The Royal Canadian Mint has announced its plans for digital currency.

Although still in its development stages The Mint Chip so called,

Has been introduced as a soon coming fact.

There is a contest for software developers offering;

50,000.00 in gold for the best app.

They need an app with tight security for this monetary system.

Eventually the goal being for people to exchange cash,

with smart phones, USP sticks computers, tablets and clouds.

MasterCard has a policy in place with the goal of replacing cash.

And both Visa and MasterCard have a touch card pay system in place.

Canada seems to accept new technology with enthusiasm that frightening.

We are one of the biggest debit card users in the world.

Although there has been some skepticism,

500 contest spots were filled in just four days for the solid gold prize.

The Mint Chip Is being presented as a secure new way to exchange dollars,

and is backed by the Canadian Government.

Those of us the believe the Bible feel the hair rise on the back of our necks.

Friends the mark of the beast is here. Many Biblical Scholars feel, 666,

has something to do with computers and bar-codes and soon people will be,

required to have a chip in their hands or heads, far fetched you say.

It is is already being used for medical information. please check out this video;

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Bronze

This one is probably the hardest to remember, not only because it was a good long time ago – but also because it didn’t last very long, in terms of event. It took me a year to do both walks on Adventurous Training with my Combined Cadet Force because, at that age, i wasn’t really into it that much. The Skill, Service and Physical I found that i could just sign off easily because i do plenty of that anyway! I distinctly remember getting lost in the mist in the middle of the Lake District though!

Silver

Well, there is much more to write about this one! Sadly, I found myself in a similar situation as i was on bronze – Simply signing off which ever activity and sport i felt like after the alloted time after i started the award. The Walks were so much better though. Harder – but all the more fun! I shall never forget a member of our group leading us down the wrong side of Scarfell Pike (Of all places!) It was after that moment that I broke the news that I got branded the group map reader from then, and ever since.

Gold

Gold was amazing. No doubt about it. I was eagar to finish it! Couldn’t wait. It’s looked on as a fantastic achievement. Only 3% of all participants in the Duke Of Edinburgh Scheme in 2010/11 gained a gold award.

My Walks were hard. But i Loved every minute of them. The second day was always the worst, and on my qualifying, the last day too – due to the fact we could see our finish point from 11 in the morning until we got there, 6 hours later!

It’s taken me just over a year to finish my gold award- Less than my bronze award!

I totally reccommend doing the Duke Of Edinburgh Award Scheme to all who can! You feel great, get a fantastic achievement for all your CV’s and its enjoyable too!

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Trumpington Meadows, a village near Cambridge, is the place here a teenage girl, probably of noble birth, was laid to rest, lying on an ornamental bed, in her best clothes. Exactly how this 16-year-old Anglo Saxon girl met her death,  and who she was remains mysterious, but she was interred wearing a gold cross, suggestive of her having been one of the earliest Christians in Britain.

It was Cambridge University scientists who unearthed her well-preserved 1,400-year-old grave, a burial site indicating that Christianity had established itself as early as the 7th century in this area, not long after Roman monk St Augustine was dispatched in 595 by Pope Gregory the Great to convert the English.

His missionary team started in Kent, slowly working their way around the country until he became first Archbishop of Canterbury in 597, although it is certain that Christians and pagans co-existed for a very long time. The latest discovery gives good insights to life at the time, the girl being buried, according to the pagan tradition, with grave goods – in the shape of a knife and glass beads for use in the next life –which contravenes Christian beliefs.

Expert on Anglo-Saxon cemeteries Dr Sam Lewsey called this an extremely rare discovery, because, as Christian conversion only gradually filtered down, such an elaborate burial, including a valuable artifact, are sure signs that this girl was either nobility or royalty, the cross  certainly  belonging to the highest sphere of society.

13  such Anglo Saxon so-called bed burials have over time been discovered, almost all noble women, laid to rest on wood and metal frames topped with straw mattresses, but none earlier than 7th century. The small – 1in wide – gold cross, dated to between 650 and 680AD  and studded with cut garnets, was almost certainly sewn into her clothing around the neck and worn in daily life. 

Three further graves were found the others containing two girls in their late teens – with no religious signs – an individual, in their 20s, gender unknown, so the girl buried with the cross could have had an official role in the fledgling Christian church, which the Romans had tried without success  to introduce  200 years before. 

