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PostPosted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 5:26 pm 
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Yup..she beats baboon boy, the chief of Clan MacNasty.


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F*ck me! You wouldn't sh*g it would you?


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The gentleman on the right of the picture to your left, is Mr Brian Soutar, a very, very rich man.
I "borrowed" the photograph from Brian's website, of which more below, but let us first turn our attention to Brian's latest utterance.

If The Scotsman is to be believed, serial God Botherer Brian is exercised over the amount of "recreational" sex his fellow Scots get up to.

And believe me, he means "fellow" Scots, because Brian has form in terms of not living and let living when it comes to gay people. On a personal note, can I just say that I wouldn't look upon having sex with Brian as a recreational activity, I think it would be more like work, but anyway.


As of last week, Brian was loudly complaining that Google were "blocking" access to his own personal website, I didn't realise that Google had started blocking websites on the basis of total, self-promoting banality, but you live and learn.

Anyway, here's the link to Brian's personal website, fill your boots: http://www.briansouter.com/

http://thejaggythistle.blogspot.co.uk/s ... date=false

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PostPosted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 2:52 pm 
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But they aint desperate, King Eck is digging himself deeper into the Mire with every ridiculous shovel load of sh*te he scoops..

You believe that too, don't you? :lol:


Absolutely.

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Brian Souter says society may ‘implode’ if ‘traditional marriage’ falls


Scottish entrepreneur and SNP donor Brian Souter says society is in danger of “imploding” if “traditional marriage” declines.

The businessman, who fought to save Section 28 ten years ago, was answering questions about his views on gay marriage.

Speaking to the Sunday Times, he said Scotland is in danger of becoming a “Babylonian-Greek society” where sex is “primarily a recreational activity”.

He said: “We are arguing here about what kind of society we want to live in. Are we going to be in a Babylonian-Greek-type of society, where sex is primarily a recreational activity, or are we going to stick with the Judeo-Christian tradition, where procreation is something that we want to put within a marriage context?

“Quite honestly the issue about gay relationships is a small side-product from that discussion.

“I think it was Hillary Clinton, who would consider herself a liberal, who said you need a certain percentage of stable marriage-based families for society not to implode.”

A spokesman for the Stagecoach founder said he supports the Scottish government’s consultation on gay marriage on the basis that ministers will get a free vote.

Mr Souter, who was knighted this summer, has already been nominated for gay charity Stonewall’s Bigot of the Year award. In 2000, he gave £1 million to the campaign to uphold the ban on ‘promoting’ homosexuality in schools.

In the interview, he refused to openly criticise gay marriage, but claimed that those with “traditional” views are becoming marginalised.

The Scottish government announced a consultation on gay marriage earlier this month and stressed that churches would not be forced to hold ceremonies for gay couples.

Ministers “tend towards the view that same sex marriage should be introduced”, a government spokesman said.

Last week, Mr Souter accused Google of censoring his personal website.

He said his website, briansouter.com, had “mysteriously disappeared” from Google’s top results for his name and suggested that legislation could be drawn up to curb Google’s “powers over free speech”.

Since Mr Souter’s announcement, his website has returned to the third result for his name.

Pages from websites which detailed his support for Section 28 have disappeared from Google’s top results.

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http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/oct20 ... -o03.shtml

None of this stopped Scottish first minister and leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP), Alex Salmond, from hypocritically denouncing the HBOS collapse as the work of "spivs and speculators." Salmond warned that the Scottish economy could be plunged into "turmoil."

His comment implied that HBOS was an essentially healthy, respectable and thoroughly Scottish outfit brought low by external, and rather immoral, gambling unconnected to its own operations. This is nonsense.

As Salmond well knew, HBOS's demise was brought about by its attempt to expand rapidly into the mortgage market using market-based finance instead of customer deposits. This has also brought down Northern Rock and now Bradford and Bingley, another former building society.

Moreover, it rapidly emerged that some of the "spivs and speculators" were supporters of the SNP. Sir George Mathewson, former chair of RBS and a supporter of Scottish independence, was revealed as being a chair of Toscafund Asset Management--a £3.5 billion hedge fund specialising in short-selling on the financial markets. Mathewson is also chair of the Scottish government's SNP-appointed Council of Economic Advisers. A number of other leading SNP figures also appeared to be playing leading roles in asset management funds of various types.

Nevertheless, Salmond has attempted to use the crisis to promote his case for Scottish independence, presenting the HBOS collapse as a blow to national prestige.

He told the press, "The position we are in at the present moment is a position that has been arrived at within the Union [referring to the 1707 Act of Union between England and Scotland], within the limited powers that we have. Would we have a Bank of Scotland if Scotland was independent? I think the answer is undoubtedly yes."

Salmond claimed that an independent Scotland would have offered billions of pounds in credit to HBOS to allow it to survive as an independent bank. His position was ridiculed by the Labour Party, when Labour pointed out that £100 billion, double the entire Scottish budget, would have been necessary to save HBOS. But Salmond's position is entirely consistent with his repeated call for Scotland to have the power to vary corporation tax in line with investment requirements. It expresses correctly the attitude that the SNP takes to social spending--that it should be entirely subordinate to the needs of the finance industry.

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PostPosted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 3:48 pm 
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ffs....the snp appear to be just as grubby as the rest.

