So much for the Chancellors’ idea of giving more money to the rich in the hope that they will spend it.

Nimish Shah, CEO of the firm Blick Rothenburg has publicly admitted he won’t be spending more and his tax cuts will just sit in the bank.

I think people need to understand that rich people are only interested in getting richer. They have an insatiable appetite for money that is impossible to satisfy.

In other words they have an addiction which in many ways is no different to that of a drug addict and today’s budget or fiscal event only serves to feed that addiction.

There is an old saying that says ‘money breeds money’ For some odd reason they feel entitled. I am not talking about the ordinary person who has built up a business in their lifetime and is now reaping the rewards, no I am talking about people who feel they are entitled to more at the expense of others. The others being you and me!

We are now in a Recession and we have the Banks and the Treasury pulling against each other, this is not going to end well.

For years the Tories have preached that we cannot borrow more because the debt will be left to future generations to pay off. Now they have completely reversed that policy taking us all into unknown territories. The black hole has just got a whole lot blacker and a whole lot deeper.

Even the media are going nuts about it.

This is reactive politics, not responsive politics. This is panic, blind panic.

Rather than calm everyone, the nervousness has heightened. Even those with no knowledge of fiscal matters know you can’t just borrow yourself out of a hole this immense. They also know who is going to end up paying for it!

Rees-Mogg keeps blaming Putin but my question is, who made those deals, who decided we should be so reliant on Russia?

Surely it is incumbent upon every Leader of a country to plan for the unexpected, always have a planB. We used to store gas but even those storage facilities were shut down. All our eggs went into one basket, a Russian basket!

Have we learned any lessons, I doubt it. Now our future needs are going to be found in Nuclear Power.

Somehow I don’t think Nuclear Power and Fracking go side by side, Britain does not have the safest geological foundations!

But hey, what’s a few minor earthquakes compared with all those profits?

There were benefits to not having good internet on holiday, it saved me from offending so many people as the country went into mourning overdrive!

Now we are back to normality, at least Tory normality. Trickle-down economics, only it doesn’t trickle down to us.

This so-called mini-budget was given so much hype, we were led to believe it would be the answer to so many woes. I think the reality has probably shocked many Tories into embarrassment.

Does this Chancellor, the one who sat laughing during the late Queen’s funeral, really think all these thousands given to the most wealthy will somehow trickle down to anyone?

Will they invest it in jobs, businesses or even their staff?

No chance, it will be kept in their banks helping Bankers get their new bonuses.

The Pound has fallen again today to its lowest since the crash. You don’t get the economy moving by making the rich richer.

Many Tories in the past were outraged when borrowing reached the dizzy heights of a few billion when Labour we’re in government, just take a look at where we are now!

After these announcements, he just couldn’t resist having a pop at those on benefits. One would almost think listening to him that they were to blame for everything.

Work more hours he says, that’s presuming there are more hours to be had! All I hear at the moment is businesses cutting their hours because of energy costs.

The Tories have created a never-ending revolving wheel and for millions, there is no way of getting off it.

I see the ‘Enough is Enough’ campaign is upping its campaign, details they say will follow. One thing is for sure you cannot give so much to the rich and then say to Nurses, Doctors and Teachers there’s no money left.

Today the Chancellor said, ‘today we start to work’ ….the reply from Labour, ‘where have you been for the last 12yrs’ 😂

This isn’t even Trickle down economics, it’s more like a huge fountain sending money up the chain.

Now that Her Majesty’s body has left Scotland you can feel the heat rising. Respect has given way to an eerie feeling of uneasiness and frustration about the discussion that has to take place. Not only are these feelings being felt in Scotland but also in NI and Wales. I suspect that there are also Republicans in England as well .

Will the boil burst before Her Majesty’s funeral, I don’t know.

Listening to the BBC you would think that the Union of Crowns and the Union of Parliaments are the same thing, they are not, they are two distinctly different things. You can be a Monarchist but support Political separation. Scotland needs to have two conversations but should they both run alongside each other?

Scotland seems to have been talking for a long time, in fact, I sometimes think that’s all we do!

Why are we all talking so much about a Referendum that’s not a Referendum, it’s a gesture meant to to make Westminster sit up and listen. Has Nicola not learned yet that ‘there is none so deaf as those who will not hear’ Liz Truss has already indicated she won’t take any notice.

