Talk about one rule for the rich and one for the poor.

This stupid lassie took money that wasn’t hers to take and that is surely wrong but to send her to prison for 18 months is just ridiculous.

The bankers spend this kind of money on dinner for fucks sake! I don’t see many of the criminals recently exposed in the Great Banking Fiasco being sent to jail.

She didn’t even take a month’s worth of Fred the Shred’s MONTHLY pension FFS.

I was led to believe that jail was for those who are a danger to society — so what’s so dangerous about a pregnant 24 year old, albeit a greedy, thieving, pregnant 24 year old ?

I feel sorry for her as no doubt she’ll end up in Corntonvale with a shower of rogues, junkies and no hopers. I despair.

Why not simply order her to repay every single penny even if it takes her the rest of her life. Would seem like a more appropriate sanction to me. Take 10% of all earnings, at source, until the debt is paid.

BBC NEWS.

It’s taken me a couple of days to calm down after the result in the Glenrothes by-​election!

What were you thinking of people of Glenrothes? Not only have you voted for the most disreputable, lying, cheating and dangerous party to have taken power in this country, you voted for the most useless, idiotic candidate I’ve ever seen standing in an election — nothing more than lobby-​fodder for the New Labour project. After Margaret Curran in Glasgow East that takes some doing.

Fife, Scotland

Of course, the stinking pile of shite that purports to be the “Scottish” press didn’t help by issuing Labour propaganda as “news” on a daily basis with video headers to boot. The Glasgow Herald is probably the worst for this but the Scotsman and the BBC are little better. As for the red-​tops in Scotland they just are not interested unless there’s a football angle to the story!

The Labour candidate, Lindsay Roy, spend the whole campaign wittering on about reserved issues that he will NEVER have any influence over and I sincerely hope he lives to regret it — even now his website has a banner declaring “Stop SNP charges & cuts”. FFS the only reason for charges was because the Labour Party brought them in and the SNP/​LibDem council had no alternative as the previous Labour council had left things in a desperate state.

I also heard nothing about the Labour councils that have also had to levy charges or the fact that they applied to a tiny minority who can well afford to pay them or that 1000 more of the poorest benefit from free services as a result.

If Mr Roy is the best that Scottish education has to offer then God help us all. Inarticulate, lying, bumbling and by his own admission “not a politician” — why the fuck was he standing for election then?

I feel very sorry for the population of this constituency who have suffered under Labour councils since the Second World War. They fell for the lies, deceit and scaremongering fed them by the scum that pretends to be the party of the working man aided and abetted by the corrupt press and media in Scotland.

Roll on the next General Election. With any luck Labour will be deep in the shite by then as their idiotic, self-​interested “policies” finally collapse around them. England will vote Tory in their millions and Scotland will suffer once again…

…UNLESS we take the initiative ourselves and vote for the only party that has the interests of Scotland at heart, the SNP.

I will concede that Alex Salmond should have kept his council before the election. His pronouncements that the election was won probably did appear to be arrogant by some — I’m sure he will learn from this as he is obviously the only competent party leader in the whole Scottish Parliament.

SAOR ALBA

Halifax Building Society is very pleased to announce that they are installing new “Drive Thru” Cash Dispensers.

To enable customers to gain maximum benefit from this new facility they have conducted intensive behavioural studies to come up with the appropriate procedures for their use.

AS FOLLOWS:

Procedures for MALE customers

• Drive up to the cash machine
• Wind down your car window
• Insert your card into machine and enter PIN
• Enter amount of cash required and withdraw
• Retrieve card, cash, and receipt
• Wind up window
• Drive off

Procedures for FEMALE customers

• Drive up to the cash machine
• Reverse the required distance to align car window with cash machine
• Re-​start the stalled engine
• Wind down the window
• Find handbag, remove all contents onto passenger seat to find card
• Turn the radio down
• Attempt to insert card into machine
• Open car door to allow easier access to cash machine due to its excessive distance from the car
• Insert card
• Re-​insert card the right way up
• Re-​enter handbag to find diary with your PIN number written on the inside back page
• Enter PIN
• Press “cancel”, and re-​enter correct PIN
• Enter amount of cash required
• Check make-​up in rear view mirror
• Retrieve cash and receipt
• Empty handbag again, to locate purse and place cash inside
• Place receipt in back of chequebook
• Re-​check make-​up
• Drive forward 2 metres
• Reverse back to cash machine
• Retrieve card
• Re-​empty handbag, locate card holder, and place card into slot provided
• Restart stalled engine and pull off
• Drive for 2 to 3 miles
• Release handbrake.