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PostPosted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 3:50 pm 
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Shouldn't this all be in a new TDO section called 'Wind-up Gusmac/Wizzkid/Stationtone'? :lol:


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Shouldn't this all be in a new TDO section called 'Wind-up Gusmac/Wizzkid/Stationtone'? :lol:



pmsl....they give as good....and sometimes better than they get :lol: :lol:

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Moreover, it rapidly emerged that some of the "spivs and speculators" were supporters of the SNP. Sir George Mathewson, former chair of RBS and a supporter of Scottish independence, was revealed as being a chair of Toscafund Asset Management--a £3.5 billion hedge fund specialising in short-selling on the financial markets. Mathewson is also chair of the Scottish government's SNP-appointed Council of Economic Advisers. A number of other leading SNP figures also appeared to be playing leading roles in asset management funds of various types.


http://edinburghsouthernsnp.org/index.p ... &Itemid=19

ONE of Britain's top City economists has backed Scottish independence, claiming it could boost Scotland's economy (Sunday Times 24 October).
Savvas Savouri, chief economist at Toscafund Asset Management, a leading hedge fund, said Scotland could benefit from gaining full control over North Sea oil revenues.


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Following the revelations that Scotland’s First Minister Alex Salmond’s top economic adviser, Sir George Mathewson, uses the Cayman Islands for business interests, Ugland House has found itself once again making negative headlines in the British press. Mathewson, who heads the SNP government's council of economic advisers (CEA), is now at the centre of a tax avoidance row after it emerged that his investment group's hedge fund is running businesses through Cayman.

Mathewson is chairman of London-based Old Oak Holdings, the holding company for Toscafund Asset Management LLP


TOSCAFUND, the London-based hedge fund which has been building a major stake in Aberdeen Asset Management, yesterday revealed it had upped its stake in AAM to 18.2 per cent

Aberdeen Asset Management sees its fee income increase by £18m

ABERDEEN Asset Management yesterday posted an £18 million rise in fee income and said it was successfully wrapping the businesses it bought from Royal Bank of Scotland into its operations.

Gross new business flows for the five months to 28 February totalled 16.1 billion, compared with the 19.1bn won during the whole previous financial year.

Outflows for the same period were 19.7bn, resulting in net outflows for the period of 3.6bn.

But Aberdeen said the revenue margins earned on the inflows were higher than on the outflows, resulting in the fee income rise.

Assets under management have risen by 10.4 per cent to 161.4bn since 30 September as a result of the RBS acquisition.

Chief executive Martin Gilbert said: "Good new business flows, strong investment performance and improving margins continue to enable us to strengthen our balance sheet.

"We remain firmly focused on organic growth, generating cash and reducing debt.

"The recent acquisition and integration of certain businesses from RBS Asset Management broadens the product range we offer our clients in terms of alternative investment strategies."

Analysts at KBC Peel Hunt predicted that net business flows will turn positive in the second half, a forecast welcomed by Bill Rattray, Aberdeen's chief financial officer, who said the firm had "healthy flows in equities".

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Shouldn't this all be in a new TDO section called 'Wind-up Gusmac/Wizzkid/Stationtone'? :lol:

My concern for poor TDO's bandwidth is that we haven't even got a date for the vote yet. :shock:

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Sir George Mathewson

After retiring from RBS, Mathewson became chairman of the campaign board of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and non-executive chairman of hedge fund Tosca, which was active in RBS's disastrous takeover in 2007 of Dutch bank ABN Amro. He is also a non-executive director of investment company the Scottish Investment Trust, wealth managers Cheviot Asset Management and Perth-based bus and train company Stagecoach Group. He is on the board of directors of the Institute of International Finance and president of the International Monetary Conference.

The defining moment of Mathewson's career came with the £20 billion takeover of the much larger UK bank National Westminster Bank in February 2000. The acquisition was a sweet triumph for Mathewson, who mustered support from investment banks Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs

Take Goldman Sachs, the top dog in both the economy and the political system. The firm made a mint by selling mortgage-backed securities and more complex financial instruments.

Aware of the flimsiness of the packages they were peddling, the firm also took out bets with the insurance giant American International Group (AIG) that the offerings would fail. When the financial system collapsed, AIG went down with it.

Goldman's architects of policy not only parlayed a bailout for Goldman itself but also arranged for taxpayers to save AIG from bankruptcy, thus rescuing Goldman.

Now Goldman is making record profits and paying out fat bonuses. It, and a handful of other banks, are bigger and more powerful than ever.

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In the Holyrood Magazine, Savvas Savouri, the Chief Economist with Toscafund Asset Management, says that in an economic crisis fiscal responsibility is essential for Scotland.

http://dundeesnp.org/tag/fiscal-autonomy/

http://www.holyrood.com/articles/2010/1 ... nsibility/

[b]Toscafund Asset Management LLP[/b]

Toscafund Asset Management LLP is an international investment group chaired by [b]Sir George Mathewson[/b]. Toscafund was part of a Virgin Group consortium that submitted a proposal to buy Northern Rock plc. That consortium also included AIG Financial Products, WL Ross & Co and First Eastern Investment Group.

Sir George Mathewson is a Scottish businessman. He helped transform the The Royal Bank of Scotland into a global powerhouse.

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Shouldn't this all be in a new TDO section called 'Wind-up Gusmac/Wizzkid/Stationtone'? :lol:

My concern for poor TDO's bandwidth is that we haven't even got a date for the vote yet. :shock:

The Yes campaign hasn't even started yet :wink:

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Shouldn't this all be in a new TDO section called 'Wind-up Gusmac/Wizzkid/Stationtone'? :lol:


How about one called Get it up ye, ya torn-faced auld sassenachs?

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