7th century kings and nobles were happy to join in with the conversion process, because any noblewoman not wanting to marry could use the church as a good choice instead. Since life in those days was hard, and average life expectancy short by modern standards, the girl probably died young because of illness, like the plague, which could have killed the other three as well.

Back in those peaceful times, people were healthy, well-fed and in many cases quite prosperous, as well as being, contrary to misplaced ideas, more than a little sophisticated into the bargain, because archaeology has shown that the Anglo-Saxons produced stunning and intricate jewellery, probably mining silver and gold in England, and trading other commodities across Europe and Asia.

Tests will be conducted on the skeleton to establish cause of death of the young woman, what she tended to eat and her medical condition, because the way that she relates to the other three graves is key to the investigation, establishing  whether the buried people were related, for example, such a small set of graves being unusual, even if the bed and cross are ignored. Just why this one grave merited such lavish  treatment has captured the imagination of all involved, and they are impatient to learn more.

Saadi once proclaimed, “Improve time in the present; for opportunity is precious, and time is a sword.” The mortality of life remains fragile and slowly travels to its conclusion. In Robert Frost’s poem, “Nothing Gold Can Stay,” biblical allusion and colorful diction to illustrate the importance of taking advantage of opportunity before time betrays the body.

            Frost introduces biblical allusion when he mentions “Eden.”  This obviously refers to the book of Genesis and the temptation of Eve by Satan. Frost describes the perfection of “Eden” as “gold,” but also states that the gold provides itself as the “hardest hue to hold.” The difficulty that comes from this newfound Earth, an opportunity, limns the ease by which opportunities pass. Frost quotes the beginning of the Earth as “dawn”, yet states that Earth “goes down to day.” This shows the failure of Adam and Eve to grasp the enormous opportunity given, and Frost utilizes the failure in his poem to portray the importance of grasping every opportunity.

            Aside from biblical allusion, Frost utilizes diction to paint a picture in the reader’s mind and express a deeper meaning of taking every chance given. The color gold holds the connotation of wealth, the sun, and good. Frost’s use of the color to describe the opportunity of creating a perfect humanity delineates the wealth of knowledge and benefits, which come from taking opportunities. Moreover, Frost describes the brevity of opportunity with his famous conclusion of, “Nothing gold can stay.” Frost also describes the first attempts at grasping humanity as a “flower.” Flowers bloom into beautiful creations, and Frost shows the world that opportunities possess the ability to metamorphous into a beautiful creation and lend humanity with valuable data.

            In the infamous words of Ferris Bueller, “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” Robert Frost concurs with Bueller and encourages all to embrace opportunity as it comes. People wait, time does not.

            As the prologue begins we are introduced to many different characters the narrator meets in a pub on the road to the city of Canterbury.  All the characters we are introduced to are on a pilgrimage to St. Thomas a Becket of Canterbury’s grave. In an attempt to make the trip more enjoyable the narrator act as a host for a game where all the characters agree to tell two stories and whoever tells the best will have a meal paid by the others after. Some of the characters introduced include The Pardoner, a conniving man who is willing to do almost anything to make money, The Plowman, a poor working man, The Prioress, a nun who is very much attached to worldly possessions, The Knight, an ideal Christian knight who had participated in many crusades, and The Parson, an honest Christian preacher. The Knight was the first to tell his tale, a tale about how love tore two men apart,  and also the pardoner was able tell his, a tale of how money is the root of evil and will ultimately bring death. However, the death of Chaucer prohibited the tales from ever being competed.

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            As The Pardoner began his tale he was willing to admit that he only worked for money and was honest to admit that he did constantly scam people by selling them relics for his personal profit. The Pardoner says “I preach for nothing but greed of gain (Chaucer 129)”. Even though he knows what he does is wrong he keeps participating, this trait of admitting his sins is very in line with the ethics of The Plowman who the host says “…Paid his tithes in full when they were due (20)”. The Pardoner and Plowman both tried to follow the morals god had laid out for them. However, the host looks down deeply upon the hypocrisy of the Pardoner and how the Pardoner had a pessimistic view of giving up on trying to follow morals and be a good person.