So why are we not going for a Holyrood Plebiscite Election, then if ignored straight to the Hague? Surely the SNP know by now this is where it has to end, such is Westminsters dependence on Scotland.

We don’t need to wait for the cat fight between Nicola and Liz Truss, we have the powers use them. Action is needed not more talk.

One thing is sure as we witness some of the King’s traits, he does not take after his mother!

Hate the Monarchy if you wish, I am quite ambivalent about the whole thing. One thing that will surprise many is that before Her Majesty’s committal in St Georges Chapel in Windsor all of her Titles will be removed and she will journey on as a Commoner!

There are no earthly Kings or Queens in Heaven! We are all equal before God.

To my mind this shows the new Prime Ministers’ intention to be fully involved with the Devolved Parliaments whether she is invited to or not. “The PM believes” shows this is her decision and not an invite by anyone.

To my knowledge, a sitting PM has never accompanied the Sovereign during their duties in the Scottish Parliament.

This is not her role and as such is making a political statement in doing so, and this is not the time for Political statements.

Exactly what does she think she is going to do, what role in the proceedings does she think she can hijack?

Or will she just hang around like a spare part?

Is this her first big mistake? Muscling in on sad events sends out all the wrong messages. This is not about her. However, what it does do is it gives us all a glimpse into her personality. “Look at me, I am so important” …….NO you are not Prime Minister and this is neither the time nor place to pretend so.

Scotland does not need your help to mourn and King Charles certainly does not need your help to carry out his duties either.

Over the years he has fostered a relationship with the people of Scotland, you haven’t!

Whether Monarchists or not, Scots respect the moment.

The new Energy Secretary has said he will get every last drop of oil from the North Sea. Maybe the penny will now drop down South that they cannot do without Scotland.

Scotland is a net exporter of Electricity yet we pay the highest charges.

People down South ask why Scotland is always moaning, well if they took a closer look at how we get ripped off considering how much we contribute to the UK economy as a whole they just might begin to understand.

If you want to keep people loyal, look after them! You don’t bite the hand that feeds you, and you certainly don’t lie to them.

So, in order to get ‘every last drop,‘ I guess the Paris Agreement will be ripped up.

Needs must, they will say, as Climate Change rages across the Earth. Funny how no other country is taking this approach. I suppose going Green doesn’t put money into pockets as much as oil accomplishes.

This is indeed a ‘nuclear’ approach and one which one day soon blow up in their faces.

The problem is, we will all suffer, non more so than our kids and grandchildren.

Be afraid, very afraid as to what lengths Westminster will go to to achieve it’s goals.

Image is everything, especially in politics.

I wasn’t going to inflict this on you, but needs must!

It is one thing to reward your friends but quite another to give some two jobs! This is not the kind of image you want to see of your new Health Secretary. Videos are also appearing online of her rather inebriated at a party, even trying to sing.

Now I know everyone has a right to a private life….but really. Also, her record in her last job is rather telling, refusing to publish reports that make her look bad, and bad she is! Some claimants would even say, evil.

I wonder if there will be a new smoking policy in England.

I see Rees Mogg is also returning after saying he wouldn’t. Business and Energy Secretary no less, this will be interesting especially when it comes to investing in the future energy projects. He is a master at making money for himself.

To understand that more you have to look at his father and the books he wrote.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/nov/09/mystic-mogg-jacob-rees-mogg-willam-predicts-brexit-plans

Like father like son! No need to wonder who will benefit from this post. But at least he will have to deliver his boss’s immediate plan.

I wonder if any Bookies have put up any odds as to how long she will last in this very disunited Conservative Party as PM.

Two jets to take two people who are best pals up to Scotland to see the Queen!

The Tories want to build more Nuclear Power Stations at a time when most of the rest of the world is decommissioning theirs.

It takes roughly 10yrs to build one of these monstrosities and they don’t produce cheap energy.

Whatever happened to the promised COP 21 Paris Agreement? I thought these were legal abiding agreements.

Surely common sense says Greener Energy solutions are both cheaper and quicker to construct.

Producing nuclear waste is not in the long-term interest of either our children or the planet. Westminster is well known for saying we can’t keep on borrowing then expect our children to pay for it, well our children will certainly pay for it when we come to disposing of nuclear waste and it won’t be in a good way.

Suddenly Climate Change has taken a back seat in order to address an energy crisis which doesn’t exist or doesn’t need to exist.

