IBM

 

and so, back on the road ........ 

 

does this mean ----naaaaaaiiiiiiiirrrrrrrrrnnnnnnnn---- will no longer be the fastest town in Scotland .... shame!

 

Having said that the A96 has needed upgraded for decades (under the purview of governments of all stripes) so I am glad it finally seems to be happening. there are stretches of that road that are almost as bad as the blackspots on the A9

 

Being a regular traveler on both, I actually find the A96 slower and more frustrating than the A9 so delighted to see both being upgraded at long last.

 

You are right there Kingsmills, long tailbacks behind tractors! 

The newest car is an early seventies Ford Capri.

Good start to the boy, hope he gets a chance for many more.

Charles you are away off topic!

What has the SNP done for the Highlands

You might want to start another 'CB's Rant against the SNP'

The county fans have deserted their own ground Im not surprised so few turned up.

For one so incredibly keen on adding numbers to our gates, I'm surprised to see you resort to the 'yes it's crap...but it's better than County' dialogue.

For the record, they are getting bigger attendances than us. They averaged higher than us last season and are doing it again. Couldn't believe a post I read on a thread the other day - a fan was mocking the jail-end for being 'half-empty' against Dundee. Considering County had a bigger attendance at that game than our corresponding game v. Dundee a few weeks earlier, heaven knows what our stands looked like!

I don't think we should be throwing stones in our glass house!

Not mocking 12th man just stating a fact. I do think it is a shame even for County, the Jail end used to be bouncing!

Not having a dig at any particular Party, but why does it take so long to dual a road? 16 years seems a bit excessive to me.

Alex, once they get the go ahead there is all the consultation and planning which will take a few years and I am sure it will be done in stages which I think is down to money or lack of it!

It has all been said in previous posts, we were unlucky not to win but after that dire first half performance we did not deserve to. We will have to work harder away at St Mirren as they are now starting to pick up points!

You should be able to pay at the gate or get a ticket at the office before

A96 Inverness-Nairn including the Nairn bypass which would have not reached the drawing board if the other parties were in power!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-29476143

Looking forward to this one tomorrow although don't like the early kick off!  After seeing the jail end half empty on the last County highlights don't think they will bring a big support and have to add I will miss Derek Adams

If it ain't broke etc...............it's a fecking shambles!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-18008171

 

An independence referendum for Glasgow and Dundee?

So come on Charles, any ideas on using the political process to affect change for the 65million of us?

 

 

Given that I am a member of the 55% majority who appear to be of the view that much of it ain't particularly broke etc etc

 

If that's why the majority voted No they are living in cloud cuckoo land..................even the Tory MP's are defecting! 

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-29394697

 

 

So they told us the oil is running out---------http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-29342142

That is a surprise to find that a week later!

For goodness sake Charles go and fill up your glass!

Charles would have been spitting red, white and blue fire.

I would love to see that!

Good link Alex I like myth 9, there is no other road to use! It is off topic just Charles doing some Nat bashing!

 

 

 

Mr Bannerman, may I ask have you ever been outside of this UK. Up until recent years we were one of the very few countries in the world with a police force who didn't carry guns. We also live in a country where police officers are being killed or seriously injured in the line of duty by guns so why shouldn't they carry the ultimate protection?

Alex... much of what Ayeseetee has said in this debate I have disagreed with, but I am totally with him in what he says in post 1614. There is also a sub-plot to the carrying of guns question in that it is certainly even less necessary in the likes of Inverness than it is in the central belt, but our one size fits all National Police Force dictates that our local cops should have to have them as well, hence depriving us of local control.

There's the irony. At a time when there is much shouting about devolving powers from "Westminster" to Edinburgh, we are also seeing powers being centralised from areas like the Highlands... also to Edinburgh.

 

Charles you and many others seem to be believing all the local media propaganda!  The old Northern Constabulary were carrying hand guns before they became Police Scotland but it is not the routine arming of the police as stated by many.  There are a few trained firearms officers on duty at any one time who will attend other calls if they are required and go into a shop or filling station to purchase lunch.  I am not concerned at all if I see them on my day to day business and am sure others would not notice either if it was not in the papers every week.

 

IBM, I am aware of that but the timescale is such that the decision was quite clearly influenced by what was equally clearly the shape of things to come.

On the infrastructure questions, irrespective of which party was involved we are looking at extensive investment in the central belt while all we can see in the Highlands are average speed cameras - which most definitely ARE the creation of the SNP.

 

Charles it is clear that you hate the SNP and only respond to certain parts quoted in posts.  If the SNP had not got an overall majority the last time we would still be no further forward on the A9!  I have driven the A9 over many years and remember when your travel time was 4 hours to Perth before it was upgraded when the Tories were in power.  I have driven at high speed on the A9 before speed cameras were ever used on the roads and would prefer not to have them at all.  The average speed cameras are being installed at a cost of 2.5 million, with the cost of a fatal road accident 1.8 million you would just need 2 less fatalities and you have saved money.  It would also save a lot of heartbreak for the family and friends of those involved.  I think that is why the only high profile person objecting to them is Danny Alexander!

 

Mr Bannerman, may I ask have you ever been outside of this UK. Up until recent years we were one of the very few countries in the world with a police force who didn't carry guns. We also live in a country where police officers are being killed or seriously injured in the line of duty by guns so why shouldn't they carry the ultimate protection?

