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Appreciate there's a degree of tongue-in-cheek there, Monty, but the notion that an Independent Scottish Government would be remotely "efficient" is so ridiculous, that it's almost gone full-circle to tickle the ar*se of "sublime"!!

The one major Project over which they've had direct management control, is the Parliament building.

Being in the Project Management dodge myself, I can generally expect to be handed my cards, if I can't deliver within a 15% budget tolerance. The Parliament Building was TEN times over budget; the original £40M estimate somewhat under-estimating the final total of £414M.

Between them, I wouldn't put an MSP - or the litany of wannabe Scottish councillors desperate to have a shot at the 'big time' - in charge of running a bath. They could receive every concession, have every economic wind blow their way, and we'd still be staring at an IMF bailout in 2019.

They are thoroughly fu*cking useless; something exposed during Salmond's fumbling performance when put head-to-head against someone with some actual experience and gravitas.

<blockquote data-quote="Grasshopper" data-source="post: 2469794" data-attributes="member: 65342">Appreciate there&#039;s a degree of tongue-in-cheek there, Monty, but the notion that an Independent Scottish Government would be remotely &quot;efficient&quot; is so ridiculous, that it&#039;s almost gone full-circle to tickle the ar*se of &quot;sublime&quot;!! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />The one major Project over which they&#039;ve had direct management control, is the Parliament building. Being in the Project Management dodge myself, I can generally expect to be handed my cards, if I can&#039;t deliver within a 15% budget tolerance. The Parliament Building was TEN times over budget; the original £40M estimate somewhat under-estimating the final total of £414M.Between them, I wouldn&#039;t put an MSP&nbsp; - or the litany of wannabe Scottish councillors desperate to have a shot at the &#039;big time&#039; - in charge of running a bath. They could receive every concession, have every economic wind blow their way, and we&#039;d still be staring at an IMF bailout in 2019.They are thoroughly fu*cking useless; something exposed during Salmond&#039;s fumbling performance when put head-to-head against someone with some actual experience and gravitas.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Grasshopper, post: 2469794, member: 65342"] Appreciate there's a degree of tongue-in-cheek there, Monty, but the notion that an Independent Scottish Government would be remotely "efficient" is so ridiculous, that it's almost gone full-circle to tickle the ar*se of "sublime"!! :D The one major Project over which they've had direct management control, is the Parliament building. Being in the Project Management dodge myself, I can generally expect to be handed my cards, if I can't deliver within a 15% budget tolerance. The Parliament Building was TEN times over budget; the original £40M estimate somewhat under-estimating the final total of £414M. Between them, I wouldn't put an MSP - or the litany of wannabe Scottish councillors desperate to have a shot at the 'big time' - in charge of running a bath. They could receive every concession, have every economic wind blow their way, and we'd still be staring at an IMF bailout in 2019. They are thoroughly fu*cking useless; something exposed during Salmond's fumbling performance when put head-to-head against someone with some actual experience and gravitas. [/QUOTE]

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