We already produce enough for our needs, or would if we didn’t sell it off just to buy back again! Just think about that for a moment, because that’s what is happening in our crazy geo-political world.

When it comes to Energy we should not be thinking global at this moment in time, we should be thinking domestic and domestic only.

Surely it is the job of every government to make sure its people have warmth and food, yet we are paying global prices for our energy. This is particularly so in Scotland and Cornwall I believe. Just look at the Standing Charges, 50% more in Scotland than in London, for our own Electric. Meanwhile, the profits of these companies are astronomical.

We were told privatisation would bring competition, and competition would bring down prices, it hasn’t! They are all charging the same……I call it collusion!

Privatisation is the biggest Tory lie ever told. The only people who gain are the shareholders.

When is the penny going to drop in Scotland?….you are being played!

Loss

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/63b6260c-2b94-11ed-b39f-ae396665d39a?shareToken=8f169f6ad01f7a00f4361ffe2e43fb7chttps://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/63b6260c-2b94-11ed-b39f-ae396665d39a?shareToken=8f169f6ad01f7a00f4361ffe2e43fb7c

There was a time when one felt if it’s in the Times it must be true, so is this rumour true? The idea of changing the rules is not new, they did it in 1974 so why not again?

Only this time makes the rules harder because people are more politically aware.

Is this Westminster’s first salvo to scupper the plans of the SNP and if it is, does it by default play into the hands of SALVO?

Or will they be next?

Are these rumours just that, rumours?

Governments are good at leaking stories, it’s their way of keeping silent. They get others to fire the bullets then sit back and see what happens.

As I said before this idea of fixing the results has happened before and was recently mooted again in the House of Lords and I have the feeling they may run with the idea again.

So what then? A plebiscite Election?

Plenty of time for them to change those rules as well.

The elephant is still in the room.

Loss

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/63b6260c-2b94-11ed-b39f-ae396665d39a?shareToken=8f169f6ad01f7a00f4361ffe2e43fb7chttps://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/63b6260c-2b94-11ed-b39f-ae396665d39a?shareToken=8f169f6ad01f7a00f4361ffe2e43fb7c

There was a time when one felt if it’s in the Times it must be true, so is this rumour true? The idea of changing the rules is not new, they did it in 1974 so why not again?

Only this time makes the rules harder because people are more politically aware.

Is this Westminster’s first salvo to scupper the plans of the SNP and if it is, does it by default play into the hands of SALVO?

Or will they be next?

Are these rumours just that, rumours?

Governments are good at leaking stories, it’s their way of keeping silent. They get others to fire the bullets then sit back and see what happens.

As I said before this idea of fixing the results has happened before and was recently mooted again in the House of Lords and I have the feeling they may run with the idea again.

So what then? A plebiscite Election?

Plenty of time for them to change those rules as well.

The elephant is still in the room.

Silence isn’t empty it is full of words.

The continual silence from the media regarding the Edinburgh Proclamation has now become deafening.

As an optomist, I would like to think the above saying is true but somehow I doubt it.

Silence is powerful whether it be used positively or negatively, but sometimes it can rebound and have the opposite message it was meant to convey.

Silence can be just as simple as they have no answers, in other words, struck dumb.

By now I’m guessing that Westminster MPs are regretting having voted through Scotland’s Claim of Right, actually they regretted it immediately and tried to erase all knowledge of it in the Hansard transcripts. But some eagle-eyed MPS noticed this and the transcripts were put back in.

I can only assume then that Westminsters silence is due to their astonishment that the Claim of Right is being used in this way and I’m pretty sure those in Westminter who put the vote forward are to.

Of course, there is another way ‘silence’ can be used and that is to bully people. I would say this is the Tory way!

Bullying within No 10 appears to be quite the norm and continues right up to now as desperate measures are being taken to make sure Boris gets away with everything. I use the word everything because the list of misdemeanours is too extensive for me to list here.

I believe those desperate measures have to date cost the taxpayer, [that’s each one of us by the way], £130.000

They should know by now that bullying Scotland just doesn’t work.

So, is their silence a way of trying to bully Scotland into silence or are they dumbstruck and desperately scrambling around trying to come up with a counter-argument in a Legal context?

I bet they wished they hadn’t packed all those documents off to the States!

As they say, ‘it will all come out in the wash’ especially with rumours of a GE next year.

The new PM’s intray will be overflowing by Tuesday what with the Cost of Living crisis and those pesky Scots.