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In the prologue both the Pardoner and the Plowman are introduced, the Pardoner a man highly ranked in the church and also very corrupt and the plowman an honest working man. It is a very clear contrasting trait that the holy man Pardoner works mainly and admittedly for personal profit while the poor working class Plowman gives most of his small income  back to the church. Both in the prologue and after the Pardoner tells his tale it is made very clear that the host despises The Pardoner because of this. Immediately after the Pardoner finishes telling his first tell tale about how money is the root of all evil and admitting relics are useless he attempts to sell some relics to the host. Chaucer’s host responds very negatively and rudely to him saying:

            “I wish I had you ballocks in my hand

            Instead of relics in a reliquarium;

            Have them cut off and I will help carry

            ‘em.

            We’ll have them shrined for you in a hog’s

            Turd. (146)”

At this point The Pardoner has no idea how to respond to the host, he is left speechless, filled with anger, and completely blown away by how rude the host was. I think this moment shows just how fed up Chaucer was with the church. This is a perfect example of the hypocrisy in how the Pardoner moves straight from preaching to trying to make money off the host. On the other hand, The Pardoners self-glorification and greed is perfectly contrasted by the faith and honesty of The Plowman. The Plowman, even though he was a misfortunate man of the working class, still honored God and paid heed to the gospels. Chaucer describes the plowman by saying “he was an honest worker, good and true, living in peace and charity…Loving God best with all his heart and mind.(20)”, Chaucer shows how he favored honest men who acted out on their beliefs even if they were of a lower class. Even though he was poor Chaucer uses the contrast of the Plowman and Pardoner to make a statement about the weak morals in the church and the upper class during this period.

Chaucer begins describing both The Knight and The Prioress in a very positively. The host describes The Prioress by saying “Her was of smiling very simple and coy, Her greatest oath was only ‘By St Loy!’” (7), the host shows respect for The Prioress because she had taken up the most difficult oath that a sister could commit to during this time. By the same token, the host also has great respect for The Knight, listing that The Knight “…rode abroad had followed chivalry, truth, honor, generousness and courtesy.(4)”  Chaucer shows through the descriptions given by the host that he had great respect for the noble actions of both The Prioress and The knight. Chaucer shows that he understood the difficulty of The Prioress’ oath along with the strength, grace, and bravery needed by The Knight to go on as many crusades as he had. Chaucer displays how he had much respect and understanding of what was given up by The Prioress and Knight and the moral strength it took. Despite all this, Chaucer goes on to describe how he did not like some of the personality traits of The Prioress.

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The host makes it very clear that although The Prioress had taken a very difficult oath she still did not fully give up the worldly materials and desperately wanted to be a part of the noble upper class. The host describes the prioress as having “To counterfeit a courtly grace (7)”, The Prioress strove to be in the upper class and therefore tried to develop the habits and manners of nobility even though it did come across to others as awkward and fake. The Knight on the other had was though of highly by the host, “He was true, a perfect gentle-knight. (5)”. The host looked highly upon The Knight and how he did not strive to be nobility but how instead he only tried to glorify God through battle and spread Christianity in the crusades, the best he knew how to. Chaucer uses The Knight as a way to present the morals of an ideal Christian who only fought for God. In contrast Chaucer uses the host’s descriptions of The Prioress, for example, to petition how feeble he thought a church head striving for nobility was. Again, Chaucer uses two characters to reveal what he believed to be morally right.

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            Despite the fact that most of the holy men and women that are described in the story are actually very corrupt and worldly, The Parson, who was a preacher in a small town, is a very devout Christian man. It is arguable that Chaucer is not placing moral judgment on the church because he also uses characters like The Parson who is an honest and hardworking leader in the church. The Parson is said by the host to not be wealthy, “Yet he was rich in holy thought and work (18)”.  Chaucer however judgmental and hateful of the church he may appear looks fondly upon the parson and does not seem to be judgmental of how The Parson acts and the morals of The Parson.

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            Chaucer uses multiple ways and characters to unveil his judgment and distaste for the poor morals of the Christian church leadership. Chaucer uses Canterbury tales to symbolize how corrupt he though the church was because he was a secular and an outsider looking in. Chaucer uses his host narrator’s descriptions and actions to show his own repulsion to and petition the hypocrisy of the church. Chaucer uses his tales as a way to display his opinions and bring attention to the corruption and poor morals of religious leaders in the church.

