Oh come on now, shetlandpaul
I watched a programme about the excellent seafood industry which helps to sustain Orkney, with the lobster raising farm which does so much toward keeping it viable. I don't really see any benefit in financial terms from that. Nor do I get any return from the huge investment in oil related industry in Shetland.
Similarly, though, I expect nothing in return from the huge amount of money, some of it mine, which is being sucked into the 2012 thing in London and Englandshire.
The Forth crossing is required because there was a botch job made of the present road crossing which has been in existence only since 1964, unlike the rail bridge which has stood since 1890.
Perhaps your lot will improve when Scotland finally becomes an independant nation in its own right, and we become more like the Scandinavian countries in our outlook and in our dealings with the auld enemy.
I believe Scotland will become independant of England one day............I just hope I live long enough to see it happen. As for the parliament building, with its upturned boats incorporated into the design by the dead Spaniard..........wasn't it the Spanish who did for our fishing industry? Thankfully, in Alex salmond, we now have an indivividual who feels the humiliation which many of us feel, unlike the Westminster lachies we've had previously.
'for, as long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be brought under English rule.' Bruce must be spinning in his grave.
