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know that a tory msp is interested in cooperatives that does the obvious livestock auctions but also has other interests the group is committed to its core business of livestock marketing but is also highly diversified with interests in the land market non agricultural auctions events and the catering hospitality industry if you go back to the defra page and put that postcode in you ll find that it got a bit shy of 50k in public subsidy in each of the past two years it s that chicken thing though interest in shares until 3 july 2016 i owned ordinary shares in chapmans chickens ltd a poultry rearing company with a value of 36 450 which represented approximately 16 of the issued share capital amended interest 05 september 2016 ceased interest 05 september 2016 i own ordinary shares in redbogs renewables ltd a wind energy company with a value of 350 000 which represents 7 of the issued share capital amended interest 05 september 2016 voluntary i am a member of nfu scotland i own 10 1 shares in chapman s chickens a poultry rearing company of aberdeenshire registered 05 september 2016 he s got rid of his shares so the value is down from 36 450 to 10 but it seems he remains a director of the company that s an understanding and a half especially since he got 25k last year for two days work a month that s less work than i do then there s redbogs renewables with its two turbines generating a subsidy from the power companies you can try to work it out for yourself by getting the details of redbogs and looking at the house of commons research paper on renewable obligations anyway the thing is that this msp s business has sooked in a fair bit of public cash to bolster its earnings which may explain why he gets so anxious about subsidies for farmers what it doesn t explain is how that bit about his house works how does he get between 5 001 and 10 000 of utilities paid for his house from the company that s between 416 75 and 833 33 a month what size is his house is he running a small factory there edward mountain old eddie here is the 4th baronet of oare manor and brendon oare manor is in somerset and brendon is in devon and his company also pays for the leccy at his hoose rather than fling him a few quid given that these people own these companies you d think they d get some coin out of it no but it adds the insurance on as well that brings it up to between 35 001 and 40 000 a year or between 2 916 75 and 3 333 33 a month now i m no expert but i reckon that s a wee bit expensive for your average house delfur farms got 131 960 09 in 2015 and 133 745 23 in 2014 for some reason you have to search on the name of the company rather than the postcode for this one and there are a couple of entries for it on the older site too he s a busy lad and s omeone wrote a song about him but it s clear that this wholesome tory chap whose family fortune came from screwing the insurance market also takes a substantial wodge of cash from the public purse burnett of leys he has a portfolio of interests well worth taking a look at but he still found the time while managing them to claim nearly 25k from defra in 2014 and over 22k last year search for burnett and then look for burnett of leys you ll also find that he s had a pound or two in t he past as well he at least pays his own gas bill though i haven t gone through the whole tory group so there may be others although to the best of my knowledge ruda hasn t claimed any cap money but my point is this tories are delighted to have money paid from public funds so long as they re benefitting so when the debates on social security payments start in holyrood keep yer lugs open for these whizzers decrying the poor and the sick and the infirm when they start questioning whether some family where no one has a job is worth a few quid a week to survive on maybe we should be asking them how they did with public subsidy in their time of need and whether they ever had to wait until giro day to get the heating back on social security benefits won t be easy for holyrood no dosh over and above what westminster was paying and cuts coming down the line from the uk government but when some politicians are actually trying to get something done and i anticipate those coming from every party don t let these people who have had a fortune from public funds say that the poor are not worthy there s going to be debate and there should be debate about how to serve the country well but if and when tory msps get to their feet to bore the hell out of us with their social engineering theories that rely more on darwin than on common human decency let s tell them to get tae france and freuchie and farfar and the same for any bawbag blawhards from other parties if anyone s getting called a benefit scrounger let s make sure we know who s taking most public cash 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest friday 12 august 2016 the big boys want all the sweeties the scottish retail consortium wants the scottish government to scrap the rates surcharge on large businesses the scottish retail consortium doesn t actually exist it s just a name that the british retail consortium uses to pretend it s scottish sometimes the british retail consortium is just the big retailers getting together to try to get their own way i ve pointed this out before and their scottish address is this mailbox shop in edinburgh they re quite willing to take all the services funded through business rates like streetlighting police roads for their delivery vehicles and customers but they don t want to pay for them unfortunately for this particular scare story about tesco asda sainsbury s and morrisons suffering terribly at the hands of the scottish government retail sales are going up according to a kpmg survey done for erm the british retail consortium they re up in scotland too just in case you were wondering mind how ye go 1 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday 31 may 2016 schooling the tories a few days ago the ruler of the tory hordes in scotland one ruth davidson for who else could it be answered a charge of tory poshness from a posh lawyer mr worrier forename peat in an odd manner she tweeted none of them went to hutchies like you maybe speak to humza or anas she was referring to mr worrier s schooling and the fact that the painfully upper class minister for transport and the islands also attended hutcheson s grammar school as did the labour msp and former deputy leader of its scottish branch anas sarwar it should be noted that this school also processed carol smillie john buchan laura keunssberg james maxton yes the red clydesider derry irvine ken bruce adair turner and so on the place has a lot to answer for hutchie as those of us who have learned our place call it charges 11 082 a year in the senior years but 11 352 in earlier years for some reason i ve no idea why anybody sends their kids to private school well there are the contacts they make for life the preference they get from people who think that the old school tie matters and so on and so forth and that some parents consider such schools to offer a better education but hey groove with me here and i don t know much about which private schools have swisher things than others although i do remember as a schoolboy going with the st saviour s team to cuff glenalmond at the cross country running and the scran afterwards was utterly fabulous and entirely scoffed