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pls dont curse my Queen. I have an allegiance to the Queen.

I love nigeria but I am backing Glasgow

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/6739007.stm

Scotland is 'worst small country'

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Scotland is the worst performing small country in Western Europe, according to a report by business leaders.
The Federation of Small Businesses' annual Index of Wealth compared 10 countries on economic performance, employment rates, health and education.

Scotland's life expectancy rate was a major factor in it coming bottom.

FSB Scotland said the new SNP government had its work cut out to improve the nation, but ministers said Scotland "can and will do better".

Scotland also fell by one place, to 17th, in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's table of the world's 24 most developed countries.

We are already far down the table of comparator countries, and on every count we are travelling in the wrong direction

Andy Willox
FSB Scotland policy convener
The FSB Scotland index examined countries with fewer than nine million people, including Norway, Iceland and the Republic of Ireland.

The report was written by John McLaren, honorary research fellow at the University of Glasgow.

He said Scotland had fallen one place from ninth after the previous bottom country, Austria, improved its employment rate.

"The reason why Scotland is stuck at the bottom of the pile is largely due to our poor health and our low life expectancy," he said.

Figures released last year by the Office for National Statistics said Scotland had the lowest life expectancy in the UK for both men and women.

'Fairly low'

The figures were 74.2 for men and 79.3 for women, compared to the UK average of 76.6 and 81 years.

Other statistics released by the Registrar General for Scotland last year showed that life expectancy was rising, but that the gap between rich and poor was widening.

However, Mr McLaren added that even if health was taken out of the equation Scotland would still be "fairly low" on the table.

FSB Scotland policy convener Andy Willox said: "The index clearly shows that, on these indicators, Scotland is the worst small country in western Europe, and requires urgent action to improve both our life chances and life expectancy.


There are calls for health to be put at the heart of decision-making

"Coming as it does so soon after the election of an SNP government, this year's index shows the new First Minister Alex Salmond will have his work cut out for him if he is to match reality with his aspiration of making Scotland healthier, wealthier and fairer."

Despite being above average on three of the four indicators, life expectancy in Scotland remains well below the OECD average.

"We are already far down the table of comparator countries, and on every count we are travelling in the wrong direction," Mr Willox added.

"Health, education, the employment rate and economic performance are all interlinked.

"Improvements in health or education should help businesses recruit and retain healthy and highly skilled staff, thus boosting productivity and ultimately economic growth."

'More dynamic'

The index showed Glasgow City is the worst performing local authority area in Scotland, with the poorest record in three of the four indicators: mortality, education and employment

Mr Willox added: "That Glasgow is the worst performing part of Scotland on all but one of the indicators is deeply troubling."

Finance Secretary John Swinney said he was not surprised by the report's conclusions.

"This reflects some of the arguments we have put forward for a very long time that Scotland is under-performing," he said.

We have made it very clear that our purpose is to increase susrtainable economic growth in Scotland

John Swinney
Finance Secretary

"This directly challenges some of the rhetoric from the previous government, everything in the garden is far from rosy in Scotland.

"This report is an indication of the scale of the challenge that the government faces."

He said that transforming economic growth would address a number of other problems highlighted in the report.

"We have made it very clear that our purpose is to increase susrtainable economic growth in Scotland."

The BMA wants the Scottish Executive to introduce health impact assessments for all government policies.

Living in poverty

Dr Peter Terry, chairman of the BMA in Scotland, said health needed to be put at the heart of decision-making.

"Our public health is affected by a whole range of factors in society," he said.

"It is widely known that people living in poverty or those from disadvantaged communities are more likely to experience poor health."

"Health is improving, although the improvement is greater in more affluent areas."

Azorju, you live in UK and I expect you to know better than to read the likes of The Mail Group, The sun and the other right wing racist newspapers whose main articles and news have to be anti-immigrant or outrightly racist in nature.

My bro, dont bother with them

There's no denying the fact that Nigeria has it's problems. Which nation doesn't?

Anybody who reads well will realise that Scotland, especially Glasgow has multi-faceted problems. Almost every index in Europe shows Glasgow below the table. Glasgow is a drug-infested city whose population seems to be majority neds. For those who do not know what NED means, it's another term for CHAVS.

I know Hampden Park, the National Stadium, very well and there are gangs of NEDS who gather around there almost every night. The noise and the nuisance they create is better imagined. Last night, I woke up and heard lots of noises in my neighbourhood and shouts by these people.

You need to be somewhere to appreciate other things.

My intention is not to run down Glasgow because I strongly support the games coming to Glasgow: it's my adopted home. But I do not want you guys to think that everywhere else is okay except Nigeria. Ask any foreigner in Glasgow and they'll tell you that Glasgow is not a good city to live. However, most people would say that about wherever does not suit them. even Glaswegians are always forward to tell you that their city is filled with too many undesirable characters.

Education is not one of Glasgow's strong points. Majority of the people are half educated , cant speak or write proper English and more interested in getting drunk than any other thing. The proportion of Nigerians who love and cherish decent education is much higher than that of Scotland.

In all, Scotland/Glasgow is good and so is Nigeria. Everywhere has it's plus and minuses

some people are really bklinded by American official lies. If to say some of una be Iraqi and dem don bomb the whole of your family out of existence, you for get mouth to talk say na mistake.

why una no talk say Bin laden sef na mistake?

MILITIA:
Here comes another "Joseph the dreamer"!

Just check yourself. I'd rather be Joseph than take my facts in life from movies.

imagine yourself telling people to take what they see in films and movies as what real life is about.

Pathetic indeed.

As long as we have people who try to pass off as Nigerians taking in what they see in movies as real life, we will constantly be beneath and never above.

This person thinks that when she sees a white soldier in a movie destroying 1000s of black soldiers, that is what happens in real life.

mumulicious person

Ignorant and ill-educated people who have all their information from western produced movies and western biased documentaries.

You have to believe the worst of yourself to always castigate anything that has to do with your own people, however illogical it may be.

I started an association with a group of guys around me, majority of whom I thought were smart but mainly unemployed and under privileged. We canvassed and campaigned against bad leadership. Our strategy was to start in our locality, Ebute Metta Lagos. We encouraged people not to vote for anyone who had any history of corruption or bad performance in office.

I was frustrated when the so called elders decided to vote for known thieves and looters. I remember the guy who even won the Chairmanship then was someone who was known as a thieving councillor and who even burgled and looted the council offices when he was leaving his position as councilor. The same man was voted as Chairman in the same local Government. fyi, the election was not particularly rigged because we monitored it very well as we were permitted by INEC and the Police at the time.

that made me realise that we are not suffering yet as Nigerians; wehn we really suffer and want change, we will effect it. I therefore decided to leave such people with their own ways