Harsh lesson
Not if Glasgow ends up being in a foreign country, like you want.
Uncle Monty Channel 4 has an ovenready excuse for choosing anywhere but Glasgow – Nicola’s pledge that “independence transcends everything”. Why would a UK company move its HQ to a country whose leader wants to take it out of the UK? Companies are avoiding investing in Scotland for that very reason.
altnacealgach Sturgeon is finally coming to terms with the fact that independence is dead. Her language gives it away, “Glasgow would be the perfect location for a channel 4’s new national headquarters”. It’s accepting the fact that Glasgow is part of the UK nation.
Enough is Enough Glasgow, always Glasgow, never anywhere else like Edinburgh – you know, the capital
King Zeito Plush of Trash can The capital is grossly underrepresented in terms of media faculties, most unlike Cardiff, Belfast and of course, London. And it would help break the overwhelmingly Glasgow-centric tone of most of our media be it STV or BBC Scotland.
Suburban Wolf Yes, but Edinburgh is over-represented in banking, insurance, asset management, tourism, historical sights, politics, foreign missions and air connections.
Stuart Cowan Channel 4 can take a run and jump. We don’t need another English establishment mouthpiece in Glasgow. BBC Scotland is bad enough.
Jamsie Any organisation will do a risk analysis before making a major investment, such as a new HQ. In the case of a body with a Uk-wide remit looking to relocate, it will consider Scottish independence as one of those risks. Anyone who is given a parking space by their employer should be paying for it as a benefit-in-kind, no matter the nature of their work. We’re all in the same boat and no-one deserves preferential treatment. Anyone who truly has to use a car to get to work just needs to factor parking costs into their budget. Maybe they should be charged for the coffee they drink during breaks, plus the electricity they use to boil the kettle? Rather than look at ways to increase income councils would be better off looking at their areas of unnecessary expenditure and make cuts there.
City Loon Teachers generally do pay for their coffee and tea already. Otherwise I have been diddled for four decades.
C Spence This obsession of councils to make money from everything without making more than cursory attempts to keep costs down is simple proof of their basic incompetence. As a commuter, enough is enough. Either take it back into public ownership or get a company in that knows what they are doing.
Jim Jones The taxpayer pays out more in real terms in subsidies to the private railways. Weren’t we told that privatisation would mean that we wouldn’t have to pay the railways? This “refurbished” nonsense is utter rubbish. Their idea of refurbishment is a coat of paint and new decals and sometimes not even that. These HST sets are 40 years old, even British Railways didn’t run rolling stock from the Twenties and Thirties.
Gustav Gustavsson Good to see the standards of the old nationalised British Rail are still being upheld here in Scotland. The Glasgow suburban lines are running trains that even Indian Railways would reject.