I'm just glad that Eck can see what Labour did for Scotland, This statement gave me the best laugh I have had in ages. Shall we go over this again. Glasgow who has voted for Labour religiously for the last 50 years has.
.. The highest unemployment in the UK.
The worst level of poverty in the UK. Is the most violent city in the developed world (excluding murders) as found by the UN. Has suffered the highest and quickest loss of heavy industry jobs in the UK.
The whole of Scotland has benefited from Labour rule as much as Glasgow has, education standards are constantly being reduced to make no one feel like a failure (I thought they pledged to make education standards better not reduce them so more people pass easier tests and find it harder to enter university...
we used to have the best education system in the world), child behavioural problems are on the increase (they no longer respect anyone), knife crime has increased...
the list can go on and on (and those figures that show unemployment being low just mean that they have changed the way they check the figures). I almost forgot, now their head honcho is constantly throwing being British at us! Labour have been bad for Glasgow, bad for Scotland and more recently, bad for the UK (the English have just been quicker to pick up on it, it didn't take them 50 years to realise Labour were an awful party.
It's as though the Tories were bad for Scotland and so were Labour so we picked the lesser of two evils and have continued to do so as a nation until this year...
we can see again! Posted by: Oh how I laughed..
. on I'm waiting for Gordon's Being British for Dummies book to be compulsory reading every morning at nine after the morning rendition of God Save the Queen over all radio channels, TV channels and every mobile phone..
. Posted by: armstrong cowan, Germany on Having grown up in Glasgow and gone to school in the city centre for nine years in the 1960's the demise of numerous financial companies or rather their transformation and disappearance into our globalisation black hole is not difficult to witness on home visits. Jobs are jobs and everyone involved from the previous administration to the current SNP should be congratulated on securing this expansion.
Perhaps a word of thanks to the management of Morgan Stanley is also in order. as a footnote ,I can't help thinking that a Smeatonian slogan something along thes lines - See yous this is Glesga and if yous don't invest here - we'll set about ye may help to encourage even more investment . And Archie - your not helping the cause with gibberish about us subsidising England.
I would ask all my fellow Scots to be more positive when putting fingers to keyboards. Thank you Morgan Stanley and Alex. Posted by: Jaggy on [quote][bold]AlanRonald[/bold] wrote: I have to Laugh!
!! They can pay skilled employees 30 -40k per year on government subsidised wages while the rest of us cannot get any proper staff Fantastic!
! The only reason they are here is because of the subsidy DOH!!
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[/quote] If the government don't offer some kind of incentive then these jobs will simply not come to Scotland. We are not only in competition with Dublin but with much of Eastern Europe where many back office operations are being set up. The issue is not whether we should be giving incentives to companies to expand or set up in Scotland.
The real issue is what we are doing, if anything, to encourage home-grown industry and providing the conditions to allow it to expand. Our Universities churn out qualified youngsters year after year. And the best of them end up leaving Scotland because the opportunities and the financial remuneration are simply too poor.
Inbound investment will not create the sort of opportunities we need. These are essentially administrative jobs and the real opportunities are wherever head office or significant operating units are. Of course, we need jobs of this kind.
But we also need to grow indigenous business so that we can also offer the top level opportunities that inbound does not offer. Posted by: Scamp on I'm just glad that Eck can see what Labour did for Scotland, This statement gave me the best laugh I have had in ages.
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