it’s probably too late in the day for me to be in a particularly receptive mood, but I just read “blah blah blah blah” and didn’t discern much in the way of anything from it.
The Easdales running public transport, Neil Oliver as health minister. Sounds like it would be a great laugh. JK Rowling for education.
Any more?
Eww! I don’t want businessmen with no experience of politics to be in power in Scotland.
Is it me, or is that subheading incoherent?
AI headlines, now?
What’s wrong with saying public sector work is it’s own skill which is similar but separate from private sector work? Being a great business person with lots of C Suite experience doesn’t mean you would be a good FM and vice versa
Fuck it the sun will red giant at some point. Why bother.
Knuckledraggers are out
If this guy wants a blue ribbon commission (because that’s basically what Elon’s meme department is, except with flame stickers instead of the blue ribbon) to tell the government to do austerity, there are *so many* less embarrassing examples he could point to…
Unfortunately Scotland doesn’t have any similar level of high profile successful entrepreneurs. This despite a decade plus long experiment in fully funding higher education. Presumably the failure of that to generate any economic benefit in return to Scotland would be ripe for cuts if such a Musk line figure could be found.
Just another pretentious twat saying words that he thinks make him sounds clever. Pay no attention.
Or, here me out, we take the excessive wealth of these billionaires and use it to fund public services rather than finding ways to punish the poor, vulnerable and working class.
Magnus has been like that for a while now.
Who’s that idiot?
A man who’s name is “Magnus Linklater” and sounds like a bottom of the pile Bond villain should really find other things to do than presenting himself be a billionaire ass sucker.
Well if he’s an example of who’d do the investigation into the public sector – no – because he’s incompetent and incoherent.
As a former Senior Manager in the Public Sector do I think it needs to be reformed – yes. But reform doesn’t equal privatisation which too many on the right seem to think it does.
You guys are more than welcome to take the original Musk; there’s a lot of us who wish you would… though I wouldn’t wish him on your country any more than I’d wish herpes on my lover.
I mean even a bad example is a good example of you look hard enough…..
The Times’ “Scottish” reporting is honestly horrible. These cranks are totally out of touch and ignorant.
To examine whether government is what? That sentence doesn’t make sense
Yeah they were like this the last time Trump as around too.
Yoons are just wankers.
I feel like I had a stroke just trying to the sub headline.
And no we bloody do not a Scottish musk
Wouldn’t expect that from the Times
Wait.. the Times had the plot?
Surely a Scottish version of Musk would emigrate to the US, much like Musk did from SA.
I can imagine that guy at his keyboard going “‘examine whether government is’… ‘whether government is’… is what? I can’t think of the right word just now. I’ll move on to the next bit and go back to that when I remember the word I was trying to think of.” He probably felt pleased with himself after hitting Send, thinking how clever he was going to look.
Scotish musk be like:
But Scotland already does have a Scottish version of Elon Musk. It’s that guy in the who hangs out in the bus station in glasgow yelling about how it was the muslims who pissed in his trousers.
I mean, admittedly this guy isn’t a billionaire as far as I know, but in every other way he’s pretty much indistinguishable from Elon Musk.
Fun fact – the Department of Government Efficiency has 2 people at the head – Musk and Ramaswamy – there’s a 50% saving I can think of from the outset!
I’m right in thinking Linklater was anti Devolution in the 1990’s aren’t I?
That or he’s been taking the Murdoch schilling for too long now.
having read nadine doris’ “the plot”… i strongly suspect the times has found it*
*the book, its utter nutter butter
What would a Scottish Elon Musk be called?
Tobias Whiff?
As dumb as the times is every area of government should be audited and the bloat cut away
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Ignoring the batshit premise, what is that wording?
Whether government is what?
“If ever there was a need for a Scottish version of Musk, to examine whether government is it must surely be now”
Is this Blankety Blank by The Times? I used to read The Times, was it always shit and I never noticed?
https://archive.is/Yp9aO to read the full thing if you really want to.
it’s probably too late in the day for me to be in a particularly receptive mood, but I just read “blah blah blah blah” and didn’t discern much in the way of anything from it.
The Easdales running public transport, Neil Oliver as health minister. Sounds like it would be a great laugh. JK Rowling for education.
Any more?
Eww! I don’t want businessmen with no experience of politics to be in power in Scotland.
Is it me, or is that subheading incoherent?
AI headlines, now?
What’s wrong with saying public sector work is it’s own skill which is similar but separate from private sector work? Being a great business person with lots of C Suite experience doesn’t mean you would be a good FM and vice versa
Fuck it the sun will red giant at some point. Why bother.
Knuckledraggers are out
If this guy wants a blue ribbon commission (because that’s basically what Elon’s meme department is, except with flame stickers instead of the blue ribbon) to tell the government to do austerity, there are *so many* less embarrassing examples he could point to…
Unfortunately Scotland doesn’t have any similar level of high profile successful entrepreneurs. This despite a decade plus long experiment in fully funding higher education. Presumably the failure of that to generate any economic benefit in return to Scotland would be ripe for cuts if such a Musk line figure could be found.
Just another pretentious twat saying words that he thinks make him sounds clever. Pay no attention.
Or, here me out, we take the excessive wealth of these billionaires and use it to fund public services rather than finding ways to punish the poor, vulnerable and working class.
Magnus has been like that for a while now.
Who’s that idiot?
A man who’s name is “Magnus Linklater” and sounds like a bottom of the pile Bond villain should really find other things to do than presenting himself be a billionaire ass sucker.
Well if he’s an example of who’d do the investigation into the public sector – no – because he’s incompetent and incoherent.
As a former Senior Manager in the Public Sector do I think it needs to be reformed – yes. But reform doesn’t equal privatisation which too many on the right seem to think it does.
You guys are more than welcome to take the original Musk; there’s a lot of us who wish you would… though I wouldn’t wish him on your country any more than I’d wish herpes on my lover.
I mean even a bad example is a good example of you look hard enough…..
The Times’ “Scottish” reporting is honestly horrible. These cranks are totally out of touch and ignorant.
To examine whether government is what? That sentence doesn’t make sense
Yeah they were like this the last time Trump as around too.
Yoons are just wankers.
I feel like I had a stroke just trying to the sub headline.
And no we bloody do not a Scottish musk
Wouldn’t expect that from the Times
Wait.. the Times had the plot?
Surely a Scottish version of Musk would emigrate to the US, much like Musk did from SA.
I can imagine that guy at his keyboard going “‘examine whether government is’… ‘whether government is’… is what? I can’t think of the right word just now. I’ll move on to the next bit and go back to that when I remember the word I was trying to think of.” He probably felt pleased with himself after hitting Send, thinking how clever he was going to look.
Scotish musk be like:
But Scotland already does have a Scottish version of Elon Musk. It’s that guy in the who hangs out in the bus station in glasgow yelling about how it was the muslims who pissed in his trousers.
I mean, admittedly this guy isn’t a billionaire as far as I know, but in every other way he’s pretty much indistinguishable from Elon Musk.
Fun fact – the Department of Government Efficiency has 2 people at the head – Musk and Ramaswamy – there’s a 50% saving I can think of from the outset!
I’m right in thinking Linklater was anti Devolution in the 1990’s aren’t I?
That or he’s been taking the Murdoch schilling for too long now.
having read nadine doris’ “the plot”… i strongly suspect the times has found it*
*the book, its utter nutter butter
What would a Scottish Elon Musk be called?
Tobias Whiff?
As dumb as the times is every area of government should be audited and the bloat cut away
What a weirdo.
Is American stupidity contagious?
Sorry, my Scottish friends…🙁
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