Time for Nicola Sturgeon to resign?

Local authorities run schools in Scotland not the government.
If the schools are deemed to be failing it is because "her" governments inspectors have gone in and deemed them not good enough or not fit for purpose.

Female equivalent of Big Mart with all that boasting. What is it with the Scots?

Local authorities run schools in Scotland not the government.
If the schools are deemed to be failing it is because "her" governments inspectors have gone in and deemed them not good enough or not fit for purpose.

But the Government is responsible for the amount of money Local Authorities earn by freezing Council tax.

''A total of 17 schools, including 10 primaries, five secondaries and two additional support needs schools, have been shut due to concern over the standard of construction.

They were all built under the same public private partnership (PPP) contract.''
BBC News,

Under Tony Bair's government.

If you are on PAYE, under what circumstances do you have to submit a tax return?

High profile politicians have always got other considerations to declare.

Apr 11, 2016 -- 10:37AM, Jack Hacksaw wrote:

If you are on PAYE, under what circumstances do you have to submit a tax return?

If your income is over £100k

or more than £2500 untaxed income

.
https://www.gov.uk/self-assessment-tax-returns/who-must-send-a-tax-return

Take home pay of £72,300 but no income from savings or investments? Yes she can put £15k in an ISA but did she really spend the rest?

uh oh

@STVNews Built decade or so ago under ruinous PFI contracts by Labour.
Scrapped by SNP in 2007. Replaced with Scottish Futures Trust 2008.

Questions on previous PFI/PPP contracts 'must be asked' and 'answered', Nicola Sturgeon has said.

The First Minister's comments come in the wake of the closure of 17 Edinburgh schools following serious structural concerns with Oxgang primary school. All of the closed schools were constructed under the same PFI contract.

Sturgeon said that the "priority is to get children back to school ASAP" however "questions must be asked, and in due course answered, about old PFI contracts that many feared put profits before quality".

Apr 11, 2016 -- 1:25PM, xmoneyx wrote:

uh oh@STVNews Built decade or so ago under ruinous PFI contracts by Labour. Scrapped by SNP in 2007. Replaced with Scottish Futures Trust 2008.

So it sounds like they have had 9 years to check to safety on the buildings and finally do something now. Meanwhile Scottish parliament is on holiday while this crisis roles on.

Hung out the poor kids and parent to dry

"There are, of course, big questions about PFI contracts. It's no secret that this government has long-standing concern but I've no doubt that when parliament reconvenes in three or four weeks' time that there will be renewed interest in this area."



There was a MP the other week who jetted back immediately from Australia to save the steel workers.

Why would the government be going round checking building that have been signed off as safe by council building control?

Regardless of how these building were paid for the council oversaw their construction and failed to notice the flaws. That is where heads should roll.

^Brown envelope jobs.

The Council Tax freeze means that local authorities have to cut back on maintenance of all buildings.
Sturgeon only interested in votes and will accept no part of the blame here.

Her maths are looking as good as when she appeared on the tv during the debates.

Our bridges are falling down and our schools are falling down but heh here's a wee flag to wave.

I'd like her to take over the Labour party.

About time they had a real man in charge..

I re-read the opening post two or three times trying to spot a joke but soon realised Crisp was making a serious post instead

Nothing to do with Nicola. Local council authorities to blame. Take the blinkers off.

Put yer wee flag doon mac anf look at the facts.
Council Tax freeze is stretching every local authority and no cash is available for anything other than reacting to problems.
And why hasn't Constance been keeping herself uptodate with the conditions of our schools?
Surely for future planning she should be aware of the condition of our buildings.

Aka take the blinkers off. Councils to blame. Blaming Nicola for dodgy tradesmen, your political bias is beyond comprehension. Yet, you never criticised the PM for using loopholes to avoid tax, the greedy barsteward.

Never the SNPs fault.
Westminster doesn't give us enough cash is the normal response.
In 2012 she was demanding devolved powers to allow Scotland to raise taxes by 1p.
Said it would give Scotland £10 billion to spend on the NHS, Police and Education as well as help the fight against austerity.
2016 and she's now saying raising tax would cost us because the big earners would leave.
In Scottish terms a wee bawbag.

Admit it, you just don't like her because you will be getting deported when the day comes

No mac not blaming her for dodgy workmen but I am blaming her from starving councils of funds to the point that theyt cannot afford to spend cash having buildings checked out.
And why isn't Constance aware of this?

But that's what free enterprise is all about, contracts to the lowest bidders who obviously cut corners. You get what you pay for. Councils to blame.

