Re: Moving a BT pole - costs


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Jim Webster wrote:

Scots law does have useful ideas that could do with spreading more
widely
Make up your mind !
You wanted to barracade us all behind Hadrians Wall last week
<g>

I would not dispute that Scots MPs represent Scots interests better
than English ones for the English.

Or even Scots ones for the English.

Education and Health Care being obvious examples.

yes, my daughter would be considerably better off if she had been born 90
miles north

Jim Webster


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