William & Kate

**Flynn** · 09-Dec-12, 21:11

Your link doesn't work. 1966? That's a fair few years ago.

**golach** · 09-Dec-12, 21:15

Originally Posted by Flynn

Your link doesn't work. 1966? That's a fair few years ago.

So are your ramblings about Her Majesty and her family

**M Swanson** · 09-Dec-12, 21:23

Touche, Golach. You're on a hiding to nothing with this one I'm afraid. I know their mantra backwards. It never changes and you'll be transported back to year dot in an attempt to reinforce their hate and envy. I don't bother! I'm too busy living in the real world ..... and largely enjoying it.

**Flynn** · 09-Dec-12, 22:04

Originally Posted by golach

So are your ramblings about Her Majesty and her family

But do you have a link to confirm your assertion that 7% of Scots own 87% of the land? I did some research and it seems the biggest landowners in Scotland are the forestry commission and a mystery Malaysian who own 1,600,000 acres each:

http://www.highlandclearances.co.uk/...nsscotland.htm

**RecQuery** · 10-Dec-12, 11:53

Strange how it's only the politics of envy when it's the poor and middle calling out the rich and privileged on something. Capitalism for the poor, socialism for the rich and all that.

I say we just institute the royalist philsophy in more of life. Have people treated by hereditary doctors, having stuff built by hereditary engineers, etc. It's the only way for some to really see how absurd the whole thing actually is.

**golach** · 10-Dec-12, 15:59

Originally Posted by M Swanson

Touche, Golach. You're on a hiding to nothing with this one I'm afraid. I know their mantra backwards. It never changes and you'll be transported back to year dot in an attempt to reinforce their hate and envy. I don't bother! I'm too busy living in the real world ..... and largely enjoying it.

I am enjoying life and living too, And when I read articles such as these I enjoy it even more, the snp are turning against themselves

http://www.heraldscotland.com/politi...sment.19636520

**Duncansby** · 11-Dec-12, 14:38

Originally Posted by Flynn

But do you have a link to confirm your assertion that 7% of Scots own 87% of the land? I did some research and it seems the biggest landowners in Scotland are the forestry commission and a mystery Malaysian who own 1,600,000 acres each:

http://www.highlandclearances.co.uk/...nsscotland.htm

In a paper presented by Andy Wightman he asserts that:

"In a country of 19 million acres and 5 million people, a mere 1252 landowners (0.025 per cent of the population) own two-thirds of the privately-owned rural land."

And of course with land comes power, absent landowners preventing development stifles the economy and any chance of a sustainable future for communities.

**secrets in symmetry** · 20-Dec-12, 01:43

Originally Posted by golach

Check the Economist back in 1966

This comes from a statistic, published in The Economist in 1966, that 7% of the population of the UK owned 84% of the state's wealth.

That's an amazing figure. I'm surprised no-one named a theatre company after it!

**golach** · 20-Dec-12, 10:57

Originally Posted by secrets in symmetry

That's an amazing figure. I'm surprised no-one named a theatre company after it!

Yes S i S and I saw them perform The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black black oil in Leith, and very good they were.

**secrets in symmetry** · 20-Dec-12, 13:51

I once saw them do something. It was good but their politics were way too sycophantically eckish for my tastes.

**golach** · 20-Dec-12, 23:15

Originally Posted by secrets in symmetry

I once saw them do something. It was good but their politics were way too sycophantically eckish for my tastes.

Have to admit that was in the days I was a card carrying Nastie member,and activist, then I saw sense lol

**secrets in symmetry** · 21-Dec-12, 00:36

Living and learning is a great thing golach.

Gun toting religious bampots (and their apologists) may be the greatest dangers to civilisation on a global scale, but fluffy Natz are the most immediate danger to our corner of the world.

**billy5000** · 21-Dec-12, 00:52

God this is going to be more painfull than watching paint dry!

to be honest he is punching well above his weight with kate but in my opinion shes nothing to look at and having a kid this early in thier arrangement is not good news.

but anyway lets prepare ourselves for the next 9 months of constant "she looks glowing" comments!

i see only misery with anyone who latches on to a royal(diana)
Its not like many of them have just walked away (bar sarah)but she looks like a car crash(excuse the pun)

**Dadie** · 21-Dec-12, 01:17

She is a lassie that snagged a royal..
And is struggling through pregnancy..spewing every 5 mins isnt great...been there done that!..
Does it really matter who the father is (other than the partner she loves) and doesnt she deserve some privacy for her preg ailments?
Its bad enough to get them broadcast in the workplace.....nevermind the whole country....knowing what she is struggling with and when and nurses commiting suicide after divulging info to outside family etc isnt having a pos
stive effect on the pregnancy!......do people want her to be in therapy?
or hound her like her mil...