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Listed below are comments made by AlasdairStirling between Tuesday, 26th August 2008 and Friday, 10th October 2008.

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Bean counting on a political scale 2:22pm on 10 Oct 2008 Brian,

The market has eaten the £500 billion of our money that Brown has committed to his so called ‘rescue package’ without so much as a hiccup and is now, like a hungry chick screeching open mouthed in the nest, demanding more. To me his much vaunted financial strategy seems to be amounting to no more than declaring that ‘all is now OK’ because he has bought us a £500 bn lottery ticket that will solve all of our financial problems when his numbers come up. You say Brown really cares! I think that it is sickening to watch him laughing and joking about ‘another bank failing’ and being so pleased with himself for having simply bought a few days good headlines with a vast amount of our money.

Some economic genius!

As for the so called Union dividend, presumably your analysis is predicated on the UK having the wherewithal to weather this storm better than Salmond’s Arc of Prosperity. However, all available evidence suggests that the market is sucking us in the UK down the self same plug hole as Iceland and Ireland. Moreover, I suspect that the UK’s vast debt binge means that we are in for a much rougher time than either Iceland or Ireland suffered. Add to that thought, the prospect that because we in Scotland do not have the capacity to shape their own recovery, it will be slower and much more painful that the (possibly more nimble) economies who have the such a capacity for independent action .

Some Union dividend!

Alasdair Stirling
Should there really be a GB FC? 12:05pm on 26 Aug 2008 Brian,

Not like you to completely miss the point of the question!

The importance of the ‘Home’ Associations is found in the International Football Association Board, which as you know is the body that determines the Laws of the Game of association football. For historical reasons, each of the Home Associations is a member of this board and entitled to cast one vote. FIFA is the other member and is entitled to cast four votes. The board rules require six vote in favour of a change to the Laws of the Game. It doesn’t take too much imagination to see that FIFA would like to ‘own’ the Laws of the Game and would, once the Home Associations concede a UK/GB team, demand a review of the membership and voting rights of the International Football Association Board.

Regards.

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