The men sketch swords and strike, and Woon manages them after splitting a perspire. But it organization the baron is unguarded… He requires off managing, and Yang-myung appeals to one of the male’s swords and follows.

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Can you imagine being part of a team knocking down an old house, only to be treated to a golden shower as your crow-bar bites into the ceiling of the room you are in? A French champagne producer literally did hit gold in this way, when workers making repairs on his property, to an old building, brought a shower of US coins that had been carefully hidden away in the rafters of the room.

Head of the Alexandre Bonnet champagne-producing firm Francois Lange described the treasure trove consisting of 497 $20 face-value gold coins minted between 1851 and 1928 and worth about $1million today. Half of the find will go the workers, half to the owner in what has to be the luckiest of finds, the treasure building a former grape-drying facility belonging to somebody trading in the 1930s with the USA.

In another twist on questionable toy releases, Mattel have announced the William and Kate wedding Barbies, the royal pair shown with Kate wearing that Alexander McQueen designed lace white dress and William wearing his red Irish Guards uniform, of course.

Aimed at adult collectors, this royal pair will be on sale from April to coincide with the  first anniversary of the couple,  and can be pre-ordered now on Amazon for £99.99, or around $150.

Going back to being lucky, 36 year-old Ludovic Masciave was driving through his car through the French Alps – the Arly Gorge in fact -when he found the roof of his car caving in of him as a TWENTY ton rock crashed down on it.

This unfortunate man, astonishingly, survived the impact, taken to the local hospital to recover. He recalls driving slowly at 40 – 50 km per hour when a sudden, terrible shock brought the vehicle to a jarring halt upon which he immediately lost consciousness. How he escaped from the vehicle alive, the entire vehicle crushed beneath that rock, beggars belief, the car so damaged that rescue workers couldn’t even tell what kind of car it was, his injuries including flattened lungs and several broken ribs.

Another odd claim is that of a British excavation, saying they struck gold by discovering a site that may solve the mystery of where the legendary, biblical Queen of Sheba got her fabled treasure some three millennia ago. Sheba of those times spanned what today is Ethiopia and Yemen, giving vast quantities of gold to King Solomon.

The team have unearthed an huge ancient goldmine, the ruins of a temple and the site of a battlefield in what was this ancient land, headed by Louise Schofield, archaeologist and former British Museum curator.

They found a 20ft stone slab, carved with a Sheba-style sun and crescent moon, beneath the stone an inscription in Sabaean, the language of the Queen of Sheba. Nearby found parts of a buried temple apparently dedicated to main Sheba deity moon god, was found.

Sheba, a thousand year-long 8th century BC civilisation that prospered, their queen immortalised in both bible and Qur’an, her image standing for divine wisdom in Turkish and Persian paintings, as well in medieval Christian mystical works.

A full excavation will soon be underway, but initial tests by the gold prospector who first brought her attention to the mine show that it is extremely large, and very possibly might turn out to be in reality the King Solomon’s Mine of legend.

First, let’s review some basic assumptions.  If humans lived alone on their own private islands with no outside contact, they would need to spend most of their days providing for their own sustenance, shelter, firewood, and makeshift clothing.  They might be able to hunt or forage for multiple days’ worth of food at once, but without refrigerators or even plastic wrap, it wouldn’t keep for very long.  If a small group of them could somehow get together, the opportunity to engage in specialization would sprout – the ones better at hunting or foraging could provide the sustenance for the group while the ones better at collecting firewood could procure enough for everyone, and this distribution of chores would take less time and effort than each person providing his/her own food and firewood.  The extra leftover time could be used to further enrich the group members’ lives, such as by getting more food or firewood (investing in commodities), fashioning better tools or weapons (investing in industry), or by engaging in recreational pastimes.

Like families or tribes, small groups don’t necessarily need to keep score.  If everyone feels that they are doing a reasonable amount of work as compared to the others and are getting more in return than they could provide for themselves, they should be reasonably content.  Bear in mind that any of them could strike out on their own anytime, but would likely choose to live in the group because it would benefit them to do so.  In real life, specialization works – my wife can effortlessly whip up a gourmet dinner for us in less than 30 minutes, whereas it would take me longer to scrape together something not nearly as healthy and delicious.  She’s happy to do it because she finds it easy (if not enjoyable), and it leaves me the time to do chores for which I have a greater interest and aptitude than she.  Together we’re wealthier as a result of being able to focus on the tasks at which we’re more specialists.

