From: neilp@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Postlethwaite)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
Subject: Re: Majors Visit to Scotland
Date: 14 Sep 92 21:45:35 GMT
Organization: Dept of Computing & Electrical Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland

In article <25793@castle.ed.ac.uk> emct46@castle.ed.ac.uk (J H Dempsey) writes:
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>After the recent general election and the rejection of the policys of
>the conservatives by 75% of Scottish voters the government said they
>would be taking stock and seeking a solution to the current
>constitutional (if we had a constitution that is)problems (nice speak   
>for the imposition of outdated

One thing about non-tory politicians that really annoy me is they claim that
75% of Scotland voted for devolution/independance. This is utter bullshit.
75% of the population voted for parties which have as part of their agenda
proposals for political change.

If people cared soley about political change they would have voted for the
one-thread political party - The SNP. As they got around 15%, 10% less than
the increased Tory vote, people generally in Scotland don't give 2 hoots
about independance. It is only in the public eye because mile-wide gob
people like Jim Sillars constantly appear on TV (for some reason).

>policies by a dictatorial government with no Scottish mandate)
>What does Major do -he consults "prominent" Scottish figures who by some
>coincidence are all supporters of the tory party and comes up with no
>conclusions. In other words SCOTLAND GET STUFFED we arent going to
>listen to you. We are going to weaken local government (as its not tory
>ontrolled ) we are going to destroy your industry reduce your public
>spending and treat you like you dont matter.

Oooo, and I suppose a SNP propped up Labour local government in Edinburgh
(that got around 10-15 thousand less votes than the Tory councillors *IS*
Ok ???)

Ranting and ravings about destruction of industry. Do you *actually*
believe any government actively want to destroy industry ???
You need your head seen to.

Not that Labours industry record is much to write home about......

>My attitude is now hardening I once believed in change through the
>current system but that now seems an impossibility. The first move has
>to be the embarresment of the government when they hold the meeting of
>the european heads of state in Edinburgh through demonstration.
>On a further note the overt bias of the supposed national media. last
>week Scotland played their first world cup qualifier as did Wales N.
>Ireland and Eire and on the same night the England squad played a
>FRIENDLY with Spain. On the radio and the national news all we heard
>about was Englands meaningless game with one liners about important
>world cup qualifiers.

Well, I notice the Scottish Sun has shut up. Sean Connery must also be back
in his Spanish Villa, the *TRUE* Scot he is !!!

Football. And I suppose the shift programs off BBC2 to make way for coverage
of the Scotland game was a mirage was it ???

Embarrassment of Government at Euro meeting in December. You'll only succeed
in people saying 'look at those stupid Scottish prats on the telly'.

English bias. Looking at it from a different perspective, aren't the people in
places other than the central belt of Scotland sick to death of the Edinburgh/
Glasgow oriented BBC Scotland/STV/Scottish Press bias ???


Regards,

	Neil


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