You are right, I just hope that when the SNP lose their power that this will be one of the first things to be repealed! I don’t think in practice the name change does anything other than change a name. In North Ireland the executive is called just that, however upon a quick Google search the executive of Wales is called the Government! Anyway, I just hope all this nationalist tripe comes to nothing!

Hear, hear – as for the Welsh I will pas no further comment.:rolleyes:

Happy Hogmanay! 🙂

The Scottish Executive was renamed to Scottish Government to allow the less intelligent people of Scotland to understand its role. Mr Salmond is so positive about Scottish people isn’t he!!

I think this thread should concentrate more on the memory of all those innocent people who passed away that night and not the more recent c**k up by the Scottish Government (prev. Executive) to release a guilty terrorist home to die!

If you want to complain about the Scottish Government, complain about all the cheap nationalist stunts to try and raise Scot’s national pride in preparation for a referendum which thy are obviously going to lose. Free Scottish themed street parties at any given moment, Homecoming Scotland and now there is talk of a Scottish “Hollywood Walk of Fame”. All these stunts to try and talk a sceptical Scottish people to come round to the SNP way of thinking!!

Yes, of course you are quite right about the thread and what we should be concentrating on. Nevertheless whatever the minority leader maintains, legally, the administration remains the Executive in law and the media should use the correct terminology, not a re-branded version to endow it with more power than it has.

AND I WILL SAY NO MORE:)

MMmmmm! Fair enough! Happy New Year from the UK.:D

A husband and wife came for counseling after 20 years of marriage. When asked what the problem was, the wife went into a passionate, painful tirade listing every problem they had ever had in the 20 years they had been married.

She went on and on and on: neglect, lack of intimacy, emptiness, loneliness, feeling unloved and unlovable, an entire laundry list of unmet needs she had endured over the course of their marriage.

Finally, after allowing this to go on for a sufficient length of time, the therapist got up, walked around the desk and, after asking the wife to stand, embraced and kissed her passionately as her husband watched with a raised eyebrow. The woman shut up and quietly sat down as though in a daze.

The therapist turned to the husband and said, “This is what your wife needs at least three times a week. Can you do this?”

The husband thought for a moment and replied, “Well, I can drop her off here on Mondays and Wednesdays, but on Fridays, I fish.”

Reminds me of the classic Monty Python Marriage Counsellor sketch………:D

I am fairly sure I flew in one to Nantes in 1953/4 on a family holiday to La Baule. Does that make sense to anyone in the know? I also have a recollection of flying in a Viking, presumably BEA, to Le Bourget in the same period. On reflection might the DC3 have been Air France? Distant memories…………

Er.. me 🙂

It’s largely because I have worked in and around the motor industry for the last thirty something years and incredibly I am still quite interested in motors and driving. It’s just an opportunity lost for an interesting and involving programme about something that interests me. Things like the X-Factor are obviously much better programmes since even more people watch them, but that doesn’t irritate me in the least as I really have no interest in amateur talent nights. If I had then maybe I’d be ‘anti’ that too?

Moggy

Your first sentence explains exactly why you feel the way you do and is quite understandable. I would disagree that any programme is “better” just because it is popular. That is a different debate.

I enjoy Top Gear and it is undeniably popular but is it “good”? Fifth Gear is probably a better motoring programme but is probably in danger of becoming popularised because ratings are an essential factor on commercial television.

I am surprised that there is no specialised programme for true motoring enthusiasts on a satellite channel, many of which seem to survive on relatively small viewing figures as production costs are relatively low.