As groups get larger and trading partners get more spread out, it becomes more necessary to keep score.  Goods and services may be difficult to divide, or trades may be separated in time or along chains of transactions.  For example, harvests may come in just once or twice a year, but a farmer may need fuel all year; a refiner may not need hundreds of bushels of wheat, but may prefer to trade fuel for finished bread.  Should the baker then trade fuel to the farmer for the grain with which to make the bread for the refiner?  It makes more sense to establish a “money” in which to store the interim value of these transactions.  In regards to large transactions, rather than a shoemaker trading hundreds of shoes at once for a car, it’s easier for him to sell shoes to various customers at his own pace and save up enough money to buy a car over time.

This concept of “saving up money” requires some medium in which to do so.  Grain spoils, fuel vapors evaporate, and shoes go out of style, so the need for a proper currency becomes even more pronounced.  Wiser men than I have made the case that good candidates for currency should be divisible into small-enough units for trade, should be easily portable, should not spoil over time, and should be difficult and costly to counterfeit.  Throughout history, various commodities have served as “money,” including seashells, foods, gemstones, and precious metals.  In prisons, cigarettes often fill the role.

The difference between these hard currencies and today’s fiat currencies is that when we trade for something with gold or cigarettes, tomorrow the recipient will still possess roughly the same percentage of all the gold or cigarettes that exist today.  Fiat dollars are easier to “counterfeit,” (simply by fiat) so if I trade for something with dollars today, and then more dollars are arbitrarily produced in the future, the recipient’s dollars will have less purchasing power at that time.

Generating more fiat dollars is precisely one of the things the Federal Reserve System does, managing the nations’ money supply through monetary policy.  The Fed can also give or lend new fiat dollars to bail out failing enterprises or industries, to encourage lending and borrowing, or to support US interests and foreign affairs.

There is only a certain amount of fossil fuel on the Earth, its scarcity and our demand for it determines its value.  If gasoline could be fabricated out of thin air, we wouldn’t be paying nearly $4/gal for it today.  Precious metals and gemstones work similarly – there are only so much of them available to satisfy demand for them.  Fiat dollars, however, have no such limitation.  Their number can be unceremoniously doubled in a short amount of time, making each one worth half as much in terms of their purchasing power in real goods and services.  Every new one printed steals value from the ones already in our pockets and bank accounts.

The trillion dollars we’ve spent on the war on terror would be a difficult pill for taxpayers to swallow whole, but by simply printing more money, huge costs like that can silently pass, unnoticed.  Over the years, as those bills are paid and those dollars then make their ways back to the US marketplace, they generate surfeit demand for an unchanged quantity of goods and services, reducing our wealth by quietly pushing up the prices of everything we buy.  Since few people realized or understood this hidden force until recently, the government largely wasn’t blamed for inflation – it was assumed by many average citizens to be a normal result of increasing wages and higher employment rates.  Unexpectedly to them, though, it has persisted (with a vengeance) throughout our current recession, despite lower wages and lower employments rates.  This may be in large part an impetus for the current battle cry to “Audit the Fed.”  (Higher employment actually creates more wealth, and higher wages are the fallout from inflation, not its cause.)

Funding wars and bailing out automakers, banks, brokerages, and even foreign nations are all within the possible uses of such quietly-printed fiat dollars.  Control of them is the ability to cripple or hyper inflate our economy, and it’s too much power for one entity to wield.  Any sort of currency that isn’t tied to a hard commodity is simply too easy to corrupt.  As a child, I used to believe that our dollars were backed by gold, so I was understandably surprised when it was explained to me that a five dollar note was worth five bucks solely because it was generally accepted in exchange for five dollars worth of goods.  More exactly, it’s because the government will accept it towards five dollars’ worth of an entity’s tax obligation.  Only more recently did I learn that commodities, when priced in other commodities, haven’t experienced the same inflation as our dollar has.  In 1960, an ounce of silver cost around 90¢, and a gallon of gasoline cost around 30¢, thus an ounce of silver would buy about three gallons of gas.  Today, although you can only get only about one-tenth as much gas for that same 90¢, the same ounce of silver today would actually buy about ten gallons.  Effectively, gas has gotten much less expensive in terms of silver, but both are significantly more expensive in fiat dollars.  Silver and fuel production are severely limited as compared to simply turning on a printing press to produce more dollars, and in this context, the Fed’s lack of restraint becomes obvious.

