Bridge between Scotland and Ireland

[jon lopgel]

That?s very arguable.

Not

[charles]

Less than that. There are Gaelic schools in Edinburgh. A friend who died a couple of year ago was a native gaelic speaker (from Lewis) but worked as a police officer in Edinburgh.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

You'd only have to book if demand regularly exceeded supply. And are you saying this massive and expensive project should be free at the point of use?

[S Viemeister]

I have family in Edinburgh with Gaelic as their first language.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Born in Edinburgh? I'm from the east coast - Aberdeen - and Gaelic was pretty rare there. Apart from for academic purposes.

[S Viemeister]

Born in Edinburgh to a Berneray family, evacuated during WWII, spoke little to no English until the end of the war, when the family returned to Edinburgh. My grandfather and his brother, native Gaelic speakers, moved from Sutherland to Edinburgh as police officers. Some of their Edinburgh-born children were sent to Gaelic classes.

[charles]

i know one young man whose first language is Gaelic and he was born in Edinburgh and works there.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

I'm sure there are children born in the UK whose first language isn't English too. Even today.

[Custos Custodum]

You appear to be deliberately missing the point. Scotland was poor, not broke. It didn't run to England with a begging bowl. It was the ruling elite who were broke. That's why they were offered and accepted bribes to sign up for the union.

[Tim Streater]

At that point in history, no one else counted. We've evolved away from that over the centuries (at least until we joined the EU, which was a step back in that regard).

[bert]

In article [e-mail], Custos Custodum [e-mail] writes

So why are we still bailing you out? (AKA Barnett formula)

[Brian Reay]

ROTFL.

Those who weren?t the ruling elite were poor in ways we can?t comprehend today, that means they didn?t have money worth mentioning.

As you say, the ruling ?elite? were broke- due to their crass incompetence ( even if the revisionists try to blame England). Therefore Scotland was broke.

Just like the current SNP, who are relying on funding from Westminster, those running Scotland needed England.

[Brian Reay]

Not just the Barnett Formula. A disproportionate share of gov contracts etc are placed in Scotland to bail them out.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Did the north sea oil overflow into your back yard, then?

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Quite. Just like the Aberdeen bypass. Only some 50 years after first needed. Wonder if HS2 will take as long?

[charles]

certainly not the Defence budget. Even the kilts for the newly formed RRS came from an English supplier.