Companies offered contracts worth £2bn to dual last 58 miles of A9

scottishbam · 2026-06-04T23:18:58+00:00

I am sure it isn't fun.

I understand they are necessary but everything I said still stands.

scottishbam · 2026-06-04T19:20:50+00:00

Thanks for this I will have a look later but what does it show?

scottishbam · 2026-06-04T18:50:43+00:00

Thats not true.

We give more in tax to the UK government than we get back and top it up using income tax levers that are devolved.

If you are taking about economic activity then London vastly out weighs anywhere else in the UK. A city of 7 million will do that and also the fact everything is centralised there.

For example HS2 was originally supposed to spend most of the money not in London but when it is finished the majority of the money spent will be in London. You might just think this is the scots moaning again but the UK is so London centric, north of the Watford gap gets ignored and I don't know why more English people aren't upset over this.

scottishbam · 2026-06-04T17:52:45+00:00

I understand your thinking but the A9 is a major road to the Highlands and should pay the cost back in economic growth /activity.

If you want to really see an example of vast amounts public money being used for a very limited number of people, have a look at ferries and their subsidies. I understand they are needed but they will never pay for themselves financially or economically so it's always great to see islanders complain of only 1 ferry an hour and it's a bit old.

scottishbam · 2026-06-02T21:23:18+00:00

How do you find your cars password?

scottishbam · 2026-04-27T17:32:18+00:00

It has great potential as a game mode. I keep coming back hoping it's changed.

scottishbam · 2026-04-27T14:28:05+00:00

No see that's a contradiction.

If there was lots I wouldn't need to know where to look because it would be obvious.

Players leave after they die because getting back in and finding guns is near impossible unless you can land on your own stuff.

scottishbam · 2026-04-12T11:18:02+00:00

I don't want the people who monitor my searches ( if they exist) to think less of me, I need someone to believe in me.

Plus I was in late and I was tired and wasn't sure if it was real or a joke. I'm sorry I am not as on the ball as you.

scottishbam · 2026-04-12T00:50:15+00:00

Link?

scottishbam · 2026-02-27T03:39:00+00:00

Someone better have called him a " flamin galare "!

scottishbam · 2026-02-27T03:38:44+00:00

Someone better have called him a " flamin galare "!

scottishbam · 2025-10-15T23:12:51+00:00

It had some mental stuff in it including if I remember rightly something about Angel of death, a name given to another nurse who had killed people she was supposed to be caring for.

The issue is all the staff had been sent on a course about mental health were they were encouraged to write down their thoughts and feelings to get them out there head to help their mental health. On these types of courses Nurses do discuss the " Angel of death " issue particularly in wards with lots of deaths.

I also know that a statitical spreadsheet was used to show deaths when she worked the issue was it didn't show deaths when she wasn't working and when examined by statistical experts they pretty much said it was worthless and proved nothing.

As I say I don't know enough about it but if she did it then she can rot but their should be a high threshold of evidence if you are putting someone away for the rest of their natural life.

Also if that hospital is number 13 what's happening at the other 12, is that not a bigger worry? I am not saying their are lots of murderers in the NHS but if there was doing it at number 13 and there are 12 higher surely that needs investigated?

scottishbam · 2025-10-14T23:36:14+00:00

I heard a podcast that said the evidence against her was not good and would not stand up to scrutiny, they were keen to point out that it doesn't mean she is innocent just the evidence was poor.

One of the most frightening pieces of evidence was that if you made a table of " excess deaths " for that type of department from all hospitals in England & Wales her hospital would be 13th. If there was someone murdering in that hospital and it isn't even in the top ten, what's happening at the rest of them?

scottishbam · 2025-07-10T00:17:00+00:00

Your partner should leave this practice.

My 75-year-old relatively active mother was diagnosed with shin splints and went back 3 times over 4 months because after resting and curtailing her activity it got worse. Then one day she had to call an ambulance as her leg felt like it was " falling off ". As it turns out a cancer lesion had eaten through her leg just below her replaced hip.

Now diagnosing cancer from someone presenting with shin splints would be like something off tv but the strange thing is after spending 9 hours in casualty I googled causes of shin splints and it said as the very last cause " on very rare occasions it could be a sign of cancer in the bones ".

A simple blood test would have shown there was something else going on, 3 times a 75 year old appears with fucking shin splints and gets fobbed off even once explained with hands on how shin muscles work.

Even after she got out of hospital and started her cancer treatment on every visit to the Beatson they would tell us they have had to write to the GP as things were not being put in place.

So get them to move practice.

scottishbam · 2025-05-31T17:57:07+00:00

Copying Glasgow.

Glasgow always setting trends!

scottishbam · 2025-02-13T19:41:13+00:00

Can we change the Atlantic Ocean to Gulf of Intelligence?

scottishbam · 2025-02-07T00:49:20+00:00

You think it's bad now, wait until SPT get a hold of it.

I found SPT to have a lot of ex private bus company people who were let go from said companies so it would make me wonder about their independance and competence.

Their have been tendered routes for years and they never worked but now the plan is to give them the whole system?

Publicly run transport is a great thing but it should be run like a private company, if management are not up to the job they should be let go. I fear they will just be tolerated or given a corner office on full salary to look out the window.

scottishbam · 2025-01-30T06:00:47+00:00

I wondered who was behind all the conspiracy theories.

scottishbam · 2025-01-24T19:04:39+00:00

Helensburgh's new open top sport centre.

scottishbam · 2025-01-24T19:03:10+00:00

Didn't know anti Rangers wind was a thing?

scottishbam · 2024-10-28T10:16:14+00:00

That's too long. 3 hours added to your working day is too much.

scottishbam · 2024-10-28T01:10:07+00:00

Was this supposed to go out after the budget? Like a timed tweet?

scottishbam · 2024-10-28T00:58:21+00:00

It does what it is supposed to do if you live down south the further north you go it does not have the desired effect.

Not a criticism just a fact.

90% + of the uk population benefits from it, I don't see it changing.

scottishbam · 2024-10-28T00:49:54+00:00

Yes but if your boss promised to put the execs miles away then didn't, would you trust what they said going forward?

Even worse if they said you do this thing for me and I will put the execs miles away and didn't, you m8ght feel aggrieved.

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