The Maritime and Coastguard Agency spends about £360m per year. Assuming Scotland takes up a third of that, that's £120m or £24 per Scot instead of £5 per Brit so although you're right about the increase it's not exactly a deal breaker when that 450% increase amounts to just an extra £20.
And we only have Basking sharks and other nice ones that don't eat you. Although, going into our coastal waters, being as cold as they are, will definitely kill you. I've died twice trying it.
Orcas aren't nice to seals. Just saying like.
I think this would come under the shared services agreement. There are a number of things which would fall under this banner. It should be fairly straightforward to agree a contribution based on usage of the service which is well documented. You are right though, not a deal breaker and one of the thousands of things that would need to be thought through and agreed. Scotland would pay an annual contribution for these shared services.
The Orca is in its natural environment. I'm with the Big Yin when he said we don't belong there. Take a dive in and you soon get what he means, just before you go into shock and if lucky, get dragged out.
My wife was brought up in Dunbar. They had an open air swimming pool which if you know the place was just 200 yards west from where the new indoor swimming pool is now. Just under 'the glebe'. As it was completely open to waves crashing over the walls, it was freezing and I mean freezing. She used to spend the day in there as a child and loved it.
I used to do the summer season open sea races series over here when I was a youngster, from about 13/14 years old onwards.
I think the idea is that there will be a bunch of stuff that happens today that will continue to happen and we contribute to the cost of it as will other countries of the U.K. mainly non political.
Can't believe they are doing this to an English family - you've not even secured another referendum yet.
Have to say your description sounds a bit different from the reports I read.
Depends where you read the reports. It's basic rejection of a Tory racist immigration policy. You might not care about it, that's fine, we do. That's why the neighbours of those two guys stood there and said, fuck off. We didn't buy the Mail. Didn't read the demonising of people, didn't buy they were the problem. We know who the problem is. And it ain't asylum seekers. It's entitled Toffs whipping up hatred to keep people scared and stupid. We are neither. Today we showed it. And for that I am proud of my city.
I very much agree that it is all about where you get your media, whether you move from source to source , get different views and then make up your own mind.
While I share your sentiment about this, I think it's a bit of a stretch to paint Glasgow as the epicentre of diversity and tolerance. The fact is if either of those two blokes were Catholic / protestant in the wrong bit of town at certain times they would probably get stabbed.
