And of course we Scots are lucky enough to have the one of the best brands in the world - a global recognition and affection for our culture that money cannot buy.
Take financial services. With RBS and HBOS - two of the world's biggest banks - Scotland has global leaders today, tomorrow and for the long-term.
Oh dear.
Let me explain why the future looks particularly bright for Scotland.
Because as a small, open and dynamic economy, the winds of globalisation are blowing strongly in our favour.
Oh dear.
Not to worry, here’s a petition to sign, that should sort it out.
4 comments:
…and to think unionists accuse nats of pettiness and bitterness. Oh dear. Your blog has seriously gone down in my estimation after this post. You are, like so many others, morphing from a Unionist blog to a How many ways can I hate the SNP blog.
Right, you better get back to revelling in Scotland’s downturn.
Under whose watch is the majority of levers of the Scottish economy?
The Irish Protestant loves Scotland. We see it as part of our homeland, to be cherished, and defended with our lives. Equating Scotland to the SNP is the only thing here that is "running Scotland down", rendering the sum of the Great nation to be nothing more than the representations a xenophobic, unscrupulous, incompetent and corrupt political party is a breath taking display of simplicity in the post Fascist world.
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Rum goings on at supposedly oil rich Aberdeen, from SNP/LD backed heritage mutilation (Union Square and the three kirks) - to cutting funds to more important things (like disabled children's families relief) to pay for that oldest of Socialist operations.
(" Oh, if only we could gain severance from our compatriots, Aberdeen would resemble Dubai, its only because of sinister Westminster that we languish in such poverty that we have to cut funds to the disabled in order to screw up our actual symbols of National Heritage to put up that Mel Gibson statue......")
Yes anonymous 2, thanks for the for the quasi-Orange bilge - not!
What about Triple Kirks - half of it was knocked down about twenty years ago so I do not know what you are talking about there. Of what is left, the upper half is a dance studio and night club and the lower half is a pub and that has been the situation long before the SNP had more than two members of the council.
Concerning Wallace statues - as you are well aware there has been one errected in Aberdeen since Victorian times. And it does not look like Mel G.
Indeed no party can be immune from the rap concerning the council finances. Labour ran the place from 1988-2003 (kicked out over misappropriation of funds - particularly the Provost Smith taking her friend abroad on official visits) followed by a Lib-Dem/Tory coalition from 2003-07. The problems go away, way back.
I remember some whacko on a train to Aberdeen from Ballymoney a few years ago rabbiting on how he hated "the south because they want to steal our riches" - whatever riches that were rattling around NI in 1997. Was that you?
Anyway, to the original post. Politicians should maybe should not make predictions as their hubris can bite them on the backside like:
"We have ended the cycle of boom and bust"
G. Brown
"The union was threatened but people will no look back on the election of 1992 as the high water mark of Scottish sepratism. The forces that would tear this kingdom apart have been completely defeated" - or something to that effect.
- John Major 1993
anonymous @ 2:01 PM
…and to think unionists accuse nats of pettiness and bitterness.
Calm down. I'm making fun of his pomposity, arrogance and the idiocy of a party supposedly governing Scotland setting up a petition to save jobs...I haven't gone as far as suggesting he should be electrocuted, as a more imaginative Cybernats recommended for McConnell last week in one of The Scotsman's comments-zones last week.
Oh dear. Your blog has seriously gone down in my estimation after this post. You are, like so many others, morphing from a Unionist blog to a How many ways can I hate the SNP blog.
Hardly morphing, I've criticised the SNP from Day One on here; the difference now is that recently they've been giving me much more material to work with.
Under whose watch is the majority of levers of the Scottish economy?
If we had believed Salmond's pre-recession claims at Harvard, the answer to that would have been Mr Salmond and the SNP.
Right, you better get back to revelling in Scotland’s downturn.
Aberdonian ridiculed Brown in the comment above, does that mean he is also ridiculing the UK? Of course not. Salmond and the SNP are not Scotland, they only represent a minority of the electorate (who vote); the over-sensitivity of Scot Nats to any criticism whatsover of their leader and party really doesn't do you nay favours.
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