Better Together mac.
Look at Europe and the utterings of the SNP in their case for staying in the EU.
Referring to the current immigrant problem they said "We shouldn't turn our backs on our neighbours in their time of need"
So Germany, Italy and Greece are neighbours but England isn't.

Typical SNP behaviour mac. Ignore the real problem.

Come on aka, you know yourself that the greatest trait of Scots is their compassion and generosity. When Carlisle got flooded, we were the first offering help and sent provisions with many volunteers. I like my neighbours but I don't want them running my household.

You can fool some of the people ........
Look at that smug look. He knowns he's got the mugs fooled.

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johnny fingers

The real problem is local councils hiring dud tradesmen. They are too blame. I don't know who run the local councils involved, but they are to blame, whether Tory, Labour or SNP.

Anyways what about Constance?

She is responsible for education issues but not brickies.

Local councils to blame including any SNP ones.

Nice photo of the future Sir Alex and his lovely wife btw.

She is responsible for everthing to do with Education mac.
She has to keep parliament uptodate. Part of that would be on the condition of the buildings.
Or do you think we should just wait for one to fall down before replacing it?

I'm off to watch my bets. More important to me than dodgy brickwork. They should have hired some Poles, first class workers.

Hope that Chinese steel in the new bridge isn't flawed. TATA the now.

I would have thought the department of the environment would be responsible, if any, but no, imo, local councils.

BTW now we know where Alias has been getting his endless supply of bricks.

Well you will know all about Steel having voted for his party for so long, albeit tactically

..... catch u later!

talking about flags----Port Talbot Steelworks---is now called British Steel

aka is Gordons Browns lovechild

Day 2 of the crisis and still 17 schools closed...meanwhile

The Scottish Parliament is in dissolution
Starts: 24/03/2016 00:01
Finishes: 05/05/2016 23:00
Location: The Scottish Parliament
The Scottish Parliament is in dissolution.  This means that there are currently no MSPs, committees or cross-party groups, and no Parliamentary business will take place until after the election on Thursday 5 May 2016.

I assume going by your attempts at humour xmoneyx you are Lenny Henry's lovechild.

ASturgeon made this statement last Wednesday on her meeting with a Chinese consortium:

"We signed a memorandum of understanding to explore options for investment.
If we get to the stage where there are any proposals for investment, then due diligence will be done at this stage.
That's how these things are normally done.
There are actual no proposals on the table at this stage, and if that changes then those proposals will go through the normal process.

The statement was in response to questions of why no statement had been made by the Scottish Government and also in response to suggestions that Norway had knocked back one of the parties involved as untrustworthy.

Following on from that one of the signatories involved said that projects have been identified and that NS was keen for some to happen this year.
It was also disclosed that talks have been ongoing for almost a year.
Why the secrecy and why are both sides adrift on what was agreed?

So why don't we use the FOI act and get to the truth?
Well we can't because the government agency have put a temporary stop on releasing info until after the elections.
Welcome to Scotland run by and for the SNP

Meanwhile 17 of her schools are falling down and closed.

the schools were built under labour's PPI (probably with scottish labour's traditional brown envelopes changing hands), and managed by the PPI consortium who are paid by Edinburgh Council.  So utterly fack all to do with Sturgeon.

I saw lenny henry live once--his show was so unfunny,i was telling jokes to myself

in the meantime

Britain Elects ‏@britainelects  · 3m3 minutes ago 

EU referendum poll:
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(via ICM, online / 08 - 10 Apr)

fack all to do with Sturgeon.

What about Constance? Typical SNP. Blame anyone but themselves.

or labour blame SNP for the rain

Apr 12, 2016 -- 3:04PM, akabula wrote:

fack all to do with Sturgeon.What about Constance? Typical SNP. Blame anyone but themselves.

I repeat - the schools were built and are maintained through a Labour PPI arrangement.  Their condition has nothing at all to do with Sturgeon.

Well there we have it. 17 schools closed, over 7,000 kids affected and nothing to do with the person who runs the country who is on holiday and earns over £100k per year.

not on holiday

scottish national election ,campaigning

its our general election

Apr 12, 2016 -- 5:09PM, Crisp77 wrote:

Well there we have it. 17 schools closed, over 7,000 kids affected and nothing to do with the person who runs the country who is on holiday and earns over £100k per year.

The schools are run by the Labour approved PPI consortium and paid for by Edinburgh City Council.  Nothing at all to do with Sturgeon.

So she lets the country fall apart while she is campaigning to save her £100k+ job.

