HMM ...THE WORD THEY ARE LOOKING FOR IS "BACKFIRED"

From the Unionist press "The Courier and Advertiser" in Dundee.

Bullingdon boys just don't really understand the Scots. We don't like to be threatened by posh people. Very very silly of people like Ed Balls, Michael Kelly et al to back them up.

A good day for YES; a good day for Scotland.

RANDOM THOUGHTS

Thanks a lot to whoever brought asked this lot to look after our sick

'They said it would be a game-changer. And in many ways the government has been proved right about Iain Duncan Smith's Universal Jobmatch scheme, his vehicle for turning skivers into strivers. With all those bogus vacancies and technical eccentricities, no one has seen anything quite like it.

Predictably, the awards follow, and thus the initiative this week picked up a little something from the National Online Recruitment awards, the biggest in the recruitment industry. "The wooden Nora for the worst job board and biggest disappointment goes to Universal Jobmatch from the Dept for Work & Pensions," the announcement says. A "mongrel of a recruitment website" that "commits almost every online recruitment crime, and then some," the citation said.

Recognition from those who know and a prize: a carved block of cedar wood. IDS will be so pleased. A shame he couldn't have been there in person.'

Hugh Muir, Guardian

I saw my heroine Mrs Thatcher do it with the milk from our children's mouths

Dundee will have access to the jewels in the V&A crown in the event of independence — despite UK Government warnings of resource sharing problems if Scotland leaves the UK.

An analysis paper on science and research, launched by ministers on Monday, said negotiation would have to take place over Scottish access to assets situated in England, Wales and Northern Ireland if there is a Yes vote next year.

The document names the Victoria and Albert in London as one of the assets in question.

It said: “In the event of a vote for independence, the terms of access to existing UK-operated research institutions by researchers in a newly independent Scottish state could not be guaranteed, and it is unlikely they would be on the same basis as researchers in the continuing UK.

“In some cases future access to infrastructures would be likely to depend on collaborative relationships with academic partners in the continuing UK.”

But a V&A at Dundee spokesman said those relationships had already been established and the Waterfront project would not be hit by independence.

He added: “There would be no impact on the nature of the relationship with our V&A.

“It would go purely from being part of V&A in London strategy to a V&A international strategy. We already work in partnership with institutions throughout the world.”

Oooops....more lies. And how thick are they? Museums all over the world share material. Just because Westminster is bitter, it doesn't mean that more cerebral organisations need to follow in their path. 

Can you trust Westminster on anything at all?

Oh goodie. Move over, Tubby, there are some starving people
here who'd like some of that high class grub, not to mention the drink

My grandmother used to say that before the age of 30 you got
the face you were born with; after 30 you got the face you deserved.

Well, bless him. He deserves it. He's special.

Well, Wullie, I don't think he's JIST a big erse. He's a few other things too.

Well, don't blame me. You voted for them...Oh no, wait, you didn't.
The country next door voted for them! Tch.

And you deserve it, Anas. None more.

SNAPS ON SUNDAY

Like most of this prat's policies; not thought through.

But it's OK, because WE have nuclear weapons

You've been warned. Who's a pretty boy?

There are some actions that are beneath contempt, and here's your man who'll be behind a good number of them. Seriously, the kind of man who would seel his own granny

Well duh, guys...

Anyone want to buy my granny...going cheap

Spivvy  thicko

Cheap as chips is old Nick

Point to just one of them that has something between their ears

The UK figure includes the Scottish figure, so they are probably even worse off that the table suggests

Sometimes you just have to be rude, especially when it's Mr Pointless that makes the "point"

White van man. 

Better Together my arse. 

Tories...don't you just love them?

The best is yet to come...

Well, you lied about everything else, you dick

True though... how do we get rid of the Tories?

And all our mates in the Lords have made lots of money; then there will be plenty of part time directorships just that Huhne got, at fat salaries. Oh yipee, it's fun to be in government.

Well, yeah, to you it is... not so hand for us though

Michael Moore. I liked him better when he was fatter and made great movies about neo cons instead of being one

Of course you do Dave, then you can sell off the practises cheap to your spivvy mates.

Well duh, because, unlike Kate Middleton or mrs Parker Bowles, you don't have blue bloody. Jeeez, it's not hard. Concentrate.

UKOK. Never was a logo more appropriate. Off Topic. Does anyone know what happened to Blether Together?

White Van Man again.  Going back to the original white van, did it not occur to Mrs May that she is the Home Secretary. She should round up illegal immigrants and deport them if she wants them gone. Not put a van round the streets with a message saying "please go home". 

As always, click on imagines to make them readable.

MICHAEL KELLY: STAND-UP COMEDIAN

Here's a little laugh from the Scotsman (printed in England) courtesy of Michael Kelly:

THE Labour Party in Scotland goes into 2013 in buoyant mood and filled with a commitment to make this phase of the anti-independence campaign a positive one. Alistair Darling has already gone on record with this sentiment closely backed up by Johann Lamont. The party has recovered its confidence, and not before time. Because it is Labour that will win or lose the referendum campaign for Scotland.

Why Labour has recovered is easy to define. After the last UK and Scottish elections the party was at such a low ebb that it simply had to make changes. And it did. The most significant of these has turned out to be the election of Johann Lamont as leader of Scottish Labour.

Her performances at First Minister’s Questions have destroyed the God-like way Alex Salmond formerly bestrode the chamber. That has raised morale throughout the whole of the Labour party, not just among MSPs but down to the grass roots that were in despair not long ago. The other significant factor was the retention of control of Glasgow City Council – not just by the skin of its teeth but by a comfortable margin.