POOR BRITAIN

“Fuel prices rose by an inflation-busting seven per cent in 2013, pushing more people into fuel poverty. The fact that this is happening in an energy-rich country is scandalous." - Housing Minister Margaret Burgess.

In fairness I very much doubt that by any measure the UK is the
6th largest economy in the world,
but by anyone's standards we are relatively rich as a country.
Why, then, do people have the indignity of begging for food thrust upon them?

This is because he is a Tory. The Conservatives in Scotland
who accept that they have no chance of forming a government
want to see Gentleman Jim as the leader.

I suppose there are always food banks ma'am. Although it is rather infra dig, and
there are a lot of MPs who would think that you were faking it.

Ah, yes, the horrendous cost of keeping this OAP home for toffs open could have been reduced just a little, had they agreed to share catering with the Commoners along the corridor. However, this was rejected by their Erminenesses on the basis that the vintage of the subsidised champagne would not have been of sufficient quality for the taste buds of aristocrats, and well, one couldn't have that, could one?

Ewwwww. UGLYYYYYY Bastards

The Chief Secretary to the Treasury, largely responsible for the misery of hunger
gets a photo opportunity at a food bank, and shows just how detached from reality he is.

I suppose there must be trickle down in some way. After all the hyper rich have to eat, have their cars driven and
their houses cleaned, but they are so incredibly mean that they pay for it all at the bottom possible rate, leaving the
recipients unable to let the money trickle any farther.

In one of the top 20 countries in the world...
Makes you so proud to be British.

Who can argue that?
Not seen many poor councillors though...

Well, we couldnt have a Westminster government frightening
away their friends who will give them directorships when they retire to the Lords

Socialism... what's that then?

Well, otherwise he wouldn't get home in time to see his little prince get off to bed
like hundreds of thousands of other fathers all over the country.
Maybe the DWP could provide helicopters for all of them on the social security?
No?

ALL IN IT TOGETHER...HIC... HAVE ANOTHER GLASS OF CHAMPAGNE AND LET'S POP BACK TO MY OFFICE

The amount of alcohol consumed in the House of Commons may be in some way directly proportional to the incompetence and lechery that seems to pervade the place.
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The UK government has also conceded that no deal will be done between our government and theirs over the matter of Trident.

David Mundell said that the SNP's stance on Trident was so firm there could be no negotiation over its removal. 

Negotiations on the issue are a ­"non-starter" because the SNP could never contemplate a compromise, according to Mundell.

Officially, the Coalition Government insists it will not "pre-negotiate" ahead of September's vote. And Trident was expected to be one of the biggest issues of contention in any pre-independence discussions and a major bargaining chip for a government of a newly-independent Scotland.

Scottish ministers have vowed to remove nuclear weapons as soon as safely possible in the event of a Yes vote, with a view to a deadline of 2021.

But 'experts' warn relocating the UK's nuclear deterrent from the Clyde would cost tens of billions of pounds, potentially even forcing the UK into unilateral disarmament.

Mundell said the SNP's public pronouncements on nuclear weapons, and the strength of feeling among many of the party's supporters, meant "they [the SNP] could never - if they were successful in their objectives - they could never go back on the Trident thing. There is no deal to be done."

He added: "I used to think personally, probably there would be some arrangement where Trident could stay just if they [the SNP] were given a lot of money. But now I'm absolutely clear it couldn't, because they are so committed."

Even if a Labour government were to replace the SNP after 2016, it would be a brave First Minister who would  go back on a policy that is relatively popular with the people of Scotland (between 51-60% depending which opinion poll you read)...

This may be especially true those in the Glasgow area, so close to the site of the bombs. Logic suggests that this popularity would grow after independence on the basis that it's dangerous enough having your own bombs only 25 miles down the road from your home, but to host the bombs of a foreign country, might seem to be a risk too far.

Additionally, the opportunities for oil exploration in the firth of Clyde (and the money it will bring), stopped by the London government because it would impede MoD movement, will weigh heavily even on a Labour Scottish government committed to co-operate slavishly with the UK.