by us oiks before the posh kids were showered and changed out of their running gear us scruff were less pernickity so i m not really a judge of what makes a private school good or bad or indifferent or comical that said i think that ruda s point is you re a posh boy my troops haven t been to a posh school like wot you did so shut yer trap worrier i know you ll think less of me for it but i didn t believe wee ruda straight off and i thought i d check whether her troops were entirely hutchie free i feel a burning shame for my lack of faith but it seems that it s true here s what i found in alphabetical order dunno is where my research assistant mr google failed to find any evidence of derring do or matters nefarious jeremy balfour edinburgh academy fees are 13 248 per year plus extras miles briggs state school alexander burnett 4 th great grandson of tsar nicholas 1 st and heir to the leys estate eton fees are 37 062 plus extras and the heid bummer is appointed by the queen donald cameron son of cameron of locheil not clear where he went to school but it s a family tradition to go to harrow where fees are 36 150 jackson carlaw glasgow academy fees are 11 063 finlay carson state school peter chapman dunno maurice corry dunno ruth davidson state school murdo fraser state school maurice golden dunno jamie greene state school rachael hamilton dunno alison harris dunno alex johnstone state school liam kerr dunno john lamont state school gordon lindhurst dunno dean lockhart state school margaret mitchell state school edward mountain 4 th baronet of oare manor and brendon devon dunno oliver mundell state school douglas ross dunno john scott good guy george watson s fees are 10 983 graham simpson dunno liz smith like john scott she attended george watson s where fees are 10 983 alexander stewart dunno ross thomson state school adam tomkins state school annie wells dunno brian whittle state school he s not really also fettes college had a hustings in 2010 when i was a candidate and the pupils were polite well informed thoughtful and prepared to consider other opinions also they gave me a bottle of school claret for taking part 30 words to a sentence really live a little 0 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday 30 april 2016 two votes two votes you say i thought i d tell you how to use your regional list second additional member what s this thing vote in the scottish parliament election to get the result you want if you re a supporter of independence if you re not a supporter of independence don t vote whatever you do don t vote your constituency first fptp traditional vote should be for the snp of course that goes without saying don t ask why i m saying it if it goes without saying less of your troublemaking and should be a tradition that you and all your family and friends should cleave to without question unless and until i change my mind your regional vote though should be your flight of fancy your love at first bite the jam on your piece your secret dirty delight just vote for the party that you like the most vote for whichever party you want to form the next scottish government or whoever you feel sorry for or the party you actually support even though it s got no chance of taking power or for the party punting policies you believe in and don t stress over it except except except some people who are to all appearances sensible and otherwise sober folks are considering voting green with their regional vote that s excellent if you like that kind of thing knock yersel oot fill yer boots light a candle at both ends and stick an organic sparkler in the middle make sure you know what you re doing though first things third understand the system i give you cutbot which is run by james mackenzie one time media director for the greens in parliament and aaron crane whom i dinna ken cutbot has created a seat predictor that shows the working figures on the regional lists i haven t read the methodology i just trust james to get it right and lets you fiddle about with them marvellous fun those working figures are what you need to look at to see how to affect the outcome of the election ignore the 8th divisor and allocation that s something that political anoraks like me find interesting it s what would happen if there was an extra seat in each region what you want to know is what it would take to change the last seat in each region to an independence supporting party that s the first seat you can change and it works backwards up the table to work that out multiply the difference between the allocation figure of the winner of the last seat and the next biggest allocation figure by the divisor of the runner up and you can see how many extra votes are needed or you can just fiddle about with the numbers you put into the thing and see what happens here s what i saw when i last looked at it 29th of april 2016 central scotland region snp wins the last seat so you don t want to change it you want to reinforce it and no other indy party has a regional seat so indy supporters should vote snp on the list to make sure it happens greens and rise supporters should vote snp on the list glasgow region patrick harvie is safely elected on the third round and no other indy supporter comes in on the regional vote for the snp to beat labour to the last seat needs us to get 27 911 extra votes the greens need a few hundred a wee bit cheese would help them across the line highlands and islands region the snp needs 2 359 votes to take that last seat from labour the greens would need 4 083 in lothian rise is closest needing just over 13 000 extra votes compared to the nearly 17 000 for the greens and the 69 000 for the snp in mid scotland and fife rise is closest again in the north east it s rise again in south of scotland it s the greens in the west of scotland it s rise so you know what to do now yeah except on the last poll all those regions were different and on the next poll they ll be different again also sometimes it s not an indy party that s closest and that makes the gap harder to close because you have to beat two also change the votes on the last seat and you change the seats further up the chain sometimes all you do is change the order in which the seats are won not how many seats each party gets also look at how many votes have to change to make a difference in most cases thousands of people thousands of votes then there s the thing that it s based on polls and they re not always right they didn t get 2007 or 2011 right and they got 2015 howlingly wrong they might be wrong now fiddle about with cutbot s model change the numbers see what happens when you move a few percentage points in particular shift votes between the unionist parties and you ll see that the effect of indy voting can change without indy voters changing their minds you ll also discover that if every spare snp and green vote on the regional list went to rise there would be a lot more pro indy msps if you get everyone who s adding spare votes switches but no one who s in the active vote category does because that would lose pro indy msps of course here s something else don t assume we re winning the constituencies all of the models i ve seen assume that the snp is winning every constituency between thurso and ulaanbaatar i know we re at bizarre levels of support but winning seats doesn t come cheap and isn t guaranteed a good incumbent a crap snp 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