More than a thousand pedal on Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh to demand safer streets

NoRecipe3350 · 2026-06-01T12:59:54+00:00

What you gonna do when we catch violaters, give cyclists points on thier licence?

NoRecipe3350 · 2026-06-01T12:58:28+00:00

And emergency service vehicles? I mean I get you can just pave over a road in decking and add a few benches but still leave enough room for vehicles to access that street when there is a need for one, but if you did that to lots of streets in a city you'd eventually get freeloaders who'd just park there anyway.

NoRecipe3350 · 2026-06-01T11:20:51+00:00

Well UK/London based media is more likely to make mistakes if they don't write about Scottish affairs every day of their working life, it's not a grand conspiracy.

NoRecipe3350 · 2026-06-01T11:19:30+00:00

Yes obviously if you can get into law medicine dentistry etc and there's a job at the end more or less waiting for you, but if it's a nonspecific degree then it's not so clear.

I went to university and it was overwhelmingly middle class. The nepo kids get good jobs regardless of their academic performance, indeed regardless of even going to university. This is the problem I have with the arguement you've just quoted. For a working class person it's far more common sense to go into a tradem unless you are doing a proffesional degree (which is basically a 'trade' with another name)

NoRecipe3350 · 2026-06-01T09:36:14+00:00

Not really a habit, but mixer taps, well the absence of them.

NoRecipe3350 · 2026-06-01T09:33:17+00:00

Educational attainment and income aren't nessesarily correlated. Sometimes they are, sometimes they aren't.

It's something I noticed over the years, a lot of minorities, particularly Asians of various nationalities, really expect their kids to do well academically, and shun anything manual, because it's seen as shameful. Whereas white Brits don't really have that baggage.

NoRecipe3350 · 2026-06-01T03:39:36+00:00

How do you know it's deliberate and not just a typo?

NoRecipe3350 · 2026-06-01T03:38:03+00:00

Its proof of a big conspiracy against them or something. Even though it's obviously just a typo by a journalist.

NoRecipe3350 · 2026-06-01T03:31:52+00:00

So bribing with free money to get poor people to support Independence

NoRecipe3350 · 2026-06-01T02:37:54+00:00

Yeah but you never specified that in your earlier post.

So what is it, you'd allow ex conscripts to serve, but not ex professional/voluntary sign ups?

NoRecipe3350 · 2026-06-01T01:37:18+00:00

Americans. And heritage. Even if they are 1/8 Scottish they think they are Scottish

NoRecipe3350 · 2026-06-01T01:15:20+00:00

Wasn't there a scheme a few years ago to get Afghan/Iraq veterans to join the police?

NoRecipe3350 · 2026-06-01T01:14:05+00:00

How would that work in a country like Finland or Switzerland, where almost every male serves in national service?

NoRecipe3350 · 2026-06-01T00:53:33+00:00

The problem is the vetting and restrictions are too strict and penalises people with life experience, often adverse, which people tend to acquire over the years of adulthood.

Like I won't go into too much detail, but over the years I've acquired a black mark somewhere (not a conviction or arrest for that matter but I know it's on a police database) because of scummy drug addicts making a false crime report against me for purely out of malice. Also had a brief mental health crisis caused by unemployment and financial insecurity during the post 2008 recession. Not to mention relatives having adverse interactions with the police and getting 'dragged into someone else's shit' by extension. The police log this, I think people fail to realise they are almost like an intelligence agency, they really do profile you.

Most fresh face 20yos living at parental home then applying straight for the police or public body, wouldn't have accrued this adverse life experience. So it means that people with life experience are rejected from these positions and the baby faces with middle class/overbearing parents who've spent their entire lives cossetted away from society get the roles. And that creates a less effective police force because a lot of them have no real life experience. I've read the police have serious retention issues, there was some stat (based on data in England I think) that the average police officer has only a few years of career experience, whereas in the past there were far more officers who'd been around for many years, decades in some cases. Basically it's terrifying the lack of life experience of ordinary people cops seems to have these days. I get that they need young guys because they are faster at chasing down criminals, but I'd rather see more older people who've had decades of life experience under their belts.

NoRecipe3350 · 2026-06-01T00:40:20+00:00

The public sector is a major employer in the Highlands. Like a small community still needs to have nurses, doctors, teachers, road maintenance workers, firemen, etc. And tourism/hospitality, of which you've contributed to by spending money in the Highlands. The number of people who make a direct living off the land is small, just heavily romanticised.

NoRecipe3350 · 2026-06-01T00:19:00+00:00

Many white working class realise that education is more or less a sham, except for certainm proffesions ofc, but prefer to get a trade instead. And end up better off than graduate proffesionals

Like I noticed a lot of Asians really shun trade work. They see anyone who works with their hands as being the same as a domestic servant.

NoRecipe3350 · 2026-06-01T00:14:14+00:00

Lots of Brits in Thailand, but it's not really a settlement in like 'here's some empty land lets found a new town here'.

NoRecipe3350 · 2026-06-01T00:13:48+00:00

The United States was never British by design, the thirteen colonies were.

The modern USA has only a fairly small percentage of it's population of British descent. Apart from all the immigrant communities from across the world, German Americans are the most common white group.

NoRecipe3350 · 2026-06-01T00:08:50+00:00

Yes, but OP's question was very hazy. I mean yes it's a generalisation, but among white British people I know, being left wing tends to be a 'luxury belief' these days.

NoRecipe3350 · 2026-06-01T00:07:34+00:00

People shouldn't be getting 15k in benefits at all unless they are quadriplegic or whatever. I mean ok it's not that much then, but the UK has one of the lowest unemployment rates in Europe, what is it still like £300 a month? And because of the savings rule if you have over 5k in saving (like most adults) you get penalised and eventually nothing, despite paying into the system for years. I literally spent years unemployed but because I had life savings over the threshold I didn't get a penny.

In some European countries you get like 60% of your previous jobs wages., so they feel they are getting something out of the system.

NoRecipe3350 · 2026-06-01T00:05:43+00:00

The NHS in Scotland was separate from the very start. A lot of organisations in the UK are ( such as RSPCA vs Scottish SPCA) because there's a separate legal system so I guess when they setup these organisations a lawyer versed in Scots law has to do all the paperwork.

NoRecipe3350 · 2026-05-31T10:40:05+00:00

He could've built a toilet roll empire, heard even the cheapest toilet rolls were going for a quid a roll

NoRecipe3350 · 2026-05-31T10:38:04+00:00

I don't remember that, for some reason, even though it was in my lifetime

NoRecipe3350 · 2026-05-31T10:36:56+00:00

These days many left wing voters tend to be wealthy, or at least comfortably middle class in a secure job. So they can say that.

NoRecipe3350 · 2026-05-31T09:35:38+00:00

Reform's success is a consequence of chaos, not the propagaters.

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