So what should we do about it?  As countless civilizations have found throughout time, gold and silver are some of the best candidates for currency media.  They are portable, divisible, durable, and limited in supply.  They even have uses outside of just serving as money.  While mining operations can produce more of them, it’s a much slower and more costly endeavor than a printer just flipping a switch on a machine.  Gold and silver coins and bars are an easy way to store value and could be used to pay for goods and services.  Checks and money orders could continue to serve as demands for funds, but could be denominated in weights of metals.  Credit cards, loans, and mortgages could continue to serve as debts to lenders who paid out gold or silver on borrowers’ behalves, and could be repaid over time in quantities of metal plus interest.

One minor nuance of a bi-metal currency system would be the relative value of the two metals.  We’re used to a system in the US whereby one dollar is fixed as being equal to 100 cents, but that wouldn’t work for exchanges between gold and silver.  The market would have to determine that ratio fluidly, as supplies and demands fluctuated, and as each participant set his/her own personal exchange rate.  A car might cost 10 ounces of gold or 550 ounces of silver; an hour of my time might be worth 3.5 ounces of silver or 25 grains of gold.  Gresham’s law would encourage efficient exchanges, ensuring that any businesses or government offices that got their individual exchange rates out of line with the market would find themselves at the short end of the stick.

Taxes would be payable in gold or silver, and government echelons would use that collected gold and silver to pay their expenses and debts.  Just as instruments such as checks, money orders, and credit card slips could represent stored metal, so, too, our government would probably create paper notes of currency to represent their stored metal.  If we’ve learned our lesson from the ills of the current Federal Reserve System, this must be a carefully monitored practice, ensuring that notes are only issued for quantities of metal actually on hand.  A policy of convertibility and periodic auditing should prevent runaway printing of unbacked notes.

There are still opportunities for governments, businesses, and individuals to borrow more metal to spend more than they’ve earned, but inflation is mitigated by the lenders being temporarily required to spend less than they earned – until their notes are repaid.

In conclusion, I think it’s obvious that our present system is broken, and since it is based on the flawed Keynesian assumption that government can better control the economy than could a free market, I see no reason to put bandages on it.  It is easier and more appropriate to start over with better assumptions and design a new system.  Decentralized control of money is safer and permits unfettered markets to do what they do best – find and adjust for the true values of goods and services – without the covert effects of inflation.  If government’s role is to represent us and to serve our best interests, rather than hide expenses in our future, let them tell us what it costs to wage a war or to build a bridge.  If they can get the support for such projects through increased taxes, referendums, or bond sales, the public must want them; otherwise, there’s no reason to force them and their costs upon us without our consent.  The ability to arbitrarily print fiat money wrests control of government expenditures out of the hands of the people who are subsequently asked to pay the bills.  We can no longer afford such a policy.

Now in 2012 we are in a fight once again for the right to rule ourselves with confidence and fairly. The fight is being led by The First Minister, Mr Alex Salmond. he is the elected first minister and his party the SNP elected by the good people of Scotland to govern our country. They are doing this for the betterment of Scotland. of course their is opposition from other parties especially the Labour Party. The self titled party of the working man,shame that they were found out at the last election allowing the SNP to a landslide victory.Ironic in that when devolution came to Scotland ,the then labour Leader made impositions on the voting system, that would stop any one party having outright majority.What happened the guid fowk oScotia saw through the failings of the labourites and voted them out. Why did they not vote for the Liberals or Conservatives? mainly because we remebered what the Tories had inflicted on Scotland and the Liberals were found to have no integrity and backbone, willing to sell out their ideals for power. it is also ironic that the SNP are the only party in the UK with an outright majority, a mandate from the people to govern. More than what can be said about the westminster government, two parties in a coalition, none of whom can claim an outright majority.

We are also witnessing the underlying prejudice aginst Scotland and its people, you insult our first minister , you insult the people who voted him in.The vitriol coming from the House of Lords is nothing short of racism.Now we know what wallace went through.The so called Scottish “lords” are the worst, throwbacks to the 12thc, sold out for a pot of gold and land.