So the Better Together's promise of saving shipyard jobs looks to be on as shaky ground as the promises on civil service, military, oil and so on.
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News emerging that UKGov is planning on India & Brazil building Type 26 Frigates promised to the Clyde #BothVotesSNP
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Just got this email.
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Scottish shipyard shop stewards loyal to their Labour career path and Scot Lab loyal to their London agenda. Workers were sold down river
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Blair McDougall
Really is depressing how many nationalists simply don't care about shipyard workers and their jobs.
- @BarcelonaNil @kezdugdale @NicolaSturgeon @Ruth_E_Davidson Because I am a sentient being. Why don't you know it?
Nicola Sturgeon 
Kezia Dugdale 
Alex Gallagher 
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Wings Over Scotland
@alexgallagher2 @BarcelonaNil @kezdugdale @NicolaSturgeon Possibly because sentient beings know Scotland would still have needed a navy.
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Still, we've always got these thousands and thousands of jobs at Faslane.... haven't we, Jackie?
If the Tories really believed in their "free" market ideology then probably the cheapest place to build these ships would be China.
ReplyDeleteTheir masters in Washington wouldn't be too pleased however,already pissed at Georgy Porgy's cunning plan to let them build England's new fleet of nuclear power stations.
There is no such thing as a free market.
LOL It must be hard being a Tory prime minister and trying to juggle all these conflicting balls in the air!
DeleteI think one of the main reasons Ruthless is so keen to emphasize there will be no referendum - oh no is because they can't use the same fear tactics again - all the job are gone/going and all the promises have been reneged on. Plus the EU and Cameron's evel announcement when the results were barely in.
ReplyDeleteYes the Yoons will go no about oil price and the pound so Yes will need to address this and the mince of the GERS - pointing out much of the deficit will disappear.
But I wonder how many No voters are feeling pretty shat on by now?
Yep. What they gonna say?
DeleteIf you leave there will be no jobs left in Scotland?
Yeah right!
I think the oil price was always a non starter. Perhaps Alex spouted too much about how it would change lives, but the economics always said that with or without oil we were perfectly capable of running the country at at least the standard that the UK did.
Currency, yes. Although there were top economists that said that sharing a currency would work, it was a sticking point for some.
I doubt Nicola would allow that to happen again.
And in answer to your last question... most of them, I suspect.
Don't know about Wings doing it better, you do it with much punch. Aye we are certainly being paid back for our temerity in almost voting to go. I agree with Panda Paws about the No Voters. By the way Willie Rennie's lot were suffering from the cold shoulder today in Dunfermline. Helena
ReplyDeleteThat's kind Helena.
DeleteThank you.
Who's this Willie Rennie I keep hearing about? :)
We need all of our on-line bloggers and commentators holding the unionists to account for these betrayals. The MSN won't.
ReplyDeleteYes, that's true.
DeleteAny stories in the press?
I saw nothing on the STV news when I was standing waiting in the chip shop!
The emerging crisis at Govan and Scotstoun doesn't surprise me in the slightest. The Unionists know that Independence will happen and the whole intention is to try and cripple Scotland economically before that eventuality.
ReplyDeleteWe HAVE to make sure that they don't, Hoots.
DeleteI wish Ruth would say something about this... Kezia blamed it on the Tories.
Davidson doesn't need to say anything. She's just letting Dugdale dig a deeper hole for herself and her party. Everyone in Scotland, NO voters included, knows Labour were complicit in this debacle.
ReplyDeleteYes, I see what you're saying, but I'd like to hear a journalist ask her what she thinks of how they have rode roughshod over everything they warned us about.
DeleteAnd Kezia too.
In a half decent country that would happen.
You need a half-decent media for that to happen
DeleteWell, that's a long way off!!!
DeleteThese tweets force me to wonder if loyalty to the Branch is less a political ideology and more of a psychiatric condition.
ReplyDeleteLOL. No doubt about it, I'd say!
DeleteThe media will never raise this and all the other broken promises. Make Scotland a desert. Sadly many in Scotland would be happy as long as we're a British desert.
ReplyDeleteI'm really pissed off with this, when will the worms turn?
I seem to ahve been waiting all my life for the worms to turn. I seriously can;t believe that we put up with what we do.
DeleteBut I see the change with the SNP taking over from Labour, with people marching on Downing Street to get rid of that tax dodging creep, with people marching with junior doctors and again today, Hillsborough and the damning of the establishment.
Add that to what we know about the MPs and Lords thieving, the royal family interfering and the Establishment paedos...
Our one saviour seems to be social media. A place where we can say what we want (within reason) and where we are not dependent on the BBC or the rightwing press for our information.
We need to keep on making it happen, otherwise it will be work houses and penury for us not blessed with titles or massive wealth