Alex... much of what Ayeseetee has said in this debate I have disagreed with, but I am totally with him in what he says in post 1614. There is also a sub-plot to the carrying of guns question in that it is certainly even less necessary in the likes of Inverness than it is in the central belt, but our one size fits all National Police Force dictates that our local cops should have to have them as well, hence depriving us of local control.

There's the irony. At a time when there is much shouting about devolving powers from "Westminster" to Edinburgh, we are also seeing powers being centralised from areas like the Highlands... also to Edinburgh.

 

Charles you and many others seem to be believing all the local media propaganda!  The old Northern Constabulary were carrying hand guns before they became Police Scotland but it is not the routine arming of the police as stated by many.  There are a few trained firearms officers on duty at any one time who will attend other calls if they are required and go into a shop or filling station to purchase lunch.  I am not concerned at all if I see them on my day to day business and am sure others would not notice either if it was not in the papers every week.

 

 their argument with Westminister is that the money to pay for the extra services is already there, the SNP would just rather have the money spent on social services than faster trains around London and faster missiles to fire at nobody. 

 

 

 

I would prefer the analogy that it might be better to have had the money spent on the A9 years ago rather than on a second Forth crossing or on the Edinburgh trams. For the SNP to blame "Westminster" (or is it OK just to call them "the English" again now the vote is past?) is a bit rich when the SNP centralises power on itself and on Edinburgh and continues the practice of marginalising the Highlands in which central Scotland has indulged for centuries.

 

The SNP were planning to upgrade the A9 in the first term of being in Government after 8 years of rule by Labour/Lib Dems but they were outvoted by the 3 main parties in favor of the Edinburgh Trams which had run millions over budget!  The work is finally started although it will take years to complete at least we will get it completed and hopefully within budget.

 

The reason they voted "YES" is that the SNP hijacked the referendum and did some shameless electioneering by promoting a range of un-affordable policies which they said they would introduce if Scotland was independent and which would be directed to the poorest in our society.  These folk are mainly in labour heartlands where support for independence has always been low.  They didn't vote YES because they believed in the arguments for independence, they voted YES because they were promised short term benefits if Scotland became independent.

Doofers Dad is absolutely 100% correct here. All the SNP/Yes were interested in from the start was getting people's crosses in their box and they were never all that fussed about how they did it.

 

You are both correct on this but what you fail to add is that the other parties /No campaign did exactly the same thing!  Politicians are all the same they want your vote and will tell you anything to get it.

 

But to return to DD's accurate appraisal, much of the Yes vote didn't actually come from people who support separation. Many voted Yes because they were promised more cash in their pockets after Yes

 

Both camps did exactly the same thing by saying you will be better of with them and the sad thing is some people believe them.

 

There is also a further consideration which I fully acknowledge may offend some, but is a fundamental, albeit unfortunate truth. The experience of 37 years in the classroom told me long ago that, regrettably, perhaps around a third of the population are simply not capable of understanding the issues of the debate.

 

I do not have that experience in the classroom but in the 10 years I was there I learnt enough to listen and make up my own mind on things. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And from Eric Joyce's website  http://ericjoyce.co.uk/2014/09/a-lie-wont-fly/

 

I, and others in the No camp with me, believe Scots are best within the union. I am glad that Scots voted No. But if we were lied to and the government of the day reneges on ‘the vow’, the vote was a fraud and the UK is corrupted beyond repair.

 

And going by the media today, it looks more and more likely that this is 1979 all over again.......lie to get the result you want...and then forget you promised anything. 

 

I have always thought that the UK Government is corrupted beyond repair and that will not change.  What I think is sad is the 2 million Scottish voters that don't se it or don't want to!

All of you talking about acceptance and togetherness when discussing my words  ......how do you like the acceptance and togetherness shown by the NO thugs in Glasgow.

 

http://wingsoverscotland.com/enough-is-enough/

 

A quote......We watched it on live video feeds from the state broadcasters of other countries, ones we’ve been taught to regard as less truthful than our own. We saw it on pictures and Vines and video clips sent by people who were actually there. We know.

 

But we don’t know about it from the BBC. The BBC’s story was for many hours tucked away halfway down a piece about Alex Salmond resigning. Eventually it got a page of its own where it was portrayed as a clash between rival groups, rather than what it was – a mob of thugs attacking people who’d been peacefully and happily assembled in the square for days, with not a single disturbance or arrest.

 

Shame I can't join in the TV licence boycott being advocated.....as I stopped paying mine a few months ago after previous instances of blatant bias. .

Keep them coming Odquine very informative!

The Referendum -  the gift that keeps on giving!  Now Scottish football supporters have promised to stop singing the dirge The Flower Of Scotland at upcoming Scottish matches. 

We can only pray that it is ditched as our unofficial anthem from all occasions  very soon.  What a gift that will be.

Not a chance it will take more than a referendum to stop us singing that

Just a word of thank's in particular to Qddquine and Doofers Dad  for their contributions and the many others who kept it going over the last 18 months.  Let's not forget Laurence who started the whole bloody thing, at least he will be happy today

Good post, as opposed to the utter shyte that C Bannerman came out with.      presume Charlie had Pickfords booked for this morning had the yes vote succeeded.

I agree 100% with you on that caley 100!  I am disappointed at the result but accept and move on, but will wait and see how long we wait before the broken promises.