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Scotland losing its youth



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Published Date: 08 September 2008
The young are voting with their feet and leaving Scotland in considerable numbers. Here in Troon (population 18,000) I played in a golf threesome and discovered in conversation that all three of us had family members living and working abroad: Australia, Poland and Amsterdam.
There are several more families here in Troon who have family members in Australia, Dubai and America. Reasons for emigration are high taxation and poor career prospects. Who will be left to pay the local income tax in Alex Salmond's Utopia?



MARGARET ROBERTSON

Hunter Crescent

Troon, Ayrshire





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  • Last Updated: 07 September 2008 8:22 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
 
1

James F,

East Ayr 08/09/2008 01:27:06
Maybe when we get the utopia young people will see the sense in staying. The need to remove the dead hand of Thather's legacy is paramount.
2

Stuart W,

08/09/2008 03:06:44
Problem is, the First Minister didnae mind Thatcher's economics so much, and was also gracious enough to inform everyone that the rest of Scotland thought likewise.
3

Eric D,

Renfrewshire 08/09/2008 05:35:29
The answer is simple ,they bring in immigrants and call them Scots. Problem solved.
4

Joe,

Upper Gray Street 08/09/2008 07:48:19
The taxation on the young is about to get even higher under SNP's local income tax plans.
#1...Thatcher's legacy is admired by Alex Salmond?
5

Alastair the First,

08/09/2008 10:34:42
2: You, like most of the press, are totally misinterpreting and distorting what Alex salmond actually said. And I'm sure you are well aware of that.
6

Alastair the First,

08/09/2008 10:35:49
4: That's just pure tripe. The abolition of council tax is a tax cut. The total tax burden will be reduced. Numpty.
7

ianH,

Balerno 08/09/2008 11:09:06
My kids going to uni next year, the decision to be made is, go to a scottish uni then move out for a job or go to a english / american uni where the jobs are and get a head start. Will there are some good engineering jobs in scotland, there are not many openings of graduates who don't want to be exploited by the games industry.
8

donald anderson it's me,

weegieland 08/09/2008 12:07:37
"Stuart W,
08/09/2008 03:06:44
Problem is, the First Minister didnae mind Thatcher's economics so much, and was also gracious enough to inform everyone that the rest of Scotland thought likewise."

Goebells also thought that if you repeat a lie often enough that it would be acceopted as the truth.
9

G,

dundy 08/09/2008 13:11:17
Based on my limited experience and a sample of middle aged male golfers, six or so young people from Troon have left to work abroad....so what?
Troon - no wonder!
Isn't this good news? Have they left for good?
What is the problem?
Scots have always gone where the opportunities are - do you want them to hang around and fail?
10

Mr. Lachie Todd,

Edinburgh 08/09/2008 20:42:55
Scotland's greatest export has always been it's people!

Wherever you travel in the world you will find the Scots:

Yesterday, on the evening news a Gaelic television jounalist employed by the BBC evening news interviewed one Alistair McDonald, a resident of Morpeth, Northumberland, who had his home badly flooded, and
in his soft Scottish accent philosophically accepted his fate and remarked that "he would cope"! Talk about Scottish understatement!

Meanwhile, over on the ITN evening news, another Scotsman called Gordon Kerr, a resident of the Turk and Caicos Islands, was being intervewed about the tropical storm which had struck there!

The same evening at Flushing Meadows, New York, yet another Scotsman was waiting to play the world's No. 1 tennis player in the US Open Championship. He later won by 4 sets!

Elsewhere, the so far, unsuccessful, Scottish national football team is staying at a hotel in Reykjavik, Iceland, owned by descendants of emigre Scots!

Last week, thousands of Scottish schoolgirls, and young women around the world, were immunised against the human papilloma virus, which was developed by a team led by the 2006 Australian of the Year: Professor Ian Frazer, who was born and educated in Dundee!

Scotland's remarkable people and their gene pool have been of trememdous benefit to their adopted nations everywhere in the world!

 

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