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- Tekel Towers LEGEND
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Government bailout
Surely the distribution of the grants/loans demonstrates that the SNP don't give a f##k about football. Rugby with two(2) professional teams received about 70 % of what football with about twenty(20) professional teams did.
How Many fans pay to watch rugby every week, max 10k compared to about 150k for football but rugby gets 2/3 of what football gets.
Outside of Cormack at Aberdeen there appears to be an acceptance of this appalling political decision.
England with similar infection rates as ourselves is getting ready for WK2 of some fans in stadiums, here in Scotland Nicola says no, so that appears to be the end of the matter.
Has Scotland lost it's backbone as we slide into being a one party state.
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Re: Government bailout
The 'bailout' is a hollow, con-job.
The SNP will effectively make money off of the backs of the Premiership sides loans.
The extent of the rest of their 'support' for the entirety of Scottish Football in it's 'hour of need'? 10M
Sounds a lot?
Well that is for all teams in the Championship, Leagues One, Leagues Two, the Highland league, the Lowland league and Women's Football. Still, a grant is better than a loan, agreed?
Why, exactly are Utd (for example) being effectively punished for success? If we'd have stayed down, we'd have been looking at a free 'hand-out' of 6 figures, rather than a loan we have to pay back with interest. Makes no sense at all.
What sticks in my craw in particular though is they have granted Rugby 15M (5M more than football), a sport that attracts very few spectators compared with football. They have also gave a grant to Creative Scotland of 25M for 'The Arts' (Ballet, Opera, Theatre etc).
I have voted SNP at the ballot box on the last few occasions (primarily due to wanting Scottish Independence from Westminster) , but it is becoming clear that the party is 'classist' and the main preserve of the working class male (namely football and pubs) are both being treated with not just disdain but also being targeted (unfairly) as the source of potential mass outbreaks of Covid.
Meanwhile, go to work, go to school, go to college, go to Uni.
Go to Primark, go to Tesco/Sainsbury's/Morrison's/ASDA.
Go to the fucking cinema. All of the above indoors and therefore, greater risks to the public in terms of transmission.
How do you travel to all of the above? Get public transport there, of course. Whether it's a bus, train, tube, tram or ferry. They are all still functional. Obviously.
Football is being treated very poorly imo. Particulary the top flight clubs who have high overheads but no real source of income outside season ticket sales (namely all bar Celtic/Rangers).
- Morphman
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Re: Government bailout
The SNP hold the working class man in disdain simple as that. Vote them out at the ballot box in 2021, if they don't use some pathetic 'public health' covid legislation to try get the election suspended.
- Finn Seemann
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Anyone who thinks the SNP is a left leaning party is an idiot. We've had a lot of idiots hit the ballot box in recent years though...
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