Fishy business

Because ‘poverty’ is measured relatively, the richer society gets the more ‘poverty’ there is. Strangely, making everyone poorer (including those classed as being in ‘poverty’) would reduce ‘poverty’ as it is measured.

Uncle Monty Teach these folk some budgeting skills. Scran on the table and shoes on the feet before the Sky telly, ciggies and Buckie.

Big Scotlander The problem with relative poverty is that it means you will always have “poor” people. It is a largely meaningless measure. A poor person in the UK is still in the top 1% globally.

Euan Gray Meanwhile, Nicola Sturgeon, who sits at the head of the most powerful devolved administration in the world, continues to inflict on us her narrow, cramped selfindulgent obsession with the constitution.

Kipdog But we can afford to pay for the richest in society to go to university for free.

Enough is Enough I doubt every student in Scottish universities comes from a rich family. However, opening the doors for foreign students to study free of charge while demanding students from England pay the full rate must rank as one of the pettiest moves this pathetic bunch of pretend politicians have made.

The Ayrshire Bard Income inequality is one of the biggest obstacles to our nation’s prosperity. Time for the wealthy elites and greedy fat cats to begin to pay their fair share.

Actually the top 10% of earners pay 60% of all income tax – maybe they already pay their fair share?

Brother_louis People will look at this headline and lap it all up without actually understanding what relative poverty is. It’s not poverty as most might think. For a family of 2 adults and 2 children, you are in poverty on £21,000 per year income. Hardship, sometimes, poverty never ! The point is rather moot. Discussions would never get that far. The SNP will never make a convincing financial case to meet the EU’S nonnegotiable financial criteria to win a referendum.

KHB66 Desperately trying to shift the goalposts to suit their needs now that they see how the wind is blowing.

Goldielocks Could a nationalist please tell me what the SNP’S position is on EU membership? They’re all over the place.

Enoughisenough The inability of the SNP to

World Wide Football Fan The SNP in their white paper states that Scotland would rejoin the EU and be able to remodel the EU. What a joke The UK, one of the most powerful, if not the most powerful, nation could not do that, which is why we are leaving.

Mike Lowery Sturgeon is on record as saying she is intent on joining the EU whatever it takes – and what it will take is agreeing to comply with ALL EU rules, regulations and policies including the EU Common Fisheries Policy.

Joe Smith I wonder why Mason did not say this during the Brexit campaign? I seem to remember that he was campaigning to REMAIN in the CFP! We love him here in Norway. We have as a tradition to watch crime series during the Easter holidays and on Monday we can see episode 1 in the new series of Shetland. Perez is very good.

Karen Jensen I have always wondered why his last name is Perez. I don’t think that is Scottish.

Jim Watson In the original Ann Cleeves books he has Spanish heritage, generations back.

Lesley Foster They explain that by saying his ancestor was in the Spanish Armada and was shipwrecked.

Terry Wofford Many Spanish names on Shetland.