Calilasseia wrote:So the Tories made up a fake memo claiming Nicola Sturgeon preferred Cameron over Miliband, fed it to the Daily Torygraph, and have now been caught. These wankers can't be trusted to shovel shit from point A to point B without police supervision, let alone run a fucking country.

Is there a Carmichael deal in place to limit his punishment if he keeps quiet about any Mundell complicity? If Fluffy knew, he's toast.

Is it credible Carmichael didn't share #Frenchgate info with the only other politician in the Scotland Office, his Coalition pal? For WEEKS?

Beyond parody. @Telegraph abandons all pretence of being a newspaper. Left out AC's admission that it's "not correct"

Strontium Dog wrote:The SNP-supporting Sun are obviously going to side against the fact of Sturgeon's comments, and the reality that a Tory PM in Downing Street is exactly what she wanted in her quest to turn Scotland into a Venezuela of the North.

Strontium Dog wrote:The SNP-supporting Sun are obviously going to side against the fact of Sturgeon's comments, and the reality that a Tory PM in Downing Street is exactly what she wanted in her quest to turn Scotland into a Venezuela of the North.

London Property Bubble Sees First Ex-Council Flat Hit Market For £1.15m

An ex council flat has gone on the London property market for more than £1million – in what is believed to be a first for the city.

The two bedroom, two bathroom flat in south Kensington is being advertised by Maskells estate agents for £1,150,000.

Sitauted in Keppel House, Brompton Cross, the third floor apartment is atop a Stella McCartney boutique and is “ideally located” for Harrods and the King’s Road.

The Evening Standard writes the property smashes the previous record asking price for an ex-local authority flat – that being £999,950 on the King’s Road.

Council tenant Annette Greenwood, 60, has lived in the block since 1990, and told the newspaper: “Prices round here are crazy, sky-high, and beyond the means of ordinary working people. I used to know the people who lived in flats but not any more. There was a sense of community.”

Strontium Dog wrote:The SNP-supporting Sun are obviously going to side against the fact of Sturgeon's comments, and the reality that a Tory PM in Downing Street is exactly what she wanted in her quest to turn Scotland into a Venezuela of the North.

Expensive plans to speed rail commuters from London to Glasgow and Edinburgh in under three hours would be scrapped if Scotland votes for independence, a cabinet minister has warned. The Department for Transport agency overseeing High Speed Two is currently examining options for a third phase of the much criticised railway, which would pour billions more on to a budget that has already topped £40bn.

There would probably be a link from Manchester or Leeds – the two cities where the "Y"-shaped second phase ends – to Scotland. This would ultimately shave well over an hour off journeys between the capital and Edinburgh or Glasgow.

However, a cabinet minister told The Independent on Sunday that an extra link was almost inconceivable in the event of a Yes vote for independence in September, due to the added cost burden on UK finances to a country that was no longer in the union.

The source said: "The high-speed railway is a substantial public investment and it's difficult to see how that investment would be justified from south of the border."

A Scottish pro-union MP added: "Many of us would like to see HS2 extended to the central belt of Scotland, but I couldn't see an independent Scotland being able to afford it nor English taxpayers subsidising them."

Turn benefits into repayable loan, says Tory group

Young unemployed people should be forced to repay their benefit money when they get a job, an influential group of Conservative MPs has said.

The proposal to pay benefits as a loan would give them "an additional incentive to find work rather than allow the debt to build up".

The idea is included in a new book setting out a "radical" free market agenda for the Conservative government.

Author Kwasi Kwarteng is seen as a rising star on the right of the party.

The Conservative MP and junior ministerial aide argues that free enterprise - rather than government interference - is the answer to the problems facing Britain.

minininja wrote:

Turn benefits into repayable loan, says Tory group

Young unemployed people should be forced to repay their benefit money when they get a job, an influential group of Conservative MPs has said.

The proposal to pay benefits as a loan would give them "an additional incentive to find work rather than allow the debt to build up".

The idea is included in a new book setting out a "radical" free market agenda for the Conservative government.

Author Kwasi Kwarteng is seen as a rising star on the right of the party.

The Conservative MP and junior ministerial aide argues that free enterprise - rather than government interference - is the answer to the problems facing Britain.

These people are fucking mental. Total disconnect from reality.

ronmcd wrote:Ah, the Tories. Just as corrupt and untrustworthy as the libdems.

From 2014:

An Independent Scotland 'would lose its HS2', warns minister

Expensive plans to speed rail commuters from London to Glasgow and Edinburgh in under three hours would be scrapped if Scotland votes for independence, a cabinet minister has warned. The Department for Transport agency overseeing High Speed Two is currently examining options for a third phase of the much criticised railway, which would pour billions more on to a budget that has already topped £40bn.

There would probably be a link from Manchester or Leeds – the two cities where the "Y"-shaped second phase ends – to Scotland. This would ultimately shave well over an hour off journeys between the capital and Edinburgh or Glasgow.

However, a cabinet minister told The Independent on Sunday that an extra link was almost inconceivable in the event of a Yes vote for independence in September, due to the added cost burden on UK finances to a country that was no longer in the union.

The source said: "The high-speed railway is a substantial public investment and it's difficult to see how that investment would be justified from south of the border."

A Scottish pro-union MP added: "Many of us would like to see HS2 extended to the central belt of Scotland, but I couldn't see an independent Scotland being able to afford it nor English taxpayers subsidising them."

And now in 2015, after Scotland voted to stay?

SNP fury as HS2 finds 'no business case' for taking fast train service to Scotland

Sendraks wrote:

minininja wrote:

Turn benefits into repayable loan, says Tory group

Young unemployed people should be forced to repay their benefit money when they get a job, an influential group of Conservative MPs has said.

The proposal to pay benefits as a loan would give them "an additional incentive to find work rather than allow the debt to build up".

The idea is included in a new book setting out a "radical" free market agenda for the Conservative government.

Author Kwasi Kwarteng is seen as a rising star on the right of the party.

The Conservative MP and junior ministerial aide argues that free enterprise - rather than government interference - is the answer to the problems facing Britain.

These people are fucking mental. Total disconnect from reality.

Yup, that'll really help people get back on their feet after a lengthy spell of unemployment.

Sendraks wrote:I thought that everyone already contributed towards their benefits through taxation, a bit like a lottery only one where you hope you're never lucky enough to "win" and have to draw upon the prize fund.