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energy costs that are driving people into poverty.
Reality Demands to be Heard This is “advice” from the same buffoons who wanted to divest from fossil fuel companies. How much do high power bills hurt the poor?
wee scunner As a member of the COS I am a bit concerned at what they choose to comment on. I’d have thought they should be all over the Scottish Government for failing our kids and for presiding over the drugs crisis. Specific Scottish issues.
Bruce Scotland What has this to do with the Church, they, like the Queen, are supposed to remain neutral. Very bad form.
Bea Sutherland The new prime minister began assembling his government yesterday afternoon after walkouts by some of Theresa May’s most senior ministers, who refused to serve under Mr Johnson and oppose any move towards a no-deal Brexit.
No one is capable of uniting the Tory Party. What they need is to split and for the ultra right faction to join the Brexit Party where they belong, and then we can continue with a reasonably sensible and functional Tory party (by some people’s standards).
Dunnomuch This nonsense about “uniting the country” presupposes that every part of the country has exactly the same interests. They don’t.
Kampunghighlander Boris is populist, he will follow what he thinks the majority want, and at the moment that is to leave the EU. Where we go from there is anybody’s guess but we will leave.
Calum Mackenzie Maybe Nicola Sturgeon is going to meet her Waterloo. It could very well be that Boris will surprise us all – he will not treat fools gladly! He may act the clown but there is an intellect there which will surpass any in Holyrood, any Scottish SNP MP and many in Westminster. Give him a chance.
Anne Mackie A US war with Iran may be Boris Johnson’s first big test, wrote Martyn Mclaughlin
Bush operated under the American “cowboy” mentality. Trump may have his faults but he does’t like war. Bush didn’t care but Trump looks carefully at costs and wars are seriously expensive!
Mr Grumpy2 Wars are business, though, Trump has many, many faults, but he is a businessman.
infamous clarity Trouble with Iran – possibly even war – looks increasingly likely. Sometimes, as Britain and France failed to do with Hitler, it’s better to strike early, fast and hard. If there’s to be a war, then the sooner it’s over, the fewer the casualties and the less the destruction the better.
Mikieboy 51 Childcare costs in Scotland have risen by more than a quarter in the past three years, a nationwide survey has found. Yougov asked over 3,000 Scots what they spent on childcare – an average of £276 per month or £3,312 a year.
This is what happens when a government attempts to support the market. The market price increases to absorb the “free” money. If there was no government support market forces will dictate the supply/ demand curve.
Oldyun Injecting more public money into a system is a surefire way to drive costs down by limiting private sector profit. Oh wait...
Edmund North Once again the only answer is from a “spokesman”! Where is the accountability?
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