Baby Boom helps boost Scotland’s population
- Scotland’s population grown with 1,6% (about 144.200) since 2001
- Boosted by immigrants from other parts of the UK as well as and increase in births
- More UK-citizens moving north of the border than going south
- Net-out-migration
- Want to match the GDP growth rate of small European countries
- Not a trend, only temporary
Devolution in Scotland
- Scotland before 1999:
- All legislative responsibility rested with the UK parliament.
- Which meant that Westminster made the laws and so on in Scotland.
- Scotland after 1999:
- They have had their own parliament in Edinburgh.
- Composed by 129 members who are directly elected by the Scottish people.
- And they have the power to make laws across a wide range of domestic policy in Scotland.
- But some important matters remain reserved to the UK Parliament(such as defence and foreign affairs(udenrigspolitik)).
- The devolution has been successful.
- They have showed that a Scottish parliament inside the UK works well in practice.
- Scottish education is better than in the UK
- Higher public spending in Scotland than in the UK
Whiskey- and textile industry
Trainspotting
- Mark Renton – main character
- Drugs
- Sick Boy, Spud, Tommy, Begbie
- Robberies, stealing, violence
- Though life, difficult to get out of it
- Ends up leaving the junkie environment, wants a new normal life
A new line on coke
- There has been an increase in the use of cocaine among the Scottish youth.
- Dangerous, because of the many consequences of taking cocaine
- Liver failure
- Kidney failure
- Destroyed nostrils
- Heart attack
- 1 out of 10 took it regularly, but only 21% had tried it
- The youth need better information about the dangers of drug abuse, perhaps in school
- The police should stop the drugs from getting on the street