DavidL

@TSE is making the error of assuming that anything about Scottish independence is rational or responsive to reason. It's not. Its driven by emotion and a sense of identity and resentment. The current… (View Post)

Spending on disability benefits has risen from around £1.1 billion in 1985-86 to £39.1 billion in 2023-24 in nominal terms, and from 0.3 to 1.4 per cent of GDP over the same period. Welfare spending:… (View Post)

It is indeed. Obvious consequences include: The sacking of his line managers in all 3 departments for utter incompetence. The redundancy of 2/3 of the employees in his department if he was able to co… (View Post)

I must confess that I am finding our politics so deeply depressing at the moment that I am finding it harder to even comment on it. The leadership of the main parties is utterly uninspired and seems … (View Post)

Is Mars not renamed Musk I yet? Scotland has 77,900km2. If it had the same density of population as E&W (395 per km2) it would have a population of 33.77m. And we might win games of sport, even w… (View Post)