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Connery and cash
The late Hollywood actor Sean Connery was happy to support Westminster plans for Scottish devolution – but only if it did not cost him money in extra part-time residency taxes, previously classified documents suggest.
Old news! He loved Scotland so much he lived in Spain.
Kirstin Coltman Bahamas. I would if I could, wouldn't you?
Stevie Lewis
I wonder if any of these Hollywood Scottish actors contribute anything to the benefit of Scotland, I'm not talking SNP funds!
Pauline Hercus
Hey, short memories here! Sean Connery gave sums to a number of projects and especially started his Education Foundation. Alan Cummings has also done a lot in support of Scottish projects. I don't know about others because I'm not particularly starstruck but I do know that a number raise awareness of Scotland, which promotes Scotland and its products. Also, many at all levels of society here and abroad contribute their time and money generously, though they don't all shout out about it. Don't be so judgemental!
Yvonne Mackay The reality is they want to ruin our great country and won’t be here when the mess hits.
Mike Scales
Nobody volunteers to pay tax. That's why we must take the decision out of their hands.
Patrick Morgan
Pretty irrelevant now what he wanted. Makes no difference to most.
Nancy Graham
Reminiscent of Champagne socialists. Handy with the rhetoric, free to expound their harmful and generally ill-informed opinions, all from a safe, distant haven.
Gordon Devlin
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I suppose if he didn’t pay tax towards the UK Treasury he wasn’t contributing towards Trident and illegal wars.
Mike Mccabe
Independence at any cost! (As long as I don’t have to pay…)
Daniel Winterburn
Wanted independence but didn’t want to pay for it, straight out of the Nats’ manifesto.
John Gillan
That's the problem when celebrities are pulled in to play politics – they end up looking like politicians.
Oliver Crane
The late Kerry Packer once said anyone who doesn't minimise his tax is a bloody idiot because the government
aren't doing such a good job.
John Stoddart He grew up in abject poverty and worked hard for his money so let him be.
Theresa Spence
Passport to play
Nightclubs in England are to require 'vaccine passports', while other activities could potentially follow, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced.
This does not stop at nightclubs, it will extend to everywhere and we will end up with a twotier society. Papers please
before you can enter any establishment. I can’t believe a UK government is willing to use coercion to get its young people to have a medical procedure. What times we are living in, our society has changed beyond recognition.
Caitlin Smart
Looking at the pictures yesterday on the news and going by the experience of those abroad, such as Sweden who have had their nightclubs open and then had to close them because they realise that they are hotspots for spreading Covid, yes I agree that they should be double jabbed and prove it. But this should have been all thought out before so called "freedom day".
Tracy Morris
The rate the vaccination programme is going in Scotland – by the time they receive their second vaccination many teenagers will be approaching an age whereby nightclubbing is the last thing on their agenda! Elizabeth Mcarthur
Absolutely not! They won’t stop at nightclubs either. A two-tier system in the UK. This has to be stopped!
Scott Mcdonald It’s easy, unless your medically exempt get the vaccine.
Sarah Clark
Defo it’s not right. This is discrimination!
Jarek Jarowski
England can do what it wants.
Mark Beasley Yes. Otherwise they might as well have a party for 8 in an old-style red phone box. No way they're not going to catch it.
Tom Hendry Can almost guarantee the UK government are hoping and praying the Scottish Government does the same – what a joke!
Robert Ayer It’s wrong and in breach of virtually every piece of human rights legislation in existence.
James Craig