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MacDonnell is ONLY a quarter of the way to writing a decent article :-)

Hey how about asking Sean Connery :) yessh?

The Labourite party is 28M in debt and has just cancelled its Scottish Conference next year due to lack of funds - our Conference is going ahead next week and I am looking forward to it!

How about asking all the Labour capitalists, luvvies and millionaire peers?

or one could always ask A Orr - after all he bleats enough without making a corresponding contribution to the party in any form

I'd rather see a small amount spent wisely - proving their merit to control the countries finances - than the millions spent by the other parties, which always end up in debt.

Ah, if only they had peerages to sell.

Maybe Rosanna could donate her "expenses". This would be a substantial contribution to the cause.

I would say Roseanna's expenses are exactly that. Previous expenditure to do her parliamentary work

Scot Nats rich in many ways but not in the material way, I sapose thats why we're still part of this union. It's the unionst after all who are money hunger and sell people knighthoods and whater for giving a donation or a "Loan" you don't have to pay back. Wher as the most important thing for a Scot Nat is achieing Independence someday (hopefully soon).

When are these union aniversary coins being relest on us? I read somewhere that us Scots who are opose to the unoin should donaite these £2 coins to the SNP. I like the Idea of this, I'm sure theSNP do too. Gorden Brown thinks he's doing somthing for the union by producing a coin and the Scot Nat's can benfit by useing the cash against the union.

SNP what a joke. As for nationalism, what on earth makes anyone in their right mind think that exchanging one set of politicians who are now not even based in Westminster for another set who are bunch of bigots and imbeciles holding a ridiculous 300yr old grudge will do any better?

The SNP are a joke and just like the referendums in Quebec will end up showing little real support for independance once people have to gamble with their house prices, jobs and stability by putting an X on a ballot sheet. Then what will the SNP do? Hopefully shut their doors and stop embarrassing the majority of us Scots.

alistair (#13) we don't hold a ridiculous 300 year old grudge, it goes back much further than that, and it's in turn also much nearer, read the exposed Dr McCrone report which showed without any question at all how we were suppressed when we were so close to being in charge of our country and our resources. I'm not bleating on about the same old thing, the fact is it's true, we were conned, then and now.
Folks, don't listen to unlucky 13, we're not a joke, we are people genuinely commited to making a difference to our lives, and to the future of our children. Tune in to the conference next week, (I think the BBC may actually be covering it for real this time,) and then judge.
And by the way number 13, I'm not an imbecile, nor am I a bigot.

Conned in what way, the old line about the union being bought and sold for English got recently debunked by an eminent Scots historian as a complete load of rubbish, of course the SNP wont mention that:

http://www.dundee.ac.uk/pressreleases/2006/prsept06/scots...

When I asked an idiot SNP'ecile who came to my door at the last election about Europe he said that 'of course Scotland will be at the heart of Europe', so then its not REALLY about control from 400 miles away is it, if you are happy to accept it from 800 miles away and another continent?? No its about bleating on about some perceived injustice that the English foisted upon us, and instead knuckling down and fixing our own problems.

15. Alistair: That just 1 story. The guy who wrote this was clearly a unionist before he started writtening his book.

You can find evedance to prove just about anything. Especally if you the money to do so. (This guy has obovsely had a fund of some sort to find this info. I suspect it's a Unionist party has funded him to do this reasearch.)

McDonalds and Burger King could prove (& I think they have done in the past) that Burgers and Fries are Good for you (Nurshing food, the tiney pecies of salad can count as part of your 5 a day) they wont harm your health if eaten every day. I'm sorry to tell any who may not realise that small amount of salad on there burger don't wiegh 80g, so there fore can not be descride as 1 of your 5 a day.
If you've seen Super size me you'll have seen what can happen if you eat McDonald every day.

I most certainly don't belive that article to be true.

Alastair - surprised you're still living in this country ... you obviously think it's cr@p.

If you think "we should fix our own problems" you should be voting SNP to allow Scotland to do exactly what you want.