Yehay.. Scottish Government to help small shops and post offices

Lies all lies, it's not true of course. They wouldn't consider it. Dammit even the EU is coming up with stuff that is better.

No the Scots are putting together their plans to ban fag machines and cigarette displays.

According to the Scottish Grocers Federation this will cost,

"between £5,000 and £10,000 for each shop to comply with the new regulations".

Which of course they can all afford easily can't they. No it will bethe small corner shops and the Post Offices that will be hammered by this illiberal, foolish legislation. The big supermarkets nmust be rubbing their hands with glee as more competition is put out of business by the idiotic Scottish Government.


Oh and though I was nice about Charlie MaCreevy's plans to lighten the burden on small businesses up there, please don't get me wrong. UKIP belives that businesses like those should be exempt from the whole gamut of pettifogging rules, but credit where credit is due.

Great Deal for Scotland

Joe 'Spaceman' Borg has come up with a blinder in the Scotsman,
Scotland, if it were to leave the UK would have to reapply to stay in the EU.

" if, for one moment, we were to assume that Scotland gained independence and therefore is eligible as a new member state for the European Union, I would see that, legally speaking, the continuation of the membership would remain with the rest of the UK - less Scotland. And, therefore, Scotland, as a newly independent state, would have to apply for membership."

But, and here's the rub, he also states that they would have to stay in the Common Fisheries Policy.

Mr Borg also expressed severe doubts about Scotland's ability to withdraw from the common fisheries policy - an approach that used to be advocated by the SNP. He said it was "not legally possible".

Sounds like a blinding deal and rather undermines Salmond's claim of Independence in the EU (and oxymoron if I ever heard one anyway) as ther way forward.