@plebian_angel Said 
Here they are just forcing state employees to take unpaid time off to balance the budget. I guess forgoing one party is better than that.
Much better than that.
Unfortunately it appears as though many public sector jobs will be cut. It's quite scary up here in Scotland where we have a higher proportion of people employed by the state than anywhere else in the country which has created a lot of ill-feeling.
There is an attitude of 'Scotland is going to suffer because of a party the English elected' as we didn't vote for the Conservative party up here.
There was a Scottish radio show about football which did a phone in about who Scottish people were going to support in the World Cup. One of the people they phoned was Craig Brown (former Scotland manager) who said he was going to support England 'Until they forced us to be governed by a party we didn't vote for' with genuine anger in his voice. A lot of us feel like that up here and it's because it will be Scotland who suffer the most due to our reliance and love of the public sector.
Sorry, went off on a bit of a rant there.
Oct 14, 2010 @ 16:54:19
Especially since this is not a catholic country. . . and not really that much of a christian country either!
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