master race out of the competition ourselves.  Oh well … Technorati Tags: Argentina, Scotland, rugby