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Listed below are comments made by Reluctant-Expat between Thursday, 19th November 2009 and Monday, 23rd November 2009 (15 Hours Ago) .

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Under pressure 5:53pm on 23 Nov 2009 20. Brownedov, you deny the legitimacy of the SNP's accounting figures!

When the WGA's give the same stats, you are just going to deny them too.

It's all part of that secret global conspiracy that exists solely to smother Scottish nationalism, remember? The conspiracy that is led by London and involves the EU, OPEC, the oil markets, the banks, the WTO, the IMF and the World Bank?
Under pressure 5:39pm on 23 Nov 2009 18. Why didn't Salmond implement a 3% increase in the standard rate as an interim measure?

This would, at the very least, have reduced council tax bills down to a fraction, if not cancelled some of them out completely.

If he really wanted to remove the Council Tax system, why didn't he do that?

You do realise that picking fights with UK/English bodies is an integral part of the SNP independence campaign, don't you? Surely, you see that? I dare you to deny it. Please deny it.

(You're also completely wrong about HMRC.)
Under pressure 5:07pm on 23 Nov 2009 13. "I wonder what happened to our oil money?"

How many times?

Holyrood spent it. Ask the SNP.

It has been pointed out again and again and again that oil revenues are returned in the block grant.

Do the SNP ask "What happened to our oil money?" No, because they now realise that oil revenues are returned in the block grant, which is precisely what they had been told on countless occasions.

How many times do these nationalists need to be told?!
Under pressure 4:30pm on 23 Nov 2009 9. Still no answer around as to why Salmond persisted in chasing the power to implement a 3% increase in both standard and higher income tax rates...

...when he already had the power to hike up the standard rate, which would have raised 80-90% of the revenue.

Was he really interested in replacing council tax or was he just after another fight with Westminster?
Under pressure 3:35pm on 23 Nov 2009 4. More of that selective nationalist memory?

"We are pledging a light-touch regulation suitable to a Scottish financial sector with its outstanding reputation for probity, as opposed to one like that in the UK, which absorbs huge amounts of management time in 'gold-plated' regulation."

Alex Salmond, SNP Conference 2007.
Under pressure 2:24pm on 23 Nov 2009 The SNP's planned LIT would have centralised local taxation, council utilities have been centralised, the SNP now have greatly-increased say in local services through the "[SNPspeak] magnificently historically fabulous [/SNPspeak]" concordat....so now expecting the SNP to start pushing for even more centralisation on the grounds of 'economies of scale'.

And the nationalists on here will of course wail about the forecast spending cuts, all the while conveniently forgetting the MANY tens of billions pumped into saving RBS and HBOS.
'Just say no' 7:32pm on 19 Nov 2009 52. Re: "it's not in my nature to kick a man when he's down."

Actually, it is. But no malice is intended! Just having fun, y'see.
'Just say no' 7:12pm on 19 Nov 2009 51. Oh, for crying out loud. Look, you're clearly struggling and it's not in my nature to kick a man when he's down. And it's certainly not in my nature to kick a man while he's rotting on a mortuary table.

My best to your family.
'Just say no' 6:54pm on 19 Nov 2009 And isn't "first body swerve the question, second produce a series of baseless 'pronouncements' from on high without ever, even once deigning to back them up with anything that - say, a thinking seven year old with a reasonable grasp of english - would consider 'evidence'." your average nationalist post?

Shall we scroll up the page together and see?

LOL, who do you think you're kidding?! Get out of here!
'Just say no' 6:47pm on 19 Nov 2009 44. Which question didn't I answer?

And don't you know how to find the polls, the Nat Con, the online petition etc. for yourself?

Here's a helper for you: http://tinyurl.com/yzyunmd

Anyway, you keep believing that nonsense. Whatever gets you through your day.

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