Apr 12, 2016 -- 5:20PM, dave1357 wrote:

Apr 12, 2016 --  5:09PM, Crisp77 wrote:Well there we have it. 17 schools closed, over 7,000 kids affected and nothing to do with the person who runs the country who is on holiday and earns over £100k per year.The schools are run by the Labour approved PPI consortium and paid for by Edinburgh City Council.  Nothing at all to do with Sturgeon.

Nicola Ferguson Sturgeon (born 19 July 1970) is a Scottish politician who is the fifth and current First Minister of Scotland
Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland,

yes she's letting the country fall apart because she doesn't want to be re-elected

To be fair, it's the building inspectors who need to be pulled up if Millar Construction were allowed to cut corners.

Apr 12, 2016 -- 5:21PM, Crisp77 wrote:

Apr 12, 2016 --  5:20PM, dave1357 wrote:Apr 12, 2016 --  5:09PM, Crisp77 wrote:Well there we have it. 17 schools closed, over 7,000 kids affected and nothing to do with the person who runs the country who is on holiday and earns over £100k per year.The schools are run by the Labour approved PPI consortium and paid for by Edinburgh City Council.  Nothing at all to do with Sturgeon.Nicola Ferguson Sturgeon (born 19 July 1970) is a Scottish politician who is the fifth and current First Minister of ScotlandEdinburgh is the capital city of Scotland,

The schools were built and are maintained by a Labour approved PPI consortium.  Edinburgh City Council pays that consortium.  Edinburgh City Council is a local government body and has the responsibility for running schools. Sturgeon is MSP and first minister of the Scottish Parliament and not an Edinburgh councillor.

Are ye raging, dave?

Labour has destroyed Scotland by fostering a dependency culture for years so that they could win a parliamentary majority.  This mess is down to them.

crisp77 must get info daily telegraph

Apr 12, 2016 -- 5:39PM, dave1357 wrote:

Labour has destroyed Scotland by fostering a dependency culture for years so that they could win a parliamentary majority.

I concur with your initial sentence.

Fatman and Bobbin are responsible for letting the rot continue.

crisp77 thinks he's MATT

it's always time for her to resign.

Sturgeon signing the Memorandum of Understanding. Is that Mrs Ts old jacket she is wearing.

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Has she taken in any refugees to her house yet ?

Aye, she married an Englander

a journalist is saying something serious is breaking on scotland tonight 1030

"trust me"

will post when I know

I thought they were Chinese sopranos?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nsp2VaBYhM

^ and here's the original ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nebe1zuEtbc&nohtml5=False

xmoneyx, sorry for breaking your news story early.  I'm on GMT and I've just realised my watch is 8 minutes fast.

trying to link Alex Salmond to PFI via Aberdeen Asset Management who hold 30%

Huh?

UKIP

david coburn getting roasted

DC won't be getting roasted, that's for sure!

here's Scotland UKIP MEP getting spit-roasted



http://www.snappytv.com/tc/1711678/804781

http://www.snappytv.com/tc/1711678/804781


advise UKIP members not to watch

Day 3 of the crisis and still over 5,000 kids off school while Sturgeon feathers her nest.

Selected Tweets from her Twitter stream:

Nicola Sturgeon ‏@NicolaSturgeon  Apr 11
1/3...The priority is to get children back to school ASAP & give parents all necessary assurances

Nicola Sturgeon Retweeted
Rebecca Bell ‏@bellrebeccabell  22h22 hours ago
After tips from George, a member of Arden House Project, @NicolaSturgeon gets the hang of carpet bowls

people who think sturgeon is responsible for faulty school construction:

crisp77

One troll on the Scotsman online newspaper comments section (might also be crisp77)

errr that's it

crisp77 must be against free tuition fees/free prescriptions

But they are never free,always paid for by others.

So Sturgeon on her £170k and all others on high wages deserve free prescriptions xmoneyx?

Typo from aka, he means the work shy.

All deserve free prescriptions, regardless of their wealth.

Absolute nonsense mac.
How can you attack austerity yet defend people on high salaries getting free prescriptions.
Doesn't make sense.

Three days extra holidays yes. Constance on hearing the schools were closed. ..............


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its cheaper universal free prescription than means testing

Philip Sim ‏@BBCPhilipSim  · 36m36 minutes ago 

In 2007 Labour put out a 13 page anti-manifesto attacking the SNP manifesto point by point. Including a page on PPI.

Council building control had almost no input at all which is even worse than my initial thoughts that they had signed off dodgy buildings. They basically took the word of the contractor. Unbelievable when even a house extension beyond a certain size requires a building warrant.

all 17 schools now--